coruscant@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 9 days agoKeir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UKwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down13
arrow-up119arrow-down1external-linkKeir Starmer says digital ID cards an ‘enormous opportunity’ for the UKwww.theguardian.comcoruscant@lemmy.world to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up21·9 days ago “You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It’s as simple as that.” Ah, I get it. The idea is to give a massive boost to the underground economy, forcing everyone without a digital ID to work completely off the books.
minus-squareDigit@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoNailed it. Orwellian as ever. Same as how prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad, and the bad things worse.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 days agoAnd to identify everyone at a protest for example…
minus-squareArcane2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 days agoProtesting is illegal already, ID changes nothing
Ah, I get it. The idea is to give a massive boost to the underground economy, forcing everyone without a digital ID to work completely off the books.
Nailed it.
Orwellian as ever.
Same as how prohibition does not prevent. Prohibition makes the good things bad, and the bad things worse.
And to identify everyone at a protest for example…
Protesting is illegal already, ID changes nothing