The UK was already arresting more people for social media posts than any country on Earth, before they decided you need ID just to log in.
This law doesnโt protect anyone. It kills anonymity and hands the police state total visibility into your digital life.
This is tyranny. Either dissent gets crushed, or the already record-high arrest numbers go vertical.
@Smileyyeg The powers that be don't care, protecting or helping kids was never thr goal. As long as they are just smart enough to be obedient workers everything will be fine in the government's eyes.
@EmmanuelMacron Just be honest; you imported a bunch of people you shouldn't have and now you're scrambling to be able to control and/or surveil them. This has nothing to do with protecting children.
@elliereeves It was already an option at the hardware level and parental controls already existed. You just voted in more government surveillance, that's all you effectively did.
So it seems that adults will need to verify their age with digital ID, face scan or similar methods to be allowed to use social media in Britain
It's clear that this is not about protecting children
They are introducing totalitarian control systems and many don't even realize
Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.
Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.
This proves one thing.
It's not about protecting children.
It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.
@indexnforgetit They want you spending more time there and in the finance office to sell you more stuff or get a loan through a lender that they get a referral fee from. Most dealerships make most of their profit in the finance office, service & repair, and the used lot.
Call their bluff.
Close all local UK operations, so that no employees or corporate officers can be arrested.
Refuse to comply, and dare them to geoblock. Without Google and Apple, the UK economy would probably collapse. It isn't so much that those services are crucial (although they are), it's that Britain is already on the fiscal brink and all it would really take is a little push.
I'm sure blocking the Internet would go over really well with the British people, too.
๐ฌ๐ง Video of British police arresting a crying 5-year-old boy while he was walking alongside them as they detained his father is going viral.
They shoved the terrified little kid into the back of their patrol car like trash. When his mother, baby still clutched in her arms, rushed to rescue her son, these thugs pushed her back and ordered her to stand down.
This is the UK in 2026.
Absolutely disgusting!