The mountain…
According to the polling company Ipsos,
2 in 3 British adults (69%) would support a law that requires social media companies to use age-verification tools to ban children under the age of 16 from accessing their platforms in the UK, and 3 in 5 (61%) support social media curfews / hour restrictions for 16- and 17-year-olds
The route up the mountain…
Support for a law requiring social media companies to use age-verification tools to ban under-16s from platforms drops of 50% if it means everyone in the UK would be required to upload an ID or credit card to verify their age. This holds if ID verification is held by individual social media platforms (50%) or by the device owners, such as Apple or Android / Google (51%).
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Support dips to just under half (48%) if the law necessitates a total ban on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) within the UK to prevent circumvention.
People sometimes think that all the mockery of the cry of “Won’t somebody please think of the children?” means that it has ceased to be a persuasive argument. This assumption is not true. “We must do this to protect children” is an eternally powerful appeal to humanity’s deepest instincts. Our task is to demonstrate that requiring age verification before any British person can use the internet will not protect children. On the contrary, given the ease with which hostile or criminal forces can steal government data, it will endanger them and endanger adults too. There is also the threat from the government itself to consider – not just this government, but all future ones. Throughout history, authoritarian states have sought to “get them while they’re young and bend their minds”.
“First they came for the children. But I wasn’t a child, so when they asked, I said I approved.”
This ‘think of the children’ mentality didn’t apply when the bozos were all in favour of children being given a totally unnecessary RNA based and untested ‘vaccine’ to ‘protect the vulnerable, who were mainly people in their 80s with co-morbidities.
The ‘public’ also willingly went along banging effing pots on their doorsteps, wearing ineffectual masks and shopping neighbours for having ‘gatherings’ of more than 6 people to the authorities at the same time. They were the ultimate’ pointers’.
Most of the voting public do not think seriously about issues – pro and cons – before voicing support for authoritarian measure related to internet censorship. We are sleepwalking into 1984, which has now become an instruction manual.