here's what will happen.
- u16 ban passes, platforms must verify all ages
- kids use VPNs, government bans VPNs
- age verification infrastructure already exists, its scope gets broader, more invasive, more extreme
- Online Safety Act forces backdoors into encrypted messaging, E2E encryption dies, gov can read everything you ever send
- CBDC rolls out, your internet passport and financial passport become the same document
- anonymous accounts posting "wrongthink" are now identifiable prosecutable
- the generation that grows up with this doesn't remember it being any other way
- George Orwell was right about everything
- it's over
anonymous accounts demanding we end anonymous internet is a special kind of irony
enforcing an age-restricted internet ban means they must verify ALL user's age. their age estimation plan will not work, it only ends in one outcome: a complete surveillance infrastructure. it's a honeypot. in Keir Starmer's hands.
kids doomscrolling is a real concern, however the solution isn't handing Starmer a national social-media linked ID database - the cure is significantly more dangerous than the disease and there are better alternatives that don't infringe on our rights
i want less state control in my life, not more
privacy is a fundamental human right and it is being stripped from us little by little. i miss when crypto twitter used to be libertarian