Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 8 months ago
This apparently “spontaneous” group of “ordinary mothers” looks surprisingly media-trained. I’d be interested in knowing more about the founders. When the “keep our schools open during covid” group were examined they turned out to be a puppet of a right-wing thinktank.
Emperor@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Given the surname of one of them, we are, presumably, distant cousins. So I’ll ask if we ever cross paths.
However, if it is astroturfing, I can’t quite see the agenda being promoted here or, strictly speaking, who’d gain from this unless it’s part of the lobbying done for the porn ID bill (as a lobbyist friend of mine claims to have been involved, there was cash being thrown around to make that happen).
tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 8 months ago
You could be right. I listened to a Tory minister on the radio today talking about ending anonymity on the internet and - more interestingly - about silo-ing parts of the internet so that certain groups, such as children, could only access certain “versions” of the internet. I wonder whether that’s the longer-term agenda.
Emperor@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Things the Tories love doing:
You could see walling off parts of the Internet and cracking down on end-to-end encryption as being pieces in the same jigsaw. Once they have all the technology in place it would just need a concocted threat (Just Stop Oil organising their “terrorist outrages” online) for them to push it a bit further. Until, by increments, our Internet looks awfully like Chinas.