Government's Social Media Ban Is Just the Beginning

The UK is banning social media for children and I completely support protecting kids from harmful content. But I'm deeply concerned about what comes next.

Age verification requirements, VPN restrictions, OS-level validation - the scope keeps expanding beyond the original intent. History shows this pattern: laws start with good intentions, then governments abuse them.

When you restrict VPNs and encryption to protect children, you're crippling business security. When you mandate age verification on operating systems, people just move to Linux. And you can't ban Linux without breaking most of the internet.

Today we're talking about why government needs to consult the security community before implementing policies that sound good in theory but are likely to fail in practice.

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