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Ryan Collins retweeted
If you don't get linux you'll be locked out of your own computer unless you load yourself into digital ID.
Open Source is now a matter of survival if you want to have dissident opinions.
🚨NEW: The social media ban for under-16s will be enforced at device-level, with Apple and Google to be forced to verify users age
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Ryan Collins retweeted
BREAKING: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s.
Live updates: trib.al/AaXv2Tr
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RT @Indian_Bronson: Btw even China and Iran don’t do this.
Only North Korea does this.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Under the pretext of banning under-16s from social media to “protect the children,” Keir Starmer has snuck in some small print that should make Americans really glad that all the tea was dumped into the Boston harbour back in 1773.
Adults will still be “allowed” to use the platforms… once they’ve handed over facial recognition, digital ID, passport, or credit card details to prove they’re not a child.
So it was never really about the kids. It was about making sure every single person who wants to speak online has to first tell the government exactly who they are.
Step 1: Link your real identity to your speech
Step 2: police have a lovely searchable database of every spicy take, meme, or complaint you’ve ever posted
Step 3: bring in the consequences - arrests, travel ban, debunking, for out-of-bounds speech
The UK is in a free fall.
🚨 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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Ryan Collins retweeted
Canada is next.
It was always about digital ID.
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Politicians should face prison for doing this.
Jun 13
NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 14
Do not allow your face to be scanned just to access social media.
DO NOT ALLOW IT.
No face scanning, no passport scanning, no giving them bank details, nothing.
Under no circumstances should you allow this.
Just DO NOT DO IT.
The future is in your hands.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 12
Read this open statement by Signal and your jaw will hit the floor.
Govts always use “protecting children” as their guise for more control and censorship.
I interviewed a prev Govt minister, who wrote the Online Safety Bill, and asked if they could tell me how a VPN worked. They couldn’t. These are the people writing these laws.
This new tool is another dangerous form of silent oppression that once again uses children’s safety as a guise to control the masses.
We can protect children online, but that starts at home, with parents, not in the Home Office, GCHQ, Apple, Google, Microsoft or Samsung.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 12
The legislation aims to censor political speech, while putting draconian rules around what kids can do online, writes @sarkonakj
nationalpost.com/opinion/jam…
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 12
The Liberals' Bill C-34 is a boomer plan to censor the internet, writes Jamie Sarkonak.
'The legislation aims to censor political speech, while putting draconian rules around what kids can do online' nationalpost.com/opinion/jam…
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Ryan Collins retweeted
These internet censorship bills are the first time I've really considered there might be a need to leave Canada.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 10
Reject the man cave.
Embrace the personal library.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
If anyone gets their mitts on a copy of Safe Social Media Act bill (aka "An Act to enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts"), I'd be grateful to receive it.
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 8
> protect the kids
> look inside
> mass surveillance
Jun 8
🚨 Tech companies like Apple and Google have three months.
Activate safeguards on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children or we will bring forward legislation to force you to do so.
Community note
China’s CCP used the exact same “protect children from porn” excuse in 2009 when it forced Green Dam Youth Escort onto every new PC, which also censored political content and monitored users.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam…
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 8
This is not about protecting kids, it’s about social control.
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Jun 8
Mulan for Americans
Jun 8
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Story is not true sacurrent.com/news/fake-stor…
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Ryan Collins retweeted
Jun 8
The real purpose of this is so everyone will be required to use government issued ID to prove your age for access. No exceptions.
Jun 8
Carney government to ban social media for kids younger than 16, but will allow exemptions nationalpost.com/news/politi…
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I THOUGHT THE IPHONE 16 WAS BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP FOR AI?
Apple not supporting everything on their less than 2 year old AI devices is insane.
Jun 8
Apple Intelligence features are available on iPhone 15 Pro and later, but the most powerful on-device model is limited to newer iPhones, iPads, and Macs. Developers are getting access to Siri AI today, but it is not going to be available in the EU initially.
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