📚 UK's Digital Age Restrictions as Authoritarian Control
Countering the Decay of Our Digital Channels
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The UK government has recently shown its authoritarian hand and cuddled up with Big Tech and Christian Nationalism's need to control us digitally. We dig into what it really means and how we secure our content, identity, and organizations. This goes all the way back to authoritarian tactics in Civil War times! Read on for more...
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UK Government 'Protection' from Access?
The Kier Starmer-run UK government just threw a huge blow to all of our digital freedoms. It took until the UK finally have the Labour Party in charge only for it to show its true colors as authoritarians, just more left!
To read more about the actual restrictions and how they are impacting real people, check out 404Media's piece:
Emanuel Maiberg
What I want to talk about instead is why.
WHY?!? Oh, why? Is the UK government using pornography and children to restrict our digital spaces and require us to submit our face or ID to access the reality of...oh let's say...the war on Gaza?
It's much deeper than you expect. Let's get into it...
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