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These p*rn bills are intended to be difficult to oppose...if you oppose it you must "want kids to see p*rn!!!"
You can want to protect children and oppose this digital ID framework at the same time. The "p*rn bans" are the gateway to the full digital ID framework. This policy is specifically designed to be expanded to every other part of the digital world - impacting constitutionally protected rights to free speech and content access.
The bottom line for all of these "protect kids" policies: it is the parent's duty and responsibility to protect their children in the digital world. Make tools and resources that will make this easier for parents.
Begging for a government mandate is the fast track to tyranny. Hard pass.
My deep dive analysis on this bill: https://t.co/nblspLBlCu
Sounds like @Keir_Starmer and company are set to make their "social media ban" announcement tomorrow. They've spent much of today trying to convince people that by agreeing "children should not see certain content"; you're in favour of communication restrictions and digital ID.
Well done to Signal for speaking up.
It's obvious that this isn't really about keeping children safe, it's about giving the state greater surveillance powers over ordinary citizens.
The same politicians claiming the moral high ground on child protection are the ones who voted against a national rape gang inquiry.
Forgive me if I don't take their lectures on safeguarding seriously.
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.
"Protect the kids" by forcing adults to give up privacy is one of the oldest tricks in the book but people are still falling for it in large numbers.
The gov't can't protect ANYONE and it especially can't do that but stripping the small scraps of remaining privacy away from adults.