Thoughts on the Digital ID approved on Thursday in the Lords

In the light of the Lords' approval of this egregious bill:

... I added this below the birthday wishes to our fair lady:

"Fri 06:18: Housekeeping note: Julia has a post up here at 9 a.m. today.  We also need to make a statement on the Lords' passing of the Digital ID bill yesterday.  Tricky timing as Julia won't be around. I plan to make a statement tomorrow morning, Saturday, for readers, say at 7 a.m. and if I put it in scheduled today, say by our 7 a.m. or so, she'll be able to read it from our dashboard and either DM me or else go direct to my post and alter what needs altering. So that's coming up, readers."

The issue as far as any online adult in Britain goes:

Virtually every pundit who is onto the issue has come out against it ... not because we don't care about children but because it's been directly shackled to policing US adults ... that's its main purpose, its main goal being to shut down dissent, to police what we speak out on.

Or going further ... the idea is also to sow division, dissonance and rancour between partners, allies, fellow onliners ... here's an example:

There's a lady on X, Sandy Tregent, we mutually follow, she and I mutually repost, e.g. on this:

We're onside on most issues.  However, she's super-keen on Farage and Reform and right down on Rupert and Ben. I'm for Reform rank and file but right down on Farage and the gang of three.

And there's the dilemma. We can be onside on 8 out of 10 issues but disagree on the last two.  Which do our foes direct all their energy to? Of course ... anything to split us and get this rancour going.

At her site, Lady Julia makes plain she does not police Anon comments but does have another method. At Unherdables, there's a quite workable system of at least adding a moniker to your comment.  Your own invented moniker.

That works fine in both cases. However, at a site such as Orphans, you can see the issue.

We here also allow Anon but I add that you need to call yourself something somewhere in the text.  There's a reason ... I'm the one getting the threatening letters from the platform and one of the stipulations is no anonymity. Fine ... if you self-identify with something you invent, we've complied.

However:

Following the Lords' vote, that is no longer enough at ANY site. They will push for govt issued "licencing" of our right to speak online.  I can't speak for Julia but I flatly refuse to comply.  That might lead to banning from any online commenting. So be it.

Remember, I'm only speaking for myself there.  And of course, there are ways around it, whilst still technically complying.  All that is future days at this stage.

At the same stage, we've been threatened with removal at Orphans. Julia at her place hasn't, I at Unherdables haven't but "we" at Orphans have. They do NOT like voices combining.

And that, readers, is where we are this Saturday morning.