Part of a screenshot from Substack.
The surveillance state is on its way
As soon as I heard politicians squawking at me to "think of the children" as they pushed to introduce age restrictions for social media I rolled my eyes. Here's a transparent move against online privacy that's sure to result in big benefits for the data harvesting industry, I thought to myself. Here's a clever move to have folk like us co-operate in our own demise, letting the cunning sheepdogs in politics and the media herd us into the closely monitored paddocks of their dystopia-in-the-making. Not that I'm against keeping young people safe online. Far from it.…
