@NewsWire_US Then it will be 9pm curfew for everyone in fact it will be two fold, get the system in place under the guise of "it's for the kids" then once the system is in place I am willing to bet it's linked to your social credit score, if you don't have a good enough your can't go online.
"Online safety" laws and age verification mandates have absolutely NOTHING to do with protecting children.
You cannot stop under-16s from accessing a website without checking the age of everyone who visits it. And you cannot check everyone's age without forcing them to prove who they are.
"Child safety" is the cheese in the mousetrap.
Laws sold under the banner of "child protection" constitute a Trojan horse for a system requiring every adult to verify their identity before they can speak, read, or post online. The child is merely an emotional shield. The adult is the real target.
And once that infrastructure exists, the pretext can be swapped out at will.
Today it is pornography, social media and "harmful content". Tomorrow it is messaging apps and online banking. Soon after it is your ability to access the internet at all—each incremental step gated behind a digital ID you are required to keep in good standing.
It's no accident that the exact same "online safety" agenda is being rolled out across the entire Western world simultaneously, with each national government reaching for a slightly different pretext to justify the same outcome—a verified digital identity standing between you and the open internet.
Different countries. Different pretexts. Same infrastructure.
They are not building a system to keep children safe. They are building the identity layer for a permission-based internet—orchestrated from the supranational level by people you never elected—where access to information itself becomes conditional on obedience.
The point is not to make the internet safer. The point is to make anonymous access impossible.
Because a person who can read, speak, organise and dissent anonymously is difficult to control. A person whose most intimate online activity is anchored to a state-monitored digital ID is not.
Once every account, search, post, payment, message and website visit is tied to a verified identity, the internet stops being a public square and becomes a monitored enclosure.
But the gate only closes if people accept "online safety" laws at face value.
@Tony28905884513 That's what the age verification system on websites is imo, the system is in place to work in tandem with digital id, they will ask you to upload a picture of your digital id to continue etc, and they will look to ban VPN's to stop circumventing their digital gulag.
@SirGowen@BoroMundo But it set the precedent for removing a team from a knockout competition after the fact, regardless, what Southampton did was far more serious anyways, as a boro fan I would disgusted if it was us who did it to other teams and I would fully behind us being removed if we won.
@hovetiger@ooheaven@PaulWes15396579@EFL_Comms@AdamBlackmore Agreed it could be for a billion quid or 5 billion quid, the money is absolutely irrelevant, it's a about what they did e.g spying, acting against the integrity of the game full stop, the money means fk all in the big scheme of things.
@H00d0r@Unity_MoT@_ChrisLepkowski Haha like doing insider trading , then in court saying you got to let me off because I did not find the information useful.
@jonnyham34@henrywinter Then the most obvious question is if the gain is so small then explain why they did it then? I keep hearing there was nothing to gain from doing what they did blah blah.
@jamesy_utb@DomShawEcho Correct it could be 1 trillion, the monetary value is irrelevant, no amount of money is bigger than sporting integrity imo, if you don't have integrity you have nothing.
@craig_johns Their lust for money over integrity reminds me of Matt Taibbi's famous quote about Goldman Sachs “The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
@SouthamptonFC@boro Remember Charles Ingram who tried to cheat on Who Wants To Be Millionaire by having his mate coughing in the audience in order to win the £1 million top prize, not even he had the balls to say I know I cheated but giz the money lads.
@hydey667@SouthamptonFC@Boro Indeed it was, I can't believe they think their financial benefit is more important than the game of football itself, a slap in the face to all the teams that compete with integrity.