UK Passage of "Online Safety" Bill to Create Chinese-Style Internet Tracking and Censorship

[CloudWatcher]

Lauren is concerned about "child protection" efforts basically turning into an "id required for all internet access"... since you'll have to prove that you're not a child to access large parts of the net. He's not wrong.

https://lauren.vortex.com/2023/09/20/uk-online-safety-bill-tracking-censorship

The mandated social media platform ID age verification requirements, which will ultimately require the showing of government IDs for access to sites, alone will create the opportunity for virtually every action of every user of the Internet in the UK to be tracked by the government and its minions in ever expanding ways over time.

VERY similar *bipartisan* legislative efforts are taking place here in the U.S., though the U.S. court system is creating additional hurdles for their perpetrators here, at least for the moment. For now.

[justaprogressive]

1. Just an escalation

fortunately the internet RESISTS censorship, in a big way.

Another effort doomed to fail.