Wave goodbye to another set of freedoms with the new Digital Id

First, we allowed social media companies to monetise us in return for the free use of their platforms, and then we allowed them to cross-reference our online activities to create profiles to then be used for other unrelated sites.

And how is that working out? They abuse their power.

We know that, come election time, they will be putting their thumbs on our scales and showing us material that they deem suitable, rather than allowing us to make our own decisions.

We also know that they work hand-in-glove with unscrupulous administrations to sell us lies like "safe and effective" and to suppress embarrassing facts, such as the high probability that viruses escape from laboratories more regularly than from pangolins in a market (particularly when the market didn't have any pangolins for sale).

I don't believe that governments are any more trustworthy than social media, especially if they are staffed with Bruce Lehrmanns and Brittany Higgins's.

Democracy is meant to be government by the people, for the people. And Google's motto was "Don't be evil."

But one seems to be converging on government by anyone but the people, and the other seems to have dropped the motto, maybe ashamed of their hypocrisy.

Either way, human institutions seem inexorably to head towards dissolution, so the less they know about you and can link together, the better.

So I'll probably pass on my Digital ID.

Whoops, I'm a company director. Looks like they are closing in on me already.

Looks like I've already learned the true, government-approved, meaning of "voluntary."