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maybe because its being pushed by russia
Russia? You think Russia is the reason why the UK, Australia, and other countries' left-wing governments are all forcing digital identification verification laws?
The right often uses dirty tricks to force a "moral high ground" moment or similar from leftists. Other times said "left-wing" movements are actually liberals trying to win over right-wing voters due to some mythical past event. Yet other times leftists are not safe from the fallacies of conservatism.
It has nothing to do with "conservatism" or "right-wing". It's the left wing parties that are leaning more and more towards socialism/communism preparing for what communism always turns into - authoritarian, fascist, dictatorships with a ruling class and a poor class with nothing in between.
Basically every left-wing government in the world at the moment is starting to implement "hate speech laws" that define hate speech as "speech that we, the government, don't like", trying to get rid of encryption so they can catch and prosecute people who say bad things about them (see hate speech), and implement digital IDs so they can track everything everyone says/visits/buys and can essentially destroy your life if you don't obey them, by revoking your access to your bank account, phone, internet, health care, etc via your digital ID.
Ironically enough, the USA is one of the only countries in the world going the other way - trying to reduce government size and dependence, defending free speech, and just getting the government out of the way in general.
I think it's time there is something like a mainstream TOR and a commercial internet. I hate the censorship but watching the kids get mind fucked is hard to watch.