UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification

[Jim Burton]

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-lawmakers- ... rification

Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are proposing amendments to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would require nearly all smartphones and tablets to include built-in, unremovable surveillance software.

The proposal appears under a section titled “Action to promote the well-being of children by combating child sexual abuse material (CSAM).”

[Not Forever]

…it will certainly do a lot of good for their psychological health.

I swear that if, when I was a teenager, my parents had been able to monitor anything I did on the internet, I would have killed myself. I already wasn’t in great mental health, but something like that would have destroyed me.

[BLueRibbon]

…it will certainly do a lot of good for their psychological health.

I swear that if, when I was a teenager, my parents had been able to monitor anything I did on the internet, I would have killed myself. I already wasn’t in great mental health, but something like that would have destroyed me.

They don't give a fuck about children. That's just the excuse, as always.

[CantChainTheSpirit]

It's obviously nothing to do with child wellfare, it's just the continued trend towards a police state. Everyone will see that, it's really too obvious, but whether anyone will object is another story since most of the country has lost all hope.

[BLueRibbon]

I've just taken a look at the proposed amendments.

This is absolutely insane.

Surveillance beyond that found in China, but without the actual benefits of living in a genuinely modern and functional country like China.

The UK is a despicable, dystopian wasteland...

[Not Forever]

They don't give a fuck about children. That's just the excuse, as always.

To me, they genuinely think it’s for people’s well-being.
Let me take another context and talk about my country: I’ve already seen a handful of psychologists supporting the idea that parents, as those responsible for their children, should know what their kids are doing with their phones, and I can easily imagine these same people jumping for joy over a measure like this.

All of this is “backed up” by the anti-social-media rhetoric that has been going on for ten years, if not longer, portraying them as the cause of all the problems affecting young people.

If we put these two things together, these proposals would exist even if pedophiles didn’t exist, even if people remained asexual until they were thirty.

And I find all of this so damn irritating.

[Learning to undeny]

All of this is “backed up” by the anti-social-media rhetoric that has been going on for ten years, if not longer, portraying them as the cause of all the problems affecting young people.

I can tell that child protection is only the envelope for controlling people, but as someone who experienced the transition to smartphones at a young age, I'm sure they cause or worsen mental health problems. They got us interested in the internet when it was more humane and varied, and now that we are hooked and need it to even work, they are turning it into a dystopian place, so to speak. So much cheap entertainment and so little free speech.

[Aspire6]

Import or buy unlocked pixel, unlock bootloader, wipe, install GrapheneOS, re-lock bootloader, give the finger to the UK.

[Bookshelf]

Bare in mind, the two politicians proposing this in are from the House of Lords, meaning neither were elected by anyone in Britain. It's a pair of out of touch seniors that don't understand tech trying to force the entire country to abide by their deluded understanding of tech.

The entire concept of their position is a remnant of the reality that not too long ago, Britain (and most other countries) was under far stricter governance with fewer freedoms than it enjoys today. Technology has helped people escape tabloid propaganda; it has let people see what life outside their own country is like, to compare to their own; it has let people access information that governments otherwise used to censor or destroy.

That is what this is about. Old-style government institutions are trying to pull the world back into pre-internet days, and as MAPs we are a partial scapegoat for it.