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Together Association: uniting people throughout UK to uphold freedom & fundamental democratic rights #together since 2021. #DontIDTheInternet

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    RT @Nigel_Farage: Ghastly, draconian madness. The Tories teed it up. I will keep the internet free.
    Politics UK @PolitlcsUK
    🚨 NEW: The age-check methods for Brits to access social media from March have been announced 1. Photo ID matching (passport against a live photo) 2. Banking checks 3. Digital ID services 4. Facial age estimation (additional check if needed)
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    🚨 NEW: The age-check methods for Brits to access social media from March have been announced 1. Photo ID matching (passport against a live photo) 2. Banking checks 3. Digital ID services 4. Facial age estimation (additional check if needed)
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    Well done to members of Scotland Against Digital ID, among those who headed straight to the Scottish Parliament today to make their opposition known! An under-16s "social media ban" must not become a back door to Digital ID for everyone. Congratulations too to the group on reaching its fifth anniversary recently. Like us, they'd probably rather there was no need to still be fighting these battles five years on – but clearly we need to be!
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    "Papers Please" to get online? @andyburnham didn't even fight a leadership contest, never mind a general election He has NO MANDATE to push a massive intrusion that never featured in Labour's manifesto either Be an action taker + fight this: Stand #together, this attack on privacy, anonymity and ultimately speech affects us all #dontidtheinternet
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    "Now we've heard it directly - the so-called 'social media ban on under 16s' is going to be a mechanism to impose digital ID to participate" - @alanvibe on today's news
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    Do 2 things: 1) 📩 Tell your MP: NO! 👉 2) Join us on 7 November:
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    RT @cgdav135: On top of this, those who lack any valid form of ID - or rightly do not want to hand over their information to tech companies - will be shut out of the online world entirely. This is a catastrophic policy that won't work.
    Labour Digital Rights Network @LabDRN
    We warned that a social media ban would force digital ID and biometric scans just to go online. Now Ofcom has confirmed it. To prove you're over 16, Ofcom recommends methods like banking checks and facial age estimation. All of this invasive infrastructure - and they STILL admit "the risk of circumvention cannot be entirely eliminated, and some children will succeed in bypassing age checks". The death of online anonymity will come at the expense of a policy that doesn't even work.
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    We warned that a social media ban would force digital ID and biometric scans just to go online. Now Ofcom has confirmed it. To prove you're over 16, Ofcom recommends methods like banking checks and facial age estimation. All of this invasive infrastructure - and they STILL admit "the risk of circumvention cannot be entirely eliminated, and some children will succeed in bypassing age checks". The death of online anonymity will come at the expense of a policy that doesn't even work.
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    RT @alanvibe: Ofcom now wants to force us all to have Digital ID to get online Under the banner of ‘protecting children’ this government is pushing an assault on privacy & ever worsening free speech Get involved make your voice heard take a stand Don’t ID the Internet Scrap Digital ID a👇
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    Unacceptable! Ofcom want us all forced onto Digital ID Say No Together
    Alan D Miller @alanvibe
    Ofcom now wants to force us all to have Digital ID to get online Under the banner of ‘protecting children’ this government is pushing an assault on privacy & ever worsening free speech Get involved make your voice heard take a stand Don’t ID the Internet Scrap Digital ID a👇
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    RT @MaajidNawaz: We will be addressing all this at @Togetherdec’s 5th anniversary in London on 7th November TICKETS:
    The Mercian @TheMercianNews
    🚨 NEW: Ofcom says all adults should have to use their ID to access social media. • Ofcom has recommended four methods for verifying users’ ages ahead of the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s, which is due to come into force in March next year. • The four methods suggested, subject to government approval, are photo ID matching, banking-based checks, live facial age estimation and digital ID. • The regulator noted that verifying the ages of 16 and 17-year-olds is challenging because many do not have credit cards, full driving licences or passports. • Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said the ban can work if firms carry out highly effective age checks, and that the regulator will take action against companies that fail to comply.
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    🚨 NEW: Ofcom says all adults should have to use their ID to access social media. • Ofcom has recommended four methods for verifying users’ ages ahead of the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s, which is due to come into force in March next year. • The four methods suggested, subject to government approval, are photo ID matching, banking-based checks, live facial age estimation and digital ID. • The regulator noted that verifying the ages of 16 and 17-year-olds is challenging because many do not have credit cards, full driving licences or passports. • Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said the ban can work if firms carry out highly effective age checks, and that the regulator will take action against companies that fail to comply.
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    RT @danwootton: WELCOME TO HELL. I did warn you. They don’t give a damn about protecting children. They want to censor and control the internet while ushering in Digital ID. Hope your virtue signalling over Adolescence and the manosphere was worth it.
    The Mercian @TheMercianNews
    🚨 NEW: Ofcom says all adults should have to use their ID to access social media. • Ofcom has recommended four methods for verifying users’ ages ahead of the UK’s ban on social media for under-16s, which is due to come into force in March next year. • The four methods suggested, subject to government approval, are photo ID matching, banking-based checks, live facial age estimation and digital ID. • The regulator noted that verifying the ages of 16 and 17-year-olds is challenging because many do not have credit cards, full driving licences or passports. • Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said the ban can work if firms carry out highly effective age checks, and that the regulator will take action against companies that fail to comply.
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    "They hired friendly hackers to penetrate the (One Login) system, they found they could take control of the system without being detected" - @AndrewOrlowski Does this sound secure? @UKLabour Freeze One Login @andyburnham
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    NEW: Ofcom officially recommends Digital ID and uploading photo ID e.g. passports to use social media As we’ve been warning 📩 Tell your MP: NO! 👉
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    Read the new report from @defenddigitalme for much more on what "age assurance" really means for all of us:
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    .@ofcom found only 37% of parents of 3–17-year-olds used the parental controls built into their children’s devices. Fewer than 4 in 10 parents using controls already available on the devices *they gave* their children. Yet ALL OF US will be expected to prove our identity - with Digital ID, a passport or similar - just to use social media? It’s ridiculous. Tell your MP NO:
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    .@ofcom found only 37% of parents of 3–17-year-olds used the parental controls built into their children’s devices. Fewer than 4 in 10 parents using controls already available on the devices *they gave* their children. Yet ALL OF US will be expected to prove our identity - with Digital ID, a passport or similar - just to use social media? It’s ridiculous. Tell your MP NO:
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    RT @alanvibe: Oh here we are then “Everyone over 16 may need ID to use social media,” Ofcom says Ofcom acknowledged that children aged 16 or 17 who “do not yet have a photo ID would likely need to take steps to obtain one”. The proposal is set out in the regulator’s assessment of four methods it says could be used to enforce the UK’s under-16s ban. They are facial age estimation, passports, digital IDs and bank checks. Ofcom said: “Given photo ID is either required as part of our recommended methods – or likely to be part of a second check – our assessment acknowledges that those 16- to 17-year-olds that do not yet have a photo ID would likely need to take steps to obtain one.” Photo ID checks would require a teenager to have a document such as a passport or driving licence so that a live image could be checked against it. This is a full frontal attack on privacy & imposing digital ID to participate on all of us ! Don’t Id the Internet Make your voice heard 👇
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    RT @Togetherdec: 🚨 Should you have to show your PASSPORT just to use Twitter/X? 📩 Tell your MP: NO! 👉 The Government is reportedly considering ID checks FOR ALL to enforce an “under-16 ban.” 📩 Tell your MP, NO to compulsory ID checks - use our free online tool to do it in seconds: 👉 🔁 SHARE!
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    RT @Paul__Walsh: I’ve challenged Jonathan Haidt as a technical expert in online child safety, with experience across the entire technology stack and human behaviour. He’s a social psychologist, not an expert in the technology or technical consequences of the legislation he’s promoting. Haidt knows that all smartphones today already have extremely effective parental controls that allow parents to restrict apps, websites and services, set time curfews and control what their children can access. Millions of parents and schools already use them. Instead of encouraging parents to use these controls, he’s pushing legislation that would force people to verify their identity to access online services, threatening privacy and online anonymity. He asserts that parents and teens shouldn’t have to subjected to peer pressure. Compulsory identity verification links everything people read, write and share online, and everyone they communicate with, to their real identity. This enables mass surveillance, tracking across accounts and permanent bans. The threat of being banned for expressing opinions about specific people, politicians, governments and religions encourages everyone to censor themselves and suppresses political dissent. Haidt is closely aligned with stakeholders pushing compulsory identity verification and the end of online anonymity. As a behavioural psychologist, he should be advocating behavioural solutions, including educating parents about existing parental controls. Instead, he’s promoting technology mandates that enable mass surveillance. I don’t believe child safety is his real objective. When I challenged Haidt’s proposals on LinkedIn, his colleagues attacked my motives instead of identifying a single technical flaw in my analysis. If they understand the technology and believe their proposals are sound, they should be able to explain exactly where I’m wrong. Personal attacks don’t answer technical arguments.
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    RT @ReclaimTheNetHQ: Canada sold C-34 as a simple ban on under-16s using social media. Now Identity Minister Marc Miller says cabinet can extend it to Roblox and Discord through an Order in Council, with no vote in Parliament required. The bill was written to allow exactly this. Meta wants the scope widened too. When the government and Meta agree on internet policy, users should check their wallets and their passports. To keep kids off these platforms, every user has to prove their age. That means adults handing over government ID or a face scan to play a video game. Discord already leaked 70,000 ID images through a support vendor last October. Ottawa’s plan is to make the pile bigger.
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