@EricIdle I have never seen or heard of a single person that denies that the climate changes. It always has and always will. Are you dreaming this stuff in your old age.
The Free Speech Union has serious concerns about the Government’s proposal to ban under-16s from some social media platforms (but not others).
When the proposal was first announced, ministers cited supposedly 'harmful' platforms such as X, Facebook and YouTube, but made no mention of the left-leaning Bluesky.
A selective ban, rather than a blanket one, means Ofcom will be tasked with enforcing the political preferences of whichever government happens to be in power. If there's a change of government, will X be taken off the banned list and Bluesky put in its place?
Another concern is enforcement. How exactly does the Government intend to make the ban work in practice? In Australia — the model ministers appear keen to follow — many under-16s continue to access social media through VPNs.
Will the Government’s next step be to ban VPNs as well? That would put the UK in the same company as Turkmenistan, Iran and North Korea.
The Government has also failed to explain how this proposal can be reconciled with its duties under the Online Safety Act to protect content of democratic importance and journalistic content — duties that are due to come into force next month.
This is particularly important given the Government’s intention to extend some social media restrictions to 16 and 17 year-olds and at the same time lower the voting age to 16.
How can 16 and 17 year-olds be expected to participate meaningfully in the democratic process if the Government is restricting the content of democratic importance and the journalistic content they're able to access?
The Free Speech Union will be keeping a wary eye on the Government’s plans 👇
@DavidLammy Was it violent? I don't think so. Sounds like the right to protest depends on if Lammy agrees or not.
"At the Notting Hill Carnival, 528 people were arrested, 4 people were stabbed, 18 people were arrested for sexual assaults and 55 officers were assaulted"
@SpeechUnion People have a perfect right to be hostile to a primitive religion that, at best, wants to destroy Western values, and at worst, produces murderous lunatic medieval killers.
UK: After learning of the murder of three young British girls Lucy Connolly wrote, "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f'ing hotels full of the b'ds for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them. I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it." After she took her dog for a walk she returned home and deleted the post - it was visible for less than four hours. Despite that, she was arrested and denied bail. Lucy is being jailed for until after her daughter turns three for a post on X. There is no free speech in Britain - JD Vance was right.
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“Why would our allies or anybody be irritated by free speech?"
If you are a brown, lesbian footballer woke Britain, you can be as racist as you like to a policeman on camera.
If you are white and you stand with a banner complaining about the massacre of children, you will be sentenced to 18 months in jail.
Two Tier https://t.co/zxkElAn0iB
The tensions that are unfolding in Britain are apparently due to @TRobinsonNewEra's activism and to @elonmusk's posts on this platform. They are apparently not due to an open border immigration policy that has altered the fabric of British society at a breathtaking pace. No, no, no. Only bigots would say this. Best to blame Elon for it. Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome kills. Pretending that the problem does not exist will not solve the problem. Offering "explanations" of faux-causality will not solve the problem. You will pay an extraordinarily heavy price for your cowardice, apathy, and ideological rapture.
My government , my police & my media have declared total war on me . The full power of the British establishment is targeted at 1 man . I put a 100,000 people on streets in a peaceful rally on July 27th & this reach terrifies them . Expect their media to do hit job after hit job against me