Ah, the UK Government. Forever finding new and exciting ways to wrap a halfway decent idea in a festering bin bag of bureaucracy and privacy violations. Enter the Online Safety Act, the shiny new legislation that claims it wants to keep you safe online. Especially the kiddies. Because if there is one thing politicians love, it is pretending they understand the internet and care about children in equal measure. Spoiler: they usually understand neither, and it is worth saying that as of posting this, the technology secretary Peter Kyle has no advanced qualifications in either science or technology, which kinda shows the problem with Governments and why the civil services matter so much.