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thorum 5 days ago

Unintended side effect, UK MPs can now watch as much porn as they want with plausible deniability.

ljm 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don’t know about this law specifically, but every other law attacking the internet or encryption has attempted to exempt people in government.

That defeats the point of the legislation since it creates a gaping wide backdoor to exploit official people, who are now the most valuable targets because of that exemption.

Never mind the matter of providing a rule for the people and making the people who made the rule immune to it.

varispeed 5 days ago | parent [-]

Have they researched how many of these "age check" companies are actually run by Russian intelligence services?

spacebanana7 4 days ago | parent [-]

Even having a single employee linked to the Russian intelligence services would be sufficient.

ben_w 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Unless they're being filmed while watching it because they watched it in parliament: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/neil-parish-b...

NekkoDroid 4 days ago | parent [-]

Didn't something similar also happen recently in the US (I think on a state level)?

lambertsimnel 4 days ago | parent [-]

That was Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/28/oklahoma-superintende...