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The UK makes The US look like adults
Americans:
UK residents and anyone else who needs ID for verification should look at this website https://use-their-id.com/ . I strongly suggest not doing it because you can create parody drivers licenses featuring your favorite UK politicians.
And do nothing about it because why would you?
And soon they won't be doing anything against their government ever again because organizing will have been made impossible
Great going UK! But at least the kids are safe now, right? Right? Remember those kids whom this was all about? How are they doing now? Child porn now no longer exists in the UK, right? Well if anything goes wrong there I'm sure that the kids can confide about their abuse with priests for help, I'm sure priests would love helping them out with that.
Europe and UK people have been so busy pointing and laughing at the US that they don't see their own governments quietly following suit.
Following suit? No the UK makes the USA look tolerable
Its not quiet. Im pretty sure its illegal to go to the bathroom if your trans in the UK too but you'd never hear that from them so long as Trumps around for a good chuckle.
It's a new world order... USAs fuckery is just part of the process.
As George Carlin once said, "In WWII, the Nazis lost, but Fascism won."
We're seeing the ramifications of that play out in real time.
How’s that? Does he meant that Fascism won in Europe before the Nazis went and lost the war?
IMO he meant Italian fascism.
Italian fascism promoted a corporatist economic system, whereby employer and employee syndicates are linked together in associations to collectively represent the nation's economic producers and work alongside the state to set national economic policy.[3] This economic system intended to resolve class conflict through collaboration between the classes
I see, thanks
I think he meant that, even though the most notable supporters of Fascism, the Nazis, had been beaten, tried, and executed, the IDEOLOGY won big in worldwide exposure, which allowed it to fester everywhere.
We can definitely see that in the rise of modern populist Authoritarianism movements.
Non-Brit, non-American here: what's this about?
The UK government have effectively repressed protests against the genocide in Gaza by classifying Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
tldr; new UK laws are extremly privacy invading requiering ID and face photos to acces any explicit material including sites like Wikipedia, similiar to some USA state laws and it looks like EU might just follow.
Oh. Thanks. But I knew that. "Cellphones" threw me off I guess.
Oh they're making increasingly mundane things require a license. There literally is one for watching TV
I am not advocating for it, but the EU at least tries to make it as anonymous as possible. They want to allow different trusted parties like banks or government agencies to give out certificates that can then be used to verify your age. So at least the end platforms don't get any private information
There is no such thing as an age verification system that doesn't either directly lead back to your ID or is useless because it can be easily circumvented. If the certificates can't be traced back to you you can just hand them out to every teenager on the internet and you have a moral obligation to do so, and if they can it's the same as uploading your ID just to fix your steps, including a database that can be hacked to reveal all of the connections to all of the things or be accessed by a malicious government to persecute people who watch gay porn or something
You could do it with zero-knowledge proofs.
Not that anyone will. Maybe Norway or some shit.
You know you can get Lemmy on the PC, right? You don't actually need your cellphone license to view memes. Now I've just got to hand over my picture ID and insert this rectal scanner.....
and......
now I can post this comment :)
mate you've had that inserted for three hours now, let me have a go
Jesus, the line for rectal verification is huge. Stop hogging the log in!
Daddy Kier said that you're a naughty little citizen
Americans when they realize that GAFAMs are foaming at the mouth at implementing the exact same thing in the US A without even being mandated to do so....
Also Brits: America, for some baffling reason