It was never about safety, it was never about safety.
It was always about control, from the start it was about control.
The more they control the more they can censor.
This is about controlling what you can see.
This is censorship.
The EU is inching toward the most sweeping surveillance mandate in its history, scanning every private message before it’s encrypted, right on your device.
For over three years the plan stalled. Poland tried to make scanning voluntary, leave encryption alone.
Denmark took over EU Council leadership in July, killed that idea, and dropped a new draft its first day on the job.
Leaked notes show Denmark’s text mirrors Belgium and Hungary’s earlier push: no exemptions for encrypted chats, mandatory scanning for all...
The petition calling for the repeal of the UK's Online Safety Act continues to grow, reaching nearly 500,000 signatures. While it is worrying those of us connected via the internet, it is also outraging the people of the UK.
The UK wants to ban all depictions of fictional violence, even against fictional creatures, if you have a website that allows users to post.
Spongebob, pokemon, loonytoons, etc, every single video game with combat, all of it subjected to being banned despite rating boards existing (now redundant i guess?)
This all comes after the big push against @elonmusk and @x and they are really trying to speed run being the most hated thing right now.
All of history classes would need to be banned too technically, so much for educational content.
in the next post, i show the effort of groups to label Ani (grok's ai companion) as child exploitation.
UK Tech Secretary Peter Kyle warns citizens not to use VPNs to bypass new online age checks, framing it as a child safety issue.
But here's the irony: many MPs, including senior ministers, have taxpayer-funded VPN subscriptions...
Where is this weird push to destroy whats left of the Net coming from?
Weird age verification laws, talk of banning VPNs etc.
Whats the point? Who's driving it?
You realize how insane it is for "Valve" Steam to straight up say Payment Processors are lying?
I wonder if Mastercard will get into legal trouble for this. Cause lying like this is pretty bad since Steam 100% lost money to this.
The age of censorship is NOW.
It's supported by the Loud minority on Social Media(which is growing their voice significantly), and It's an easy win to be the "Good Guy who thinks about Kids"(probably more ways than one lol) for payment processors & politicians.
S.Koreans are-
Congress really wants to fuck up the internet badly.
STAND AGAINST ALL OF THESE TYRANNICAL BILLS NOW! @SenMikeLee YOU WILL BE PRIMARIED OUT FOR THIS SINCE YOU INTRODUCED IT!
HANDS OFF THE INTERNET!
Your sheer contempt for people's freedom and privacy is going to pave the way for a Reform landslide, and you would 100% deserve it.
This is coming from someone who does not like the Reform Party and would not want them to win.