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Fred retweeted
Jun 17
The trouble is not the lifetime plan, it’s its double layer pricing. They ask for $60, but when you’re trying to delete it, they offer $30.
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Fred retweeted
Jun 16
They should. Someone like Freesciencelessons is crucial and even used by teachers in schools because his content is so helpful. The idea you suggest that YT is full of nonsense content isn't fully true. So much GCSE content on the platform is incredibly helpful.
This is a really poor argument. Students should not be using YouTube for revision.
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"90% support it" Yeah in the same way dictators "win" elections - its a made up stat; the survey was publicly available and there was NO way to say no lol
Jun 14
People will attack this policy, but after extensive government consultation, 90% of the parents of under-16s support it. They have watched social media consume huge portions of their children’s lives, so have a very different perspective. Social media amplifies narcissism, materialism, envy and division at an age when young minds are still developing. It keeps children trapped in a digital ecosystem designed to maximise engagement at the expense of real-world experiences, time outdoors, hobbies, independence, and learning how to socialise and build genuine friendships. Perhaps most damaging of all, it encourages constant comparison. Children are measuring themselves against carefully curated versions of other people’s lives every hour of every day. It creates feelings of inadequacy and anxiety on a scale that older generations simply never experienced. There will be much outrage about this, but this policy is truly about protecting children, and anyone who cares about the future of society should support it.
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Fred retweeted
Jun 16
Public consultation survey had no clickable 'No' option to disagree with the social media ban, Labour then used this to claim public support.
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Upon learning of Starmer's crusade against children under 16 watching YouTube, my 10-year-old son commented: "He's proposing it now because his own children have just turned 16." This surprised me, as I wasn't even aware or remembering he had children. I looked it up and apparently he has two, born in 2008 and, crucially, 2010! So far, I found it the most revealing comment I heard about the whole shebang.
So YouTube is effectively a streaming TV channel in our house, like Netflix or HBO. Labor's ridiculous attempts to ban it for teenagers, when we watch it together at home, will just bring the law into disrepute. Pointless, ill-thought-out change, from a pointless leader.
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イギリス「16歳未満のSNSを禁止します!」 イギリス「……ただし、左翼多めのBlue Skyは禁止しません!(キリッ)」
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I use Graphene OS. This does not affect me.
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Second, face scans are very intrusive. They’ll say it’s just a scan, no data stored, etc. Tell that to users of Tea, a women’s dating advice app that was hacked with thousands of face scans IDs posted on 4chan (despite “deleted immediately” promises) bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce87…
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Fred retweeted
The government has now adopted two fundamentally contradictory positions: First, that 16 and 17-year olds are mature enough to vote. Second, that 16 and 17-year olds are not mature enough to manage their own social media use.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]
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🚨 NEW: The UK social media ban for under-16s will be enforced through facial recognition, digital IDs, credit cards, open banking, passports, mobile provider checks or email age estimation
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Fred retweeted
This mean students up to Year 11 will not be able to revise GCSE biology on Freesciencelessons YouTube channel. This also mean a 15 years and 364 days old not be able to read Facebook posts from their MP or councillor, but expected to vote for them tomorrow.
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads
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Fred retweeted
So they wanted to lower the voting age to 16, but now the youths will have no idea what they’re voting for 🤦 This is just for more surveillance and digital I.D nonsense.
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Fred retweeted
Microsoft, Office 2019 ve 2021 versiyonlarının ömür boyu lisansını satın almış kullanıcıların düzenleme yetkisini kaldırdı. Artık sadece dosya görüntüleyebiliyorsunuz. Üstüne bu versiyonların gelecekte de çalışmaya devam edeceği sözünü web sitelerinden sessizce sildi. Vakti zamanında tek seferlik ödeme yapıp ömür boyu lisansla aldığınız, hala sorunsuz çalışan bir yazılımı Microsoft kafasına göre kapatıyor. Artık kullanamazsın, sadece dosya görüntüleyebilirsin diyor. Tamamen tüketici karşıtı bir davranış ve bunun yasa dışı olması gerekiyor.
Using Office 2019 on Mac, iPad, or iPhone? On July 13, 2026, Microsoft will put the suite into read-only mode for all users, regardless of which OS they're on... ...let's call it a revenue-raising mode. It will also brick mobile apps on iOS and iPadOS 16 or lower. 1/4
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It was NEVER about protecting the kids...it was always CONTROL💀 British Based Age/ID Verification company Yoti reported GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS due to "PAST SECURITY CONCERNS" >is partnered with several mainstream companies, including Playstation, Instagram,and Epic Games. Unfortunately the OG reddit post was taken down🥲 reddit.com/r/privacy/comment…
‼️🚨 BREAKING: Sony PlayStation's age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."
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Here we go with this question that supposedly has no No option again. Y'all misread it. The anti-restriction stance is "Yes - 12 years old or younger"! This question is definitely poorly worded but it is basically an IQ test at this point.
The consultation:
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The consultation:
UK consultation results show overwhelming support for social media age limits, with 89% of responding parents backing a legal minimum age requirement. The debate is increasingly shifting from whether age assurance works to how it should be governed and enforced. #ageverification biometricupdate.com/202606/u…
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👉 Yoti, plateforme de vérification d'âge, aurait "signalé" un utilisateur aux autorités pour détection d'usage de @GrapheneOS Voici ce qui s'est passé. Un utilisateur tente de vérifier son âge sur PlayStation Network via @getyoti . Son appareil tourne sous GrapheneOS. Le scan échoue à répétition, 8 à 10 fois. Il contacte le support Yoti pour comprendre. La réponse arrive de help@yoti[.]com : "Due to past security concerns, Yoti automatically flags multiple verification attempts and any devices running GrapheneOS. These instances are automatically reported to both the authorities and our security team." Traduction : "En raison de problèmes de sécurité passés, Yoti signale automatiquement les tentatives de vérification multiples ainsi que tout appareil fonctionnant sous Gra…"En raison de problèmes de sécurité passés, Yoti signale automatiquement les tentatives de vérification multiples ainsi que tout appareil fonctionnant sous GrapheneOS. Ces cas sont automatiquement signalés aux autorités ainsi qu'à notre équipe de sécurité." L'utilisateur avait fourni ses vrais documents d'identité. Il n'a pas contourné quoi que ce soit. C'est le système de Yoti qui semble avoir échoué à les traiter. Pourquoi ? GrapheneOS restreint les APIs caméra et biométriques. Un scan qui fonctionne sur Android stock peut échouer en boucle sur GrapheneOS. L'échec répété n'est pas une fraude. C'est une incompatibilité technique. Evidemment, il est très facile de détecter qu'un smartphone utilise GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS n'est interdit nulle part. C'est un Android open source durci, utilisé par des journalistes, des avocats, des chercheurs en sécurité, et des gens comme vous et moi, soucieux de leur sécurité. Mais pour Yoti, l'utiliser suffirait à vous classer comme suspect. En vertu de quoi ? Soit Yoti signale effectivement quelqu'un, quelque part, pour avoir utilisé un OS légal. Soit c'est une formule boilerplate conçue pour faire peur. Dans les deux cas, c'est un problème. Si c'est réel : aucun texte n'impose à un prestataire de vérification d'âge de signaler aux forces de l'ordre un utilisateur détecté sous GrapheneOS. C'est une politique unilatérale sans base légale identifiable. Si c'est un bluff : menacer un utilisateur d'une procédure légale fictive est une pratique commerciale déloyale dans la plupart des juridictions. En revanche, ce que ça révèle, c'est que petit à petit, utiliser des OS alternatifs va entraîner des restrictions, des suspicions, pour mieux permettre de déployer leurs systèmes de régulations. Et demain, ce ne sera pas seulement GrapheneOS. À chaque étape, on nous dira que c’est pour la sécurité, pour les enfants, pour la lutte contre la fraude, pour la conformité. Mais à la fin, le résultat sera le même : l’utilisateur qui cherche à se protéger devra se justifier, tandis que l’utilisateur entièrement traçable sera considéré comme normal. C’est cette inversion qu’il faut refuser. La vie privée ne doit pas devenir une circonstance aggravante. La sécurité numérique ne doit pas devenir un marqueur de suspicion. Et les infrastructures de vérification d’âge ne doivent pas devenir des postes-frontières privés où des entreprises privées décident, dans l’opacité, quels appareils sont acceptables et quels utilisateurs méritent d’être signalés. Si Yoti confirme cette pratique, il faudra demander sur quelle base juridique repose ce signalement, quelles autorités sont destinataires, quelles données sont transmises, combien d’utilisateurs sont concernés, combien de temps ces informations sont conservées, et quels recours sont offerts aux personnes faussement signalées. Et si Yoti ne la confirme pas, il faudra expliquer pourquoi son support a pu écrire une telle chose à un utilisateur.
Jun 6
"GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS" discuss.grapheneos.org/d/361…
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Fred retweeted
🔺Thousands of protestors last night walked past a Gurdwara in Southampton without incident, as many Sikh gentlemen in the community welcomed the protest against two tier policing in the Henry Nowak tragedy and shook hands with protestors as they walked past. Kulwinder Singh told the Daily Mail he welcomed the protest in the city and those who were marching following the 18-year-old's death 'It's nothing to do with the faith. We should keep people together.'
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‼️🚨 German police have been buying commercial location data, harvested from phone apps and resold by data brokers, to track phones without a warrant. An investigation confirmed at least two state criminal offices did it. Experts call it likely unlawful; a data-protection authority is now investigating.
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