I've been making a list of 'Covid Bullshit.' Enjoy.
1.
Taping up kids' play areas
Sectioning off toys and "unessential items"
Women giving births in masks
The police following people with drones and fining people on beaches
Grassing up the neighbours
Toilet roll/pasta hoarders
True. The British press has failed today.
Few journalists if any seem to grasp what this means.
It’s a fundamental reshaping of modern civil liberty and the internet in the UK.
Seismic loss of privacy.
Millions of adults will have limited web access. In a democracy...? 🤡
The irony is even as Keir Starmer threatens us all with mandatory ID checks to use mobile phones, illegal migrants can enter this country without any ID. Two Tier Keir
For every young British person hired since 2020, *27* young migrants from outside of Europe have entered the workforce.
It's completely mad to have so many people coming from abroad, while young people in Britain struggle to find opportunity.
The system is totally broken.
A lot of people asked for the full AAA Mario video to be dubbed over in the same way, but I wanted to wait for a good idea to come to me. 6 months later, here it is. Focus, M.
ft. @ArielHck as Peach
w/ @adamasenko as Bowser's Goons
and ??? as Toadsworth
Original video source by @FunkyzeitG w/ music by Kevin S.
#summergamefest
Apple and Google have been given until September to install software that blocks explicit images on children’s mobile phones or face legislation enforcing its requirement.
Keir Starmer said tech companies must activate nudity-detection algorithms or other technical solutions on smartphones and tablets to prevent users taking photos or sharing images of genitalia unless they are verified as adults.
If they don't comply within three months, legislation will be brought forward requiring the protection to be added to all phones and tablets sold in UK.
https://t.co/bp6d5MCjww
All they know is dour, restrictive, managerialism. The slow throttling of individualism, fun, expression, innovation. They want to completely supress all cultural flair and rule from atop a belief-less, amoral mountain made of their own shit.
A consultation on children's screen time has begun, which will help shape the first official guidance for parents of five to 16-year-olds.
Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza says the guidance must cover 'risky features in gaming' and cutting down on screen time.
Looks like they've decided on the 'urgent moral panic' tactic for this one now.
No more frog-boiling. Just declare an emergency and rush it through before the gammons can catch their breath.
“Prevent nude images” at device level implies checking private photos/messages
If it’s built into phones, it’s not just for kids, it’s for everyone
Parents already have easy controls anyway
Warnings about this were clear
Client side scanning is coming.
Every word you type, every picture or screenshot you take will be scanned and get a unique fingerprint - similar to China.
The dying throes of a failing system.
Another nail in the "we're not voting our way out of this" coffin that is Britain.
I gotta say, for a game that came out in 1997, this moment is pretty badass.
I can totally believe people who played this game when it came out were collectively losing their minds when they saw this for the very first time.
>ask for permit to build mosque
>city says no
>build it anyway
>invite Pakistani ambassador to cut the ribbon
>gloat on TV about how Japan won’t do shit
>get shut down for building an illegal building with no permit or inspection
>cry on TV that Japan is racist
lmao
We've utterly removed agency from parents, who have every option to use the content moderation tools already present in phones and devices. This is only designed to hook people into digi ID for online use and mass surveillance beyond our already intricate and far-reaching system
"Billions in aid handed to terrorists and criminals
"Secret dossier reveals foreign aid and Covid relief loans were appropriated by gangs and hostile states"
https://t.co/rtAgqKgC7A
🚨 NEW: A secret camera has been discovered in a ceiling panel in a sensitive Government building where the decision was made to approve the new Chinese embassy
[@theipaper]
>be 15 year old girl
>kidnapped, held in a flat above a takeaway
>they're all sitting around after a "session"
>middle of summer so they're all shirtless
>high on balloons, they forget about me
>somehow still got my phone
>2% battery, now or never
>decide this is my one shot
>sneak a couple photos of their faces, tattoos and the flat to send to the police or my mum
>hit send
>phone immediately goes full retard:
>"This photo contains nudity or sensitive content. Blurred for your protection."
>try to unblur it
>"To view or share this content you must verify your identity with a government ID or face scan."
>desperate, try the face scan
>"Your phone has now been locked for your safety. Please see your parent or guardian. Alternatively verify with a government ID or face scan"
>can't even keep the photo on the device
>can't send it
>can't do anything
>this is now my new life
@silkiecarlo And what happens when tourists and business people visit the UK, will everyone entering the country need to verify themselves to use their devices while they are here?
3️⃣ If the proposed controls work at operating-system level, how will they affect content shared through private messaging apps such as WhatsApp? Is the next step monitoring of private messages?
4️⃣ If these tools already exist, why not trust parents to decide whether to use them?
4 questions for Starmer:
1️⃣ If phones are a problem, why not child-lock tablets, laptops and PCs too? What ID should people use for work devices?
2️⃣ Many millions of UK adults don't have valid photo ID. How will they prove they're adults/un-child-lock their expensive devices?