I need to be absolutely serious for once. Never, EVER reply 'yes' or similar to tweets like this. In the UK you'll do 14 years in jail (not a joke). If you're abroad and visit, you'll be arrested at the airport. Crazy that this tweet was made by a UK politician to trap people.

It’s purely a coincidence that the only place to find reliable (non-legacy media) information pertaining to Israel, Palestine, Epstein Files, Climate Change, COVID etc is social media and that governments around the world are banning access to this for our younger generations.

The ban will fail. But the privacy loss will be permanent. Long after UK teens have bypassed it (just as Australian kids did, by the way)... ...the British will be stuck self-doxxing to surveillance gatekeepers to use the internet. Embarrassing legacy for Starmer, who should know better. And a daily reminder to Brits of government overreach.

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.

After Palestine protest at Appeal Court, I went for a coffee in Pret, far up the road in The Strand As I got my coffee, I turned to find myself surrounded by police. They demanded I show my placard & filmed it My placard is not unlawful. This was intimidation. POLICE STATE!

Palestine Action is in good company. British governments and courts criminalised resistance to slavery, the Chartist movement for universal male suffrage, any organising by trade unionists, and the Suffragette movement to win women the vote. None of our rights were given to us by the ruling class. We had to fight for each of them tooth and nail. The British establishment is always on the wrong side of history, because history is with the struggle of ordinary people, not with the selfish interests of the billionaires and war industries. Those earlier struggles were deemed the terrorism of their day by the very same "liberals" – the British establishment and its useful idiots – who today declare any practical action to stop British complicity in Israel's genocide to be terrorism. Note too as proof of bad faith: the British establishment is well advanced in its efforts to declare entirely peaceful protest – marches through the streets – as anti-social, hate crimes and soon enough terrorism too. The ruling class consider attempts to stop a genocide, even holding a banner against the mass murder of children, to be far worse than racist pogroms in Belfast, which try to burn alive people in their homes because of the colour of their skin.

It's strange that the Social Media bans in Australia and now the UK have come after Israel and their supporters have become horribly unpopular. You might suspect an ulterior motive.

It is so blindingly obvious to any sane person that people who took it upon themselves to try to destroy drones that were going to murder and terrorise a caged, starving population are not 'terrorists'. And the fact that people in the UK can't even express support for them is just obscene. It is demonic. I can't even comprehend how those who made this happen can live with themselves, especially those that work inside this disgusting institution. They should, and they will be shamed for generations to come, long after this Zionist abomination is dismantled.

Have 0 doubt that the push in the West for identification-based Internet is done at the behest of Zionist lobbies who know how hated Israel has become and want the ability to completely sanitize the public domain from any trace of resistance. The next step if 24/7 personal monitoring of every residence and individual

Today the Court of Appeal upheld the Labour government’s proscription of Palestine Action by saying they aren’t a peaceful civil disobedience group like the suffragettes and that Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, is "a company pursuing a lawful business." The suffragettes bombed the Chancellor's house, planted a bomb outside the Bank of England, burned down churches and train stations, and smashed up art galleries. Palestine Action destroyed drones used to kill Palestinians in Gaza because Elbit's “lawful business” is arming a genocide. The British state is rewriting history and dismantling our legal system to protect Israel, a genocidal apartheid state.

Right, enough complaining. When I'm done with work today, I'm starting on @Linux Mint upskilling and finding myself another Pixel to upgrade my @GrapheneOS daily driver. If the government want my ID so I can go online and say what I like, they can 'molon labe'.

💥scrapping jury trials 💥cutting welfare and disability benefits 💥halving foreign aid 💥restricting protests for ‘cumulative disruption’ 💥proscribing Palestine Action & arresting thousands of people for holding signs 💥AI boosterism 💥cosying up to Palantir & embedding them in the NHS 💥surveillance flights over Gaza & arms sales to Israel 💥allowing UK bases to be used for war in Iran 💥the most punitive asylum and immigration reforms in generations 💥halving the UK's contributions to the Green Climate Fund 💥banning social media for under 16s despite widespread opposition from child protection charities 💥taxing workers not wealth 💥refusing to nationalise water & energy or punish executives and companies pumping excrement into rivers 💥‘reforms’ to planning rules to remove environmental protections 💥freebies and cronyism scandals 💥a watered-down Employment Rights Bill 💥introducing policing via Live Facial Recognition using Israeli software used to “track, trace and abduct” thousands of Palestinians passing through checkpoints 💥 Peter Bloody Mandelson… All brought to you by the most disliked Prime Minister since the introduction of modern polling, delivered to power with an unlawful slush fund filled with cash from millionaire and pro-Israeli donors. Did anyone who voted Labour in 2024 expect this?

This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose). So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children. The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person. This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them. Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.

Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups. This is what they've said: "But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support. “A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."

RT @TaylorLorenz: Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news a…

The French Marxist theorist, filmmaker, and professional troublemaker who led the Situationist International and wrote The Society of the Spectacle (1967) would see motorcycles flipping in front of the White House for what they are: not rebellion, but the spectacle flattering itself...a high-octane screensaver for a Herrenvolk democracy. The riders risk their necks so cameras can mine clips; the crowd risks nothing and calls it participation, mistaking adrenaline for agency. Power is so relaxed it stages "danger" at its own front door and sells it back as freedom, merch, and content. You walk away with a video instead of improved material conditions, convinced you've seen subversion when all you've really seen is how completely even your urge to rebel has been neutered. This is the movie they show on the Ship of Fools as you literally sail into your misery and destuction...Enjoy.

RT @EuropeanPowell: American fascism has its tentacles in the UK. One of the biggest hurdles that libertarians, oligarchs, and the far-rig…

RT @rachelmillward: There will be a day when people stop focusing on women's appearance and clothes... will there?!

I seriously want to know. . . What's it going to take? Every day. Every single day. Israel bombs and kills civilians in Gaza. Since October 7, 2023: 73,000 Palestinians killed 20,000 of them children — one every hour, for two years 270 journalists killed — Israel is the #1 killer of journalists on the planet, three years running 173,000 wounded The numbers aren't in dispute. The videos aren't in dispute. The International Court of Justice is hearing genocide charges. The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants. And don't come back with "yeah, but October 7th...", because that completely ignores that Israel held 5,200 Palestinian prisoners on October 6th, 1,264 of them without charges or trial, and had already killed nearly 500 Palestinians in the West Bank alone in 2023 before a single Israeli died that day. What is it going to take? How many civilians have to die before those of you who support Israel finally say "Enough!"