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Digital IDs have been a “conspiracy theory” for years. It’s been a political point as far back as the 1950s, when the conservatives removed a form of ID after WW2. There's a philosophical view that in the absence of ID cards, the individual is the owner of their identity, the state asks for evidence of identity as needed. ID cards (& now digital ID) shift that, identity becomes something that is owned by, and awarded by, the state. Moving from no state issued ID to a state issued ID fundamentally changes the relationship between the individual and the state. The state is now the source and arbiter of identity, not the individual. The next part of the conspiracy, once the ID is in place, is that they will then introduce social credit scores, and link it to a CBDC (central bank digital currency) in order to control what you can spend. We’ll see if that materialises next….

I am not sure what about my posts is winding you up. But I assure you that I’m just a person that wants the best for the country, and everyone in it. To me that is free market capitalism, founded upon strong morals and ethics. Free speech and free debate are fundamental to that, which is why I strongly object to starmer’s authoritarian streak.

A couple of years ago it was “conspiracy” that Labour wanted to bring in digital IDs. Yet here we are.

Poor Leicester No one deserves that.

I mean all you need to do is watch him for 5 minutes to see that he’s nowhere near this level and never will be. I wish that wasn’t the case, considering how much we spent.

Not at all. Bluesky is heavily left/liberal. X is heavily conservative. This is why bluesky is immune from the regime’s ban

Free market will always produce the best outcomes. Too much information goes into setting a price to be able for humans to dictate them. The soviets thought they could centrally control prices and look what that led to. Extrapolate that same thing, to all other organisations.

Nope, it’s because it’s pro-Labour, pro-state. For all the other platforms he is following the same playbook that authoritarian governments always use: Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat.

Private companies are always better than public, for a plethora of reasons. State planning and centralised control does not work, and always leads to terrible outcomes Anyone that thinks otherwise hasn’t read enough history. (Sorry to be blunt; but it’s true).

This is a bad example as even though they are “private” they have not been a truly free / private market. They’ve been kind of a state sponsored monopoly which has allowed the worst of both worlds. The failures of the system aren't born out of open-market competition; they are born out of a deeply flawed regulatory framework that gave private companies the perks of a monopoly without the market discipline that forces normal businesses to perform.

Yes - over 12000 since 2023 The thing is - these new powers never get reversed. You may agree with it now, but what happens in a few years if someone you disagree with gets into power? Would you trust Trump with a totally censored internet?

Anonymity online in my eyes is vitally important, especially in a country where we are seeing thousands of arrests per year for criticism of the government. I don’t want to live in a police state. I don’t want to live in a society where people are assumed guilty and not innocent. As I said…This is nothing to do with child safety, and everything to do with silencing political dissent.

Yes. It is. The state wants total control. It is in the people’s best interests to resist this. Has been proven over and over again throughout history. Both fascists and communists alike would love a subservient, observed population. Read some George Orwell to see a fictional glimpse of that this is like. With all of these kinds of things, if you give an inch, they take a mile and then continue to take more and more.

The nonces are all on Blue Sky, the one app they didnt ban because it suits their political agenda