Trying to control the world

UN promotes censorship and social credit system

- KIT KNIGHTLY

IN late May, the office of the United Nations Secretary General published a policy document on aims for the future of the internet.

The title of the follow-up to the 2021 report, Our Common Agenda, says it all really: A Global Digital Compact. That's the goal international legislation that would seek to control and enforce the use of digital technology.

The proposed clauses promote everything you'd expect them to promote.

Digital identities linked with financial access: 'Digital IDs linked with bank or mobile money accounts can improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. Digital technologies may help to reduce leakage, errors and costs in the design of social protection programmes.