I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

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Watch as hundreds of anti-racism protesters chant 'Nazi scum off our streets' while rallying in Glasgow. It comes after violent anti-immigration disorder broke out in the city on Tuesday in response to a stabbing attack in Belfast.

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Aerith and Tifa's roles as FF7's dual heroines are reflected in the choices they make at the story's most important crossroads. After the Temple of the Ancients, Aerith chooses to leave Cloud behind and go to the City of the Ancients to pray for Holy, putting the Planet's survival above her personal desires. That decision ultimately leads to Holy and the lifestream stopping Meteor, thus preventing the destruction of the world. In Mideel, Tifa is faced with a different choice. She can join the others in gathering the Huge Materia or remain with the near-comatose Cloud. She chooses Cloud. That decision ultimately leads to the Lifestream Sequence, where she helps him reconstruct his true identity and return to the fight, enabling him to defeat Sephiroth. Nobody else could cast Holy except Aerith; she's the last Cetra. Nobody else could help Cloud piece himself back together except Tifa; only she knew the real Cloud well enough to navigate his memories. Neither one is more important than the other. Their contributions are different, but both are indispensable. One heroine protects the Planet. The other heroine restores the hero. FF7 needs both. #FF7 #TifaLockhart #AerithGainsborough

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Elon Musks needs to stay out of UK politics. RT if you agree!

Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country. Time for him to pipe down.

2 years and 224 days of asking @capcom_official, @dev1_official, @CapcomUSA_ , @CapcomEurope to release a collection or remakes/remaster of Breath of Fire games, 1 to 5 on PS5/Switch 2/Xbox/Steam. Likes, shares, etc all help spread the word. #pleasecapcom #bringbackbreathoffire

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With Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams getting a PS2 Classic re-release on PS4/PS5 via @ImplicitConv, let's see where votes for the @PlayStation Breath of Fire games stand! III: 163 IV: 126 DQ: 108 Help vote these games up by joining their Discord & hitting the 1 emoji on these games!

2 years and 220 days of asking @capcom_official, @dev1_official, @CapcomUSA_ , @CapcomEurope to release a collection or remakes/remaster of Breath of Fire games, 1 to 5 on PS5/Switch 2/Xbox/Steam. Likes, shares, etc all help spread the word. #pleasecapcom #bringbackbreathoffire

2 years and 219 days of asking @capcom_official, @dev1_official, @CapcomUSA_ , @CapcomEurope to release a collection or remakes/remaster of Breath of Fire games, 1 to 5 on PS5/Switch 2/Xbox/Steam. Likes, shares, etc all help spread the word. #pleasecapcom #bringbackbreathoffire

M&S's trans employee asked if a woman and her teenage daughter needed any help. That is all. They did not offer to fit a bra. M&S has specialist bra fitters. Had the woman or her daughter wanted a bra fitting, the employee would have helped them make an appointment for a fitting. I'm sorry to open old wounds, but I'm not going to let you get away with circulating last year's lies again.

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Feel like they should've waited until Ryo for that line, but it's still pretty funny

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