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@neil

It discourages me to see tech people respond to this with resignation, rather than with pitchforks and torches.

@neil Blood test and retina scan to turn on domestic utilities, so that children will be safer.

@neil Age verification to use feckin' computers at all, as far as the systemd dipshits are concerned.

@neil
🔜 "age verification" for visiting a site that uses Cloudflare

@neil We've already reached "age verification in the operating system" suggestions. Next step is "age verification to turn on the device".

@neil Age verification to go out of the front door?

@neil all new keyboards must have needles embedded in the keys, to take a DNA sample from the active user.

@neil waiting for some government to take European Computer Driving Licence to its logical conclusion.

@neil

🙂🖖

@neilhimself
Don't mention DNS-over-https, they may not notice! I mean, they are a bit thick after all.

@neil You can only access online if you get the brain stem implant at the back of your head to be sure you are who you say you are when you plug into the matrix

@neil

Honestly? I feel like that is where they've always been headed. Once they control the access, it's much simpler to control the content. 🙁