China's social credit system started from digital ID. Now, a single social media post that criticizes the government can cost you 50 social credit points, leading to arrest and blacklisting. This can affect your career, your ability to take a train, your internet speed, and even your children's access... to education.show more

“Pubgoers will be able to use their smartphones to prove their age as part of plans to introduce government-backed digital IDs.” And slowly but surely, we move inexorably towards Tony Blair’s vision of digital ID right across society.

@JamesMelville “OBEY”

@JamesMelville So much for privacy from groups that already can't be trusted. Decentralize, dismantle. Trading privacy for "security". We need security against tyranny if anything. I think we would all prefer a utopian society instead of a dystopian surveillance state

@JamesMelville Imagine if every day, everyone in China said Xi was a communist piece of garbage. They dont have the balls.

@JamesMelville Reddit's wet dream

@JamesMelville and Gates, Silicon Valley, WEF and DC want to enchain Americans with this kind of "security"....our 'freedom" will be allowed and qualified to never seen before depths of tyranny never seen in US before....BIPARTISAN Hitech Tyranny..Trump will flail but cant stop the slide..

@JamesMelville The facial recognition technology in China must be really good. Just saying.

@JamesMelville We should be surveilling the surveillers.

@JamesMelville HK had ID cards since 1983, when i lived there, under colonial rule. Nobody complained, there was freedom of speech, expats locals loved it.. Only if you live under a communist regime such as Xhina is ID, a problem

@JamesMelville @elonmusk are we headed this way?@JackPosobiec

@JamesMelville Evil is still in control of this planet.