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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).

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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.

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- Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Things the Tories love doing:
  
  Giving money and favours to their rich chums
  
  Quelling descent, often about the above
  
  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.
  
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