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[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Ann Widdecombe schools a roomful of woke students on the importance of free speech.

"Only two sorts of people oppose free speech... snowflakes and totalitarians."

"Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offence, or from insult, or from hurt feelings."

"It is an occupational hazard of living in society. And if you really can't take it, become a hermit."

"No matter how much we may disagree with somebody, we should defend to the hilt their right to say it."

"You succeed by defeating your opponent, not by wishing him away. You get nowhere by trying not to hear what is being said."

"You may feel virtuous today in what you will not hear, but tomorrow somebody may feel virtuous in not hearing what you have to say."

"Free speech is for all, not for the privileged few."

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The most unpopular British "Leader" in living memory

Recieving a medal, from the most unpopular French "leader" in living memory

Repellent, Repugnant, Frauds.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[Vincent Vandeputte @VincentVandep8]

De manier waarop Chat Control er –als een dief in de nacht– is doorgeduwd, is werkelijk schandalig en een democratie totaal onwaardig.

Ter herinnering: het Europees Parlement had dit dossier eerder al twee keer eerder tegengehouden.

Deze week werd vervolgens een procedurele kunstgreep bovengehaald: een zogenaamde spoedprocedure waarbij een gewone meerderheid van de aanwezige parlementsleden niet volstond (?) om die tegen te houden, maar een absolute meerderheid van ALLE Europarlementsleden nodig was.
Maar velen waren al op verlof vertrokken natuurlijk…

En dus stemde een meerderheid van de aanwezige Europarlementsleden opnieuw tégen.

—> Maar omdat de uitzonderlijk hoge drempel niet werd gehaald, werd de spoedprocedure toch goedgekeurd en kon Chat Control alsnog versneld worden doorgeduwd.

Als een aanwezige meerderheid tegen stemt, maar die meerderheid door een procedurele truc niet volstaat om het voorstel tegen te houden, dan is het moeilijk nog ernstig te nemen wanneer Europa zichzelf een toonbeeld van democratie noemt.

[AfD-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag 🇩🇪 @AfDimBundestag]

„Sie haben 90 Milliarden für die Ukraine, 30 Milliarden für Entwicklungshilfe, 30 Milliarden für die EU und 150 Milliarden für die Kriegsvorbereitung, aber wollen 2 Milliarden beim Gesundheitssystem streichen. Sie sollten sich schämen, so verantwortungslos mit dem Geld der Bürger umzugehen.“
@Martin_Sichert zur Reform des Gesundheitssystems!

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

@Europarl_EN @ecb Yeah, for now...

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

@DefensieMin @Defensie @AIVD Wat is jullie standpunt inzake chat control?, hou op met dit soort angstporno en spreek je eens uit over dat eeuwig uitdijende moloch in Brussel.

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

@NXT4EU A bit, these people need to be purged, no member of the EU, or local parliament should also be a member of the WEF or any kind of supranationalistic NGO...

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

Dit is de EU, met smerige regeltjes en timing, chat control er alsnog doordrukken (twee keer verworpen), als we als land nog iets waard zijn dan volgt er geen discussie, maar wordt dit gelijk afgeschoten, de EU is een gedrocht dat aan banden gelegd dient te worden.

[Gr@ntlɘr 🥨🍺 @oida_grantler]

"Schluss mit der Chatkontrolle!"
Der Kommentar, den wir eigentlich in den Tagesthemen bekommen müssten @JoergZajonc @RTLWEST

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

@Mauritsvdr Het volk moet deze mensen gewoon gaan afzetten, dit is geen volks vertegenwoordiging...Brussel moet terug in zijn hok, stel zonnekoningen, genoeg.

[Maurits Vande Reyde @Mauritsvdr]

Onwaarschijnlijk dat het monster van Chatcontrol nu voor de duizendste keer terugkomt. Helaas ook met hulp van veel Europese parlementsleden van de klassieke partijen uit ons land.

Ik vroeg maar één ding: dat we ons nu voor eens en altijd tégen Chat Control kanten. Stopzetten. Gedaan ermee. Niet "verder het debat over voeren". Helaas krijgen we dat weer niet te horen.

CD&V en N-VA blijven de plannen steunen in het Europees Parlement.

Op de openbare omroep krijgen ze vrije baan om te beweren dat de stemming in het Europees Parlement deze week niets met Chat Control te maken heeft. Het kleinste kind ziet dat dit onzin is.

Wie tegen Chatcontrol is, verspreidt volgens de franstalige openbare trouwens zogezegd "fakenews". Geen wonder dat het vertrouwen in klassieke media onder het vriespunt staat.

Van Vlaams minister Cieltje Van Achter kreeg ik eenzelfde wollig antwoord. "We zijn tegen massa-surveillance, maar het debat over Chat control loopt verder". Sjah. Zo zal het dus altijd terugkomen.

Het is duidelijk dat de lidstaten, de Europese Commissie en helaas een groot deel van de klassieke partijen in Vlaanderen er alles aan zullen doen om Chat Control er toch door te duwen.

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

Niks tegen vrouwen, maar dit glazen plafond experiment is catastrofaal voor Europa, good times create weak men en destructieve vrouwen blijkbaar...NEXIT.

[Bully 🇩🇪 @alpenmaster]

Was, wenn alte weiße Männer gar nicht das Problem sind?

[Gabriel @GabeZZOZZ]

Terrorists, rapists, and murderers flood our countries while governments spy on us instead of securing the borders.

The EU needs to collapse and die!

[Ivo Toniut @IvoTONIUT]

Isn't it time to put an end to a situation where a handful of witches can do whatever they please with your rights and your money?

Who are these women? How is it possible that, among the 220 MILLION MEN living in the EU, one cannot find four men with the balls to replace them!?

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

The EU is giving away €365 million to help build and modernize Morocco’s transport infrastructure, including €300 million for motorways, €50 million for railways, and a €15 million EU grant for climate-resilience measures.

European Investment Bank President Nadia Calviño also said the bank expects to channel more than €700 million into Morocco in 2026, calling the country a "strategic partner" for the EU.

Meanwhile, European transport organizations are warning that the EU's own infrastructure is chronically underfunded, urging Brussels to raise the Connecting Europe Facility budget to at least €100 billion because demand for funding far exceeds what is currently available.

For example, the Netherlands alone faces an €80 billion infrastructure funding gap through 2039, and its government is reportedly preparing cuts to road, waterway and rail construction and maintenance because of budget shortfalls.

Dutch officials warn projects may be cut, maintenance delayed, and bridges, viaducts and roads could face longer closures, while the country needs around €280 billion by 2040 to get its infrastructure in order.

[Isabelle d'Artagnan @isa_dartagnan]

Quand j'étais enfant, on m'expliquait que l'URSS et l'Allemagne de l'Est étaient totalitaires parce que l'État espionnait tous les messages privés.

Il y avait des films sur la Stasi, sur l'absence de vie privée et d'état de droit.

#chatcontrol

[Gnisar @Gnisar77]

@Smart_Money These people need to be purged, they've gotten way to comfortable...their feet should be held to the fire.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."

Thomas Jefferson.

[Jelle @CryptoJelleNL]

Ursula von der Leyen really saw her Chat Control law get rejected twice and decided to force it through with an emergency vote 5 minutes before the summer break

Talk the talk about Democracy, but she definitely doesn't walk the walk.

Despicable person.

[Eva Vlaardingerbroek @EvaVlaar]

The collective apathy of the masses is indeed our biggest problem.

We’re trying to change that with the @SaveEuropeAct.