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.
TLDR: a man was shouting slurs at her outside of her place of work, assaulterd her by shoving her down to the ground in a crosswalk, at which point she drew her gun (finger NOT on the trigger), and now she's facing up to 15 years. For defending herself.
“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” This evil hallucination software shouldn’t be anywhere near kids
Carney's Libs are trying to push the same bullshit here.
But in the end it's not to protect kids, if they wanted that they'd arrest the many Canadian pedos that were in the Epstein files
No, they want mass surveillance and to control everything we do and say online
Fuck them
So the british government is straight up forcing the most invasive spyware possible and also picking and choosing which code you're allowed to run on your phone?
Draconian
Once this tech is installed, they can use it to find ANYTHING on your device.
3D print/CAD files for things gov't doesn't like.
Political speech.
"Offensive" memes.
Private thoughts and documents.
Literally everything else.
This won't protect kids - THAT'S THE JOB OF PARENTS ANYWAY - but this will effectively chill speech, expression, and liberty of adults.
The way you’re creating a “safer digital world” is forcing everyone to hand over an ID and do AI facial scans so you can sell our biometric data to AI companies
Don’t be shy now, be honest about how these laws are nothing but mass surveillance
seriously how much more evidence do people need that this isn’t for the kids. It’s so freaking blatant kids are being used to implement surveillance and censorship.
This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
https://t.co/rbRmcUDTRu
Statement from @signalapp
https://t.co/vJILcSrs4s
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
https://t.co/3FCi06bP77
The government announcement:
https://t.co/ynYjR3DIRo
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...
UK is going down a very dangerous path on mass surveillance and censorship.
The government is literally demanding that every device sold or used in the country scans all content for “illegal” material. Signal is right to push back hard, this isn’t protection, it’s the end of private communication as we know it.
Signal brings up such an important point here, that once the govt can know the identity of those using the Internet, it is *trivial* to restrict *or monitor* any subset of its population, on any topic or use, by expanding the law
If you are Queer this is insanely dangerous (1/2)
Gold miners in Ghana working barefoot, shivering, covering themselves with bags against the rain
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