Alex Jenkins
@AlJenko98
Proud Brit🇬🇧#Brexiteer Pro: life,🗽, 🌆, ⚛️, EVs, data privacy. User of long scale, decimal commas, and imperial measurements. Gamer 🇹🇼🇮🇱🇺🇦
Towards a more practical conservatism There’s been something going on within conservatism (or at the very least, certain strains of conservatism) that’s been bugging me a bit lately. Of course, what I’m about to describe isn’t exclusive to conservatism worldwide, nor are the…
'The government now has sweeping powers to decide what you can and can't see online. Total control!' @AlexhArmstrong rails against the Online Safety Act which restricts access to explicit material online.
"uh yeah.....these restrictions are so kids cant access porn guys, it's 100% not so you cant read the long sordid past of certain states and politicians"
Under the new law, the UK media regulator Ofcom is poised to label Wikipedia as a “Category 1” platform. This would impose the strictest content rules possible - such as: - age verification for users - identity verification for contributors - censorship of ‘harmful’ topics.
This is why trying to censor 18+ content on the internet doesn't work, because even educational websites would need to be blocked. The Online Safety Act is so dumb. If you want to stop minors accessing porn, advicate for parents to monitor their kids online activity.
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
The UK's new Online Safety Act, which took effect this week, is already restricting access to politically charged content, particularly footage of anti-mass migration protests. Supposedly intended to protect minors from explicit material, the law is now preventing protest…
The UK’s Online “Safety” Act Is Already Causing Protests To Be Hidden reclaimthenet.org/the-uks-online…
Orwell was a warning not a fucking how to guide.
🚨BREAKING: It's been revealed that the NEW Online Safety Bill currently censoring people online can be re-written with even stricter laws at any time by a government minister. No vote required No checks either Just one person, writes to OFCOM and its done. We live in 1984
the UK is a great example of late stage carceralism. having banned everything that looks even vaguely reasonable to ban, as well as things like swords that are minimally unreasonable to ban, the ever-expanding, unquestionable police state starts literally taking candy from babies
Another one to add to the British public love a ban list, by a 3-1 margin people back banning the sale of slushies to children. Parents of young children are the most supportive.
EU is following what the UK just did with its "Online Safety Act" but will give Platforms 12 Months to deploy Age Verification This explains why Twitter is already getting hit.
Did our MPs, in their infinite wisdom, seriously think this s**t through?
Under the new law, the UK media regulator Ofcom is poised to label Wikipedia as a “Category 1” platform. This would impose the strictest content rules possible - such as: - age verification for users - identity verification for contributors - censorship of ‘harmful’ topics.
The UK Online Safety act is out and causing havoc. The privacy and self doxing laws always claim they are about protecting children, but what it’s really doing is building a database of users personal info in a country that wants to arrest you for online speech. The Tea app…
For years, politicians promised the Online Safety Act would target only illegal content — protecting kids from porn, exploitation and suicide forums — without touching free speech. But from the moment age verification checks took effect on 25 July, that reassurance began to…
Here's a graph showing the search volume for 'VPN' in the United Kingdom over the last 30 days. The only winners of the Online Safety Act are the companies that sell VPNs.
Labour “logic”: 16 and 17-year-olds need restrictions on X/Twitter for their own good. 16 and 17-year-olds are mature enough to vote. 🥴
We as internet users need to unite and push back against censorship at all levels Whether youre in the US or the UK it comes for us all Censorship is a dangerous slope and we'll soon become 1984 if this continues
The online safety bill is a serious infringement on our civil liberties.
People in the UK, as the VPNs kick in...
The OSA may be one of the most stupid pieces of legislation ever passed
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
Why is it that MAGA is picking out everything that 2016-2020-era SJWs loved, and then foisting it on the whole US? Is half of the behind-the-scenes politically-appointed staff made up of that era’s campus lefties or something?
Trump's FCC Chair says he will put a "bias monitor" in place who will "report directly" to Trump as part of the deal for Sky Dance to acquire CBS
ID verification for websites is flawed because when you have to show ID in real life it tends to just involve a person looking at it for 2 seconds with their own eyeballs before it goes right back into your wallet, instead of being scanned and uploaded to god knows where.
I will die on the hill that I.D. verification should be 100% necessary for 18+ spaces. The amount of times I lied on the internet to gain access to spaces I shouldn't have been in as a kid is immeasurable. Unless you want helicopter parents, there is no avoiding kids lying online
Darren Beattie — who runs public diplomacy at State and now oversees USIP — has repeatedly denied the Uyghur genocide, and sees NATO as a bigger threat to American liberties than the Chinese Communist Party.
Confirming this. Also Beattie tells me: “I look forward to the process of rebuilding and refashioning USIP. Stay tuned.”
It is abundantly clear that we must repeal the Online Safety Act. More malign legislation carefully disguised as do-gooding. It must be binned.
The UK Online Safety Act is a excuse for this government to censor the internet even more so please feel free to sign this petition if you're in the UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7229…