EV's are still horrifically cheaper to run than an ICE vehicle by very large margins

NB Vans and commercial vehicles are exempt ...

Gasoline says or a USAian ... the UK doesn't fund roads with Road Tax ... so you are also a USAian

It is a plan ... that requires consultation, new laws and a method of enforcing it that people can't simply bypass ....

The are people who have spent their time rewriting history and lying to people, they cannot tolerate anything which exposes their lies

The Police specifically have the powers and equipment to bring down drones, they they are causing a safety issue (usually around airports)

They like to claim their air defence worked perfectly, but the shoddy Ukrainian (or NATO) drones, fell apart and rained debris down on the target ....it's better PR than admitting the Air defence systems didn't work, were elsewhere, or they were incompetent

It means you will will employ vibe coders to prompt and process AI generated filler .... then employ programmers to get it to actually work

Usually this involves throwing away most of the AI generated code, so you employ more people to do the same work, and pay for AI

The real issues are with Kik and the other social media platforms they run, Imgur is incidental, as the ICO's issues are with accounts, and most people use it without an account

the have several Social Media sites that have little or no checks, and allow chatting and sharing of media .. that's the real focus of the ICO

Guess what the EU are introducing in 2026

The ICO is investigating the parent company, MediaLab mostly for their other enterprises - and for lack of age checks for people who have an account on Imgur

MediaLab have shut down access to Imgur in the UK - which the ICO have noted is irrelevant

You do realise some US states are well ahead on the UK on this

..and is unlikely to be, it's raised as the only way over and over, but then you find out they exclude gaming, drawing, video editing, and most other tasks that don't involve text input - in fact it's only for text input
and then people try it, and it's terrible at it, slow, inaccurate, and you spend huge amounts of time correcting it's mistakes

Or debug it, or get it to do more - he would have to start from scratch each and every time

Documentation - would be non-existent

It is likely as part of the negotiations that Trump will cave in and they will introduce a similar tax - but this will spun as a triumph for Trump ...

As always any government that thinks this is in any way enforceable is deluded ...and it will likely exclude people from social media