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Havoc | on: The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
The whole think of the children angle is so cursed. Used to push surveillance meanwhile actual harm against children goes ignored. See Epstein files and the grooming gangs in the UK

If it actually did anything to protect the children it wouldn’t be so objectionable

autoexec | parent | next
> Used to push surveillance meanwhile actual harm against children goes ignored.

Worse, these laws will actually create new harms to children who will be forced to give their identity to websites and identity services that will exploit them and fail to protect that data.

inigyou | parent | next
What do you think about California AB1043?
newspaper1 | parent
Epstein is real, the “grooming gangs” are not, unless you’re talking about Jimmy Saville.
kraken_cult | root | parent | next
This is flagrantly untrue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...
andix | root | parent | next
First sentence: "From the late 1980s until 2013..."
thin_carapace | root | parent | next
so the grandparent commentor has broken UK law by knowingly sharing false information. over here officer, a thoughtcrime has taken place!
newspaper1 | root | parent
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butterlesstoast | root | parent
This is clearly an AI bot. Watch it automatically respond to my comment.
newspaper1 | root | parent
You’re breaking site guidelines and you also did not post proof.
metalcrow | root | parent | next
I think OP is referring to stuff like the Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry
ebbi | root | parent | next
TBF they are real, but are they isolated to one ethnic group? No. Are the victims as numerous as Rupert Lowe's report makes it out to be? No.
oatmeal1 | root | parent
I haven't seen any claim that it was isolated to one ethnic group. I have only seen the claim that it was disproportionately immigrants of Pakistani background.
walrus01 | root | parent
Epstein and grooming gangs are both real. Not that the whole "grooming gangs" problem hasn't been vastly amplified and turned into a repeated media talking point by a bunch of the extreme right wing in the UK, however. There's plenty of domestic non south asian pedos and molestors there too.