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For background, Ghey was a transgender teenager who was killed by two other teenagers. Both were sentenced last week to life imprisonment with a minimum of 22 and 20 years respectively. They formulated their plans to kill a number of schoolchildren by befriending them and using plans they researched.
Now Ghey's mother has spoken to the BBC (who else?) to denounce the Internet as the "wild west" and calling for the state to restrict what children can view online in a way that would only work by removing access to the Internet and implementing a UK style Intranet. She also claims that it is impossible for parents to parent their children - therefore the state must intervene - by requiring all technology and what citizens see to be restricted by the state.
As we live in a time where people are treated like children by default, you are assumed to be a child by default (the Online Safety Act requires different treatment for content not "safe for kids" as an example), the desire that people need to be protected from themselves and everything must be done "for the children" and "for your own good".
For example, in North Korea, the general public have no access to the Internet. They do have access to Kwangmyong, the heavily restricted Intranet where everything citizens see and the technology used to access it is wholly controlled by the state.
Another case of not letting a tragedy go to waste.
ETA: Education Minister just told the BBC that they will be expanding age verification to all content not "safe for kids", not just pornography. Their preferred option to be introduced by 2025 is both Government Photo ID and live, on-going facial recognition. They're also not ruling out implementing an Intranet and banning the possession of technological devices for children.
Again, swing and a miss.
They'll forever try banning or restricting things and then wonder how kids are still being exposed to nasty shit online.
Kids are banned from smoking, drinking and vaping but they still do it. Restricting internet access will do fuck all.
It's not about the kids, they want to enforce ID on everyone so they can hunt dissenters who dare question them. It isn't the first time they've tried pushing it; but they're hoping this ghey individual can be the figurehead to get enough normies to back it.
It's interesting how they don't acknowledge that murderers have been around for a significantly longer period than social media.
Restrictions pretty much never work, educating kids on social media and to be "street wise" is more valuable.
As a kid I remember being approached by a predator pretending to be my age online. I still didn't arrange to meet up with them.
A blacklist policy will never work. You play a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. What is being advocated now is a whitelist approach - banned by default unless explicitly allowed. It's why I bring up North Korea's Kwangmyong though the UK if it were to seriously go down this road would probably not go down that far. More likely a tiered hybrid Internet/Intranet system determined by status.
The one big problem for the Government will be Starlink. Will Elon comply with the Government's wishes or dissent even if it means the can't legally receive payment from UK citizens?