What a coincidence that Utah is following the same pattern as Australia, the European Union, Norway and the UK, while pretending they came up with it independently.

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bryan_w 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder who's in common there?

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nephihaha 11 hours ago | parent [-]

They obviously get the ideas from the same sources. Somewhere they don't invite ordinary people to like Davos or other conferences.

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wat10000 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Could just be monkey see monkey do.

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croes 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.

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nephihaha 7 hours ago | parent [-]

At the same time? I don't think so. Almost everyone talks to each other and takes notes. We know they do. The World Economic Forum is real and has a website you can access. They talk about policies like this under their "Fourth Industrial Revolution" section and don't even hide it. The same policies are repeated across much of the world on everything from smoking to driving to digital ID, regardless of who gets voted in.

	▲	croes 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s the political equivalent of a TikTok trend. You see others doing it and think it’s a good idea, so you do it too.

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gib444 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Utah is actually trailblazing ahead of the UK here. It was only ministers possibly suggesting VPNs would be next in the firing line and AFAIK nothing has progressed beyond that yet

Yet articles about UK age verification stuff got HUGE amount of attention and backlash here...

	▲	nephihaha 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There is a clear parallel to the Criminal Justice Bills brought in by Tony Blair supposedly to stop "terrorism" (even though terrorism had been a serious issue in the UK from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, especially in Northern Ireland.) Now we have Keir Starmer promoting internet ID to stop minors accessing porn on the internet side, and supposedly against illegal migration on the non-internet side.