@ICRscience Wow. You obviously didn't spend any time In biology class. That's not how evolution works. But hey, if you have no argument build a strawman and lie for Jesus!
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.
Mainstream British journalists have shown zero outrage as Starmer pushes government-mandated on-device scanning of phones.
This is the same government that secretly demanded encryption backdoors from Apple.
No fury, no scrutiny, no defense of press freedom. Even as spyware heads into every pocket, including their own and their sources’.
A system that can read every image on every phone, sold to you today as a babysitter for the under-18s, is exactly the system a future minister could repoint at protest photos, leaked documents, unflattering memes, or whatever sets off the moral panic of the week...
The DOJ's decision to hide controlling federal law from a court to execute a raid on the home of WaPo's @hannah_natanson is a terrifying overreach.
That's why we're suing with @CREWcrew to know if the DOJ is hiding press protection from federal judges. https://t.co/jiZ3ry1zIs
This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.
FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids.
Richardson lives in N.C.
He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. https://t.co/2AcQYwq30f
What is truly sad and frustrating and rather embarrassing is to have Christians mock and limit God by denying general and natural revelation and arrogantly assume their INTERPRETATION of some words is the true one whilst totally ignoring the very obvious, evident and verifiable truth of what science tells us.
Keep lying for god and embracing ignorance. That's what Jesus would do right?
@StandswithGod Well too bad my gnostic friend. Every single piece of evidence out there verifies deep time, old earth and evolution. How embarrassing to be so proudly and obstinately yet provably wrong.
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
@straits_times From Australia to Europe, Orwillian authoritarianism grows as states force access to citizens devices for continued and ongoing monitoring, using "protect the children" as their obscene excuse.
While protecting young people from exploitation is a noble and vital goal, the PM is deliberately ignoring the terrifying reality of how his proposed policy would actually be enforced.
Companies like Apple and Google will effectively be forced to introduce state-mandated surveillance software (spyware) on every single phone, tablet and laptop in the UK.
Furthermore, because each device must know if the user is a child to block the content, this policy guarantees the roll-out of mandatory digital ID checks for the entire population, effectively killing internet privacy and online anonymity for us all.
We also must question the sudden sense of urgency and tough talk today.
Just last month, Jess Phillips resigned from the government over this exact issue, calling out Starmer for pursuing only "incremental change," and worrying more about upsetting tech bosses than protecting children.
Why the sudden pivot? It is hard to see this ultimatum as an act of genuine conviction. Instead, much like his rushed, unworkable social media ban, it looks like another desperate cynical attempt to shore up Starmer's political legacy before the looming by-election and leadership contest.
@ShabanaMahmood People who don't understand how something works should not be touching it. Especially law makers. Get qualified in cyber security, Linux, some basic programming and then come and whine about "I have no regrets".