It's out with one dystopian tactic and on to the next for the British government’s ongoing assault on free speech.
London’s Metropolitan Police force told The Daily Mail on Monday that it is pulling back on investigating "non-crime hate incidents," and instead will “focus on matters that meet the threshold for criminal investigations.” But after the U.K. government’s full-throated attack on free speech these last couple of years, it is going to take a lot more than words to restore trust. A good start would be dismantling other dystopian policies that seem to be a censorship crackdown waiting to happen, like its ever-expanding digital identification program.
The U.K. is using the excuse of mass migration to demand that all working citizens obtain a digital identification. But that supposedly narrow application of the digital ID has already widened, as the U.K. government rolled out a digital ID for military veterans on Oct. 17.
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