Recently the government of the United Kingdom passed a draconian and Orwellian "Online Safety Act" that requires UK citizens to provide identification for online services.
As a result, more and more companies all across the world are hurrying to implement such identification checks. And many of them not just for people who are identified as being from the UK, but for everybody.
This is genuinely baffling to me. Since when has the UK government become the government of the entire world? Why are eg. American companies implementing limitations to all users mandated by some foreign government in some foreign country? Since when has the UK government had the power to dictate what companies in other countries do?
If American companies had any balls, they would just give the UK government the middle finger. Imagine if, for example, Valve told them "no, we aren't going to implement these draconian measures. What are you going to do? Fine us? Well, go ahead and 'fine' us. We don't give a flying fuck, nor are we going to pay. What are you going to do? Ban Steam from the UK. Go ahead. You know what? We'll actually implement a lightweight VPN right into the Steam app to bypass your regional restrictions. Try to stop us."
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