The Digital Trap and How Freedom Dies in the Age of Safety
“I cannot think of a more dangerous initiative than this… We simply have to say no.”
Nigel Farage on the desperate push to roll out digital ID, CBDCs and a cashless society, globally, by 2030.
“If we’re not careful, we head towards a Chinese-style social credit system, where unless you go along with the views of the day, you become a non-person.”
The Online Safety Bill, now passed into law, represents a chilling moment in the history of Britain’s relationship with liberty. Under the guise of protection and safety, it hands sweeping powers to the state and to unelected technology giants, tightening the noose around the freedoms of the individual. It is not the kind of safety one seeks in a civil society, but the kind imposed with the iron hand of censorship, surveillance and control.
This legislation allows the government and its allied corporations to decide what is acceptable speech and what is not. It places the ordinary citizen under the constant watch of digital overseers, and grants bureaucrats the right to silence dissent under the excuse of “harmful content.” But who defines harm? Increasingly, it is the powerful, not the people. What we are witnessing is the formation of a digital prison, a system so vast and so opaque that resistance becomes not just difficult, but illegal.
At the same time, we are being nudged, ever so subtly, toward the abolition of cash and the introduction of digital currencies controlled by central banks. Alongside digital identification schemes, these developments form a unified system of control. One’s ability to participate in society, to earn, to travel, to speak, may soon depend on a digital profile administered by faceless entities. The old promises of the internet, openness, freedom, decentralisation, are being dismantled, brick by brick, by the very oligarchs who now shape government policy from behind the scenes.
This is not what people fought and died for, the organic evolution of a free society. What is being deployed whilst people are asleep is the architecture of a new feudalism, where ordinary people are reduced to data points, and where one’s rights are no longer natural but conditional. We are not moving forward into a digital renaissance. We are sliding backwards, into a darkness dressed up as modernity. Into something the very definition of fascism, where technology enforces ideology, and where non-compliance leads to exclusion.
Farage’s warning, though imperfect, is apt. We may soon find ourselves living not in a democracy, but in a system that mirrors China’s social credit regime, where silence is survival, and independent thought is punished. And once we reach that point, the road back to liberty will be long, and likely blocked by those who told us this was all for our own good.
We still have a choice. But certainly not for long, this decades of malaise due to deliberate conditioning of a soft life, will be the undoing of all gains from WWII.
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