I won't mince words the uk social media ban is gonna cause child suicide rates to go up
that happens when you cut off abused/ostracised teenagers from their only safe space
there's nowhere else for them to go, there's barely any child friendly spaces anymore: both irl and online
A year later, my cousin still never got his passport returned. He had no luck when he tried later to obtain a new one. Trans people are being locked in a nation calling them terrorists. This situation is not getting coverage and is absolutely terrifying in its implications.
Several of my british friends have been using VPNs almost nonstop for a year straight because of the Online Safety Act banning being able to access basic information they could have looked up on Google. The OSA banned forums on hamsters. This is not about protecting children.
In every single country that passed age verification laws:
1) databases got leaked
2) innocent websites got censored
3) governments became more censorship heavy
4) protests became more criminalized
5) information got harder to find
BBC was so focussed on hounding Green councillors who said "maybe killing palestinian kids is bad" they forgot to warn people about Reform candidates who said "Nigerans should be melted down and used to fill potholes" and "the holocaust didn't happen.
right wing people be like ‘oh so i’m racist because i don’t want immigrants coming in murdering and raping our women?’ maybe be concerned about the many many british white men who spend their time doing that instead 👍
@bearsintrees@_DCR_Official can't make it to the only scotland date this is a tragedy. i can't believe bears in trees are FORCING me to go to newcastle...
We protested Obama’s immigration policies all the time. I was there. It was harder to get people to come, or to get media coverage, because he was a Democrat. That sucked. One upside, though, and I really hate to nitpick, is they weren’t shooting us in the fucking head.
what i don't get from the pro-ai people is trying to force me to use it. i DON'T want to!!! i get nothing from it!!! it helps me 0%. if i can't do something then i guess i can't or i just have to find another way. there is just no world where i want "help" from AI
chat i still hate twt and don't plan to be here often but i will be tweeting a couple links to all the concert vids i've taken over the past ~4 years (possibly longer if i can dig them out of the archives) later. and POSSIBLY (possibly) a going live link further in the future...