The lurch in public opinion towards backward-looking authoritarianism is far, far more scary to me than teens using tech. After all, they need to learn to navigate the modern world.

Given the increasingly authoritarian character of our politicians, asking people to install spy cameras seems a little naive.

Disappointing that Bluesky is collaborating with UK government tyranny. Instead, why not wait and see if they block you? You can be sure that free spirits in the UK will be using VPN and other workarounds to undermine state overreach on the net.

It seems that the map is double-secret-squirrel. Even if you have a password to letstalk.oxfordshire (which I do), on logging in it says "it appears you do not have access to the page".

So the public voice - so long ignored - is replaced by an easily manipulated caucus.