China restricts VPNs.
Iran restricts VPNs.
Russia restricts VPNs.
Now Britain is looking at doing the same.
The fact we're even having this conversation should alarm everyone who values privacy and freedom online.
Keir Starmer has completely lost the plot.
@Proton_Pass I'm overdue an upgrade because I don't know what phone to get, based on security and all the new UK government announcements, what would you suggest? Not too good with stuff. Considering a VPN too, never used one before.
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.
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"All social media users in the UK will have to prove they’re over 16 with ID.
Thousands in the UK are already arrested for political posts every year.
Is this really about protecting children — or identifying more people to arrest?"
Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news and events and more ignorant on what’s going on in the world. This is the goal. Western govts saw the rise of the information age and are seeking to quash it
You just successfully introduced digital ID as a mandatory requirement for every internet user in the UK and her territories.
In reality, the solution was not this – it was having the family computer in the living room or the kitchen, and giving your child a nokia, rather than an Android. The solution was not lobbying for the state to engorge itself on more censorship powers, given to it by.. itself.
Standing on the graves of children and reaching for the censorship tools will always be seen for what it is.
The only antidote to the multi-faceted censorship state in Britain is low-tech approaches to parenting, and passing the @ASI Freedom of Speech Bill: https://t.co/6ghszkTump
Do you want Elon to have a copy of your biometrics? Do you want Zuck to scan your face? That’s what we will all be doing. This isn’t reigning in Silicon Valley power. It’s gifting them even more power.
Of course, parents want these companies safe and regulated but that’s a job for govt, not the end user.
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Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.
Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.
I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.
This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.
We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.
@TalkTV@ThatAlexWoman@trevor_kavanagh Utter bollocks! Who'd trust anyone from the scum anyway? I think maybe Alex has the agenda and ego trip she can't let go off.
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