Nope. Genuinely interested in why people are resistant.
Once you’re issued with a digital ID with I’m sure a face pic, yes very much like your passport you can be controlled.
Anything linked to the internet like smart meters can be controlled by someone else, a company, organisation or government and are fundamentally out of your control.
I have new elderly neighbours, they’ve moved to the U.K. from Hong Kong. British passport holders. Given money by China to leave HK. The Chinese control everything. You cannot say or do anything that runs contrary to the one party state.
Things you say or do are notified. And registered to your ID card. Step out of line or say anything dissenting, your cards are marked. You’re familiar with permissions within your work pc? You only have certain access, this is controlled by your IT dept dictated to by the company. Think of the company being a government.
Ah you did this, you can now only have x amount of fuel to run your car this month. No alcohol because you did that. How do they do this? Well you have to show you ID card before you can get the fuel, sorry pal, you’ve had your quota this month. That four pack of lager, er sorry, your card says no. I’ll pay you cash to turn a blind eye mate 😉 Sorry we only take card payments. BTW that little cash indiscretion gets reported to the authorities. Oh dear. No electricity for a week, that’ll teach you. Oh you have a smart meter for your gas and electricity, see how easy it is.
Bad mouthing the government on holiday? Sorry your passport is revoked. Think that’s absurd? Just ask that Father Ted writer. Irish national. Tweeting in America, arrested by FIVE armed police on arrival at Heathrow. Easy to be controlled when insidious legislation gets pushed though under the guise of protecting the people.
I could go on. 1984 is here and now.
Lastly, back to my neighbours. The Chinese government want all the British passport holders out of HK because they had free speech and privileges we take for granted and the residents took for granted. And the Chinese government agreed to carry that on when we handed that back in 2000. Slowly, slowly they’ve been changing things, just like your PC permissions, can’t access that feature you used last week? Think of your liberties being eroded bitey bit. FWIW the last company I worked for one of my fellow sales colleagues HK Chinese. She painted the same picture as my neighbours.
Sorry for the long post but you asked and I’ve tried to give you a flavour of how easy it is to be manipulated to accept things. The if you’ve nothing to hide mantra plays right into the governments hand and those that parrot that are their useful idiots.
