TheLazyWriter

Hobby-VA | Foodie | Anime, Japan- and Tech Enthusiast | Photo-Geek | Car freak

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@TheGoalsZoneHQ Where are you always pulling this interviews out from?
Outta thin air?

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@_FriedrichMerz Mit dieser Begründung müssten Sie ihm eigentlich unverzüglich folgen. Wenn man einne Blick auf die von Ihnen gemachten Wahlversprechen und deren Realisierung wirft, dann ist es mit der Glaubwürdigkeit nicht wirklich anders.

[Jesper Bylund -- just/acc @JesperBylund]

The EU has blocked a chat control skeptics talk on YouTube.

But here’s the thing, the content is in Finnish, and Finnish law allows for this exact thing.

So the EU is currently illegally blocking free press in Finland.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen has confirmed that everyone in the EU will need to use the EU's app for identity authentication before being able to access or post on social media websites.

🇪🇺 As an expert in online child safety, I am here to expose the misinformation and misdirection in von der Leyen's statements.

Today von der Leyen said:

"This is not about whether children can access social media, it is about whether social media can access our children".

💡The first part is true. This isn't about children. It's about surveillance and combating political dissent. A state that can't control its own citizens is more dangerous than a state rife with criminals. The second part is a PR soundbite that politicians are using like a campaign slogan straight out of 1984.

🇪🇺"The question is no longer if children face risks online, but what can we do to give children a safer start online".

💡No. You can't give children a "safer start" online any more than you can offline. In the offline world, the government doesn't enforce curfews or ban children from entering liquor stores, bars or restaurants. That's a parent's responsibility. The digital world should be no different.

🇪🇺"The age verification app is one of the tools to get it done".

💡This is a contradiction because she also said "It won't be foolproof".

🇪🇺"It's easy to use, it is privacy preserving and it is open source".

💡The app was compromised as soon as it was released. "Privacy-preserving" age verification is an oxymoron. You can't verify a person's age without verifying their identity. Where or how that age is shared afterwards is irrelevant.

🇪🇺"This is basically about putting back the power into the hands of parents".

💡More from 1984. The EU is doing the opposite. Parents are having their authority stripped by politicians who think they know better. Many parents are capable and unaffected by peer pressure, and they know how to use parental controls to block any app classified as 13+. Some teens are safe, their parents trust them, and the state has no business overruling that trust.

🇪🇺"We don't give our children keys to the car before they have their licence"

💡Comparing an app to a car is a false equivalence used to justify mass surveillance. Governments don't decide when a young person is ready for car keys, guardians do.

💡Forcing every adult and child into a biometric checkpoint just to use an app or website is not licensing drivers. It's the state seizing everyone's keys, locking the garage, and forcing every driver to ask a private company for permission to take a drive.

💡 This is a gross, unethical overreach that strips authority from parents while imposing state sanctioned identity verification on every adult who doesn't even have a child.

💡Additionally, people who pass a test, obtain a licence and drive a car aren't forced to use an app to constantly authenticate their suitability to drive.

🇪🇺"We do not let them buy alcohol until they are legally allowed"

💡False equivalence. We don't force every person to show ID at a shopping mall entrance just because a few people might buy alcohol with a meal at a restaurant. Some parents are okay with their 12 year-old going to the mall with friends while others aren't. Either way, it's their choice. Whatever irresponsible decisions some parents might make, every adult in the country shouldn't be forced to pay the price.

🇪🇺"It won't be foolproof"

💡This is all the proof we need to show that the EU and every government know that banning social media for teens won't protect them. When pressed by journalists about VPNs being used to circumvent a ban, politicians always state the ban isn't a silver bullet and will take time. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan went as far as to say "we know it's not the solution".

💡Either age verification works, or it doesn't. As a technical expert in this space, I can tell you there are no additional steps to take and no progress to be made. Either the approach does what it is supposed to do, or it's not fit for purpose. If they claim a bulletproof solution is coming, it can only mean one thing. They intend to ban or restrict VPNs to people who verify their identity.

🇪🇺"It will take time to invite the cultural change that is already taking shape in our society, just as it took time to outlaw drink driving, just as it took time to use seatbelts in the cars. Great change never happens overnight, but when it comes to our safety it is always worth it".

💡Comparing a social media ban and age verification to seatbelts is a completely broken analogy. Seatbelts are a safety feature that protects children while allowing them to travel in a car. A ban doesn't give kids a seatbelt. It kicks them out of the car entirely.

💡Instead of supporting parents who want to guide their own children through the digital world, this heavy-handed law strips away parental authority by banning the apps and websites that many parents are perfectly fine with and actively monitor.

💡Furthermore, enforcing these bans requires biometric age verification, which means forcing millions of adult citizens to scan their IDs, faces or credit cards just to browse the internet. That isn't a common-sense traffic law.

💡It's a digital checkpoint on every street. True safety means teaching kids how to navigate the digital world safely with real guardrails and parental guidance, not burning down digital spaces for everyone under the guise of protection.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to ban teens from social media so every person is forced to verify their identity before they can read, share or post anything online. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous content.

🇪🇺☠️ The EU wants to enforce "Chat Control" so every app has to monitor everything people say privately inside it, including apps with end-to-end encryption. In their words, this is to protect children from dangerous criminals.

💡Where this ends

🇪🇺 "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever".

George Orwell, 1984.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@NicolaRic2 @srfnews Es hed kei Wert meh, das isch eifach Bias.

Die Modelle von Tesla sind zwar “alt” aber es zeigt sich, dass die Leute gute Reichweite, super Effizienz, funktionierende Software, solide Qualität (oft besser als die deutschen Fabrikate!) und einen vernünftigen Preis wollen.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@KMC1909 @LuzLzz @aktien_max Der wahre Witz ist “besser verarbeitet”.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@LastBoyScout87 @Kalle5554 @aktien_max Psst��� ausser der Lenksäule und dem Blinkerhebel gibt es da kein Hartplastik im Innenraum. Auch kein Pianolack. Die Türtafeln des MY sind sogar soft und die Taschen dick ausgefilzt.

Das kriegste beim A6 e-tron für 100k nicht.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

RIP to one of THE essential 80s legends.
We’ll miss you dearly Bonnie. Thank you for your music 🫶.

[IGN @IGN]

Legendary Welsh singer and songwriter Bonnie Tyler, best known for Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero has died aged 75.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@BastianBraun121 Model Y L with Uberhelix wheels.
Yea… checks out. Prolly launching on Q4.

[alias Kerstin 💫🇪🇺 @Blajblaj2023]

The European Parliament has scheduled an emergency voting for Chat Control 1.0 for the 9th of July 2026.

The European people already said NO once in March 2026.

Chat Control 1.0 is about mass surveillance of ALL electronic communication in the EU.

Civil society organizations are critical. Mass surveillance doesn't belong in a free democratic society.

• Ask media to write about it.
• Contact your MEP's.
• Go out and protest

[calle @callebtc]

This is not democracy.

You can't simply try to pass the same law a hundred times until it finally succeeds.

Stop Chat Control once and for all.

[Tribune Populaire🌐 @TribunePop23]

🇪🇺👁️ALERTE SCANDALE DEMOCRATIQUE - Ce 7 juillet 2026, le Parlement européen a adopté, par 331 voix contre 304 (11 abstentions), une demande de procédure d’urgence (C10-0178/2026) concernant le Chat Control.

Ce que cela signifie concrètement : cette procédure accélérée permet d’examiner le texte sans suivre l’ensemble de la procédure parlementaire ordinaire, en réduisant les étapes de débat et d’examen habituellement prévues avant un vote.

Depuis sa présentation en 2022, le projet Chat Control a déjà connu plusieurs tentatives d’adoption et de relance, régulièrement freinées par l’absence de majorité.

Le Chat Control ouvrirait la voie à la détection automatisée des communications privées sur les services de messagerie !

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@BotengaM This is not security, this is the beginning of the end of cryptography and privacy for citizens. You should be ashamed of voting yes for this garbage law.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨 EVERY EUROPEAN NEEDS TO KNOW THIS:

The European Union is turning into an anti-democratic surveillance apparatus.

In March, the European Parliament REJECTED the extension of “Chat Control.”

So what did Brussels do?

While everybody is distracted from the World Cup, they furtively brought it back through a rarely used procedure and are trying again.

The goal is to allow private communications to be scanned under a derogation from normal ePrivacy protections.

They’ll have access to your private messages and your photos. And, as always, mass surveillance is being sold to you under the banner of “safety.”

The EU bureaucrats do not trust you.

They urgently want the infrastructure to surveil you.

And when its own Parliament votes the wrong way, the bureaucratic and anti-democratic machine simply finds another procedure and tries again.

The European Union is not protecting democracy.

It is becoming its enemy. And almost all CONSERVATIVES members of the parliament voted in favor of this Orwellian plan.

And now imagine a combination of governmental surveillance AND Palantir. SCARY!!!!

SHARE THIS. Europeans deserve to know what Brussels is doing to their privacy.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@ffaebi Willst du damit sagen, du bist zu deinem Freund gefahren, damit du sein Gerät anfassen darfst 🤭?

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@oniichanph Very happy for him! Glad we didn’t lose another VA legend this year. We already had to say goodbye professor Utonium recently :(.

Just one small thing… it’s the wrong Robotnik/Eggman on the picture. The one depicted was voiced by the late Long John Baldry.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@cartoonvibes26 Heck, bet whoever wrote this Tweet doesn’t know jack about what Drake Bell did 😅.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@DominicBRNKMN Love your photos! The MYP is one sexy car.

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@thegoldenaged Peak gaming!

[TheLazyWriter @LazyWriterKun]

@Tesla We’d love to, but you guys need to submit the request to ASTRA in Switzerland. @teslaeurope