J Treek argues that digital ID, sold as convenience, entrenches a centralised system. That system, once brought to fruition through incremental policies and age verification regimes, allows such ID becomes a gateway to ordinary life, enabling governments to exclude and punish with new-found ease.

Mr J. Treek explores the evolution of the internet. Once a verdant place to actively explore, now a hyper individualised, passive content-delivery system. A trough at which to eat. The implications for political thought-shaping are marked.