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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."
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
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf
psst
An IPO is a fundraiser
It means they're out of money
And it's not a coincidence they all need public money at the same time
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