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@jbenjamint@mastodon.scot @signalapp@mastodon.world "I know you don't like the fact that I'm robbing you at gun point, but you're not providing any alternative solutions to the poverty I'm currently experiencing."
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@jbenjamint@mastodon.scot And again, we're back to "I know you don't like the fact that I'm robbing you at gun point, but you're not providing any alternative solutions to the poverty I'm currently experiencing."
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@jbenjamint@mastodon.scot @signalapp@mastodon.world The statement was directed at you, not Signal, as you were the one implying that it is the victim's responsibility to provide alternative solutions to the perpetrator.
It's mad to think that Bill Clinton became president in 1993, and he is younger than Donald Trump.
If you need a reason to use a VPN in the UK, then the fact that your mobile service provider might have tracked your internet searches and provided movement data to the government based on them is a pretty good one.
Note, this isn't because you might have committed a crime or even just done something because the government of the day doesn't like. It's purely because your searches showed an interest in electric vehicles.
https://www.electrifying.com/blog/article/dft-has-been-spying-on-ev-drivers-using-mobile-phone-data
Of all the terrible proposals in the UK "online safety" consultation, the proposal to set per-app/site usage limits for under-16s is particularly awful.
Why?
Well, it's the proposal which relies, not on age verification, but ID verification. A service can't enforce a time limit on a person without stopping them creating multiple accounts. It can't do that without permanently attaching a (child's) real world identity to each account.
That is not improving online safety in any sense.
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@djsat2@mastodonapp.uk @signalapp@mastodon.world I assume that's sarcastic, because it would be too ridiculous to post sincerely.
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@leewalton@mastodonapp.uk @signalapp@mastodon.world You'll find no shortage of people with expertise explaining to the government the stupidity of their proposals. It isn't that politicians aren't being given the advice, they just aren't interested in it.