Instead of removing criminals, the UK is removing people’s ability to expose crimes — through a social media ban (from which Bluesky is conveniently exempt)
This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).
So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.
The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.
This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.
Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.
@MikitsuTofuriVT@ChibiReviews If crunchyroll decide to pay a studio to make their anime, they can succeed or fail on their own merits, but at least the way the statement is presented would indicate that that isn't what they mean
@MikitsuTofuriVT@ChibiReviews The problem is that they expect the studios to just start making the shows. If it was that they paid the studios to make whatever they want to have there wouldn't be an issue
@fallrise__@xplorerzim He really isn't
A situation being innocent and not thinking it's necessary to film it and especially putting up on the internet are not mutually exclusive