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[Duke of Trivia & Useless Knowledge DB 💙 @SMEBanker]

Anyone out there ready to counter these arguments? Yours truly dares you !

[Syd Crafty @SydCrafty]

@Ghostofcynthia

[MoneroWire @MoneroWireHQ]

🇨🇭Switzerland built its whole reputation on privacy. Now it's proposing a surveillance law that would force VPNs, email, and messaging providers to collect your ID, log your data for six months, and decrypt it on demand.

Proton says it's worse than the US.

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

Maja's dream run continues 🇵🇱

Here are the best points from the Chwalinska-Kalinskaya matchup ⚡️

#RolandGarros

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

What a moment for Maja!!

The dream run continues for the world No.114 ✨

#RolandGarros

[Steven Eugene Kuhn @StevenEKuhn]

Ukraine doesn’t exist anymore.

They just haven’t told the Ukrainians yet.

Mark my words.
Screenshot this.

https://t.co/LBaMivITJC

3 June 2026

#IStand #TAB #LeadWhereYouLive @joerogan @patrickbetdavid @ShawnRyan762 #ukraine

[Sir Stick Your Kung Flu Passport Up Your Arse, KG @NaahWoke]

@KonstantinKisin They're as predictable as an increase in the Council Tax.

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

@KonstantinKisin Farage knew what he was doing - he can own the consequences too
All he has is division and hatred he uses it instead of political abiltiy - see Trump for detail

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

It is not only Blair. There are many thousands of people who have spent many years earning retribution.

They're still in the anger phase, thinking they can hold this off with state repression and media scolding. When it becomes clear that they can't, there will be panic. Bargaining. Pleading. We didn't really mean it. We were just following orders. We thought we were doing the right thing. Not me, I was always on your side, that guy over there was the one responsible.

They'll turn on one another like vermin.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

If Restore Britain wins power, Tony Blair will be held accountable for what he did to our country.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

PROF. JEFFREY SACHS: To end the Ukraine proxy war, the US🇺🇸 MUST stop its campaign to weaken and divide Russia🇷🇺

‘Russia has 6,000 nuclear warheads, 1,600 that are deployed. Russia is under attack by the US and UK. I say that because while Ukraine nominally presses the button or makes the attack, it’s US weaponry, US satellites, US Intelligence, US tracking, US logistics.

And so we have an active hot war going on right now. It’s insane…

So far, no American president has had either the bravery or the decency to tell the truth, which is that from the time of the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991 until now, the US has been on a campaign to weaken Russia, to divide Russia, to surround Russia, to put US military all around Russia, to break apart Russia if possible, to sanction Russia to its knees, whatever it is.

That’s been the US campaign. So if this war is going to stop, the US has to stop its campaign against Russia. That’s the story.’

-Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on Going Underground

[Roland-Garros @rolandgarros]

Nerves of steel ⚡

Maja Chwalinska holds strong to claim the first set over Kalinskaya 7-6(3).

#RolandGarros

[@ChatsWithEm @chatswithem]

Agenda2030

Their stretch target is for people to eat NO MEAT or Dairy

They don't want people to fly more than once every 3years

They don't want private car ownership

They even have a target of you only buying a few pieces of new clothing a year.

Seriously.

This is Marxism on steroids dressed as being good and concerned for the environment...

And don't forget whilst they want to push this dystopia

At the same time , they are building enormous data centres in beautiful areas of nature and destroying swathes of flora and fauna , which require a country sized amount of energy and water.

These people are DANGEROUS FRAUDS-who want to control us all whilst making a fortune

The damage they have caused to this country in 2 years is immense.

https://t.co/2x9oC9ypr2

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

Keir Starmer says he won’t remove the exemption which allows Sikhs to carry large ceremonial knives on them.

Meanwhile, English women are being prosecuted for carrying regular pepper spray on them when out on the streets at night

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully controlled internet.

The age verification rush must be slowed down, and politicians need to recognize the consequences of different types of legislation and systems.

Age verification is the wrong approach to fix “the social media problem”
The big tech social media companies are bad. Their business model is bad; it is based on mass surveillance and manipulation, and they cooperate with governments in mapping entire populations. But age verification is fundamentally the wrong approach to preventing children from using big tech social media platforms. Introducing age verification is based on coercion; the state forces social media companies to verify their users’ identities. But the big tech social media platforms already know which of their users are children. Their business model depends on knowing this. They know how old users are, and they know exactly what type of person they are. As age verification is based on coercion, politicians could instead force platforms to stop doing the things politicians consider harmful to children, or force them to block children (again, they know who they are) from using their services. But instead, politicians seek to massively invade everyone’s privacy and undermine democratic rights on a global scale. In other words, the latter is the real objective – they do not want to protect children; they want to impose control.

Slippery slope of age verification
It is undeniable that age verification threatens freedom of expression, risks increasing mass surveillance, and is likely to lead to censorship. It will not only shrink the online world and reduce young people’s right to privacy (for example, if VPN services were to be restricted); but also risks becoming a significant step toward a controlled internet for everyone.

Most age verification is identity verification
Most countries are now considering introducing age verification systems, meaning that everyone would have to identify themselves either to the service/website they want to use or to a third party capable of linking them to their activity on that service or website. This is not age verification but identity verification, and the consequence is therefore that freedom of information is restricted (you can no longer visit regulated websites anonymously) and that you can no longer post anonymously on social media. This is a major problem in countries like the UK and Germany where the police conduct raids on people’s homes for posting content on social media that the authorities dislike. Or in the United States, where authorities are trying to pressure tech companies into revealing the identities behind accounts protesting ICE. Social media identity verification removes important tools for activists in countries where criticizing those in power is dangerous.

Restrictions on app store or operating system level
Some countries are looking to impose identity verification at the app store level or even within the operating system itself. This is an exciting experiment, since this is possible to circumvent using open-source operating systems. Some countries are already looking to include open-source systems. Since open-source systems cannot be controlled, politicians would ultimately need to ban devices that are not controlled by the state. The end point: telescreens like those in Orwell’s 1984, devices that both monitor you and broadcast only the information approved by the state.

The Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) alternative and the EU
The EU has presented its own age verification app as “completely anonymous”. The idea is to use Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) cryptography to break the link between the age credential issuer (EU governments) and the regulated services/sites. Currently, the EU app does not have ZKP functionality, contrasting Ursula von der Leyen’s claim that the app ”is technically ready to be used”. But more importantly, the app is currently designed to always function without ZKP technology; if ZKP is unavailable, the app falls back to a non-ZKP model. Even if fully developed ZKP technology could be implemented in the future, it would remain an optional extra feature that countries may choose to disable and that the EU could remove at any time.

Read more on our site.
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[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

'Utter disaster’: Alan Bates attacks schemes compensating post office scandal victims.

7 schemes. £1.5bn paid from public purse, could hit £3.5bn.

Zero contribution by Fujitsu, PO execs, other perpetrators.

No one charged for false criminal convictions.
https://t.co/1pkj4Fx051

[Gazeta.pl @gazetapl_news]

Karol Nawrocki zawetował ustawę, która rozszerza system monitorowania przewozu towarów. Przedsiębiorcy się cieszą, ale chcą, aby poluzować niedawno zmienione przepisy. Minister Finansów wylicza z kolei, ile straci budżet państwa po wecie prezydenta. Więcej: https://t.co/b9j0olzBel

[Wirtualna Polska @wirtualnapolska]

🔴Kolejne weto Nawrockiego. "Powód jest prosty"

Karol Nawrocki odmówił podpisania nowelizacji rozszerzającej system monitorowania drogowego i kolejowego przewozu towarów SENT. Według nowych przepisów kontrolą miały zostać objęte kolejne branże, w tym firmy transportowe i produkujące beton budowlany.

Więcej: https://t.co/Tcfn79NIxu

[Diosa Khali @DiosaKhalinda]

🇵🇱 POLONIA El presidente Nawrocki VETÓ la Ley de SERVICIOS DIGITALES

"El Estado debe garantizar la libertad. No restringirla."

La UE lleva años construyendo la máquina de CENSURA más sofisticada del mundo occidental, pero algunos países se están resistiendo

Via SGTnewsNet

[7NEWS Sydney @7NewsSydney]

The scandal involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has deepened for the royals. Court documents suggest Buckingham Palace has known for years about allegations the former prince was sharing government secrets when he was Britain's trade envoy.

[Callum Lyon @CallumLyon]

At this point prices in The UK are just made up:

What do you mean a return train to London is £140?

How is a weekend away in England £600? I can go abroad for a week for that!

Why is a house that was £700 a month a few years ago now £1500 a month?

How is a full tank of fuel now costing more than £100?

Why is my car insurance going up every year on the same car with no claims?

How is 2 carrier bags of shopping costing me nearly £100?

We're honestly done aren't we.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

50 000 Poles showed up at the main square in Kraków’s Old Town last week to celebrate the promotion of their team Wisla Krakow to the first league.

They cleaned up the square before going home, leaving no garbage behind.

0 arrests, 0 violence, 0 looting