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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
"I had a parliamentary majority of 28,219, but was defeated by a margin of over 10,000 votes at the 2024 general election. Despite this, it seems like barely a week goes by before I am once again invited to park my arse on the BBC Newsnight sofa."
ALT Bob Mortimer reads out a dubious-sounding statement on the BBC's comedy panel show "Would I Lie to You?".
Jun 15
"This is an indefensible thing to attack us for, but it's also completely undemocratic. It's Elon Musk trying to tell us how to run our own country..."
Baroness Thangam Debbonaire on the Labour government's decision to ban social media for under-16s.
#Newsnight
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
I mean what's happened is people are listening to what he's saying and realising he'll be no different to Starmer. Every day he's telling us.
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Your claim was "glorify & echo jihadist tactics - suicide bombings, random stabbings of civilians." Your evidence is a man saying "resistance" and a flood-into-a-tsunami metaphor. Point to the bit where he glorifies a suicide bombing. The stabbing of a civilian.
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
As long as we continue to blame unemployed and disabled people, this country will never improve.
"It's insulting to all of us who work and pay our taxes to fund these people to do nothing..."
The panel clash on whether sickness benefits should be cut.
@IsabelWebster_ | @alysdenby | @darrylmorris | #MattAllwright
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Radio 4 coverage of the social media ban and phone scanning is an utter disgrace. Complete lack of coverage of the civil rights consequences of these plans and campaigners spouting utter bs as if it's scientific fact with zero pushback. They are manufacturing consent hard
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Ah c'mon you can't ask me that and then block me when I reply @PeterKalve
I mean I *know* you'd support violence against me, so the point is rather arbitrary isnt it
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I HAVE BEEN IN AMERICA FOR ONE DAY.
A MAN TOOK ME TO A PLACE CALLED THE OLIVE GARDEN.
THE BREAD IS UNLIMITED.
AMERICA. WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING FROM US 😍🇺🇸
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Just tweet something like:
"Lots of outrage incoming - but worth noting how much
personal info we hand over every day already."
Keep it light. The ignorant shits won't know any better.
Jun 15
There will be lots of outrage today about the social media ban & legitimate fears about privacy/data protection
But worth pointing out how much personal information we already give away. Face scans every time we use Apple Pay. Email addresses logging into random WiFi networks.
Community note
With Face ID, the face scan is processed locally on your device using the Secure Enclave. The mathematical representation of your face stays on the device and isn’t uploaded as part of an Apple Pay transaction.
apple.com/au/legal/priva…
support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/se…
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Journalist Sophy Ridge boldly holding the public to account once again. Bravo Sophy, bravo
Jun 15
There will be lots of outrage today about the social media ban & legitimate fears about privacy/data protection
But worth pointing out how much personal information we already give away. Face scans every time we use Apple Pay. Email addresses logging into random WiFi networks.
Community note
With Face ID, the face scan is processed locally on your device using the Secure Enclave. The mathematical representation of your face stays on the device and isn’t uploaded as part of an Apple Pay transaction.
apple.com/au/legal/priva…
support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/se…
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Jun 15
Awful and extremely disappointing decision on Palestine Action today. The conduct of the judiciary on this and Filton case is chilling. The extent to which our establishment will protect Israel's genocide is dystopian.
The Starmer government is relentlessly authoritian, cruel, parochial, captured, corrupt and rightly despised. A stain on British politics and the Labour Party.
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Jun 15
This Governments branding of protest as 'terrorism' has seen grandparents arrested and dragged through the courts simply for holding up signs.
It's deeply authoritarian when people are speaking out against a genocide and for a free Palestine.
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Jun 15
Our current government is the most evil we have ever had
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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Wait so they think this will be more popular than protecting Ivor Caplin when he was caught noncing? Than arming a genocide that slaughters kids by the thousand? Genuinely incredible to run a child-safety policy when you can't keep children safe from your own front bench.
Jun 14
You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate.
But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Jun 15
A government that goes against its own laws as flagrantly as ours has with regards to Palestine Action cannot be considered legitimate
Jun 15
BREAKING: The government wins its appeal. The Court of Appeal has ruled today that the ban on Palestine Action is a lawful, justified and proportionate interference with individual rights.
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😲😲 wouldn't it be awkward if the suffragettes operated in secret cells to commit covert acts of arson
The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property
The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.
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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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..and in order for the government to raise your children, everyone needs to send their ID to private companies, right?
Jun 15
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pub…
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46…
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
To become rich from curing cancer, you have to withhold the cure from people suffering and dying from cancer. So yes, you don't deserve to get rich from curing cancer. Only in an exploitative and unethical system is this seen as acceptable.
Jun 13
If I cure cancer I will get very rich. And a bunch of people on this site will apparently find my sudden wealth outrageous.
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
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He hasn't done any of that.
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Dr Joshbert Zands PhD retweeted
Jun 13
Do you know the history of communism?
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