Blake Blake

Real revolution starts at learning. If you're not angry..then you're not paying attention-Tim McIlrath. Opinions are my own. RTs & likes are not an endorsement

[Blake Blake @TheBlake83]

A Ram named Doug. Doug is the opposite of friendly, he’s... unfriendly.

[moon meow 🌙 @Moonbae222]

We have such useless national cyber security in the uk, people getting hacked & information stolen every week. Now they want us all to upload our IDs on to databases they can’t protect? Seems like a good idea.

[SG @04gully]

S. Africa, Brazil and Qatar were all painted a certain way and had their own issues but at no point were they actively stopping players, teams, referee and fans from participating in the biggest sporting event, 3 days before it starts. America gotta be the worst hosts ever

[Julien Frrr @JulienFrrr]

UK is going down a very dangerous path on mass surveillance and censorship.

The government is literally demanding that every device sold or used in the country scans all content for “illegal” material. Signal is right to push back hard, this isn’t protection, it’s the end of private communication as we know it.

[Paddy @PaddyArsenal]

Ricardo Calafiori, the infamous purely defensive left back

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🆔The Labour Government is threatening ID checks for the internet

Our director @silkiecarlo speaks to the BBC what plans for child-locked devices really mean for our internet privacy and freedom⤵️

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

In 2023, Indonesia were stripped of the under-20 World Cup for refusing to allow the Israeli team entry.

Fifa's justification then was the vague "due to the current circumstances".

Quite a contrast to the hardline "FIFA is not involved in host immigration processes" now.

[Miguel Delaney @MiguelDelaney]

Hosting the World Cup or any Fifa tournament has generally involved a guarantee of freedom of movement for all participating teams and staff. Note how it simply wasn’t an issue at recent World Cups

It is scandalous it has got to this

[Blake Blake @TheBlake83]

Wouldn’t surprise me at all, one of the most corrupt institutions of all time

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: FIFA president Gianni Infantino subject of criminal complaint from his former UEFA boss Michel Platini 🚨

[Charles Watts @charles_watts]

You can guarantee that Infantino didn't even bother picking up the phone to his 'mate' in the Oval Office to ask what the hell was going on.

Spineless.

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Extremely classy statement from Omar Abdulkadir Artan given the farcical nature of the whole thing:

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

Honestly, this is a fucking disgrace.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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?

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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?

[Eric Meder 👁️ @ericmeder]

Privacy is for the people. The only people who should live under surveillance are the members of our government!

[enter shakira𓅮 @BARFJAMiN]

“why waste expensive teachers on povvy kids when we can just stick them in front of the machine that gets everything wrong, completely fuck their education up then force them into workfare for the rest of their lives”

[Matt Ó B @MattOBranain]

UK Home Secretary says she is only bringing in ID checks on phones to "protect children"... not to setup some kind of digital surveillance "PANOPTICON" 😏

[hacker.house @hackerfantastic]

UK government did nothing to protect children from child rape grooming gangs, the Monarchy, Jimmy Saville, his friends at the BBC, spy cops or Epstein... but sure, monitoring your phone and digital communications will definitely be used to protect the children now...

[Andre Omietanski @punk6052]

On 22 May 2026, @AztecLabs_ submitted a response to the UK government's consultation on children's online safety.

I'll be direct about where we stand. We are sceptical of mandatory age verification. The evidence that it works is mixed, and the surveillance infrastructure built in the name of child safety rarely stays narrowly scoped. We said so plainly in the submission.

But the consultation is happening, and if the government proceeds, the detail that matters most is how these systems are actually built.

Every method deployed today related to online age verification either gets bypassed easily or forces users to hand a document scan to a third-party server, which creates centralised databases of sensitive personal data. Those databases get breached often and easily, creating personal and national security risks. This is the predictable result of collecting far more than the question requires.

So our submission, among other things, asks the government for three things:

1. make privacy by design a hard requirement rather than an aspiration;

2. recognise device-level proofs within the existing trust framework; and

3. do not restrict VPNs, which serve real privacy and security purposes.

The UK can set the global standard for how this is done, or it can attach a breachable identity database to every platform its citizens use. I think the choice is clear.

[Silkie Carlo @silkiecarlo]

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...? 🤡