owl man

me like owls

[Cameron 🇺🇸 🗽🦅 @CameronCorduroy]

>renames it to the Department of War
>names himself the Secretary of War
>fights one war
>loses

[Harry Stabbings @harrystabbings]

NEW: Government confirms Duolingo will be included in the under-16s social media ban.

“No child in Britain needs to know what the French are saying” a department spokesperson said.

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[nyara @nyaraVT]

Replacing the rainbow with something even gayer.. the French

[respawnedtargaryen @respawnedtarga1]

It went from “porn” to everything like we all predicted

[Dr Glover| SAC: DRGLOVER @Dr_Gl0ver]

At 17 you can

Have consensual sex
Have a kid
Drive a car
Work a job
Vote
Donate blood
Join the army

BUT you CANNOT watch YouTube after your allocated government bedtime lmao

[. @playboicurrryy]

"alarm set for 1 hour and 13 minutes from now"

[Owl @owltwting]

get off me dude

[Savos International @SavosAndSavos]

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[Page ✿♡ @Vampuppy_Page]

Living in Britain really radicalises you to genuinely despise old people.

[o̴̶̷᷄ ̫ o̴̶̷̥᷅ @lukatilll]

Whenever im comforting my friends or anyone i cant help but think

“no one was there for my when i needed help why should i help you”

[enter shakira𓅮 @BARFJAMiN]

getting a fast-tracked 3-year jail sentence handed down by an AI judge for a hallucinated crime with no jury or right of appeal. the future of Britain is here baby

[Jay Chan @Jay10_6]

This mean students up to Year 11 will not be able to revise GCSE biology on Freesciencelessons YouTube channel.

This also mean a 15 years and 364 days old not be able to read Facebook posts from their MP or councillor, but expected to vote for them tomorrow.

[Trans British M1das @M1dasOW2]

Mass surveillance labeled as child safety

[Zephyr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @zephyr7755_]

At 17 in the UK you can get married and drive a car but don’t you dare scroll Twitter after 10pm

[Monty || Cowboiヾ(`ヘ´)ﾉ ֺ @_cowboi]

Life tips
- don’t be neurodivergent
- don’t be poor
- don’t get in any sort of situation

[Will @WillAddedDigits]

I'm not hugely patriotic, but the British plug is without a doubt, unarguably, better than all other plugs. Anyone arguing different can't be trusted.

[⃟⃟⃟⃟⃟⃟ @gentlyscar]

ive always wondered how my online friends would find out if i randomly died one day

[xheni @xhenilol]

when i do not spend time with relationships that i consider close/important for a large amount of time then my brain literally registers that time/space as the friendship is fading or something is wronggg ur feelings are changing for no rsn btw