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Digital ID: an attack on us all!
Among the most important considerations must be a legal guarantee that no citizen can be denied essential services for choosing to remain ‘offline’.
Without a decisive intervention, the UK risks drifting into a digital panopticon where liberty ceases to be an inherent right and instead becomes a conditional privilege granted by the state. The British constitutional tradition, which is defined by the hard-won freedom of the individual, should serve as a guiding star for both houses in the coming period. @spikedonline
The Digital Safety Act is set to be introduced today in the House of Commons.
And as I predicted months ago, the bill is rumored to contain social media bans for teenagers and kids under the age of 16.
I had also predicted that the new Bill C-63 would be called something along the lines of the Online Safety Act … I was pretty damn close…
To enforce Bill C-9, C-22 and C-8, our government needs a digital ID and a social media ban is exactly how it will be implemented.
This isn’t about protecting our children — It’s about control, surveillance and censorship…
Don’t be fooled, all these bills are interconnected and this is the last piece of the puzzle.
Signal is 100% right.
The greatest trick governments ever pulled was convincing people that freedom and privacy are obstacles to safety.
What we are witnessing is not child protection. It is the construction of a surveillance architecture that will eventually monitor, profile, categorize and control every aspect of our digital lives.
Today it is age verification and content scanning, tomorrow it is digital identity, then financial monitoring, then behavioural scoring, then access to services conditioned on compliance.
The destination is not difficult to see. It is a technocratic system where every interaction is tracked, every transaction recorded, every opinion assessed and every citizen reduced to a data profile managed by governments and corporations working hand in hand.
A form of digital neo feudalism where a small unelected class controls the platforms, the infrastructure, the money and ultimately the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.
The argument that only criminals should fear surveillance is as absurd as saying only criminals need freedom of speech. Privacy is not evidence of wrongdoing, it is the foundation of human dignity, individual sovereignty and genuine liberty.
The UK government is asking citizens to accept the presumption of guilt simply to communicate online. To prove who they are, verify their age and allow their devices to inspect their content before they can participate in modern society.
History teaches us that every power granted to the state eventually expands beyond its initial mandate. The technology introduced to detect one form of content today will be used to police entirely different forms of expression tomorrow.
The choice before us is not between privacy and child protection, it is between preserving a free society, or constructing the infrastructure of a digital prison that will further enslave us.
Unironically, this is worse than letting kids use actual YouTube because of the sheer amount of weird fetish content that's crammed into the kids' version
@BasilTheGreat You will be programmed by the state and its media until 16, then vote at 16. #1984 (thankfully they will bypass any attempted controls).
Energy use by AI data centres in the UK could cause emissions of 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide – as much generated by 2.7 million people over 10 years.
So while cow burps are blamed and farmers get punished with a carbon tax on fertiliser, the tech giants are rewarded with AI data centre contracts.
@PolitlcsUK@billcurtis0 On the back of NHS data access and the rest, they seem to be constructing a digital twin of all UK citizens without permission.
Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.
I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.
Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.
I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"
You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.