UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.
UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.
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"Oh no, what if our kids jack off, that would be horrible". If it's that bad, then take responsibility, try to convince them not to. Don't let the government parent for you, because you won't do it yourself. Fucking ridiculous. A similar bill was introduced in May in the US.
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"It's such a big issue that I'm going to do absolutely nothing as a parent to stop it from happening!"
- These people, probably
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A tale as old as time. Banning media you don't like is a lot easier than parenting your children.
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And let's be honest, the parents are probably watching and doing some freaky shit. The kids will be jacking it eventually. I get why that would be uncomfortable to have to think about, but it happens. Trying to overshelter your kids is just going to hurt them in the long run.
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I grew up with relatively easy access to gore videos and shock sites, but you know what kept me safe? Knowing about them and knowing I didn't want to watch them. Simple decent education from parents and schools would sort this problem a lot better than this mess of easily bypassed nanny state BS that is going to force people to worse places on the internet. It is a bad policy that won't even do what it claims and will actively harm those it's supposed to protect. And that's even before all the privacy and freedom concerns.
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Disgusting. Violating everyone's rights and privacy "for the children" (who will just use VPNs anyway).
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Not if they end up banning VPNs, which is already something being discussed. If that happens, I might genuinely leave the country.
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Russian here; good fucking luck banning VPNs
First, they evolve very rapidly and are able to evade even the most sensitive detection methods Russia and China are using
Second, people in power never want to apply the same restrictions to themselves, so, ironically, they themselves are often VPN users and as such they undermine themselves
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Even forums that might seem harmless carry potential risks, such as where adults come into contact with child users.
Wait until the government finds out they're gonna have to age-restrict playing outside. What a genuine bone-dead stupid take.
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they'll need so many more cameras with built in AI face and gait recognition, and footage uploading to china. Otherwise how will they automatically fine any adult that goes within 5 meters of a children without written approval of both parents signed by a notary
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Another "lol no" response to a petition. Didn't see that coming.
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Any word on whether Corbyn and Sultana have settled on their new party's name or are we sticking with TBD-Referred-To-Committee?
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"Benefit"
This word you keep using. I do not think it means what you think it means
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The government will enact the will of the people, whether the people like it or not.
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When the regime ignores petitions by the public for the redress of grievances, you petition harder.
Demonstrations, Public Disobedience, Mischief, Sabotage, Terrorism.
Censorship always expands and encroaches on things important to the public. Obscenity and indecency protections eventually turn into queer erasure. Security concerns are always followed by carve-outs of civil rights.
Hit hard early.
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Isn't Britain the homeland of punk?
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Why do you think Punk developed?
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And when peaceful protest is ignored there's even a step after that!
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Writing even more sternly worded letters?
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For example, the Government is very concerned about small platforms that host harmful content, such as forums dedicated to encouraging suicide or self-harm.
So they've identified a problem with this type of content, and the answer is to put it behind an age wall. So is it a-ok for anyone over 18 to be encouraged to self harm or commit suicide according to the government?
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The TL;DR of it is "we're not repealing it, get fucked."
The technology minister said on Sky News that if you was to repeal the act, you're on the side of Jimmy Savile.
That's where we are in all this, support this or you're a nonce.
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if you was to repeal the act, you’re on the side of Jimmy Savile.
flipping through my Big Book of Politicians and Celebrities appearing beside Jimmy Savile
Do they really want to go there?
That’s where we are in all this, support this or you’re a nonce.
That's been the Tory approach to politics for decades. No surprise New Labour has adopted it, since they seem keen on all their other platforms.
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Why? It only verifies age, no? Why would watching adult content with or without age verification be associated with Savile? Are they perhaps checking which content you specifically are consuming? So they have more than your age? Now now, couldn't have seen that coming.
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Yeah the Brits needs to re-install their governement and flush out the royals, the lords and the other elite turds
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Honestly, half the time the hereditary peers have been the only protection against our government passing totally shit legislation, as the rest of the upper house is packed with useless political appointees. Not to say I wouldn’t replace the upper house with some sort of body of citizens similar to Jury Duty or somesuch to filter out the crazy.
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I'm not sure the royals caused this. I guess the main issue is that some democracies become too entrenched, and groups of elites take over the role of nobility, term limits doesn't help, since to be in a position to become someone, you have to join those that already rule. Capitalism also doesn't help and even accelerates this process. Abolishing FPTP and instituting ranked choice would be the first step I think on improving democracies, by breaking up these elite groups.
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If only they could have that response when the TERFs come knocking. When normal people want something good they're like "lol no get fucked losers" but when JK Rowling comes along they're like "Of course mistress anything you want do you want a viewing box at the gas chambers?"
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You’d think if they are going to being censoring things, they’d start with the full on Holocaust denial that Rowling has normalized.
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Protections? Is that what we're calling state-sanctioned censorship these days?
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The world is heading to a really dark place.
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So peaceful words aren't working? Well alright, sounds like it's time for plan B.
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Govt easily has enough majority to ignore this, I said this when everyone was going it is time for Labour to have a go at the GE. Same govt is making it OK for 16 and 17yr old to vote but they have to be age checked on the tinternet....
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Labour, for Change!
We didn't say what change, peasant.
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Dead Kennedys - Kinky sex makes the world go round
Even better are the moans from the PM
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Fuck you and enjoy our suppression of human rights!
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Fuck them.
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"We are not interested in the voters position."
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"You plebs should know your place"
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robust but proportionate are just weasel words. Who is determining the line of "robustness" or "proportionate" and can they be trusted?
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🦶🏻💥🔫
Remember this moment when Nigel Farage sweeps to power in 2028 on a wave of youth votes, brings back the porn and sells the NHS.
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What is even the point of those petitions. Has a petition ever actually gotten a response that wasn't "lol, no" ?
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Get yourself 12 Scotsman and one piper. It is time for a riot
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Time to start a global strategy to stop reliance on government and corporate equipment, to switch to open source, no intellectual property, decentralized infrastructure.
The key weakpoint to our entire global society is reliance on outside forces that can influence and manipulate us.
Anyone who's played plague.inc knows already what to do. Once people have their own food, energy, shelter, and software, they will not be pleased to let them be taken unjustly by a conquering force, creating a natural buffer.
You literally don't have to do anything illegal, you can easily go under the radar for quite a while.
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leave the stinking ship, come over to the mainland! We need skilled workers in Germany and learning german shouldn't be that hard as germanic language speakers
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I'm surprised their response wasn't, "you're all on the side of predators; it's as simple as that".
Well we all saw that coming.
The parental and elderly voting bloc is very hard to ignore, and those groups tend to be less privacy conscious (as well as pro-anything "protect the children").
The only way it's getting repealed is if enough labour voters raise a fuss. Given Reform's messaging (i.e. repeal it) and how worried Labour are over Reform's polling, that is likely the only lever that'll work. However, that's a long game - one that will take years to play out.
As an American, I'm worried that Starmer's legacy is going to be giving you PM Nigel Farage.
It is a very high possibility, most likely not next election but certainly one after that is a likely candidate.
Starmer is Blair 2.0
Like Biden's legacy is fumbling the 2nd term so the US got Trump 2.0?
LibDems are against it too by the way, thankfully it's not just Farage.