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They are still trying to bring in digital ID. There are multiple attempts to push it. They still plan to try to push it as a convenience. They also plan a digit
by graemep 10mo ago
They are still trying to bring in digital ID. There are multiple attempts to push it. They still plan to try to push it as a convenience. They also plan a digital ID for children.
- shevy-java 10mo agoIt can be called digital fascism. Everyone gets monitored now. Big government loves you.
- vablings 10mo agoNot sure what invoking children here does for the sake of argumentation. Digital ID is not bad; the issue is the implementation of digital ID that will cause huge issues such as giving billions of pounds to friends of MPs
- graemep 10mo ago> Not sure what invoking children here does for the sake of argumentation. Because by requiring children, but not adults, to have digital ID as part of a much larger (and pretty terrible) law that is already close to being passed and disguising it as a safeguarding measure they are sneaking it in for some people AND getting the next generation used to it. > Digital ID is not bad; The opposition to digital ID is largely coming from people who do think Digital ID is bad.
- vablings 10mo agoDigital ID is a very wishy-washy concept that has been co-opted by various groups to make strong statements about government overreach. If you want to make criticism you should make narrower statements, for example. A centralized ID system that can be used to safely verify the authenticity of a presenting party is good! If that system can be used to track this person in more invasive ways than already possible with IMSI catchers, credit cards and facial recognition that is bad! People think Digital ID is bad and this everlasting evil concept that will further make the most surveilled country in the world an Orwellian nightmare overnight which is a dramatization. The devil is really in the details here and depending on what flavors of implementation determines the "goodness"
- nephihaha 10mo agoDigital ID alone is not the endgoal but a system that will encompass every aspect of people's lives, and can be switched off in an instant.
- vablings 10mo agoI heard the same hogwash over covid and vaccine passports, it didn't happen.
- nephihaha 10mo agoCovid and lockdown did happen, as did vaccine passports. All of these were used to push and normalise certain practices. The ruling classes want to get all this in by the 2030s.
- vablings 10mo agoProof, evidence or anything other than you just moving the goalpost on conspiracy quackery?
- nephihaha 10mo agoYou attempted to move the goalposts. You talk about the early 2020s as if everything that went on was normal and acceptable, and not contradictory at all. Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time, but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbours over the fence but allowing international flights to continue. I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal. You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
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