The UK government has abandoned plans for compulsory digital ID age verification, marking a significant victory for privacy advocates who argue such measures are intrusive and a step towards a surveillance state.
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We have some great news for today.
Digital ID age verification and age
verification in general just took a huge
L because a member of parliament in the
UK just announced that they won.
Starmer, which is the UK prime minister,
abandons plans for compulsory digital
ID. This is a huge win. Well done to
everyone who's been fighting from all
political parties and none. A team
effort. It proves that we can make
progress when we come together to fight
this appalling labor government. So, for
those of you guys unaware, the UK has
been pushing age verification across the
entire world and one of their ideas was
digital ID. They're basically trying to
make a less invasive form of ID age
verification. Yes, digital ID is a
little bit better than handing over a
physical ID, but it's still crappy in
the sense that the government wants your
information to be able to do basic
things on the internet to be able to use
social media to be able to listen to
music on Spotify to be able to do pretty
much anything. In the UK, you need to
provide ID age verification. And they
were even going forward as making
digital ID verification mandatory for
pretty much everything. I mean, they
just want our biometric data for
literally everything. And for those of
you guys thinking, and I make this point
in every single video, oh, it's in the
UK. It's not going to affect me. It's
going to affect everybody because every
country is following suit with this. Age
verification is spreading rapidly
throughout the world like a plague. And
to the point where the United States and
other countries are also interested in
digital ID ever since the UK presented
it. However, Rupert and other members of
parliament in the UK were able to get
this scrapped. And they are, at least
for now, not going to have digital ID in
the UK anymore. I heard it got pushed
back to 2029 and it'll be optional when
it does actually get released. Here's
Rupert talking about the whole thing and
explaining some details.
>> Good news. K Starmmer has just announced
he's abandoned plans to implement
digital compulsory digital ID.
I think this is hugely good news for all
of us. It shows what can be achieved
when sensible MPs get together and with
public support make their views known.
over or nearly 50 MPs signed uh my open
letter to Kia Starra on this subject to
which we were implacably opposed and I
think we can say this is a victory for
common sense. It's a victory uh for for
for all of us. Uh and we can safely say
now that we retain our freedom. Uh
another uh slice of it has not passed to
a an oppressive nanny state. We've got
three more years to go. Uh and we must
collectively use this as the template to
fight the nonsense that's being pedled
uh uh and and promulgated in this
country now. So well done everybody.
Have a large drink to celebrate this evening.
evening.
>> So yeah, a few things. Obviously the
issue with digital ID and ID age
verification in general, if it wasn't
already obvious enough, is that they're
going to be violating our privacy just
so we can use very basic parts of the
internet. They want biometric data. They
want IDs so they can control the masses
and collect information about everybody.
And in reality, parents should be doing
their freaking jobs to make sure their
kids aren't sitting on social media all
day. That is the job of a parent. That
is the job of a guardian. It shouldn't
be in the government's hands to hold
your hand to walk you through
parenthood. To be a parent and to be a
guardian, you should have the
responsibility to take care of your
children. It should not be the
government's responsibility to force
everybody to hand over an ID. And there
was one point that Rer was making that I
really want to talk about because I
think this is important. This is also
something that I've mentioned in other
videos as well. This should be something
that we are all aligned regardless of
our political beliefs. I live in the
United States. In the United States, we
are completely divided because
everybody's worried about this left or
right liberal or conservative
When in reality, there are
times where we should all band together,
especially when it's something related
to completely violating the privacy of
everybody in the freaking world. If we
all don't band together and fight ID age
verification, it's going to be a
situation where we're all going to have
to hand over an ID to do very basic
things on the internet, to watch a
YouTube video, to listen to music on
Spotify, to read some Twitter posts. I
mean, like I said, I don't know anything
about Rupert's political beliefs. We
could completely disagree on a lot of
things, but at the end of the day, this
is more important. It should not be
about what side you support. It should
be about everybody collectively trying
to protect each other's privacy. So, he
made this tweet over here where he said,
"A plea to all patriotic MPs. Can we
please put aside petty party
political differences and work together
for the British people? We can win. We
are winning. We need to win. And he
makes points about other political
issues in Britain that I don't want to
get into because I just don't have
enough knowledge to talk about it. But
again, it's just about the freaking ID
age verification thing. The fact that
this is such a thing where all these
parents are just willing to hand over
all this information to the government.
Here you go. Here, parent my children
for me. I'm completely incompetent.
Here, here's my ID. Here's my kids ID.
This was the whole situation that was
really annoying me because it's like,
holy man. Can we just actually
agree on one thing as people? Not just
leftist or rightist or whatever, as
people. Can we all agree that the
government shouldn't force us to hand
over this type of information? I mean,
it's crazy that people were disagreeing
with this. This was the letter that was
signed by all these different types of
members of parliament where they said,
"Dear Prime Minister, we are writing to
register our profound and passionate
opposition to your reported plans for a
compulsory UKwide digital identity
scheme. Such a policy would represent an
unprecedented level of state control
over British citizens. This is a
fundamental change to the relationship
between the individual and the state.
It's dangerous, intrusive, and deeply
unbritish. It risks building the
foundation of a surveillance state, one
that will inevitably expand in scope
over time. This is a slippery slope
aspect thing that we always keep talking
about for people who are like, "Oh, it's
whatever. You just have to provide ID to
basically, you know, have certain
features on YouTube or to listen to
Spotify stuff." And do you think that
it's going to stop there? Do you think
it's not going to spread to literally
every single website as it already has?
Do you think it's not going to spread to
your country or your state? If you do,
you're a fool because that's what's
happening in the world right now. But
anyways, continuing on, they said, "We
urge you to abandon these plans
immediately. At the very least, you must
commit to bringing any proposal before
parliament for full scrutiny and a free
vote and to fully consulting the public
before attempting to impose such a
drastic measure on a reluctant country.
The British people do not want this and
the British people do not need this.
Compulsory digital ID would mark a
dangerous and permanent shift in the
balance of power between government and
government. We will oppose it at every
stage. Like I said, these people that
are listed over here, they can have
vastly different political opinions and
beliefs. But this is one of those things
where people should come together and
try to fight the government from just
taking away the privacy of all the
citizens. Not just in the UK, but in the
world in general. And as I keep
mentioning the world, it is not just the
UK. People in the entire world are tired
of age verification. Age verification
has been failing everywhere. And people
are actually trying to get it banned
from all these different states and
countries throughout the world as well.
I've made videos talking about how an
activist group called Net Choice has
been permanently blocking a lot of these
age verification laws across the United
States. And this is something where it
just shows that this is not just about
the UK. People across the world are
tired of this age verification thing.
People across the world want the parents
to be able to just parent their kids and
not have the government have to do
everything for us. And the parents who
do support this type of stuff. They
don't even understand what's going on.
They don't understand how wrong this is.
They're actually just naive or they're
just straight up dumb. Because if you
really think handing over your
children's information to these social
media companies is going to be the way
to protect them, you are a fool. Do it
your job as a parent. Get your ass up
and just take away the phone from them
if you feel like they're on the phone
for too long. It is that simple. It
should not take the government to make
laws to mandate ID age verification from
literally everybody, not just kids, for
you to be able to do your job as a
parent. And this is a point that a lot
of people have brought up with age
verification, but people bring up age.
People are like, you know what, the
people who support age verification,
they're just old farts that don't think
anything about technology. But you would
be surprised, man. Even a lot of young
people, even people who are literally
doing social media as a job, they are in
support of age verification as well. And
again, I'm just led to believe that
they're either they're stupid or they're
naive. I mean, it just comes down to
that. It might even be something more
sinister where they know that age
verification is collecting the
information of the masses and they don't
care. I made a tweet about this
celebrity Madison Beer, who's this big
musician, and she was talking about the
fact that she actually supports
Australia's first social media ban. She
said, "Really? That's incredible.
Honestly, I think that's amazing. I'm
sorry to any under 16year-olds who are
probably very upset now. that's still so
young prior to 16. You don't need to be
on social media. I know that it all
might be hard if you've been on it. And
especially as we live in a time where
every waking millisecond is social
media, social media, social media. But I
promise you, you're only going to look
back and be grateful. At least that's my
opinion. I wish someone would have taken
my phone away at that age. But you see,
Madison, they're not taking your phone
away at this age. They are mandating
that you submit ID age verification. The
phone taking away thing is what the
people with brains are proposing. We are
the ones proposing that it should be
your parents and guardians taking the
phone away from you to make sure that
you're not getting addicted to social
media as a teenager. But what is
actually happening is the government is
like, "Hey parents, we got your guys'
back. You don't know how to be parents,
we got you. We're going to make it so
literally everybody has to submit an ID
to use social media and that's going to
be quote for the kids." So I made a
tweet calling her out where I said,
"It's sad that celebrities are
supporting invasive laws like this
without understanding why it's bad. This
law isn't about protecting kids. It is
essentially forcing everyone to submit
ID age verification to use social media.
This is all about collecting biometric
data and destroying privacy. I'm going
to be more optimistic here glass half
full and assume that Madison Beer isn't
being malicious with this statement
because I'm going to assume that she
doesn't understand that everybody is
going to have to submit an ID. However,
there could be the alternative where she
actually knows what's going on and she
was paid to say this or something. To be
honest, you can just never trust
mainstream celebrities. I mean, in my
eyes, mainstream celebrities are just
like they're they're like bot. like I
don't even really trust anything that
they say because they all just listen to
their sponsors or whatever. But it's
just funny to me that she ends her
statement by saying, "Oh, I wish
somebody would have taken my phone away
from me at that age." Well, you see,
Madison, that's the problem. They're not
taking the phone away. They are asking
you to hand over an ID. But yeah, the
good news is that digital ID age
verification in the UK seems to be
scrapped, at least for now. That is a
huge win and hopefully other countries
and states follow suit and stop with all
this age verification crap. Let me know
what you guys' thoughts are on the
situation in the comments. Please leave
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