Racism in football

[Muttley]

I can understand how some people (particularly of my age) feel concerned with immigration, I travelled on underground in London yesterday for the first time since we played at Wembley and was surprised there were so few white people using the system, more alarming to me was the number of robots chained to their mobile friend.
The vast majority of immigrants are decent hardworking people try to build a better life for their families or escaping persecution as I'm sure many of our ancestors were. They're judged by the high profile given by the criminal elements in their fold by the media.

Nice post.

How would you feel if our country went down a similar path to many other countries in the world and used a national database including a face capture? Then the government could partner with the retail, hospitality, transport and other industries to continuously validate people against an official source of truth using facial recognition. So when you were on the Underground yesterday all those people around you would be constantly having their legitimacy to be in the country validated and give you that sense of comfort. Obviously, so would the good old anglo saxons who have lived here generationally for a very long time.

The challenge I have with the media is that they want to paint immigration as bad but they would also paint these types of technologies as even worse. You can't win with them as good doesn't make news. Only "bad" does. They would just paint us out of be "China" if we went down a similar path. In reality we don't even need a national database as interoperability already exists with national databases like passport and driving license anyway. We already have security cameras everywhere. There is nothing even far fetched about taking it through a gear or two.

Obviously, I may have to be a bit more careful which bushes I have a pee in on the walk home from the pub

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Nice post.

How would you feel if our country went down a similar path to many other countries in the world and used a national database including a face capture? Then the government could partner with the retail, hospitality, transport and other industries to continuously validate people against an official source of truth using facial recognition. So when you were on the Underground yesterday all those people around you would be constantly having their legitimacy to be in the country validated and give you that sense of comfort. Obviously, so would the good old anglo saxons who have lived here generationally for a very long time.

The challenge I have with the media is that they want to paint immigration as bad but they would also paint these types of technologies as even worse. You can't win with them as good doesn't make news. Only "bad" does. They would just paint us out of be "China" if we went down a similar path. In reality we don't even need a national database as interoperability already exists with national databases like passport and driving license anyway. We already have security cameras everywhere. There is nothing even far fetched about taking it through a gear or two.

Obviously, I may have to be a bit more careful which bushes I have a pee in on the walk home from the pub

I wouldn't worry as the technology would be malfunctioning or not be of the standard you see in "Mission Imposdible" and other films of that type. An authoritarian government will do what it wants without any technology.

I don't think I wrote or inferred I was uncomfortable with the situation, in my formative years in 50/60's I lived between the West End to Hampstead and mixed we people of different races and cultures and was use to living in multicultural areas.

I think if you disagree with someones views you should try to understand it and them, the world and this country has changed so much since my youth and many of my generation find it difficult to accept. I dislike the way technology has taken over our lives and misused to the detriment of people more than immigration but then I'm from immigrant European stock.