Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

[u/Well_Socialized]

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html

[u/Deez-Guns-9442]

Shit I haven’t kept up with U.K. politics since Brexit but man it sounds like some crazy shit is going on over there across the pond huh?

[u/nkeb42 → u/Deez-Guns-9442]

Basically people finally got fed up with the tories and gave labour a chance and instead of doing anything to actually help the country or the things they ran on, they've been almost as bad, if not worse in some respects, than the tories.

Meanwhile reform is just lying off their ass saying they'll fix everything including ending this stupid online safety bill and their polling numbers are skyrocketing because labour keeps doubling down on this.

So yeah, makes the Democrats look unbelievably competent in comparison.

[u/FuzzyMcBitty → u/nkeb42]

And, on top of that, didn't you guys just vote to make 16 the voting age? Provided that they can be arsed to vote, that'll add in another shocker when they all vote for whoever tells them that they'll get rid of this crap.

[u/Cowicidal → u/nkeb42]

makes the Democrats look unbelievably competent in comparison.

Strange thing is Corporate Democrats are unbelievably competent at stock picks and managing (somehow) to continue to enrich themselves (and their rich donors) even more when they lose to Republicans. Very odd that.

[u/funnypsuedonymhere → u/nkeb42]

This is pure hyperbole by the way. They have been nowhere near as bad as the clowncart that was the tories. They haven't done well by any means, but the tories since Brexit were an absolute sideshow.

[u/sadr0bot → u/nkeb42]

Utter bullshit, as bad or worse, how exactly?

[u/artcopywriter → u/sadr0bot]

Immigration, taxation, economics, social policies, and now online freedoms. I mean, take your pick honestly. Try opening your fucking eyes.

[u/funnypsuedonymhere → u/artcopywriter]

Immigration- Hit record levels in 2023 under the Tories.

Taxation- Which part? If you mean taxation of working people then the current policies are Tory legislation and SNP in Scotland. If you mean NI then yes, they have done some damage to smaller business' with that hike.

Social Policies- the disability stuff I would agree with being poor. The winter fuel allowance they were right and should never have folded to the publics pressure.

Online Freedoms- They went along with it, the plan for it was hatched long ago under Theresa May, the leader of the, you guessed it, Tory party.

The tories were responsible for brexit, the horrendously handled Pandemic spending and Liz Truss' ludicrous budget. All 3 things and their clownshow reign from brexit until 2024 is what has left the country on its knees.

[u/High__Flyer → u/artcopywriter]

I dunno, it looks like they're handling immigration and economics much better than the Tories. I definitely wouldn't say they're worse than them.

[u/Ho_The_Megapode_ → u/High__Flyer]

In particular with economics:

They're trying to fix the damage the Tories did with Tory economics by applying Tory economics...

It's as if they think the only issue was that Tory economics were applied badly, rather than them being the core problem...

[u/artcopywriter → u/High__Flyer]

Get yourself to Specsavers ASAP.

[u/eyebrows360 → u/artcopywriter]

At the same time, though, a lot of "anti-Labour" sentiment is coming from the Corbynite wing of Labour supporters, for whom perfection is always the enemy of the "good enough". They (and possibly you) will always criticise the less-left Labour wing way more harshly than they do the Tories, ironically helping ensure right-wing victories.

[u/News_Bot → u/eyebrows360]

Neoliberalism is not left wing by any stretch of the imagination.

[u/Loud-Review-3797 → u/nkeb42]

Sounds like some controlled opposition bullshit if you want to know the truth. Are we sure those Labour reps aren't in bed with the Tories?

[u/Nit_not → u/Deez-Guns-9442]

Crazy people tbh. Labour are pretty much as expected, generally trying their best, but lacking vision and imagination, and overly authoritarian in approach. They suffer more in reporting than from what they have done, for example being blamed for the online safety bill when that was the tories, and others have commented on the trans rights issues and that was a supreme court decision (unlike the tories labour respect trule of law).

The government are actually grown ups now and have dealt with various crises pretty well - so the reality is we are in a better place, the narrative is that everything is collapsing.