The UK is rolling out tougher age-assurance rules under the Online Safety Act that push platforms toward digital ID, facial scans, or credit-card checks for adult access to certain content categories, with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke publicly flagging that similar systems are likely to appear elsewhere once any country starts enforcing age gates.
UK is a police state
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
Current guidance ties verification to pornographic or other specified harmful material rather than every social feed, leaving general browsing possible without checks for now while Ofcom guidance and platform pilots continue to evolve.
Lütke's warning about worldwide adoption rests on his quoted tweet alone; no official UK documents link the rules to other nations, and separate age-verification efforts in places like the EU or Australia are running on their own timelines.
Many users denounced the UK digital ID and facial recognition mandate for social media as government surveillance and control, while others backed Musk's tracking warning or supported the rules to curb trolls.
But for some reason, ID is banned for voting in California, New York and many other states
> it’s not happening > it’s a right wing conspiracy theory > it may be happening > it’s happening and it’s good
This censorship law is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The real goal is to enable the UK government to track everyone.
It’s important to know that the social media ban for under 16s is not a ban for under 16s.
It is a ban on *selected* social media for EVERYONE. Until you identify yourself.
@elonmusk We don’t our kids seeing porn, dark web, being abused any more than they already are online that’s all
Lmao. And there’s the plan. Right there. Laid bare in your face. Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat forever. Everyone owes conspiracy theorists an apology who have been screaming about this for years.
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
@elonmusk To be fair, if you gave any effort to regulating your own social media, it wouldn't need to be.
@elonmusk Elon is this true or true?😂😂😂😂
@elonmusk When platforms like X allow the filth it does..a government's prime responsibility is to keep children safe from the filth
That makes it responsible not a police state
@elonmusk The UK went full communism.
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This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
@elonmusk
@elonmusk They want total control over who says what on the internet.
But they are doing it under the disguise of "protecting children".
@elonmusk Some tried in vain to warn them...
@elonmusk As a kid I used to love and admire the uk. My grandma was from there. Now I would not take my kids anywhere close to that country. It isn't the same Britain that's my grandmother grew up in. Britain Has Fallen
@elonmusk Bro needs to stop copying homework. @Keir_Starmer wanker commie fuckwit. Come arrest me in america.
Digital ID is the first step Chinese government took to build social credit system.
Once you are blacklisted, it's game over. The digital wallet WeChat immediately bans you from spending your own digital money, and receiving salary..So you can't find a job to make a living, and become homeless😭🚨
@elonmusk If there are cameras on every corner, at least let them watch billionaires pay their taxes.
@elonmusk @Lizthewire If Starmer cared about ‘giving the children their childhoods back’ he’d rip the intense push of sexual content and trans ideology out of our schools. What they learn there is potentially as harmful as anything they can see online.
@elonmusk Starmer is destroying the UK.
@elonmusk Get ready for the "wrong think" inquisition.