Starmer is about to make it illegal not to hand over your identity to the companies which profit the most from having your identity, in order to "give kids their childhoods back."

No, this is how liberty dies: with a "think of the children."

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And here's the official announcement of age verification coming to everyone in the UK who wishes to use "social media": > Social media to be banned for under-16s in landmark government move to give kids their childhood back https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-landmark-government-move-to-givekids-their-childhood-back #OnlineSafetyAct

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And of course they're not banning ChatGPT.
@bodil weren't they planning on buying chatgpt licenses for every uk citizen or something bonkers
@xyhhx idk, but that definitely sounds like the kind of bright idea Peter Kyle might have had.