PhantomDogman

I'll upload video on everything I want and how I want to made (or how I can), and whenever I want (or can).

[MEP Sebastian Tynkkynen @SebastianMEP]

Today, Belgian police blocked me — a sitting Member of the European Parliament — from entering the European Parliament for nearly an hour.

They were on the phone with Brussels Mayor Philippe Close, who was personally directing their actions. We have video footage of the incident.

The Mayor prevented me from delivering over half a million European citizens’ signatures for the @SaveEuropeAct initiative.

This is unacceptable.

The EU is a union of 27 member states. No single country — and certainly not one socialist mayor of a single city — has the right to decide which MEPs from other nations can carry out their democratic duties.

My team and I will launch a formal investigation into the mayor’s conduct.

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

When your laws resemble China its time to rethink what your country stands for...

Its no longer a free country

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

Sony CEOs: "Weeeeh printing discs is TOO EXPENSIVE! I need my fourth megayacht!!!"

...So why not allow players to print the games they bought onto their own physical disc like GOG? ...No? Because reasons? Okay.

[PhantomDogman @LvDogman]

@xXArsenXx @MadamSavvy you probably mean "...why can't they wait..." but because editing on twitter is paywalled of course you can't edit it.

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

We do not have a functioning justice system.

This dude should be under the prison as the foundation

[T. Supkit @tmo_melonmaster]

@Pirat_Nation This is fucking insanity, nothing good can come from allowing this much governmental oversight into your life. This isn’t to protect anyone, this is a beta test on how to more effectively control the population.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The UK government is introducing a default overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds.

Under the new rules, apps like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube will be set to block access between midnight and 6 a.m. by default.

Teenagers can still turn the restriction off if they choose, the government also plans to disable features like autoplay and infinite scrolling by default to help reduce excessive screen time.

“Parents are rightly worried about the impact social media is having on their children’s lives.”

The first regulations are expected to be introduced later this year

[Shy Guy's Vault 🐱🍦 @shyguys_vault]

@ChibiReviews Piracy isn't a pricing issue, it's a service issue

No sane person would pay money for an inferior service that removes anime they want to watch when they could just get it for free somewhere else

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

>Stop Pirating Anime and Manga

>Then stop making it impossible to legally watch or read them

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

Anime fans on reddit have to be lobotomized, because true fans don't say stuff like this.

The fact it has almost 7K up votes too..

[frostzy @lmkifiwin]

SONY CAN DELETE EVERYTHING YOU BOUGHT

after the disc announcement, players did something sony probably never expected: they started reading the terms of service. line by line. here's what's in there:

- moving to another country? sony is the only major platform that does not allow you to change your account region. the official suggestion: create a new account. everything you ever bought stays locked to the old one
- go inactive for 36 months, and sony may move to close your account. you get one email and six months to respond. after that, in the document's own words: "account closure is irreversible." the library goes with it (uk terms, sections 21.1–21.3, updated this april)
- the terms also warn sony can suspend or terminate your account over inaccurate information. your old address after a move counts as inaccurate

none of this is theory. the same ecosystem deletes 551 purchased movies from european libraries this september, and the closing ps3/vita stores promise your content stays downloadable "for the foreseeable future" - four words carrying thousands of libraries.

a disc never asked if your account was still active. the all-digital collection comes with a landlord. and you signed the lease years ago.

[Savvy ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ ) @MadamSavvy]

Et tu, brute?

It comes from within. Epic is an “age verification” owner.

Any data retention is a means of selling a product. We are their cattle to harvest and sell numbers.

Most people reject this. There is 0 reason for this. All companies should reject these ridiculous demands but there are dollars to be made so they dont actually oppose them entirely.

“No no its a solution im one of the good guys. We arent like the other guys”

[PhantomDogman @LvDogman]

Because of Septerra Core "puzzles" I couldn't finish it (+ playing the game in a broken state): https://t.co/zILhEKa5Ml

[Savvy ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ ) @MadamSavvy]

I think it is disgusting that they can indeed confirm the account is his, then choose to still delete. What is the point of "security verification" if they aren't actually going to use it?

But this is the future. You will own nothing and like it.

Microsoft advertises itself to be your cloud, your one stop hub. It will handle all your important information, all your data, wants access to everything with its AI and integrating with as much as possible.

Microsoft is only getting worse. it is too big to have a slow collapse or fail any time soon. But this is not sustainable. And what will it take? massive data breaches?

all of that is getting easier. There was some teen who did not know coding who used an ai to get into some website within the past month or 2. I forgot what.

This is very sad, and I am sorry for this person for what they have gone through.

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Download the offline installer of any of your games on GOG, save it to a disc and it's yours forever.

You don't need a storefront's permission to play what you bought.

[Dev-Artemis Animation @DevilArtemisX]

Thanks for addressing this directly. I accept the apology, and I appreciate that the ads were removed.

As far as making it right, I think the most important thing is improving how the company operates moving forward.

Im no marketing genius, but stealing from actual creators may not actually help your AI stance. 🤷

[Dev-Artemis Animation @DevilArtemisX]

Apparently the AI company @coderabbitai has been using my 3D animation in a promoted Reddit ad without my knowledge or permission. I have several fans sending me messages over this and now AI companies are contacting me for AI promotions?

Let me be absolutely clear. I did NOT approve this. I have no affiliation with CodeRabbit, and neither I nor my company endorses this garbage let alone the use of AI generated code in 3D animation. We create everything by HAND. Voiced by a HUMAN and Made by a HUMAN.

They took my companys animation, removed the Devil Artemis branding/trademark from it, edited it, and repurposed it to advertise their AI product. That is not a collaboration, a sponsorship, or authorized promotional use at all. It is an AI company exploiting a creators work.

Using a creators work in a paid advertisement without even contacting them is dishonest, disrespectful, and completely unacceptable.

I strongly recommend that people avoid this company.

@coderabbitai I suggest you remove my work from your advertising immediately.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

It’s not an expert report written by technical experts. It’s produced by the EU to back its own mandate. This is irresponsible reporting.

I have analysing the report. Below are my insights regarding its protective rhetoric lies. This is a calculated campaign of misinformation, misdirection, and unprecedented scope creep.

Part I: The Illusion of Scope (The "Social Media+" Trap)

The report deliberately relies on an extraordinarily broad, feature based definition rather than identifying services by company name, category, or legal classification.

The key definition appears in the "Scope and Terminology" section, which introduces a new catch all term:

"Social media and other digital services (in short, social media+)"

The report states that "social media+" is used to:

"broadly define services that may be available to minors and contain age-inappropriate and or risky features… and or content."

It labels basic, industry standard interactive elements as "addictive and harmful features," specifically calling out:

🇪🇺 Infinite scroll
🇪🇺 Autoplay
🇪🇺 Recommendation algorithms
🇪🇺 Persistent notifications

The definition then expands aggressively to encompass:

🇪🇺 Social media and video sharing platforms
🇪🇺 Online platforms acting as intermediaries for third party content
🇪🇺 App stores
🇪🇺 AI systems and AI companions
🇪🇺 Video games

What the Report Conspicuously Omits:

💡 No limitation to traditional social networks.
💡 No limitation to user generated content platforms.
💡 No limitation to services whose primary purpose is social interaction.

By defining the regulated space via universal features like notifications, recommendation algorithms, and app distribution, they've quietly drafted a blueprint to regulate almost the entire internet.

Part II: The True Objective Behind "Chat Control"

This sweeping "social media+" definition can't be viewed in isolation. It's directly feeding into the broader legislative push for mandatory online scanning, colloquially known as "Chat Control".

While European Parliament President
@EP_President
and the
@EPPGroup
forced through Chat Control 1.0, a "voluntary" precursor designed to normalise corporate scanning, the permanent, mandatory framework of Chat Control 2.0 was authored by
@PHummelgaard
.

Serving as the Danish Minister of Justice and leveraging Denmark’s influential role during its EU Council Presidency, Hummelgaard designed a regime to eliminate end to end encryption. His own words expose the authoritarian philosophy driving this legislation:

"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."

This is the ultimate goal, stated by the law's chief architect: the end of private human conversation. By treating the right to private digital communication as a "totally erroneous perception" to be corrected by the state, Hummelgaard's framework turns every personal device into a government wiretap.

Orwell warned of a world where "nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull." Hummelgaard’s infrastructure ensures the state controls those, too.

Part III: Key Concerns

🆔 Identity Infrastructure: The demand for "effective age assurance" is a privacy fallacy. Despite claims of "privacy preserving" tech, reliable verification ultimately depends on a government ID, biometric scan, credit card information, or deep personal data profiles. Once identity's verified, true anonymity is lost.

🌐 Expansion of Scope: Sold as a targeted restriction on social media, the broad "social media+" umbrella means citizens have got to undergo identity checks simply to download an app, play a game, query an AI, or browse a website.

❄️ Chilling Effects on Free Expression: If accessing basic digital services requires proving who you are, marginalised individuals, political dissidents, and people researching sensitive health or personal topics will self censor and avoid seeking information or support.

📈 Mission Creep: History proves surveillance powers are never contained. Telecommunications metadata and financial monitoring systems were introduced under narrow, exceptional mandates and later expanded into permanent, everyday tracking tools.

🪪 De Facto Digital ID: Age estimation is highly inaccurate. The stricter regulators demand age assurance to be, the more pressure there's to rely on government backed, identity linked verification. This creates an unavoidable path toward mandatory, digital identity wallets.

🏛️ Centralisation of Power: The framework strips parents and individuals of agency, placing government regulators in charge of deciding which ideas, features, and platforms are "appropriate" for citizens.

⚠️ Weaponisation under Future Regimes: Technology outlives the politicians who build it. The turnkey surveillance state built by today’s well meaning policymakers will eventually be inherited by administrations with vastly different views on speech, privacy, and political opposition.

🔄 A Contradictory Standard: The report demands that platforms restrict child access while simultaneously requiring providers to prove their services are "safe by design" for minors. If children are legally barred from entry, forcing platforms to reconstruct their entire architecture to accommodate them is a logical paradox.

🔒 Regulatory Capture: Tech giants can easily absorb the massive compliance and verification costs of these regulations. Smaller competitors, open source projects, and startups can't, effectively locking in the monopoly of the dominant platforms.

About the Author (Me)

👨‍👦‍👦 Father of 3: I’m a father of 3, but that doesn't qualify my expert opinions. Being a parent drives my passion, but it doesn't dictate my understanding of what’s technically possible, what’s not, what’s actually feasible, or the severe cost of getting it wrong. There’s always a delicate, necessary play between security and privacy, and getting it wrong destroys both.

👤 AOL Child Safety Pioneer: I was first introduced to child safety tech and content moderation in 1996, when I led the new technologies team at AOL and helped launch AIM.

🌐 W3C Standard Creator: I cofounded the W3C standard for Content Labelling and URI Classification in 2004, which formally replaced PICS in 2009. I'm also one of the seven founders of the Mobile Web Initiative at the W3C where I was tasked with rewriting Tim Berners-Lee's vision of "One Web".

🪪 Co-Inventor of Account Verification: I co invented the concept of user account classification on the internet, the foundational idea behind features like Twitter Verified, though it's not really implemented as well as I'd imagined. While I'm an advocate for platforms offering optional identity verification, I've got zero tolerance for any government enforcing it on citizens to access software and services on the web.

🧠 Trust and Human Behaviour Expert: I've spent my career studying human behavior around online trust, reputation, and visual indicators because psychology and technology go hand in hand.

📱 Deep Security: I've designed some of the most intrusive security services for mobile devices, including custom Android firmware that intercepted every HTTPS request inside every app. I've built API services for mobile device OEMs, browser extensions for computers, and custom web browsers for iPad and iPhone.

📜 Deep Security Patents: Most leading security companies benefit from my patents for in app security, a proprietary portfolio covering 65 distinct categories of URI lookup, including malware, phishing, disinformation, child safety, identity, child abuse, and pornography.

🏛️ Strategic Government Advisor: I've advised both the IWF and NCMEC, the very organisations the EU constantly references to justify Chat Control. I've also hosted coordination calls between NCMEC and the DOJ on how to implement proactive monitoring on the web for child exploitation. In 2012, I advised the UK government during its original parliamentary inquiry into online safety, where I pushed for new controls, but allow parents can turn on for their children rather than blanket state mandates. They went ahead anyway and it has failed to keep teens off porn sites for 10+ years. No need to look at the failures in Australia.

🛡️ The App vs. Content Distinction: We must recognise that content filtering on social networks is an entirely different conversation that requires a completely different approach and set of solutions.

The truth is that most big tech companies don't care enough to build tools that allow people to easily avoid what they don't want to see on their platforms. But blocking or restricting entire apps and websites at the infrastructure layer is a vastly different, far more dangerous beast that threatens the architecture of the open internet.

[Connie @corvui_]

@ChibiReviews I'd talk about it with those who are actually into anime, not random coworkers who aren't.

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

Nobody IRL will legit give a fuck about a Succubus influencing Rudeus and almost having him sleep with a hot elf, because its just an anime

Legit dumbass take