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[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

One of the craziest things about the UK rape gang scandal is that it's largely considered a 'right wing' concern.

In a sane, serious country, it would be completely bipartisan. In fact, it wouldn't even be seen as a political issue, but one of basic justice and morality.

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

China restricts VPNs.
Iran restricts VPNs.
Russia restricts VPNs.

Now Britain is looking at doing the same.

The fact we're even having this conversation should alarm everyone who values privacy and freedom online.

Keir Starmer has completely lost the plot.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

I've had to stop for a minute and realise that I've spent the past hour arguing with people on the *amount* of victims of the Rape Gangs. People are annoyed that the 250,000 estimate as stated in the Inquiry Report is too high and that it's probably much lower.

How much lower? 200,000? 100,000? 50,000? I mean, how many victims is enough for it to be a scandal? Do we have a figure on this?

How should we word this? "An unspecified amount of children have been raped," "Probably a lot. At least way more than a thousand. Not sure tbh."

The figure is an estimate because that's ALL WE HAVE. The police didn't do the work. There are no clear logs. We will never know the full scale of this.

I personally cannot wait for some cunt to go through the estimated figures and come back with "Actually, only around 50,000 to 100,000 children were raped. Far lower than Rupert Lowe would have us all believe!"

The estimated figure exists precisely because we will never know the true number. And that should be a conversation all by itself.

Maybe that was the intention.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

I honestly don't understand how Nadine Dorries still has the gall to post her shitty opinions in public.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

Do you remember Yewtree? Do you remember how the media went crazy over that for a good couple of years? Stories appearing every week? Well the rape gangs scandal eclipses that on a scale you cannot even imagine and yet the media doesn't want to touch it.

[Charlie @ASonNamedBort]

A prestigious club that Labour and the Tories would like us to join

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

This article until very recently was on Robert Jenrick's own website. He's deleted it. Do not trust a word that comes out of this snake's mouth.

[respawnedtargaryen @respawnedtarga1]

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

[Mrs Millicent: Witchy Lesbianism ✝️♿ 🏳️‍🌈 @MillieCheesey]

"90% support it"

Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Any attempt to impose mandatory Digital ID will be fully repealed, scrapped and eradicated by a Restore Britain Government.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

Wouldn't it be great if every US tech company said "No, we just won't sell products in the UK from now on." Meta pulled all its apps from the UK app store and denied access to UK users. Elon barred UK access to X etc. Google did the same along with Apple?

That would solve it. Starmer would U-Turn on this within 24 hours and it would never be considered again. But they won't. As Signal state, it's only the smaller tech companies who will have the balls to say 'No' and they'll lose revenue.

[TopG @TopGBtc]

@BullTheoryio

[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.

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

The UK government spyware demand means that the government decides exactly what should be censored on every mobile device. They say they will start with nude pictures (if you don’t identify yourself as an adult). But it could at any time be expanded to anything the government disapproves of. Today, 30 people are arrested every day in the United Kingdom for writing something online that the government classifies as "grossly offensive". It is obvious that they will use this tool to restrict free speech.

Currently, there appears to be no requirement to report findings outside the device. However, with both legal and technological decision-making power taken away from individuals and transferred to the government, that is only a pen stroke away.

This means that the government could also use this system for total mass surveillance.

And they can do so in secret.

The government recently, in secret, tried to pressure Apple (which is now agreeing to client-side scanning) to build backdoors into its end-to-end encrypted cloud service. They can do this under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, also known as the "Snoopers' Charter" – a law that makes it illegal for tech companies to disclose secret demands from the government.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

the UK government just told Apple and Google: scan every phone in the country for nudity. not just kids' phones. every phone. you have 3 months. or we arrest your executives.

Apple already said yes earlier this year. 35 million people woke up one day and had to prove they were adults to use a phone they already paid for.

Signal put out a statement today. one line:

"nudity today. political speech tomorrow."

Here's every time a government built one of these systems and what actually happened:

2001 — PATRIOT Act. passed 6 weeks after 9/11. 3 days after it was introduced it was law. sold as: we need to spy on terrorists. what it actually was: a wish list of surveillance powers the FBI had been asking for for years and Congress had already said no to. multiple times.

2005 — the Bush administration was caught running a secret program wiretapping american citizens with no warrant. no judge. no oversight. the "terrorism only" promise lasted exactly 4 years.

2013 — Snowden. the NSA was secretly collecting the phone records of every single american. not suspects. not terrorists. every person who made a phone call. the law said "collect data related to terrorism." they decided that meant everyone.

2015 — same law, Section 215, used to collect financial records, internet browsing history, and location data on ordinary americans. still called a terrorism tool.

2021 — the entire surveillance infrastructure built after 9/11 was used to monitor Black Lives Matter protesters. domestic activists. people marching in the street. not terrorists.

2026 — "Protect the children."

All they need a software update.

It has happened this way every single time.

they name it after the thing nobody wants to defend.

then they point it at everything else.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

Your MPs did nothing for decades while paedophile rape gangs operated across the entire country for fear of 'inflaming community tensions', but the moment you can use children to inflict restrictions on us all, you suddenly spring into action. You are scum.

[🙏🌧🌍 @godblesstoto]

Compare and contrast.

[Wings Over Scotland @WingsScotland]

This is one of the most terrifying things I've ever read.

[Old Hag ~ edtwt @olldhagg]

@godblesstoto I can't fathom thinking of getting in the man who was hot miked dismissively calling a lifelong labour voter a "bigoted woman" for questioning immigration during a disastrous election campaign. Just - did he forget how Gordon fucked it all up for himself?

https://t.co/6eJ5Gf0yuv

[Old Hag ~ edtwt @olldhagg]

@FarWhite9107 @gorbalsgoebbels @Real_Sean_Brady I was a Remain voting, left of centre type 10 years ago, with foreign-born grandmothers.

Sothport (amongst other things) has me agreeing with an account called "farwhite" THAT is how badly you guys have fucked up.

But, yeah, must be bots. No self reflection at all.