UK goes full "V for Vendetta" with passage of Online Safety Bill to
create Chinese style tracking of all Internet use and massive
censorship -- coming to U.S. soon?
In the 2005 film "V for Vendetta" a fictional UK government has turned
into a tightly censored, tracked, and controlled hellscape, with
technology used to control citizens in every way possible. The UK has
now taken a massive step toward making that horror a reality, with the
passage of likely the most misguided legislation in the country since
the Norman invasion of 1066.
I won't detail their Online Safety Bill here -- you can find endless
references by searching yourself -- but the vast, blurry, nebulous,
misguided rules for "protecting children from 'harmful' content" -- a
slippery slope bad enough on its own, quickly expanded into a Chinese
Internet style virtual steel collar for every UK resident, chained to
the government in every aspect of their online lives.
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.
Be careful what sites you visit or what you ask or say on them. In
China, you can simply vanish under such circumstances. And in the UK?
Similar disappearances coming soon, perhaps, as every site you visit, no
matter the topic related to business, medical concerns, or other aspects
of your family's private and personal life, will ultimately be linked to
you in government databases.
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.
While some activists and legislators spend their time ranting about
Internet advertising, governments around the world are working to turn
the Internet into a pervasive tool for tracking your every online move
and thought, permanently linked to your government IDs.
We've seen it in Communist China. Now we see it in so-called
democracies.
Open your eyes -- while you still can. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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