🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨

[openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org]

🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨

A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications.

That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers.

Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access

#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

[openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org]

New powers would let Ministers pick and choose what should be restricted, as well as impose curfews on access.

All without having to prove sites are harmful for children.

They don’t just cover social media, but all 'Internet services’ – blogs, websites, online games and more.

This is overreach.

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/under-16-social-media-ban-overturned-5HjdTnr_2/

#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

[openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org]

All adults would have to do a digital ID check to establish their age with third-parties so they can access any service.

If you don't, you could face blocks or time restricted curfews.

These powers could be used by any government in the UK to restrict access to almost any online service you could imagine.

#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

[openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org]

This is no longer about banning under-16s from social media.

It’s about control over all information and forcing adults to go through digital ID checks to access the Internet.

Forcing us to submit our identity or biometric data to an array of different providers poses significant privacy risks.

#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol

[iain_bright@mastodon.green]

@openrightsgroup words fail me... except wtf?!

[mage_of_chaos@mastodon.social]

@openrightsgroup all isps are directly linked to a legal identity or entity.

This is redundant.

[anomalocarididae@furry.engineer]

@openrightsgroup It never was about protecting children!

[markiejiang@mastodon.social]

@openrightsgroup this kind of stuff happened in [you guess which country] 20 years ago. Initially for games. no pushback. even largely welcomed. Expanded to social media and chat apps around 10 years ago. Some complaints, no pushback. Now you get police knocking at your door if you post or just chat certain things online. still basically no pushback. People just accept it. The amount of people willing to just take whatever shit is saddening.

[markiejiang@mastodon.social]

@openrightsgroup once a generation grows up with mass surveillance as part of their life, they normalize it and they defend the surveillance. But before us old folks die out. We try as much as we can.

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@openrightsgroup It's also about making a barrier to entry for new providers that (mostly Amerikaanse) BigTech have already cleared, thus allowing them to corner the market. #fuckBigTech

Relevant: https://goblincorps.com/ageless-linux.html (the "The Quiet Part" tab expands on my point)

[lexinova@cyberplace.social]

@openrightsgroup exactly what i said they would do.

Protect the children is always the excuse to destroy privacy.
they actually don't care at all about children, for proof their representative in the US was a pedophile.

[csgraves@turtleisland.social]

@anomalocarididae @openrightsgroup and now the state of California has decided to start down this road with their requirements of operating systems to have an age attestation mechanism touching every conceivable piece of software.

Imagine this, I need to search the Apt repository for dumb-app, but I need to verify my age! So, curl, ls, less, more, wc plus thousands of little binaries in a Unix like system.

Governor Newsom is trash.

[thevampirefishqueen@socel.net]

@markiejiang @openrightsgroup Good news is many are pushing back on this!

[harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza]

@openrightsgroup also governments and corpos don't like free stuff. free stuff undercuts profit and difficult to control

[zer0unplanned@friendica.rogueproject.org]

@openrightsgroup I'm tired to hide on google page 2..

[inonkp@mastodon.social]

@openrightsgroup isnt this inevetable ? the internet could use regulating and goverments already have all of our data

[semele@mastodon.social]

@openrightsgroup So I can email my MP yet again on this particular topic and if they even bother to reply it will be saying they are 100% in favour of MORE control of the Internet, as they have before and as did their predecessor, both Labour Party, for all it matters. They toe the party line and are not moved by what their constituents say (with exceptions, I guess).

[patches@plush.city]

@csgraves @anomalocarididae @openrightsgroup assuming they don't just deadass make ""sideloading"" illegal, i wouldn't be surprised if software compilations and software distribution sets & offline/local-community repositories become more of a thing over time again

[punissuer@universeodon.com]

@openrightsgroup it never gets old, huh?
Comic by John Jonik, 2005...

[omar@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@openrightsgroup

What about Epstein networks with all the information in clear available and people identified which would deserve more scrutiny and effort?

Show us how real you are about protecting children.