Nick Clegg calls for age verification on apps

[u/TangoJavaTJ]

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Not very liberal, is it?

[u/TrueAnonyman]

Remember when one of the first things Nick did in the coalition was scrapping ID cards? Because Nick certainly doesn’t seem to.

[u/Top_Country_6336]

He's not a Liberal Democrat any more. He retired after he lost his seat about 2017/2018. He represents corporate interests for money. He was let go by Meta because when Trump came in they wanted someone even more right wing.

The Lib Dems are more for actually protecting children and adults from companies like Meta who are after their private data to sell it.

The "won't someone think of the children" argument is a smokescreen for "we want to steal your data".

[u/Ticklishchap]

Having served as a bag-carrier for Cam and Zuck, Cleggers is now trying to be a Mini-Blair.

[u/hereforcontroversy]

No it isn’t, but Cleggy Weggy is a washed up has-been and isn’t representative of what front line Liberal Democrat policy is.

[u/efan78]

To be fair he started his turn away from liberalism during his time in government. It was less noticeable because he was still being compared to the Tories. And though I'm still grateful for the easing of the worst examples of Tory policy for a short 5 years, I'm under no illusions that the differences between Nick Clegg and the Lib Dem Party were much larger and more frequent than any differences he had with Cameron.

[u/RobPez]

That's because he works for a tech company and he WANTS YOUR DATA.

[u/SnooBooks1701]

Shut up Nick, sold your soul to Meta

[u/SabziZindagi]

Utterly pointless man.

[u/TheBlackKnights]

Looks like he wants our private data for his old buddies at Meta. Truly amazed at how much of a fall from grace Clegg had.

[u/Colin-Onion]

There are safe way to do that, which is OAuth. However, the UK government is too lazy to build a safe system

[u/RedBean9 → u/Colin-Onion]

What do you mean? OAuth would require a central IdP wouldn’t it - are you thinking of having the UK Gov operating a centralised IdP for citizens?!

[u/OneMonk → u/RedBean9]

I mean, several government organisations already hold that data. You have to know that it can be consolidated and accessed by the powers that be whenever they want, the british public are just to thick to understand that so keep shooting down any efforts to consolidate it to make their lives easier.

[u/JTLS180]

Clegg green ticked a number of far right trolls to return to FB, including The Orange.

[u/Expensive-Key-9122]

How lib dem of him

[u/Multigrain_Migraine → u/Expensive-Key-9122]

Fortunately he's not a Lib Dem anymore, or at least not one that anyone listens to anymore.

[u/chroniclesofhernia]

this is what happens when you allow the narrative that personal freedom and privacy equates to pedophilia to prevail.
Labour are tories, The lib dems are turning into tories, your Party has all the undesirable pie in the sky socialist ideals, while retaining none of the realistic ones that might ever get them elected. Who the fuck is left? The greens?

[u/Effective_Soup7783 → u/chroniclesofhernia]

You appear to be confusing things that Nick Clegg is saying with actual LibDem policies. For the avoidance of doubt, Clegg has not been relevant for the LibDems in a decade.

[u/aeryntano → u/chroniclesofhernia]

Do you think the lib dems are shy about proclaiming their liberalism? I've been reading more about liberalism and all its accomplishments in the past ever since i noticed both the left and the right decided to start blaming liberals for all the ills of the world, you see it all over social media people hating on liberals. But as i do my research it seems to me that liberalism has brought lots of good to people, and has a lot more it wishes to do that is unique to liberalism. I wish that the liberals of today were unafraid to claim liberalism and defend it against the attacks, but it seems what with the OSA the lib dems have decided to not defend liberalism and rather let the biased and non-nuanced narrative win despite its incorrectness; further letting the propaganda thrive that being liberal means allowing harm to others.

[u/SargnargTheHardgHarg → u/chroniclesofhernia]

Well feel free to bother another sub

[u/Will297]

Oh ffs..

Everyday I'm pushed farther and farther from political parties

[u/Multigrain_Migraine → u/Will297]

He's not representing the Lib Dems anymore.