Not sure what invoking children here does for the sake of argumentation. Digital ID is not bad; the issue is the implementation of digital ID that will cause huge issues such as giving billions of pounds to friends of MPs
Not sure what invoking children here does for the sake of argumentation. Digital ID is not bad; the issue is the implementation of digital ID that will cause huge issues such as giving billions of pounds to friends of MPs
> Not sure what invoking children here does for the sake of argumentation.
Because by requiring children, but not adults, to have digital ID as part of a much larger (and pretty terrible) law that is already close to being passed and disguising it as a safeguarding measure they are sneaking it in for some people AND getting the next generation used to it.
> Digital ID is not bad;
The opposition to digital ID is largely coming from people who do think Digital ID is bad.
Digital ID is a very wishy-washy concept that has been co-opted by various groups to make strong statements about government overreach. If you want to make criticism you should make narrower statements, for example.
A centralized ID system that can be used to safely verify the authenticity of a presenting party is good!
If that system can be used to track this person in more invasive ways than already possible with IMSI catchers, credit cards and facial recognition that is bad!
People think Digital ID is bad and this everlasting evil concept that will further make the most surveilled country in the world an Orwellian nightmare overnight which is a dramatization. The devil is really in the details here and depending on what flavors of implementation determines the "goodness"
Digital ID alone is not the endgoal but a system that will encompass every aspect of people's lives, and can be switched off in an instant.
I heard the same hogwash over covid and vaccine passports, it didn't happen.
Covid and lockdown did happen, as did vaccine passports. All of these were used to push and normalise certain practices. The ruling classes want to get all this in by the 2030s.
Proof, evidence or anything other than you just moving the goalpost on conspiracy quackery?
You attempted to move the goalposts. You talk about the early 2020s as if everything that went on was normal and acceptable, and not contradictory at all.
Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time, but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbours over the fence but allowing international flights to continue.
I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal.
You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
You make stuff like this too easy
>Real quackery is allowing people to go to the supermarket all the time but disallowing them to exercise in the park. Or telling people not to talk to their neighbors over the fence but allowing international flights to continue.
Supermarket is critical for food, not exercising in the park for a couple of weeks is NOT going to kill you
>I remember walking on a local government run public golf course once so that I could exercise well away from people, only to have someone come within two metres of me telling me I was endangering them. Yet my local supermarket had dozens of people wandering around inside it. I'm told those kind of contradictions were normal.
The government response in hindsight was probably overblown in terms of risk management but for the most part in the UK the actions taken reduced the spread until the vaccine and other infrastructure was in place so I would say it succeeded. All of the rules, regulations and laws have been rolled back/unwound and society is back to normal.
>You know fine well that many places encouraged their citizens to download apps onto their phones for QR codes or tracking their location. That was publicly advertised in many of them by TV.
https://transform.england.nhs.uk/covid-19-response/nhs-covid...
"The app has been designed with user privacy in mind, so it tracks the virus not people, and uses the latest in data security technology to protect privacy. The system generates a random ID for an individual’s device, which can be exchanged between devices via Bluetooth (not GPS). These unique random IDs regenerate frequently to add an extra layer of security and preserve anonymity. "
There was no legal requirement to download the app and use it just FYI