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The fuck is going on over there?
Authoritarian government.
Apple is taking the piss. There is no requirement in the OSA that it age checks be done at device level.
We have a government that thinks the population needs to be parented through authoritarian means. The don't understand that even though their intentions might be benign, they are still building the infrastructure of an authoritarian state.
You're giving them too much credit. Their intentions are not benign and they are the authoritarian state
I think some are idiots with benign intentions and some aren't. Your average labour back bencher is an idiot.
From a distance, it all seems very intentional to me.
The Brits want what America is having
Maybe UK citizen have not yet realized how badly they screwed themselves with Brexit, and they need a second shot of an even sadder reality? Or maybe they've just given up already?
Brits are really weird in the sense they think everything about technology should be controlled to some terrorist and shit. They have no worry about what that level of informational control could do.
1984 should be read in school.
There are only 2 things British people care about 1 is GPS tracking on cars. People hate hate hate the idea that they cannot speed, doesn't matter how many lives it saves they are a good driver and they are always late. Second is ID cards for some really weird reason, passports are find but having an optional ID card is a massive no. I even spoke to people about it and said okay how would it work in practise, what are you scared of? "Well the corrupt police could arrest me and make me show them ID and I couldn't refuse." "So let's say a corrupt police office just came in now arrested you and took you wallet. Are you telling me they couldn't work out who you are from what's in you wallet right now?" "Well they could but I don't NEED all that, I could just be carrying cash" "But you aren't and you never are"
People hate the idea of it. But government want to spy on your conversations, images, location, contacts, what you read, porn. Oh yea go ahead if it means people don't have to turn on the adult filter on the WiFi or on the phone data which come as standard then go ahead. Easy.
Why did they want to leave the EU anyway?
Beside the handful of real absolute morons/racists/haters (we have similar people in the EU too, they are far from being exclusive to Britain), I consider this an impressive scam that went somewhat completely wrong.
Those promoting Brexit never intended to really leave the EU, that was a mean to grab more power by manipulating the... lesser informed population, and they were indeed quite surprised the day those people, and then a few more with them, actually voted for that Brexit scam. Making them the proud leader of something that was probably never meant to happen. Hence their absolute lack of preparation for it and the shit show that followed for years.
It's also a demonstration of why a failing public educative system is fatal to a working democracy. Uneducated citizen can't vote with their brains, only with their guts. And we all know that what usually comes out of guts is not ideas, right?
Something we can also witness happening in the USA, quite obviously, but also in most countries in the EU even in my dear own France. Sadly.
Most of us didn’t….half the country voted, and a quarter voted leave, having believed the lies of snake oil salesman Nigel Farage and one or two others that the EU was screwing us over somehow, and its “unelected official” weren’t helping. Plus some other bollocks about migrants.
Most of us didn’t….half the country voted, and a quarter voted leave
And less than a quarter voted to stay. Also it's only a quarter if you include babies and others ineligible to vote.
To be fair I never heard a baby ask to leave the EU, so I can only assume they were happy with the status quo
This has nothing to do with Brexit. And I'm struggling to find anything in my daily life where Brexit has had a negative effect. Strangely enough when I ask people how it's affecting their daily life nobody seems to actually come up with an example that has anything to do with Brexit. The most common one is having to use passports to travel to the EU but we always had to do that because the UK wasn't part of Schengen and I can only assume those who bring up that example have never ever left the UK.
Most of that surveillance shit wouldn't fly in EU
Person unaffected by past bad decisions doesn't see how that's a problem.