> then you've got your own IP.

AI output isn't copyrighted in the US.

Duplicate of event from August 5 ("one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances was impacted"):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44812343

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/voi...

There are a lot of extra steps the UK government can take beyond the fines:

> In the most extreme cases, with the agreement of the courts, Ofcom will be able to require payment providers, advertisers and internet service providers to stop working with a site, preventing it from generating money or being accessed from the UK.

They’ve done this before (various piracy websites are blocked by ISPs).

The criminal liability of senior managers could cause travel headaches too.

The Online Safety Act was passed when the Tories were still in government.

Rolling that back essentially makes you a prime minister that believes children should have unfettered access to porn, self-harm material, gore, and that the outspoken parents of kids who've killed themselves after accessing this material shouldn't be listened to. At least, that's how the media (on all sides) would spin it. Not really a fight worth picking.

We tried ideology driven energy policy in Europe and it hasn't gone well. We phased out nuclear power plants (because nuclear = bad) while doubling down on Russian gas dependency (because trade = peace). Clearly this has gone poorly and it will take Europe a decade to strengthen its energy sovereignty again.

There are good reasons to question renewable energy: the cost picture doesn't make sense right now, it has intermittency problems, etc. But killing renewable projects because, uh, farming or whatever?, particularly at a time when the demand for energy is growing faster than ever, seems short sighted at best.

> ...can't be justified by military strategy.

If you look at the current government of Israel's policies regarding Palestinians - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-seventh_government_of_I... - you might notice that various humanitarian rights and other niceties for the latter do not seem to be high priorities.

One might reasonably assume that recent developments in Gaza are part of a political strategy. Not a military one. And that the politicians in charge do not share the worldview, nor sensibilities, of the typical Guardian reader.

> Imagine everyone’s car being able to be real time tracked by license plate by anyone anytime)

Except ... every plane is being tracked in real time by the FAA (or other aeronautical organizations) for the good of both those on the plane and those around it.

The question is not whether such tracking happens or not, but merely whether the data is publically available. The analogy with cars would require that someone is actually tracking car positions, which as far as we know is not happening at any significant scale.