Another year, (another government, even), and the UK's distaste for a secure and private internet isn't abating. At the same time, there's the country's authorities' appetite for regulating the internet, and that's just on top of the now perennial "hunger" to take down encryption.
Right now, a proposal is being floated to introduce legislative change that pertains to domain name and IP addresses takedown, and seizure. And seized data would not necessarily require a court order to retain.
The big picture is that on one hand, with a push for weakened (and therefore, by and large useless) encryption, law enforcement would be given unprecedented powers to access content and communications.
On the other hand, "regular" users would become increasingly constrained and boxed-in, in regarding what they are allowed to access online. The justification for both policy trends is always the same - catching criminals (because, allegedly, existing tools are simply not enough), and keeping citizens away from (illegal) content.
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