Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits
meejle@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
If you don’t start fining them, they won’t improve. £1000 / day per person.
They’ve issued 11 fines since March last year. 2 have been paid. Because none of the big offenders are UK-based. 🤷♂️
Armand1@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If they don’t pay the fines, then you block them from operating in the country until they have…
Although it’s not that simple as some of these services are so ingrained in our daily lives that it would cause significant disruption if we did.
meejle@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, and then the internet gets even more censored and controlled, and it still won’t make a lick of difference to protecting children.
Because control has been the entire point of this from the very beginning.
My point wasn’t “it’s bad that companies aren’t paying the fines”, it was “this entire thing is obviously dumb and unworkable and nothing at all to do with protecting children.” 💀