Oliver

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@mitfoid You do realise we have little to no control over this? Public opinion did not depose Starmer. Makerfield would have been somewhere else if that didn't work. These people are handpicked to fuck our shit up.

[Nym @nym]

VPN BANS - CURRENT STATUS
🚫 Banned:
🇰🇵 North Korea
🇴🇲 Oman
🇮🇶 Iraq
🇧🇾 Belarus
🇨🇳 China
🇷🇺 Russia - admitted impossible without breaking the internet
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan
🇮🇷 Iran
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🇲🇲 Myanmar
🇪🇬 Egypt - restricted

⚠️ Attempted Ban Reversed:
🇳🇿 New Zealand - reversed in 48 hours
🇬🇧 UK - reversed after minority groups explained they rely on VPNs

🔄 Under pressure. Not banned yet:
🇪🇺 EU - signaled VPNs next after age verification
🇮🇳 India - comply or lose legal protections
🇹🇷 Turkey - licensing proposals
🇦🇺 Australia - discussing restrictions to enforce social media ban

🇺🇸 US States - indirect VPN pressure:
Texas - App Store Accountability Act forces age verification. VPNs complicate enforcement.
Utah - social media age verification law. VPN circumvention being monitored.
Florida - similar age verification laws. Same enforcement problem.
Arkansas - LEARNS Act creates content restrictions. VPNs route around them.
Louisiana - first state age verification law 2022. VPN usage spiked immediately.

No US state has banned VPNs directly.
Every US state with age verification has a VPN problem it has not solved.

✅ Not banned. No legislation:
🇩🇪 Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇹 Italy
🇨🇦 Canada

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@nativistconcern @firasmodad One of the old game magazines made fun of publishers bribing the reviewers, and ran multiple articles about how rotten and soul destroying the game industry is. It didn't take long to realise this applied to every consumer product. Ignore anyone that can be bought.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@koosdelareycape @Inanatesmu @ABorlandFan88 It is low intelligence. The ability for abstract thought increases with intelligence. "Oh but I know a guy who codes rockets who doesn't pattern recognise or see images in his head". Outliers and lifestyles explain that.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@TweetToWhom @Arwenstar This, but I expect they will later criminalise VPNs for personal use as well. They love to make people feel like they won, and half of X just fell for it.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

We have decided not to limit VPNs "today". I don't trust them not to try again.

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

'We have decided not to limit VPNs'

Online Saftey minister Kanishka Narayan told #BBCBreakfast the Government has decided not to restrict access to Virtual Private Networks (VPN) as part of a social media ban for under 16s, despite initially suggesting it would take action

https://t.co/eVcbOEAtA8

[𝐿𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑥 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑟 @linuxuser1996]

Countries where a YouTube video critizing EU's Chat Control has been banned.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: The suspect in the murder of Ann Widdecombe reportedly had Russian-communist literature at his home

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@CrewkerneMan Prison is too cucked a response. The taxpayer loses out so a criminal can fritter away their time on a life sentence, and for what?

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@CharlotteCGill The first step is to actually do things. The government and media throw the book at any slight dissenting action precisely because actions are influential. Talking and sharing info exerts no power over them. If you want change, you must first accept risk.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@wyrdsmyth @TheHauskarl Men weren't disposable in hunter-gatherer societies, what are you talking about? This is intentional societal degeneration from the inside. Productive family men lose out, violent outgroup men are incentivised, to spread terror. The hunter-gatherers didn't behave this way.

[Morayita @morayita123]

I hate this. I hate millennial culture. I hate the uterus art. I hate the — toys at the grocery store. The Puritanical Zoomer brigade is coming to cancel you, and you deserve it.

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

The same date I took my wife on in HS costs $160 now, not including $4/gallon gas.

>Chili’s: $70 for an app, split entree, and cokes.
>Movie: $70 for 2 tickets, popcorn, and cokes.
> Cold Stone: $20 for two, single scoop cones.

“WhY dOn’T tEeNs WaNt To Do AnYthIng?” Idiot.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

> Taxi company in Hounslow
> Renames itself to be a Pizza company 200 miles away in Devon
> Gets a license to sponsor visas and does that for a year
> Goes back to being a taxi company

> Home office never checked the company exists (it doesn't) or that the sponsor they granted it to entirely changed location and business.

Legal migration is a complete scam - the idea that we should never deport people here legally when this is how they're doing it is a joke.

Basically any migrant can throw up a limited company and sponsor limitless clients - anyone on earth who can afford their fees can enter the UK.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@murdosretro @NotSoGenesiz Most phones released less than a decade ago can take high quality photos. A little photo set for your phone with a light and small tripod is £30. Your phone also has an editor natively. It's just laziness and lack of taste, there are almost no extra costs now.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@unreal_6769 @ipv4fan You can search the words in the first panel and find the answer. It's referring to King Solomon's seal

[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.

[Oliver @oliverxacc]

@haruspectra @ObsidianLining @FischerKing64 Stupid people are often bored