@neil in your view is this badly drafted legislation or is there real intent to impose blanket surveillance, or is it even possibly a sort of real-politic in which there is a belief that this will allow the security services to prevent crimes justifies the sacrifice we will all take. I'm asking because I simply don't know but tend away from more fruity conspiracy theories.

@neil writes "You could not message your children on Signal".

I am glad our youngest son will be 16 soon. We use Signal all the time to communicate with him, in particular to arrange pick-ups, but for other things too, for many years.

@neil This is why we need decentralised e2ee apps like Simplex Meshtastic Cwtch Briar Deltachat, become ungovernable

#FLOSS #E2EE #SimpleX #Meshtastic #Cwtch #Briar #Deltachat #Anarchism

@neil Don't even think about letting them use the smart fridge.

@neil are they going to mention games? Or carve that out separately. Roblox, Minecraft, etc have a lot of those features

@neil IMO Australia is turning into Australia Rouge: introducing a Khmer Rouge ideology like Pol Pot: "In order to enforce loyalty to the state, the Khmer Rouge broke peoples’ ties to religion and family" -- I believe that social media are the predominant way to live family and social ties nowadays.

Quote source: https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/cambodia/khmer-rouge-ideology/

Image CC0 by Karel 'Clock' K. (unedited AI output).

@neil hang on though - don't schools *require* their pupils to use much of this technology as part of their education these days?!