Otherwise you shut down if you're in the UK, block the UK (and VPN's) if you're outside the UK or risk a fine of £18m or 10% of your worldwide revenue, whichever is higher.
Is this globally subject to "undue efforts" kinds of language? Since it would be such an onerous undertaking for the whole rest of the world to manage the ID system for the UK alone, will it be disregarded when the UK tries to fine foreign countries for not participating? Will the entire UK just become its own walled garden internet like the North Koreans? What a joke this all is.
18M or 10% OF REVENUE, "whichever is higher", is a preposterous amount of money too. it's a "go bankrupt, instantly" amount of money, for basically ANY company.
The UK is saying "submit to our petty spy plan wills with the blessings of Palantir Corp, or shut down in ignominy!". They sound like crackpot tinpots.
My vote it for walling off the UK, and trying to get buy-in from Amazon and Google and Musk to all join in the wall-off, with a nice splash page explanation of "your politicians voted for this, in your name. If you don't like it, vote smarter, not Starmer, next time."
Trudeau tried something very similar a year or two ago when he passed some sort of Online News Act legislation where he demanded Google & Facebook pay his Pravda-backed in-house Canadian news outlets payments anytime ANYONE on their platforms posted a link to their news content.
Otherwise he threatened to fine them something like 4% of their global revenues.
Google cucked almost immediately and negotiated some deal worth several hundred million dollars to hand over to Trudeau's propaganda outlets.
Facebook took a harder stance, blocking any Canadian news links for awhile.
Like all Trudeau's faggotry, it really wasn't clear how he was going to enforce payment.
Is this globally subject to "undue efforts" kinds of language? Since it would be such an onerous undertaking for the whole rest of the world to manage the ID system for the UK alone, will it be disregarded when the UK tries to fine foreign countries for not participating? Will the entire UK just become its own walled garden internet like the North Koreans? What a joke this all is.
UK is going to need it's own starlink pirate internet now.
18M or 10% OF REVENUE, "whichever is higher", is a preposterous amount of money too. it's a "go bankrupt, instantly" amount of money, for basically ANY company.
The UK is saying "submit to our petty spy plan wills with the blessings of Palantir Corp, or shut down in ignominy!". They sound like crackpot tinpots.
My vote it for walling off the UK, and trying to get buy-in from Amazon and Google and Musk to all join in the wall-off, with a nice splash page explanation of "your politicians voted for this, in your name. If you don't like it, vote smarter, not Starmer, next time."
Trudeau tried something very similar a year or two ago when he passed some sort of Online News Act legislation where he demanded Google & Facebook pay his Pravda-backed in-house Canadian news outlets payments anytime ANYONE on their platforms posted a link to their news content.
Otherwise he threatened to fine them something like 4% of their global revenues.
Google cucked almost immediately and negotiated some deal worth several hundred million dollars to hand over to Trudeau's propaganda outlets.
Facebook took a harder stance, blocking any Canadian news links for awhile.
Like all Trudeau's faggotry, it really wasn't clear how he was going to enforce payment.
This is why we need to get Boomers out of politics.
As an ignorant Yankee looking in on Britbongistan, I think Torries are the British equivalent of my mantra that Republicans are the enemy too.