I'm Jamie. Lefty snowflake gobshite. Data Protection, Law and Politics nerd. Green ☀️Send music recs! All views are my own. He/Him.
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Jamie Dagg retweeted
Imagine for a second that a real estate conference took place in London where Russian occupiers sold stolen Ukrainian land and property.
You have to imagine, because that rightly wouldn't have been allowed. If it's stolen Palestinian land though, that's apparently totally fine.
There is now clear evidence that the Great Israeli Real Estate event had unlawful activity at it.
I've written to the Mayor of London to ask what he intends to do about it.
This needs to be escalated immediately.
ALT ALT TEXT: During Mayor's Question Time last week I asked you to put pressure on the government to ban the “unlawful” ‘Great Israeli Real Estate.’ You clarified that you had discussed the event with the Metropolitan Police Service and stated that any allegations of criminality relating to the potentially unlawful sale of property at the event would be assessed by the Met as part of an investigation. It has since come to light that materials handed out at the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event included properties in Ma'Ale Adumin and Givat Zeev in the West Bank and Ramat Eshkol and Givat HaMatos in East Jerusalem. These settlements are illegal under international law. This event should never have been allowed to happen in our city. There was substantial evidence ahead of the event that organisers were advertising properties in illegal settlements. More than 100 organisations, including human rights groups, as well as over 100 MPs called for the ‘Great Israeli Real Estate’ event t
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Lord, weirdos kicking off on this one 😂 1) if funds here come from something other than public purse, public money still makes this possible by funding the rest of their lives. 2) Private schools create two-tier education and shouldn't exist, especially not leeching the public!
They don't fork out on this, we do. Our money used for education is plebs could never afford for ourselves!
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Insane to me how people will take a metaphorical bullet for royals that do not give a shit about you, see you as lesser and are holding us back democratically. Just insanely embarrassing whenever someone simps for the bourgeoisie class. Have some self respect!
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Jamie Dagg retweeted
What’s wrong with the local comprehensive?
If state schools are good enough for everyone else, why not the future king?
Meanwhile, we’re expected to keep footing the bill.
One rule for them. Another for us.
Abolish the monarchy.
Prince George will attend Eton College from September, Kensington Palace announces bbc.in/4uFYg0f
Community note
The claim that taxpayers foot the bill for Prince George's Eton fees is incorrect; they are paid from the private income of the Duchy of Cornwall, not the Sovereign Grant. royal.uk/royal-finances gov.uk/government/pub…
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They don't fork out on this, we do. Our money used for education is plebs could never afford for ourselves!
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Jamie Dagg retweeted
I just scrolled through maybe a few hundred comments (not all tbf) under Mikes heavily ratioed Palestine Action post and didn’t see a single one that could be antisemitic. Unless the definition has now broadened to calling him a dickhead.
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The student politics line would really work a lot better if these hacks actually engaged with the left's arguments to say why exactly they think they're bad.
Except they can't and do everything they can to evade scrutiny or debate. Even students have to back their arguments up!
No, I preach politics like “stop murdering Palestinian kids”.
Oh: and “don’t attack pensioners and disabled people.”
You’re a glorified internet troll serving in one of the most despised governments in history.
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I used to think they just lacked self awareness of how unpopular their political game playing was with the public. Now it's just patently obvious they don't care.
Kind of amazing how after 14 years of the Tories they STILL somehow manage to seem as bad, if not worse.
Jun 15
A Labour minister trying (in the most transparent way possible) to get Zack Polanski arrested. The most authoritarian government in modern British history
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All of this, 100%
But also, you have to question the timing on this given social media has been around for 20 years plus. Any of the issues with it have been obvious for AT LEAST half of that time. Why are they making a point about it now?
Jun 15
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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Jamie Dagg retweeted
You’ve got to admire the front of this man.
@MikeTappTweets tries to get the only Jewish party leader arrested because of his opposition to genocide.
Then he claims to be a victim of antisemitism when he’s called out on it.
These people are so nauseatingly awful!!
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Jamie Dagg retweeted
Jun 15
Look at how this Labour MP is trying to entrap the Green Party leader into a terrorism offence.
For context, Mike Tapp is a member of Labour Friends of Israel and a former British soldier who participated in the occupation of Afghanistan.
Jun 15
Do you support the Palestine Action group?
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You have to wonder what is wrong with a society that the most basic human decency the rest of us are taught before we leave primary school are completely bypassed in Israel.
Not only bypassed, but to an extent they can say it out loud with zero shame.
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"I wouldn't let into Gaza a single grain of food or a drop of water. Not electricity, nothing at all... What's wrong starving them? Yes, I wanna starve them, I'm not ashamed to say."
January 27: Following an IG story by released Israeli POW Emily Damari, complaining about aid going into Gaza, Channel 13 host Eyal Berkovic expressed his full agreement with the genocidal sentiment, while his co-host Moriah Assraf talked about the "deceptive narrative that Israel is starving people".
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Jamie Dagg retweeted
Jun 15
The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s as a result of the Palestine Action ban
2,800 arrests were made for supporting the group in 6 months -surpassing number of terror suspects detained in previous decade
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This government is becoming more and more authoritarian by the day. I don’t believe this social media ban for U16s is because they care about children’s wellbeing. The same government that was suspending MPs for voting to lift the two child cap?
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Again: a suffragette threw an axe at Herbert Asquith
Jun 15
The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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Front runner 😂 I don't know what they're smoking, the most publicity the guy has ever had was his completely self-serving resignation. I don't care what Labour does but this is just detached from reality.
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Jun 15
Strikes me as one of many attempts over the past few years by both politicians and media to launder the concept of mandatory service. People lack patriotism in the UK because of decades now of the state letting them down. Forcing people to serve just makes that worse, not better.
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Jamie Dagg retweeted
Jun 15
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.
Jun 15
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:
- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s
- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt
- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages
- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month
- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s
- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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Jun 15
I really hope they get to take this up to the Supreme Court. The comparison here with the Suffragettes methods is clearly insane and feels like a slam dunk point of divergence a higher court can take.
Jun 15
The Lady Chief Justice said proscription of Palestine Action “struck a fair balance” and that PA is not a peaceful civil disobedience group like the Suffragettes
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Jun 15
Looks like they plan to appeal and given the threshold is that it has to raise a point of law with general public importance, I think it's hard to argue it doesn't meet that standard with the amount of arrests and unease about the proscription. Leads us down a dark route if not.
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