I think it was an agenda years in the making. I saw the groundwork being laid for this in 2021 and it somehow survived a general election and an entirely new government with a different political alignment. Ive seen other laws like this. It was nothing to do with the politics or the politicians, it has to do with civil servants who are working with their own agenda. Just like yes prime minister.

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nly 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's building on the Snoopers Charter 2016

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Act_201...

People seem to have forgotten that all major UK ISPs are now logging TCP connection metadata and all DNS queries

ISPs will send you warning letters if you're using bittorrent

	▲	immibis 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		We should have something that sets the TCP SYN bit in every packet (between participating hosts) so that it overloads surveillance systems. Bittorrent letters aren't from a generic surveillance system - it's participating copyright holders downloading the files from you and then pressing charges for you sharing it to them.

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ascorbic 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This law was passed in 2023.