Dear @Keir_Starmer we don't want Digital ID
We don't want to be forced to prove who we are to access everyday services
If you oppose Digital ID, put a ❌ below and RT this post, let's see how many people say NO!
Child safety starts with parents, not the state
Children do not independently acquire smartphones
These devices are bought, configured, and managed by parents or carers
No child enters the online world without an adult making that decision first
And parents already have tools available to them
A parent who wants a child-lock on a phone can switch one on today - for free
It is already built into modern devices
Screen-time limits, app restrictions, and content filters exist right now and are widely available
Despite these basic facts, the appalling Starmer is trying to rush in measures that would almost certainly mean EVERYONE has to provide ID to get online
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.
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10 Good Reasons To Scrap The Government Digital ID Scheme
1. More Control. Less Freedom.
Digital ID hands the state unprecedented control. This is new and completely different to a passport or driving licence. We risk making basic freedoms conditional on database approval.
2. Voluntary Today, Mandatory Tomorrow?
What starts as "voluntary convenience" will likely mission creep into a compulsory system tied to every aspect of life: jobs, internet access, banking, healthcare, benefits.... risking "social credit-lite."
3. Britain Never Voted For This.
It's totally undemocratic. Never in manifesto. 3m signed petition against. Public rejected Blair’s ID cards before - and for good reason.
4. Hack Once, Expose Millions?
We all know our data isn’t safe in government hands. Huge digital ID databases will be prime hacking targets, and stolen biometric data can never be replaced. The state's track record - think Horizon, Afghan data breach or Companies House recently - is absolutely dire.
5. Stop The "Papers, Please" Culture.
Government Digital ID normalises a "Papers, Please" culture that erodes anonymity and the presumption of innocence.
6. Leaves Vulnerable People Behind.
It's almost certain to exclude and disadvantage the most vulnerable, locking people out of aspects of society or services due to lack of access, skills, or system errors.
7. Another Billion-Pound IT Failure?
£1.8bn for starters, paid for by cuts to other things. Threatens to become another costly IT failure with huge expense, little benefit. Total costs from Blair's scrapped ID cards were up to £20bn, said London School of Economics.
8. Surveillance State By Stealth.
A national digital ID system reshapes the citizen-state relationship and builds a permanent surveillance infrastructure.
9. One Glitch, Locked Out?
Risks punishing ordinary people through glitches, outages, and new penalties for non-compliance. How do you fancy filling in the gaps on their new database, in your own time, on pain of fines?
10. Trust Future Governments With This?
Even if you trust this one, do you trust all future governments? Obviously not, since you don't know who they will be. It creates lasting tools of control that future governments could easily abuse.
@uklabour, you must scrap this undemocratic, dangerous scheme
Join the campaign to say #ScrapDigitalID at:
https://t.co/OK0zcjC9Rw
@PolitlcsUK If kids are online, that is a CHOICE made by PARENTS
Join the campaign to stop Digital ID - which this “protect the kids” shtick will put on steroids:
https://t.co/0DnVFCUlcs
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
There’s a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And here’s what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You don’t forge a document 70 times.
That’s just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
“Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.”
That’s when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passover…
he’s one step away from the cross.
The Pledge against Digital ID is a simple but serious commitment to refuse Digital ID and “government by app”
The Pledge is not a petition - it’s a personal and public declaration that you will refuse to comply with government control of your identity
Find out more: https://t.co/qq3tYoFDOt
#PledgeTogether
Oppose Digital ID?
Take the Pledge: https://t.co/qq3tYoFDOt
The Pledge against Digital ID is not a petition
It’s a public declaration that you will refuse government digital ID systems & "government by app"
A similar pledge helped defeat Tony Blair’s ID cards in the 2000s - & was signed over 1 million times
#PledgeTogether