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Politics : The Surveillance State

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From: S. maltophilia8/6/2025 5:55:04 PM
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... It’s clever to make the public case for verification hinge on the right to watch porn. Because who wants to defend PornHub? Who wants to look like they’re arguing in favour of kids watching porn? But as we can see from the UK, porn is the trojan horse. Adult content is so broad a category it can come to mean anything remotely violent or sexual. The real goal is the de-anonymisation of the internet. The objective is to know what everyone is doing and where they are, all of the time. Governments know pretty much everything now about your offline life. Where you live, the car you drive, the job you have, the tax you pay. The network of license plate capturing CCTV that saturates most western countries means they can, if they want, know where you’re going as well. And if you leave the country, they know that too. The internet is too anarchistic in this sense. ....

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