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VPN Bans loading🌀

🇬🇧 UK - called VPNs a "technical problem"
🇪🇺 EU - signaled VPNs are next
🇹🇷 Turkey -VPN licensing proposals
🇮🇳 India - ordered VPN compliance or lose protections
🇦🇺 Australia - age verification may lead to ban
🇩🇰 Denmark - anti-piracy law risks VPN use

Kind of hard to ban a decentralized VPN😉

[Vivaldi Browser @vivaldibrowser]

When we say we fight for a better web for all, we mean it. 🌈

[TimmehIRL @timmehirl]

@KreekCraft So dumb I learned SO MUCH on YouTube on how to do stuff and history etc. how to become a dev how to make and edit videos. This is cutting off the education for kids all they will have is ai 🫠

[KreekCraft @KreekCraft]

The UK is banning all social media for kids under 16 years old.

No more TikTok. No more Instagram. No more Snapchat. No more YouTube.

Every platform will require age verification.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

YouTube has publicly pushed back against the UK government’s decision to include the platform in a planned ban on social media access for under-16s.

The company says YouTube is more than just social media, it’s a useful place where kids and teens learn, watch educational videos, and explore their interests. YouTube called itself a “vital resource”

The UK government says the ban aims to protect young people from harmful content
But YouTube argues that banning kids from the platform could push them to less safe websites instead.

[MoneroWire @MoneroWireHQ]

🇬🇧 The UK wants scanning on every phone by September.

Signal says it'll leave the country first. GrapheneOS already refused age verification laws. Mullvad calls it the road to a controlled internet.

[Windscribe @windscribecom]

Correction: Most Authoritarian.
• C-8: Without a court order, govt can cut you off from the internet
• C-9: Criminalizes speech online
• C-22: Keep a year of metadata of everything you do online
• C-34: Requires ID checks to use social media

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The UK is so cooked, man… The UK government’s policing office has launched PoliceAI, a new centre that will develop and provide AI tools for police forces across the country.

>These tools are designed to help officers deal with changing crime by making their work faster and more efficient.

>The initiative is expected to save around 6 million hours of police time each year, allowing more officers to spend more time in communities and on the streets helping people.

They want to use AI in a “responsible and fair way to improve public”, can't wait to see how many people go to jail for posting online.

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

Ever wondered what happens when you disable Google Play services?

Your phone breaks, apparently.

Use @GrapheneOS.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.

Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.

Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.

In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.

Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.

Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.

[Christophe Boutry @Ced_haurus]

📲 Saviez-vous que dans iOS 27, Apple a prévu une liste de pays où le chiffrement des messages RCS (SMS) est interdit ?

Chine 🇨🇳. Corée du Sud 🇰🇷. France 🇫🇷.

Le reste du monde déploie l'E2EE, le chiffrement de bout en bout entre iPhone et Android. Une avancée majeure pour la confidentialité de vos SMS.

En France, c'est bloqué.

Les opérateurs sont prêts techniquement. Ce n'est pas un problème d'infrastructure. C'est un choix politique.

Les raisons sont multiples, la France ayant toujours une longueur d'avance pour affaiblir votre sécurité et s'assurer de pouvoir garder un oeil sur vous. Mais l'une des pistes probables : La PNIJ - la Plateforme Nationale des Interceptions Judiciaires. Un outil qui permet à l'État d'accéder à vos communications. Le chiffrement de bout en bout sur ces millions d'échanges quotidiens lui couperait l'accès. Définitivement.

Alors notre gouvernement fait tout pour que vous restiez exposés.

[MoneroWire @MoneroWireHQ]

🇬🇧UK age verification pushed VPN downloads through the roof.

Now the government wants age checks for VPNs too.

They're trying to KYC VPNs.

[Ente @enteio]

World order in parallel universe.

[Harry Stabbings @harrystabbings]

What you need to know about the new Social Media Ban in the UK:

1. All persons under 16 are prohibited from accessing social media platforms without verified parental supervision.

2. Parental supervision must be logged digitally through the UK. gov app.

3. Parents must approve each post, comment, like, or share in real-time.

4. Failure to supervise constitutes negligent digital guardianship.

5. Penalties for negligent digital guardianship include fines up to £10,000 and potential removal of devices from the household.

6. Educational use is not exempt.

7. Mental health considerations are not exempt.

8. Checking the weather on a browser that could access social media counts as attempted access.

9. Screenshots of banned platforms are treated as contraband.

10. Discussing banned platforms in school counts as conspiracy to access.

11. Parents who express disagreement with these rules online will have their supervision privileges revoked.

12. Any family member can report violations anonymously (encouraged).

Compliance is mandatory.

Britain is safer for it.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Thank you, President Trump, for your warm wishes.

I look forward to working with you to further advance the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, for the benefit of both our nations and the world.

@POTUS

@realDonaldTrump

[HelloItsVG @HelloItsVG]

Roblox players have decided who's to blame for every bad update lately, and it's not Roblox. It's a guy named Schlep.

Let me actually walk through this.

>Schlep is the guy who went undercover and exposed grown adults preying on kids on Roblox
>Roblox's response was to ban HIM, not fix the problem
>then they buried the whole platform in age checks, chat limits and "safety" updates nobody asked for

Now people are saying Schlep "ruined Roblox" because all those changes traced back to the heat he brought.

But he didn't add the face scans. He didn't remove the chat. Roblox did.

Blaming Schlep for Roblox's "safety slop" is like blaming the smoke alarm for the fire.

So who actually ruined Roblox, the guy who exposed the problem or the company that buried it?

What do you think?

[MiniToon @DaRealMiniToon]

@xinophen Since homosexuality is a natural occurrence in the animal kingdom, it's only "natural" (get it?) that Intercity contains homosexual characters to reflect that!
Also since bigots don't exist in Intercity, characters aren't really shy about expressing that!

[‎ 𓏴 𝐝���𝘪͟sy @xinophen]

now we need a side/minor character to be confirmed a lesbian

[My Latin Life 🌴 @MyLatinLife]

Portuguese citizens have a 2 year path to citizenship in Spain.

Spanish citizens have a 7 year path to citizenship in Portugal.

Funny how unequal it is.