You may remember recently that revelations came out where people who were identified as lockdown and mRNA vaccine skeptics and opponents were being monitored by the Army's 77th Brigade and the intelligence services.
Now with the new CONTEST 2023 Home Office strategy (PDF) that was announced yesterday, single men, under the umbrella term of involuntary celibates, are being monitored by the Government as potential threats to UK security. If you're someone who's on Tinder and getting dates every few minutes, you're probably not in the sights of the Government. But if you're not succeeding on dating apps, claim the single occupancy discount (on Council Tax for lone residents), view content from the likes of Andrew Tate, Pearl Davis, the manosphere including MGTOW, you are now being monitored as part of this new strategy on the grounds of security. The other obvious groups such as Islamic terrorism and the far-right are also being monitored in more limited numbers.
Listening to the debate on TalkTV last night, the host and panellists (one of which was Jess Phillips MP, who you may remember from Carl Benjamin's tweet to her) are very adamant on pushing this narrative.
And with the recent debanking that's happening in the UK, we know that anyone with a heightened risk to their name is going to have their account closed and refused service from everyone else. We know that having favourable views on Brexit, Russia, Novak Djokovic (on his anti-mRNA vaccine stance), women's and men's rights and the right wing plus being perceived as a racist puts you at risk, now your martial status and being perceived as sexist can potentially be added to that list.
Did not even know this was still active.
Yes, cannot protect the public unless we see it all...
That was the other thing that was being pushed, the demand for privacy to be abolished "for your safety" with the usual line of "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" that's being trotted out for over 20 years to justify this intrusion into your private life.
I would expect another attempt to push for the criminalisation of Virtual Private Networks for residential use or at the very least, have the payment processors refuse service to VPN's in the UK in the same regard that life has been made difficult for porn websites to get paid.
There has been talks in europe of even further than that, To force phones and devices to intercept messages before they are sent and as they are typed.