We're very much experiencing the return of paternalistic notions of control over a population who are seen as unable to manage their base desires or behave rationally.
Worse still, this is a bipartisan movement from groups who feel they are losing control and relevance. Mary Whitehouse returns!
Andy Toone
“What the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default and potentially rushed into law under cynical pretexts”
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...
