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I think most of the companies saying they would pull out said they would because of the parts of the bill targeting end to end encryption.

I thought they dropped that part of the bill, I may be mistaken though.

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They said it wasn't currently feasible. Meaning they believe it will be (lol) years or decades down the line.

Pretty much. I’m not sure if it got included but if it was feasibly possible they absolutely would — which is just as bad in my opinion. Lack of capability does not nullify intent.

It was included, I think the wording was changed to include something like "when technically feasible" or similar

Nothing was changed. The government just trotted out a nobody to make a statement that basically said "we won't do it until we think it can be done"; the sensationalist media thought they had got their U-turn, ran a few headlines, and moved on.

The bill just passed as it was.

The British establishment is occasionally infuriating.

That was 100% on purpose, they won't care and will force a backdoor anyway.

They didn't

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/today-uk-parliament-un...

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