SimplyB3n

He/Him | Professional idiot | Lowkey ultimate evil

[Ash 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇨🇼 @theashrb]

Well Keir Starmer is selling my medical records to Palantir so arrest him too 🤷🏾‍♂️

[simon maginn @simonmaginn]

None of this was in the manifesto. He lied about his predecessor, lied to get elected as party leader, lied again to become PM. It's, essentially, a right-wing coup, carried out by a small elite of right-wing fanatics. Our media are complicit in not calling this out.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Updated. Friends of Israel in the UK government:

CABINET
Prime Minister
Deputy Prime Minister
Chancellor
Foreign Secretary
Defence Secretary
Education Secretary
Business Secretary
Work & Pensions Secretary
Science Secretary
Treasury Secretary
N.Ireland Secretary
Chief Secretary

OTHER MINISTERS
Cabinet Minister
Foreign Minister
Home Office Minister
Housing Minister
Health Minister
Energy Minister
Business Minister
Transport Minister
Environment Minister
Culture Minister
Solicitor General

[Neet @neet_sol]

"Damn you're never stressed at work"

That is because I literally do not care what the outcome is. The company could go bankrupt, the building could get demolished, and I'd just head home

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

In case you were wondering why he is so desperately and illegally trying to control the internet in the UK.

[Jane Rochford Boleyn 🇬🇧 @VictoriaHa50399]

NOBODY needs Keir Starmer's "permission" to post anything to the internet!

People need to read Article 19 of the Human Rights act!

Starmer is a human rights lawyer.

He is more than aware of this @Keir_Starmer

[Andy The Gabby Cabby @gabby_cabby]

If the UK ever bans VPNs, don’t buy the line that “only criminals need privacy”.

That is absolute nonsense.

Normal people use VPNs for banking, public Wi-Fi, working from home, travelling abroad, protecting business accounts, journalism, whistleblowing and basic online privacy.

A ban would not stop serious criminals.

They would just find another way.

The people it would hurt are ordinary, law-abiding citizens who simply don’t want every click, search and message tracked.

Privacy is not suspicious.

Privacy is protection.

And once any government starts banning privacy tools, you have to ask:

What exactly are they trying to stop us seeing, saying, or protecting?

[NHS Nurses @SocialistNHS]

Dear @Keir_Starmer we don't want Digital ID

We don't want to be forced to prove who we are to access everyday services

If you oppose Digital ID, put a ❌ below and RT this post, let's see how many people say NO!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

It's strange that the Social Media bans in Australia and now the UK have come after Israel and their supporters have become horribly unpopular.

You might suspect an ulterior motive.

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

Social media opened the eyes of the youth to Israel and now every country is banning it…

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

That story about Israeli tech firms interfering in UK elections sure did sink like a stone, huh.

[Cat Brown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚜🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 @MrsBr0wn_82]

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: Petition to stop the social media ban.

kids are having none of it.
Let’s get some signatures on this petition to stop the social media ban.

Anyone with half a brain knows this isn’t about child safety it’s about sneaking in Digital ID through the back door.

Please sign and share 🙏🏼 🇬🇧🫡❤️

Petition: Do not ban social media for under 16s

https://t.co/So52giGYxg

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Anyone else find it strange…

A couple weeks after the internet exposed the UK trying to hide the Henry Nowak murder the UK is pushing internet censorship?

I’m sure it’s a total coincidence.

[Count Dankula @CountDankulaTV]

This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).

So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.

The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.

This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.

Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.

[SimplyB3n @B3nSimply]

So sick of fun multiplayer games being ruined because top 1% competitive players decided they should win more instead of everyone else having fun.

Cyclops dominates every match at the moment and everyone else is just an accessory to his circle jerk. Boring ass shit.

[SimplyB3n @B3nSimply]

Hot take, #marvelrivals is about being flexible and having multiple heroes that you can swap to at any point to change the flow of the match.

1% of high level players who 'Main' one character or role should not have a say in who gets balanced. But Devs will cower behind them

[SimplyB3n @B3nSimply]

as they do with every multiplayer game because they would rather have competitive slop than an actual fun game.

I play every role and there is no reason to play dive right now because they are all shit at the moment because 1% support mains cried and the Devs pandered to them.

[Scolcer @scolcer_]

Cuando VALVe estaba al borde de la quiebra y Gabe Newell fue a pedir ayuda para lanzar Steam, el 99% de la industria le dijo que no, que perdía el tiempo. No fueron una o dos empresas. Fueron todas. Lo cuenta el propio GabeN en el documental del 20º aniversario de Half-Life 2.

Ahora esa misma industria llora porque quieren parte del pastel que su propia incompetencia y arrogancia les impidió ver.

Excepto VALVe, nadie pensó a largo plazo. Nadie se jugó la empresa y el patrimonio personal contra una industria sin visión. Nadie apostó por tratar a sus clientes como personas.

Por eso CEOs como @TimSweeneyEpic y compañía se la pasan despidiendo gente en masa mientras buscan nuevas formas de exprimir y abusar de los jugadores, en vez de construir una comunidad de verdad.

Steam no es un monopolio. Es la recompensa por hacer las cosas bien cuando nadie más tuvo cojones.