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.
Following suit? No the UK makes the USA look tolerable
nothing spells tolerable quite like concentration camps.
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.
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?!
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Daddy Kier said that you’re a naughty little citizen
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.
Americans when they realize that GAFAMs are foaming at the mouth at implementing the exact same thing in the US A without even being mandated to do so…
Americans:
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?
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”
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.
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.
I don’t think the corporations see it as being brought to heel, generally speaking. It’s like net neutrality; those who are already big will thrive because they can afford to implement the govs requirements while the littler guys can’t afford it and will just pull out of the UK.
At least what will be how it is while the government scrambles to unfuck themselves for the young persons vote in the next election.
I think that’s one of the big theories for sure. You’re not alone.
And maybe Trump has made them more comfortable with supplication, but I suspect once they’ve eliminated some competitions they’ll find a way to wriggle out of it (or turn it further to their advantage, likely through using it to control the flow of information or something as pedestrian as tracking ads).
I feel more justified by the unnecessary i2p, vpn and portmaster layering on my pc every day.
The UK makes The US look like adults
I think you mean their listener’s license. Wow, that takes me back.
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.
Also Brits: America, for some baffling reason
We don’t have cellphones. We just have cells.
moh-biles
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.
