Comment on Burnham to scrap Starmer’s digital ID scheme in ‘reset of priorities’

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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Well what happened here was; Everyone wanted a solution to the problem. Experts told the government what the solution to the problem was. The government did something completely different than nobody liked. Everyone complained. The government scraps the entire thing. Everyone still wants a solution to the problem.

There seems to be this inability from the government both Labour and Conservative to just do a thing for the purposes of resolving a particular issue. Instead they always seem to try and make it into this one size fits nothing solution that will fail to tackle multiple issues including the original issue.

It’s like this social media ban for under 16s. That’s a good policy and I support it, but they’re implementation of it is insanely stupid, will cost loads of money, won’t work, and will violate the privacy of a bunch of adults. Instead of doing what the experts told them to do which was to mandate a law that required operating systems to have parental controls.

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