Note, this is ICO not Ofcom, so it's to do with data collection on minors and not the Online Safety Act.

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.

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.

However you won't be the last:

Fuck reddit.

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.

"I would sooner live like it’s 1998"

I wanna go back. The millennium was a mistake

Peter Thiel wants to connect your online behaviour to the profile Palantir is building on you. That way they can target people based on their group criteria. We've already seen the early version of this with Cambridge Analytica, their business model was built around using facebook profiles and shadow profiles (for those who don't know, even if you've never had a Facebook account, there's a profile for you based off the information your friends and family have allowed Facebook access to (contacts etc)) to target people with targeted propaganda when they're at their most vulnerable; at home with their guard down where they feel nice and safe and are more receptive to propaganda.

This is why the right wing have lost their little minds, they've been the primary target of Cambridge Analytica, it led to Brexit which we now know was a plan by Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein to destabilise Europe with the goal of returning to feudalism so that they can buy up everything super cheap and own the world.

Their main goal, is to implement a surveillance state which will be bolstered by autonomous weapon systems and facial recognition linked to Palantir's database, so that they can turn the world into a series of technocratic fiefdoms where the tech bros rule over us with an iron fist.

This isn't hyperbole or conjecture, these are the things they're doing and telling us they want to do.

or at my house,

KNOCK, KNOCK

Come on in, we're playing retro games and curried tofu over rice.

Fuck REddit and Fuck the UK

ahhhh, seriously knock knock let me in, that sounds delicious. If you're not veggie, I'll bring my family's kedgeree^[which has nothing to do with the dish you find when you search for recipes by that name, where our recipe came from is a mystery, but it uses S&B Japanese curry]. :)

Rightio! A swift kick in the gob will put a stop to all that!