• tabular@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    It’s probably time I should get off my ass and write to my Labour representative saying I’m voting for any other party until they repeal this (and the “online safety act”).

    I hate social media but I hate “papers, please” to use the web even more.

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      21 hours ago

      I’ve arrived at the same conclusion and will be writing to my Labour MP as well - we let the pot boil too long on this unfortunately.

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      22 hours ago

      Let me get this straight. You would vote for any other party, which equates to reform getting in and doing an unimaginable amount of damage to the country, because labour has banned YouTube, tiktok, Snapchat and Facebook for kids?

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        18 hours ago

        I would write to my MP that I would vote for any other party to make it clear this is an issue. I am not saying all other parties are adcAequally good.

        It’s difficult to tell if you’re being sincere when you phrase what I see as a problem of mass surveillancep&r

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          18 hours ago

          I know what you said, you said you would go torched earth if labour don’t drop the bill to protect kids from bad sites. You would vote for anyone else, which is essentially hanging the towel and letting reform win. First past the post and all that.

          You’re under the impression we don’t already have massive surveillance? I know you know we do, the only difference is we don’t have any of the perks of it, such as stopping kids from accessing highly damaging content online.

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          20 hours ago

          Age verification? What’s your point… voting for anyone else enables reform to get in which leads to America.

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              18 hours ago

              I believe it is. The government capabilities of spying on its citizens doesn’t require it to have age verification lol… In any case, UK people can’t be spied on.

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                  18 hours ago

                  What the heck is your point exactly? We shouldn’t have mass surveillance? But we already do… Have you seen how many cameras there are? Do you know DWP can access your internet history if they suspect benefit fraud? No warrant required… And that’s one of dozens of government departments that can just whip up your internet history…

                  This isn’t some grand attempt at putting the final bit of the puzzle together… there are legitimately multiple generations of children who can’t read, accessing brain dead content that are turning into potatoes and becoming radicalised… Shall we just stop all attempts at preventing that because you’re worried about your privacy?