“The bill takes a wrecking ball to the very fabric of encryption, by requiring encrypted messaging apps to scan for abusive content within the app (or the app’s underlying operating system).”
The UK Online Safety Bill orders encrypted messengers to scan every message and report suspects to Ofcom. Criminals will keep using the unregulated tools they already have. Everyone else loses end-to-end encryption, down to hospitals and power grids. A January amendment already made positive videos of Channel crossings “priority illegal content,” so the scope creep started before the ink dried.