But.. but.. Its for the safety of children! Lol
this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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Identity Verification was always the goal. "Protecting the children" is a scam.
Wow! I’m surprised.
I wrote my MP and they said they appreciated my concern but wouldn’t do anything.
So now I need protest ideas.
Organize your local community to call/visit regularly until your MP relents out of pure frustration; use specifically verbal methods. It's easy to ignore regular letters or emails but much harder to ignore phone calls and visits.
I mean, I like the idea of a digital ID. It has potential for a lot of good. I don't like the idea of a digital ID being tied to your hardware. This implementation is bad.
Can you enumerate what the potential good you see it bringing.
To be up front, I strongly disagree with you, but I want to be sure I don't just have straw man arguments in my mind.
Aw shit I had a decent comment typed up on my pc and then I changed my wife and my bike tires. It's all the way over there, 2/3 of the way finished but I got little legs and I'm tired.
Short version I'll try to get you more complete thoughts when I get up sometime next decade. But the short version is that laughably presuming that a malicious government wouldn't be abusing this, secure digital identity verification, when people want it (not being forced on someone) like digital docusign but author requiring notaries and bullshit like that, could actually be very beneficial in financial, legal, medical, a bunch of different industries where verifying identity quickly is important.
Actually, the long version didn't have much more than that, just more words.