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I'm a Brit and have had to enter nothing to access any of those and don't intend entering an ID. There isn't a legal requirement to even have an ID in the UK.
>The Brits ... now have to enter an ID to use websites like Twitter, Bluesky, Discord, YouTube, Spotify, and potentially even Wikipedia. I'm a Brit and have had to enter nothing to access any of those and don't intend entering an ID. There isn't a legal requirement to even have an ID in the UK.
But that's not the most disturbing thing, what's disturbing is the way "terrorism" or "proscribed organisations" are defined, and you're not allowed to voice support for them.
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A slippery slope is fallacious when the argument is made with little evidence or reasoning to connect the current state/action to the supposed bottom of the slope. Whether or not you agree with the reasoning is one thing, but there’s been a great deal of argument and discourse talking about the ways we are approaching worse and worse things, and the ways we have purportedly already progressed down the metaphorical sl…
The worst part is that I don't disagree that the US and UK are moving toward fascism - or at least some form of ethno-state where a WASPish core retains rights and everyone else has to fend for themselves. What I am asking for, and pointing out, is that we can do better. It came from a moment of pedantry and honestly a pet peeve. Take what I said with a grain of salt.