On: Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill

[codedokode]

You can say the same thing about alcohol or cigarettes. Obviously, kids can find a way to buy them illegally but it doesn't mean that we should allow that.

I propose to make it illegal to help kids to obtain access to adult Internet the same way as it is illegal to help them to buy alcohol.

[concordDance → codedokode]

Alcohol and cigarettes physically harm you. As best I can tell internet access is no more harmful than gaming.

The two classes of risk are too different for the analogy to work.

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If Internet access is not harming, then why do Bills like this exist?

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Corporations like having less competition by putting up barriers to entry, old media disliked new media which carried over to big tech (and the inter-company PR wars have been brutal) and politicians like being seen to "do something" about whatever problems are in the news.