Look who is behind the ID verification shit. Oh, who would have thought?
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
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digitalid
The state of the internet is a bunch of people who are on record for being child molesters (or are at least actively covering for said child molesters) telling you that artistic expression is immoral.
"We need mass censorship and surveillance to protect the children, the same children that there are millions of pages of criminal report documents saying we brutally abused." -Lawmakers, Corporate Executives, Celebrities, Conservative Think Tanks, etc. unironically
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #DigitalID
🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨
Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.
This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.
Find out more ⬇️
#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
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having a citizens' assembly is an unironically good proposal wrt Digital ID, and something that Labour gov't should actually normalise - not just for this topic.
but it'd be interesting to see what happens if the assembly comes against the proposal in its entirety and yet gov't will carry on regardless.
still, a new and exciting chapter in the Britcard saga https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/09/ministers-to-ask-randomly-selected-britons-to-feed-into-digital-id-consultation
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“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers."
Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks.
This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content.
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
#onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨
A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications.
That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers.
Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access
#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
This week's net.wars, "Split", notes Keir Starmer's reversal on digital ID and ponders the row over Grok's clothing-removal capabilities and its collateral damage to the Royal Society: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/01/16/split/ #NetWars #AI #digitalID #science
So exciting to see Superrr Lab's documentation of the recent Digital Futures Gathering online already! I wrote an essay about the kind of digital ID I actually want, and a reminder for myself that it's up to us to think about what we DO want:
"We need realities and futures where we do more than merely get through or withstand. We deserve those which we enjoy, and in which we thrive."
https://digitalfutures.space/deepdive/digital-id/
#digitalID #responsibledata #futures