So they've decided that this part of the bill will be unenforceable and useless, but they plan to go ahead and pass it anyway. I suppose they'll soon need to do the same for the age verification nonsense as well.

They still want to impose these ill-conceived laws on us so as to appear to have done something, but the people who had somehow been convinced that this would do some good will be disappointed. If they stick with this course, they will soon have managed the impressive political feat of pleasing exactly nobody with the results of this excruciating years-long process of counterproductive legislating.

Yeah, let's break encrypt!

Not that it's possible but it would be awesome no? That somebody can just read my passwords, access my bank accounts, read my private messages... You trust the government with those keys, Right?

Not out of the woods yet, but a good win

This is a temporary reprieve rather than a victory. The wording of the bill hasn't changed, they've simply added the statement that what they want to do isn't technically possible yet but when it is, this'll be revived.

Sure is strange how both the #GOP & #Tories have decided to go cartoon villain after their #Russian money got cut off.

They'll be back to try again if this bill is not passed.

Too bad for all the Russian hackers that were looking forward to a bunch of back-doors to exploit.

The law is still getting passed though

This argument doesn't add up. Apple had already built a CSAM scan system before shelving it and am pretty sure Google have one for Drive/Photos.