Comment by extraisland

I am generally against content restrictions. I am actually OK with restrictions on pornography.

The UK government has engaged political censorship throughout my lifetime.

e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%931994_British_broa...

I still remember the stupid Irish dubbing on the news. I thought it was hilarious when I was 10.

Some of it the public are often unaware of e.g super injunctions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-injunctions_in_English_l...

The internet has made it much more difficult to censor. It is quite obvious to me that they wish to end online anonymity, which makes it easier for them to target people and thus easier to censor.

I believe that this is the precursor before massive political censorship.

As stated in my first reply on this subject. Even if you don't buy into that there are obvious problems with handing you ID over to third parties. There is no guarantee they can keep your data safe (and often haven't).