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The world yearns for another Cutting Edge
Sharpen your skates! ICEBREAKER, a new series based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Hannah Grace, is coming to Netflix.
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This shitty, uninvolved parent is why the internet's getting nuked by the government btw
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And if y'all don't get that this is what happening cuz you're chugging down the 'save the kids' rhetoric - you're just as much to blame. Decades of this exact behaviour from govt to reference, so no excuses when we're all fucked
Jun 16
the labour party effectively ending online anonymity just before they hand over everything on a silver platter to reform continues the long tradition of liberals working in lockstep with fascists.
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🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording.
They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing:
A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token.
Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.
It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.
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Starting to think these are all Russian bots working to conflate the issue and being purposely obtuse about the proven history of increased state surveillance.
Lick that boot, buddy. Suck it right down.
Jun 15
Anyone who seems to think that the UK government needs social media to get access to your details is quite frankly deluded. If you have a NI number, pay tax, have a driving license, passport, claim benefits, bank account etc, who do you think runs these organisations and why do you think if they wanted to, they couldn't already take your details? But you'll happily hand over any and all your details over to Google, Amazon, Apple and keep all your personal details on the same device you are using to read this 🤣😂 But yeah, banning social media for under 16 year olds......that's the line 🙄😂🤣
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You were watching PawPatrol on YouTube after curfew were you not?
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If GOT ended with smiles and rainbows, that would have been the one worst option than what we got.
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can't be understated how much bigger an influence this is on the social media ban than anything to do with actually protecting the kids from grooming or mental health issues.
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Social media opened the eyes of the youth to Israel and now every country is banning it…
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What if they all want the worst for your kids? Ever consider that?
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The idea that our kids are safer being looked out for by Musk & Zuckerberg than a democratically elected government of the U.K. is the weirdest take I have ever come across in my life.
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Same bitches who went off about masking now think the government should have full eyes on everything they post, their email, their personal documents, the whole nine yards.
You can't reason with stupid.
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Brilliant! No issues with this.
Whatever keeps society safer !
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RT @TaylorLorenz: “What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. If you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and…
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Fascinating that both the Canada and UK bills include regulation of AI chatbots but neither extends the full under-16 ban to them. I would love to see someone explain why they think social media is so universally bad it needs an outright ban, while chatbots need a lighter touch.
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horrified to learn that Americans will believe any bullshit you tell them at face value
Actually, this explains a lot
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horrified to learn that Brits think caramelized onions are onions with caramel on them 😭
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Explain how they're going to enforce this. Cuz they can't. The largest issue by a mile is shitty parenting. Nothing about this will fix that or the kids access to the internet under said shitty parents. It's just surveillance state expansion.
Jun 16
Nothing has made me more pro social media ban for kids than watching anonymous adults lose their minds at the thought of proving they’re adults. The call is coming from inside the house.
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If Digital ID is so safe and secure, why would MPs and members of the Royal Family need exemptions?
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Netanyahu really is a next level monster. He has freaking Trump going smh at his evil
Donald Trump criticises Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach to fighting with Hezbollah:
“Too many people are being killed. You don't have to knock down an apartment house every time you're looking for somebody. There are a lot of people in those houses and they’re not all Hezbollah.”
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What I've been saying, but he says it far better
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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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Love that 'remain a part of the commonwealth' didn't even place
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"Canada should be a..."
Independent Nation: 63%
US Territory: 15%
American State: 7%
Research Co. / June 6, 2026
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Ah yes, the famously American 'Swiss Cheese'
No joke, British people basically just have cheddar cheese as their equivalent deli cheese (whereas the US has American, cheddar, various -jacks, Swiss, muenster, etc). The only other cheese they really make domestically is various blue cheeses.
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