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Samizdata quote of the day – Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK’s latest threat to privacyOur statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. – Signal official statement June 8th, 2026 |
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The distance between a phone configured like this and George Orwell’s telescreen is very small. The phone having the advantage that, unlike a telescreen, it is literally on your person at all times. The real danger to children? Living in a totalitarian, authoritarian society where the government knows and tracks everything you say or do, and can cut you off at the knees as soon as you get out of line.
It seems particularly ironic that the government that ignored massive amounts of evidence of systemic child trafficking, sexual exploitations of under age girls, and horrendous amounts of brutal rape, has the audacity to want to check if I have naughty pictures on my phone.
These people are monsters and good on Signal for standing up. I hope, like 4Chan, they are in a position to tell the UK to fuck off.