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Hearing this sort of law go into effect just makes me sadly want to ban anyone from the UK from my small communities.

I'd hate to be forced to do it; but I certainly would immediately start swinging the hammer with IP range bans and banning anyone who is clearly professing to be from the UK.

Unfortunately the kind of laws they're trying to pass do nothing to fix whatever problems they have Online; and are basically meaningless political posturing. I feel sorry for people in the UK and strongly recommend they start using VPNs; as it's the only way to ensure they won't get snared up in the ensuing waves of bans when compliance with the OSA law that they let get passed is mandatory

The shoe is clearly on the other foot. It's not so easy to manage when politicians are allowed to get so uninformed that they go out of their way to pass bad laws.

The British turned London into an absolute surveillance nightmare, and sadly most British people seem to be fine with it. I'm not surprised that OSA passed, nor that it's doing exactly the kind of chilling of speech that it is.

In the EU, not in UK, but stuff like this is why I decided to pull the plug on everything public several years ago. A single individual can't afford to risk it.