Independent Nation Of Kent

Do not go quietly into the night

[Angela Belcamino @AngelaBelcamino]

Explain it to me like I’m 5: Why is Bluesky exempt from the UK’s social media ban?

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

✅ Thanks for joining the movement.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.

[WasAcop @WasAcop]

🚨Labour confirms ID requirement at device level - VPNs useless.🚨

By forcing Apple and Google to verify age at the device level during phone setup…

Keir Starmer’s government isn’t protecting kids — it’s building a surveillance infrastructure.

The OS itself will restrict platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X, making VPNs largely useless because the block happens before any traffic leaves your phone.

🚨Once every device carries a verified age profile, authorities gain an easy route to identify users through legal requests to tech firms.

This is digital ID by the back door, sold as child safety.

Classic Labour: expand state control first, ask questions later.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/Ca4aMkAZqw

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

📱There's no such thing as a social media ban for under-16s

It means we will ALL face a “papers, please” demand to get online.

Holding platforms to account and giving parents the tools they need are the answer for child safety - not government-issued bans and digital ID checks for all.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

"Online safety" laws and age verification mandates have absolutely NOTHING to do with protecting children.

You cannot stop under-16s from accessing a website without checking the age of everyone who visits it. And you cannot check everyone's age without forcing them to prove who they are.

"Child safety" is the cheese in the mousetrap.

Laws sold under the banner of "child protection" constitute a Trojan horse for a system requiring every adult to verify their identity before they can speak, read, or post online. The child is merely an emotional shield. The adult is the real target.

And once that infrastructure exists, the pretext can be swapped out at will.

Today it is pornography, social media and "harmful content". Tomorrow it is messaging apps and online banking. Soon after it is your ability to access the internet at all—each incremental step gated behind a digital ID you are required to keep in good standing.

It's no accident that the exact same "online safety" agenda is being rolled out across the entire Western world simultaneously, with each national government reaching for a slightly different pretext to justify the same outcome—a verified digital identity standing between you and the open internet.

Different countries. Different pretexts. Same infrastructure.

They are not building a system to keep children safe. They are building the identity layer for a permission-based internet—orchestrated from the supranational level by people you never elected—where access to information itself becomes conditional on obedience.

The point is not to make the internet safer. The point is to make anonymous access impossible.

Because a person who can read, speak, organise and dissent anonymously is difficult to control. A person whose most intimate online activity is anchored to a state-monitored digital ID is not.

Once every account, search, post, payment, message and website visit is tied to a verified identity, the internet stops being a public square and becomes a monitored enclosure.

But the gate only closes if people accept "online safety" laws at face value.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Labour government are not serving the people. They are ruling like an Orwellian prophecy. No one voted for this.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Under the pretext of banning under-16s from social media to “protect the children,” Keir Starmer has snuck in some small print that should make Americans really glad that all the tea was dumped into the Boston harbour back in 1773.

Adults will still be “allowed” to use the platforms… once they’ve handed over facial recognition, digital ID, passport, or credit card details to prove they’re not a child.

So it was never really about the kids. It was about making sure every single person who wants to speak online has to first tell the government exactly who they are.

Step 1: Link your real identity to your speech

Step 2: police have a lovely searchable database of every spicy take, meme, or complaint you’ve ever posted

Step 3: bring in the consequences - arrests, travel ban, debunking, for out-of-bounds speech

The UK is in a free fall.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Mad Ed isn’t making this up as he goes along you know, neither are the EU, Australia or Canada etc ..

If you’re wondering where Mad Ed’s getting is heating, appliance banning and energy policies from … look no further than the UN and their PR arm the WEF buildings and energy papers.

All laid out nicely in these, all supporting the Agenda 2030 Sustainable development goals (that you didn’t vote for)

UNFCCC BEERI
UNEP Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction
WEF Decarbonising Heating

You might agree with it all and that’s fine! The point is that you were never asked

have a read of my book … just saying 🔥

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 Jeremy Clarkson had a fiery clash with BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire at the farmers’ protest against Reeves’ inheritance tax raid on family farms.

Victoria went straight for the gotcha:

“So it’s not about you, it’s not about your farm and the fact you bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax?”

Clarkson, visibly stunned:

“Classic BBC there, classic. The ‘fact’ that I bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax? The ‘fact’?”

Victoria doubled down: “You told The Sunday Times in 2021 that’s why you bought it?”

Clarkson, laughing in disbelief:

“These people… BBC. Let’s start from the beginning. I wanted to shoot. That’s even worse to the BBC. Which comes with the benefit of not having to pay inheritance tax.”

He pointed out the tax isn’t even an issue for him personally as he can simply put the farm in a trust, but he’s standing with ordinary family farms that will be hammered.

After sparring over the real numbers affected, Clarkson urged the government to U-turn.

Victoria: “And get the money from where?”

Clarkson: “Walk into any of the offices around here and if you don’t understand what somebody’s job is, fire them.” 😂

Classic Clarkson.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an important post, worth reading in full. The BBC would seem to have a death wish when it comes to impartiality.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Can you see it yet? … This was once agricultural land, helping to feed the nation.

Now it’s Britain’s largest solar farm.

Bill payers have underwritten up to +/-
£80 MILLION of revenue on the Contract for Difference, depending on future electricity prices.

The land no longer makes food, the returns go to private international investors.

And WE underwrite the risk. This is stakeholder capitalism. Socialism on acid.
*sigh* you need to read the book!

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

MPs who go on social media should not turn off replies. They are public employees.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

The government said the Online Safety Act was about protecting children. We were called conspiracy theorists for saying it wasn’t!

Well er … Ofcom is writing to platforms about “crisis situations”, civil unrest and enhanced moderation measures. (Blocking posts they don’t like)

Children aren’t mentioned once. NOT ONCE.

The problem isn’t removing genuine incitement to violence. The real problem is that unelected regulators will pressure platforms to decide what millions of ADULTS can and cannot see whenever a “crisis” is declared.

many platforms will remove perfectly lawful content rather than risk the punishment of Ofcom.

Read the letter for yourself. Link in the thread.

[Independent Nation Of Kent @chelseadagger41]

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[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

"There’s not a farmer alive that supports Labour"

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: Zack Polanski has said "it's not right" that British shoppers are able to buy vegetables for just 7p as he claims it's a sign of an "exploitative system"

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

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