This weird government obsession with giving private companies their users’ personal IDs is so infuriating…
It’s not a government obsession. It is capitalisms — surveillance capitalisms — obsession. Our governments are almost entirely corrupted by capitalist interests. Their success IS “national security”.
An authoritarian/fascist dictatorship was always the guaranteed end goal of the military industrial complex, secret police, the monetization of attention, and I fear capitalism in general.
Vpns requiring age verification to use soon:
https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116087059413472819
Age Verification of Windows, MacOS, iOS, and Android:
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/california-enacts-digital-age-3957871/
What most of these sick fucks really want:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html
Decade of the Linux Desktop & Old/Federated Web
Alot of idiots will lie down and take it because they have “nothing to hide”,
I won’t and you shouldn’t either.
Mass boycotts are going to have to become a normalized thing.
Just simply stop using them all, yes I know I’m being reductive, I don’t care, I would sooner live like it’s 1998 then give these careless ass private us companies my ID
Fuck Reddit, fuck D&D beyond, fuck discord, fuck Facebook.
Find me on Lemmy or at my house, I guess.
or at my house,
KNOCK, KNOCK
Come on in, we’re playing retro games and curried tofu over rice.
Note, this is ICO not Ofcom, so it’s to do with data collection on minors and not the Online Safety Act.
Let me be the first to say:
Fuck reddit.
However you won’t be the last:
Fuck reddit.
Fuck REddit and Fuck the UK
