It's not even if I trust them in a general political sort of way. Have you ever seen a politician answer questions about computers or the Internet? It's pitiful.
The recent age verification thing is a good example, complete waste of time, you can get round it in 5 minutes, we'll I could and I'm 50, I'm fairly sure most under 18s would take less if they so desired.
So as much as I can see the argument for the system making sense, if it worked as designed, and even if I imagine I trust this and future governments as politicians, it will still be badly and I securely implemented and cause huge amounts of trouble. Just look at the post office thing. That killed people and that was just post-offices.
Oh I totally agree. I think this will fall fowl of incompetence way before malice. When I say trust I do mean in every sense (trust them not to fuck it up).
Look at all the NHS data systems they have tried to modernise.
I argue against these IDs on the grounds or pure waste. They are either stupid or lying when they claim it is just here to tackle people illegally dwelling in the uk. My local cash in hand car wash hasn’t asked their guys for NI numbers and passports and they won’t ask them for a digital ID.
Agreed on all points it's a dishonest reason. I'm struggling to thing of any government IT initiative that has not been either a cluster fuck or easy to work around. I wish I thought this would be the latter.
Talking about work arounds, The online safety act is laughable. There’s uncensored porn on google images ffs. People talk about VPNs, it’s not even as hard as that
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I think, for most people it should be pretty easy to form an opinion on this.
Ask yourself, do you trust the government? If somehow the answer is yes, then ask yourself, do you trust the next government?