@LBC They're just going to ban the use of VPNs, you know like all the best countries, and threaten harsh sanctions for those caught flouting the ban.
For the most part the threat will be the control mechanism.
@Miss_Snuffy We can change the culture around something without a government imposed ban on it for every citizen.
Said smoking ban doesn't enter my home.
This also ignores the privacy stripping form the implementation of this takes for literally every user accessing these platforms.
@ggreenwald Either way seems they're either pushing people toward a political leaning, or they don't know enough about the landscape they're regulating.
@MsMelChen He also decided it was no longer xenophobic to talk about tackling illegal immigration when it came time to use it as an excuse to introduce mandatory digital ID.
The last sentence is the real meat and potatoes of this.
What's being promoted as a 'social media ban for children', is really an ID check for every adult.
13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.
Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.
The watchdog became the lapdog.
The Orwellian Online Safety Act is about to become even more censorious.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has announced that next week she will lay an update to the Online Safety Act in Parliament requiring services to take “quicker action” to remove content during “times of crisis”.
The Free Speech Union will be keeping a very close eye on it.
Who will decide what constitutes a “time of crisis”?
Could that include a climate crisis, meaning providers would be pressured to remove criticism of Ed Miliband’s Net Zero policies?
Given how damaging the Online Safety Act has already been to free speech, we have little faith that either this Government or Ofcom will exercise any new powers impartially.
Piccadilly Circus, London.
Keir Starmer now demands state spyware on every mobile device, always watching the screen, scanning everything, looking for things the government disapproves of.
@rd_taco@FloppingAces@BrianCohra82050 Her complaint says that had she and her mother known the opponent was male, she would not have taken the mat.
Not being told is one of the big issues in this case.
@StarExplorer98@Tiempodetenis1 Different games, different etiquettes.
Golfers don't tee off to roaring crowds, snooker players don't pot with screaming kids.
Having biological males in women's wrestling, without disclosure, is the most predictable lawsuit waiting to happen.
It's horrible to watch her face here after seeing what's alleged.
Please read the thread describing what happened.
This is a sexual assault—unknowingly captured by a mom filming her daughter’s wrestling match.
Kallie didn’t know her opponent was male. But she knew something was very wrong.
Today @ADFLegal helped Kallie sue the WA officials who placed gender ideology above her safety. 🧵⬇️