It’s very ironic, that this is being posted by a so-called conservative here.
You sleep in the bed you make yourself. Don’t complain when you push “liberals” so far to the right with constant moral panic about “communism” they implement the very thing your side always wanted.
Never thought I’d see the day that Labour would be higher than the Tories on my list of parties to never vote for. David Cameron’s government was a liberal utopia compared to Starmer’s.
We don’t have cellphones. We just have cells.
moh-biles
Removed by mod
predatory gambling cunt
I feel more justified by the unnecessary i2p, vpn and portmaster layering on my pc every day.
Ideally companies would just block the UK, like they did to the EU to avoid GDPR regulations.
That would put other nations (and the EU) off doing this nonsense themselves.
But it seems like the corporations have been brought to heel. Just when their usual attitudes would have come in handy.
like they did to the EU to avoid GDPR regulations.
I dont get this part. Are you saying that the GDPR is a bad thing?
No, the GDPR has a lot of benefits.
I’m saying that the content companies could weaponise FoMO and say “you can’t play with us any more, UK” then the government would probably have to pull back.
And then the other places considering doing something similar would have to do the same. Before it becomes the new standard to have “age” gates.
There are certain sites that don’t follow GDPR regulations, and they decided not to allow EU traffic. So when I come on those sites they say: “Due to GDPR regulations, we are barring you from accessing our site”
Is that really a thing? I’ve seen exactly one such site and that was when GDPR was new and someone linked to that site for exactly that reason.
It isn’t common, but it happens. For example, local news websites.
No, but it is expensive for companies to do properly.
It’s not. The advertising lobby pushed a narrative that it stopped you doing lots of things out doesn’t, so lots of people are overly cautious, but it really just stops you doing things that no one would consider reasonable. Unfortunately, if you run targeted ads or use Google Analytics, they’ll be doing things no one would consider reasonable, so you have to not do that, but that’s not expensive.
Ok but unironically the goal is always blackmail. It’s what they did for MLK and they’re doing it to us right now. Look up cointelpro. The gov thought he might inspire leftist revolution so they recorded MLK in his private life and told him to kill himself. With republicans cracking down on political rivals, it’s merely part of the fascists equation.
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.
Absolutely yeah. We should never endorse using the likenesses of others or submitting fraudulent identification.
It definitely would not be funny or help frustrate the privacy invasion that this is intended to be.
Please, trust the masters. They know what’s best for you.
If this actually works, it’s amazing.
It shows just how performative the ID checking systems are.
Wait, you submit a photo?? Is there no electronic ID card in the UK?
Can confirm we don’t have an official identification card, let alone electronic ones.
We use driving licences for that purpose. And kids in my area get child identification cards, but I’m not sure if that’s a national thing or not. (The name of the card has the county in it, hence why I’m not sure).
What if you’re an adult without a driver’s licence?
I’m not sure if this is unique to the UK or not, but if you don’t have a full licence, you can apply for a provisional; the pre-requisites being the following:
- be at least 15 years and 9 months old.
- be able to read a number plate from 20 metres away (which isn’t checked or enforced until the driving test anyway).
- have been given permission to live in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) for at least 185 days.
- £34
So most people have a licence in the UK, regardless of whether they can drive. Usually so we don’t have to carry our passports to the pub when we turn 18. (Which also isn’t unheard of here).
I don’t live in the UK, so i don’t have the answer.
Americans:
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.
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.
Unfortunately, that’s because a majority of British people are casually transphobic, so see the recent Supreme Court ruling as common sense rather than something bad. It’s pretty common for brits to accept that trans people are real, and assume that means they can’t be transphobes, despite advocating for treating everyone as their AGAB in the eyes of the law and sport and every other way that isn’t whether they can wear a dress.
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?
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.
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
Following suit? No the UK makes the USA look tolerable
nothing spells tolerable quite like concentration camps.
The UK makes The US look like adults
I think you mean their listener’s license. Wow, that takes me back.
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.
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!
Aww hell nah wassap dawg?!
I
I
I
I don’t know much about computers
Daddy Kier said that you’re a naughty little citizen
Non-Brit, non-American here: what’s this about?
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
The TV licence has been around since 1946. Are you able to name one “increasingly mundane thing that now requires a licence” which didn’t previously?
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.
what’s to stop me from verifying people who aren’t me with them? I’ll hand out zero-knowledge proof tokens to anyone who asks if they can’t be traced back to me
I’m not the right person to ask, as I only really have a basic, cursory understanding of how they work… But if they can prevent anyone except me from spending my Monero, I imagine someone could figure it out.
They can’t stop you giving your Monero keys to someone else, and then they can spend it, too. You not wanting other people to spend your Monero is key to it working, and that doesn’t necessarily apply if, e.g. you’ve got family or close friends you’d be willing to have a shared wallet with.
Client side verification, that only shares the verification/proof thumbs up to the requestor, could work in such scenario. Very similar to digital payment cards such as seen in Apple Pay. You verify with your biometrics, anyone can only use it in that brief moment of time, but you cannot share that card. When paying, the device will only quickly check key details of that card to execute payment.
Client side verification is easy to bypass, so that doesn’t work for anything. You just send back a firmly response with a modified app or something
It works using encryption so it can’t be traced back. But yes, you could technically share it with others
The problem isn’t hacking. It’s buying a license to use the aggregate data for things like training and user data hoarding. It’s all legal and buried in the fine print of B2B agreements and sometimes the EULA or a pop up under the guise of “convenience” or “security”. Users usually agree to being safer or living easier.
Any sort of discrimination scheme (and that is what this is) requires identification of the individual.
The UK government have effectively repressed protests against the genocide in Gaza by classifying Palestine Action as a terrorist group.
Careful mate. Once they’re done arresting grannies they’ll be coming for you.
