Plague Enjoyer: No online safety act!

Yep.

[Plague Enjoyer: No online safety act! @PlagueEnjoyer]

What platform will people move to when the social media bans start coming in?
Mastodon?
Element?
I genuinely want to know so I can start moving my community there instead of the platforms that will require Digital ID checks.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: Nearly TWENTY THOUSAND PEOPLE are publicly vouching for a man accused of cutting down Flock cameras in a small West Virginia town.

People commented:

- "He was saving my neighbor's dog from a fire all day, couldn't be him."

- "This man is innocent. I saw him serving at a soup kitchen."

-"Couldn't be him. He was helping me replace the roof on a homeless shelter."

The man, Wesley Jackson, has pleaded Not Guilty.

[Banned Man @BannedxMan]

THIS IS SATANIC✡️🇮🇱

An Israeli soldier throws a stun grenade into a car carrying a Palestinian family, trapping them inside to absorb the blast.

Reports confirm one of the children inside is now permanently blinded for life.

[Sharon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @K4rmaRules]

Ban donations. No MP should be given donations. It is clear that they work for donors and not the British people. Enough is enough.

Zero donations, expenses capped at 10k and no subsidised food or alcohol.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Australia's censor wants the power to demand documents from anyone on Earth who is "affiliated" with a social media company.

The same bill hands her a legal route into the face scans and ID images Australians were just forced to upload to keep their accounts.

X says it breaks international law. eSafety says its powers still aren't big enough.

[Together @Togetherdec]

.@andyburnham announced the official Digital ID scheme would be scrapped after millions saw the danger in "Digital Papers Please"

At the same time, related platform One Login has quietly expanded across 200+ government services - with more planned

We need an immediate freeze on One Login pending independent National Audit Office review - no further rollout or expansion without safeguards and Parliamentary oversight

#OneLogin

[くりした善行 (Zenko)🇯🇵無所属/Anti-Censorship/C108 日曜西あ51a @zkurishi]

We in Japan are watching the fate of these bills with concern. If the U.S. goes down that path, Japan will likely follow suit. I hope the members of the Senate make the right decision.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Apple is taking the UK government to court over a secret order that would require the company to provide access to encrypted iCloud backups for UK users.

The UK originally wanted access to encrypted iCloud data from users around the world, but after objections from the US, the request was replaced with a new order that only applies to UK users.

Instead of creating a backdoor, Apple removed Advanced Data Protection (ADP) in the UK in February 2025.
Without ADP, Apple can access that data and may be required to provide it to authorities if it receives a valid legal request.

UK users are currently the only Apple customers in the world who can’t turn on Advanced Data Protection, Apple says creating a backdoor would weaken security for everyone

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

Four senators want every phone and computer sold in America to demand your date of birth before it will work for you. A Linux developer has already published the script that tears it out, under his real name, with an invitation to sue him.

The bill is S. 5090, filed July 22 by Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff, and John Barrasso. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It puts an age prompt inside the setup of every operating system in the country. A covered device is any general-purpose computer, so this reaches the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the console under your television. Accounts you already hold get swept in the day it takes effect.

Your own machine then informs on you. It hands your age bracket to every app, every app store, and every browser, and they are required to treat that signal as the primary indicator of who you are.

A browser provider under this bill is anyone who owns or maintains a browser. A man maintaining a fork in his spare time carries the same duty as Google, and the fines run $2,500 for a negligent violation and $7,500 for an intentional one, multiplied by every child affected.

Section 10 promises no government ID and no face scans. Section 3(d) then says that when a provider gets clear and convincing information that your declared age is wrong, it shall verify. It never says how. Section 4(c) makes app developers report you upstream when they decide you lied.

The brackets stop at 17 and file teenagers in with adults, while the state laws this is built to serve draw their line at 18. The federal signal cannot tell a 17 year old from a grown man. Every site under an 18+ mandate will need more than the signal. It will need your papers.

The work has already started inside your machine. On March 18 systemd merged a birthDate field into user records, citing California, Colorado, and Brazil by name. systemd runs as the init system on nearly every major distribution, so that field is sitting on Linux boxes whose owners have never heard of any of these bills. Nobody asked you. Nobody is going to.

@GrapheneOS answered in March. It will not implement age or identity verification, and if that means its phones cannot be sold in your state, so be it.

John McCardle built Ageless Linux. He declared himself in "full, knowing, and intentional noncompliance" with the California statute, cited the section number himself, and invited the lawsuit. His script makes the user the distributor. The liability scatters across every machine that runs it. There is no one man left to drag into court.

The script strips the systemd birthDate field and leaves a refusal notice where it stood. If any distribution ever ships a working age daemon, the project has already promised a replacement that answers every query with "unknown."

Artix refuses. Devuan refuses. DB48X, an open source calculator firmware, filed a legal notice saying it "does not, cannot and will not implement age verification." A calculator had to publish a legal notice. That is the reach of what these four wrote.

S. 5090 takes effect 18 months after it passes, if it passes.

The script already works. Take a copy.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ UPDATE: Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says the CSAM post that got Telegram pulled from Apple's App Store was planted by a "takedown extortionist," crews that use special techniques to seed illegal content in public groups, then report it to Apple to punish owners who refuse to pay.

Apple pulled the app, with a billion monthly users, without contacting Telegram first. Durov calls it a systemic risk to every app hosting user content.

[Privacy International @privacyint]

🚨 NHS England apologises and admits that actually employees from Palantir can access indentifiable patient information via the Federated Data Platform (FDP). https://t.co/OazfnyTzKh

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

The most authoritarian government in my lifetime.

[Windscribe @Windscribe]

They finally did it.
After thousands of years of wars and conflict, there is finally one entity that can make laws affecting everyone on the planet.
And that all-powerful entity is....
*checks notes*
...The State of Illinois?

[Chibi Reviews @ChibiReviews]

Once again I ask the question:

How does this protect kids?

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

I really don't know how else to tell people the kid's online "safety" bills are not at all designed to keep kids safe. Like THIS is what'll happen if these bills pass.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

All Operating System developers now have until January 1st, 2028 to implement Age Verification for all users.

This includes Windows, macOS, Linux, and every other Operating System (which has any form of Internet connectivity).

On July 31st, Illinois HB-5511 was signed into law by Governor Pritzker, which carries significant financial penalties for all OS developers (including non-profits and open source developers).

https://t.co/O7C3TEC0c3

[🇺🇸 Miss Midnight 🇺🇸 🔞 @misss_midnight]

Tell me HOW this protects the kids again? Tell me!

[デビルハンマー⋈ @torinikuninniku]

We need to gather as much opposition as possible before the actual vote takes place. Please strongly urge your Senators to oppose the SCREEN Act and KOSA—legislation that could lead to censorship and speech control similar to what exists in the UK—and tell them that you do not want such a situation here! ↓ Call your Senators Senate: 202-224-3121

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🚨NEWS: UK Government ordered Apple to let them spy on our phones AGAIN.

Apple is bringing a new legal challenge over fresh orders from the Government to create a backdoor that would effectively break encryption for millions of British users.

This is a serious attack on our privacy & civil liberties.

This renewed attempt to push through a mass surveillance order, after failing last year, is deeply authoritarian.

The Government must withdraw this draconian order.

[Banned Man @BannedxMan]

BREAKING🚨🇮🇱

BBC correspondent reporting live from Gaza says Israel used white phosphorus.

The broadcast is instantly cut.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Your reminder that Palantir was contracted by ICE and Trump to build a database to spy and track Americans using their cell phone location data, private financial, health and travel data, social media posts, political donations and more.

Now they likely have DNA samples too.