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Originally Posted by Chris
The entire Westminster bubble operates on WhatsApp. Faced with Meta’s credible threat to exit the UK market el gov was always going to blink first. The fudge they’re now proposing is a contorted attempt to back down without being seen to back down, but it’s hard to see it in any other way. The measures as now drafted cannot currently be enforced because the technology doesn’t exist, and if those conditions were ever met then service providers can still make good on their threat to exit the UK. Presumably at this point the Tories are assuming it’ll be a Labour government that has to deal with that, at some point in the next 10 years or so.
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Definitely sounds like an episode of Yes, Minister! Tech companies are happy and the Minister is happy.
Ultimately, we'll end up following international/EU standards. We're too integrated with the Western world and frankly too small to be able to be an outlier on this matter.