>>520206252
Kier Starmer was trying to sell it as this ID would serve as a way to prevent you from having to keep giving your details to companies, that this government issued ID could be used across both government and private services.
I can see them pressuring any internet services (via websites, mobile apps, games) that are owned by LLCs, i.e. to make businesses comply with this. But if you have some personal website or server, that's yours and you're not a business, I find it hard to believe they'll mandate things like digital ID.
Maybe it's clearer with an example. Right now, someone can go and play some online game via a third party service. That big company is also not only more likely to be pozzed and ban you for "racism" or whatever they feel like, but if some law like digital ID or relating to online "hatespeech" were to come into effect they will absolutely use their resources to comply with that, I wouldn't be surprised if in the future all of that moderation (even in voice chat) is just fed to an LLM and they just automatically ban you.
Now compare this with self hosting your own server. You set it up so things like your voice or text chats are encrypted (both on disk, and in transit). You only invite your friends you know IRL or people you trust online. You have your gaming sessions in privacy and you don't have to worry about some "AI" Jew banning you or some company asking for your ID because the government demands they do it. You are more free to speak your mind.
If it's just a handful of people that are self hosting then it makes it very easy for the government to pressure them. Or like in the EU they were proposing "chat control" where they wanted to be able to have a backdoor to decrypt people's private chats on messenger apps. The thing is that it will look suspicious if people start then moving from telegram to matrix and there's a lot more different traffic. Better to set these things up now before any such laws and not use third parties.