If the UK does ban this website: https:// bsky. app /profile /d2020t.bsky.social (spaces added cause I forgot if links affect post reach or not)

The UK fucking sucks ass dude

If this was actually about protecting children and not just becoming a real life 1984, they'd put funding into education for both children and parents about the dangers online and how to prevent harm to children. Instead they use protecting children as a guise to control us all

What are children actually supposed to do? Like they have nowhere to go but home, everywhere costs too much money and they have no experience socially navigating without social media. This just isolates abused, bullied and minority children.

September is going to be a fucking HORRIBLE month I just know it.

It would be nice, wouldn't it, to go online, open up a paper or turn on the TV for one day in the UK, and not see some talking head attack #disabled people for needing #SocialSecurity that is their basic human right, and demanding cuts. It would be a decent society to wake up in.

This is why they want you to forget about the Epstein files. There are dozens of girls just like her who were taken and sold into human trafficking. They’re probably not even alive anymore. What happened to these girls is beyond comprehension, and the people responsible are getting away with it.

There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

kind of one of the most horrifying sentences written this century

There is literally a whole anime about why this is a fucking stupid idea and doesn't work.

Everyone actually hates capitalism, and it bothers them every day, but they don’t realize they hate capitalism, so they end up complaining about each issue separately as if they are unrelated problems with no underlying cause.

we should turn off AI slop for forever actually

This is not the first time. 2023: UK passes the Online Safety Bill. Signal threatens to leave. Meta threatens to pull WhatsApp. the government backs down. 2026: same government, new prime minister, same bill, different name. Keir Starmer gives Apple and Google 3 months to scan every device in the country or face criminal charges against their executives. Signal's president Meredith Whittaker, on the BBC, yesterday: "we would absolutely 100% walk rather than ever undermine the trust that people place in us." not a maybe. 100%. UK government ministers use Signal. civil servants use Signal. law enforcement officers use Signal. the people writing the law that would break encryption use the app whose encryption they are trying to break. for their own sensitive communications. they want a backdoor in your Signal. not theirs. and one more thing. this doesn't stay in the UK. Australia already has encryption-weakening laws. the EU has been debating the same measures. the Five Eyes alliance has pushed for backdoors for years. France tried it last year. Sweden is next. every country watching this fight will use the outcome to justify their own demands. what happens in London doesn't stay in London.

I genuinely am shocked that barely anyone is connecting the dots between what the UK is doing in terms of age verification/digital ID (because they passed OSA) and the US's copying of that through KOSA. There are a lot of orgs here who should be ashamed of themselves.