Starmer to add VPNs to UK’s “social media ban”
Kit Knightly
In a statement yesterday, the office of the British Prime Minister announced plans to broaden the scope of the “social media ban” for minors that would see virtual private networks (VPNs) included in the future.
Speaking to “parents and carers” today, Sir Keir Starmer is expected to “make clear this government will act at pace to keep kids safe online as they navigate a digital world that did not exist a generation ago, and one that is shaped by powerful platforms, addictive design and fast-moving technologies.”
He will also be announcing potential “new powers” which will come into force after a “consultation” this summer.
The reference to VPNs is a single line in a long statement:
…as well as options to age restrict or limit children’s VPN use where it undermines safety protections…
…but it should be the most concerning to anyone who has been paying attention.
It has been said a thousand times, but always bears repeating, the “social media ban” deployed in the UK (and Australia, and Spain and…wherever) has nothing to do with protecting children, and everything to do with the state’s war on privacy.
Banning children from social media effectively means everyone who isn’t a child has to prove their age, which means verifying with ID or biometrics.
It’s a dagger to the heart of online privacy and anonymity, and that very much is the point.
VPNs offer an easy way of circumventing age-verification measures imposed by tyrannical governments worldwide, so it’s not surprising in the least that those same governments are rushing to close that loophole.
What would “restricting or limiting children’s VPN use” really mean, in practical terms?
The same as the social media ban.
The only way it can work is by adding identity verification to any VPN software – free or paid – you can download and install. Not just for the account holder, but for every user who shares the account and every device on the account.
It would effectively kill the entire point of having the VPN in the first place.
It remains to be seen if the VPN companies will cooperate, and it will be highly interesting to see how they react to the news. After all, they are essentially being told to tie their biggest selling point to a stone table and gut it with a flint knife.
And yet don’t be surprised if there is little-to-no resistance from the corporate side, after all there has been almost none from social media companies in general so far.
Resistance to this is going to have come from the ground up, as per usual, because they are laying building blocks for a digital prison all around us.
As Big Brother Watch said in their statement:
The ability of adults and children to enjoy the enhanced privacy provided by VPNs is a sign of a healthy liberal democracy. Starmer’s latest unfortunate announcement should worry everyone who values such a society remaining free.”
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Cloudfire, prove your human is just as bad.
If they keep going on this slippery slope we’ll be back to communicating by smoke signal. Oh! Open fires…
Banned! Everything has been thought out. No way out, no way to escape…………. 😅 .
You are doomed to live inside our Matrix…………..forever…………LOL.
This was literally tested in Brazil years ago. VPNs were banned, under threat of multimillion-dollar hourly fines for any platform that provided ways to download them — including Apple and Google, both of which confirmed they would comply. The order came from a Supreme Court justice, Alexandre de Moraes.
Of course, you were unaware of this, because Off-Guardian and the whole “mainstream alternative” media pay little attention to what happens outside the United States and the United Kingdom. The rule seems simple: if it happens outside the UK or the US, it didn’t really happen.
In Brazil, Rumble has been banned and censored for years by order of that same judge. X (formerly Twitter) was banned for over a month until it agreed to censor anyone this judge chose. Even before the pandemic, he was ordering censorship and bans on YouTube and Facebook — including worldwide bans, not just within Brazil — and despite some initial resistance, they ultimately complied, censoring users outside Brazilian territory who did not even live in Brazil, all at his direction.
Brazil has been serving as a kind of “laboratory” for the New Normal for some time now, with outlets such as Vox, The New York Times and The Economist observing what is happening and signalling that it could serve as a model for similar measures elsewhere, with appropriate adjustments. They seemed impressed by how a single Supreme Court justice, positioning himself simultaneously as victim, prosecutor and judge, could exploit the Court’s role as the final instance to impose virtually anything, with broad compliance.
I will say just one thing: this sort of measure serves only to test how obedient you are to the system. It is a mental prison. I used a VPN. And you — are you going to be frightened into submission?
Brasil has especial problems which require especial entrance.
They have major corruption problems, they have children without parents sleeping on the streets, they have part of their cities occupied by favelas (slum), or gangs with guns who control the area, oligarchs who own large scale farms. Low minimum salary, etc.
Re my 5.18pm comment which is partly below.
“I really don’t understand the Iranian regimes leaders – the US has sent a third of its total military to the ME – and more hardware is on the way – as the US puts it all in place to attack Iran – If I ran Iran – I’d have blown up what was already in place, and hit Israel hard again, take them by surprise I say – instead Iran is patiently waiting for the US and its minions to having all their ducks lined up to attack Iran.”
The US has sent a huge military force to antagonise Iran – the last time it sent such a force was against Iraq in 2003 – yet Iran still refuses to strike first before the US and its minions are fully prepared too attack Iran – that will be Iran’s undoing.
I’m gonna write to the government. I wanna know what are the ‘national
values’ it keeps saying we have. And i wanna know if i have any of the
‘shared values’ and ‘family values’ the government claims i / we have to
protect from those evil-doing mooslims… I mean, if my country is going
to send Our Young People off to a war to defend Our Values the goverment
ought to spell out what it claims those Values are, dont you think !
‘Cash works during a power outage. Cash works when the internet
is down. Cash works without a corporate intermediary. Cash is
anonymous, direct and final.’ Cash must be banned ‘To Protect
The Children (TM)…
We’r gonna have some blues now – https://youtu.be/hpq7U2ICv0M .
Blues: three chords and a sob story.
False. 17 chords and a symphony
Bird changes – Wikipedia
Blues For Alice – YouTube
Hmm.
Bill Gates and Larry Fink were Starmer’s very first guests when he became PM in 2024, apparently any minutes for that meeting have been kept secret.
Starmer’s Labour leadership campaign was bankrolled by Trevor Chinn – Chinn is a close friend to Mark Regev, Tony Blair and Jacob Rothschild.
Is the penny dropping yet?
Labour socialists love to spend people’s money down in a black hole, Rothschild love to lend usury loans to Labour socialists. The case in a nutshell!
There are a number of negative points t UK socialism, however, there are a number of positive points to it.
” Before World War II, healthcare in the UK was a mix of private practitioners, charitable institutions, and limited state-run services, often leaving many unable to afford adequate care. Post-war, the establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) in 1948 transformed healthcare by providing free medical services to all citizens, regardless of their ability to pay, addressing the inequalities that existed prior to the war.
Healthcare Before World War II
Structure and Access
Challenges
Healthcare After World War II
Establishment of the NHS
Key Changes
The establishment of the NHS transformed the landscape of healthcare in the UK, moving from a fragmented system to a unified service aimed at serving the entire population.”
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/ip3/www.bma.org.uk.ico bma.org.uk
Now it being stealthily dismantled by the private sector – with the aid of corrupt capitalist politicians.
It was Chomsky that said:
If you want to remove a public service and replace it with a private one, first you must defund the public one – the public will then cry out for a replacement, and that’s where the private one comes in – or words to that effect.
Yes, first started by the Tories by intentionally creating an internal market and depriving the NHS with adequate funding.
Later it was continued by Blair+ Brown and the Rothschilds with the Tory inspired Private, Public initiative for NHS hospitals plus other public infrastructure which approximately 2.5 times to more to fund than if financed solely by the public purse.
Additionally, these P.P.Is have maintenance contracts carrying outrageous overheads costs for them plus the technocratic management of them.
Now, the NHS are forced into a bidding war with private corporations and the deliberate intention to force people into the private sector, for those who can afford it, for : operations, consultations, CT and MRI scans plus various drugs/ treatment.
Lets get one thing thing straight here – Labour are not a socialist party anymore, they’re a capitalist party – and they became a rampant capitalist party after Blair and his cronies altered Clause 4.
The introduction of the NHS (based on Scotland’s Highland and Islands Free Service) was one of their greatest achievements – prior to 1948 people hobbled around in pain and if they didn’t have the means they would not get any treatment – the introduction of the NHS change all that – Nye Bevin – who spearheaded Atlee’s NHS idea, said of the private medical facilities of the day I had to stuff their mouths with gold to get this (NHS) plan into reality.
The old Labour party nationalised important industries – now everything is sold-off to the private sector bar the NHS – which is being privatised by stealth.
The private sector steals huge swathes of public money with the aid of corrupt politicians who get kickbacks for awarding them contracts.
The Fraud serialisation, Part One: the rise of Labour Together
Major pro-Israel donor Trevor Chinn on the scene
Chinn, who would become a major donor to both Labour Together and Keir Starmer, is a wealthy entrepreneur with a long history of funding figures on the Labour right.
Chinn made donations to Tony Blair (while MP), Ruth Smeeth, Tom Watson, Rachel Reeves, Ian Austin, and Wes Streeting – all of whom would express hostility to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
He has long been associated with Labour Friends of Israel and has an extended history of involvement in pro-Israel causes. For twenty years between 1973 and 1993 he chaired the Joint Israel Appeal (now United Jewish Appeal), which raised funds for cultural and educational endeavours in Israel.
In June 2016, a year after Common Good Labour was formed, Chinn was re-elected the vice chair of the Jewish Leadership Council (JLC), which engages in advocacy for Israel (among other things).
As of November 2023, Chinn was a member of the executive committee of the Britain Israel Communication and Research Centre (BICOM), a pro-Israel lobby group. BICOM’s sister project,
We Believe in Israel, was run by Luke Akehurst prior to Akehurst’s election to parliament in 2024. Akehurst is the Labour right’s most effective campaigner and a dedicated warrior against the left. The JLC was fiercely critical of Corbyn when he was leader of the Labour Party.
Chinn’s award for ‘extraordinary contributions’ to Israel amid a genocideIn November 2024, Chinn was awarded the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honour. The award recognises individuals:
The award was the gift of President Isaac Herzog, who, in January 2024, had been cited by the International Court of Justice as making statements that plausibly violated the Genocide Convention.
Herzog rejected the ICJ’s judgment as a ‘blood libel’ that had ‘twisted’ his words. By the time Chinn was awarded the medal, Israel’s plausibly genocidal assault on Gaza had killed at least 43,000 Palestinians, including more than 13,000 children and 7,200 women.
The Fraud serialisation, Part One: the rise of Labour Together
Paul Holden’s book Fraud is a very deep dive at the into the rise of Starmer.
Very good points thanks for the info.
To enter the USA under Trump, you need to provide your emails address’s you use and your socials.
Yes I’ve read that – I wonder if the US will still have that post-Trump, unless of course Trump suspends the US Constitution and goes for a third-term using Zelensky’s mantra, which is no elections whilst at war – Trump could start another war near the end of his tenure – to try and remain in office.
Wow! Ted Lieu calls it out.
video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2023891445506338819/vid/avc1/1280×720/peSelVMU_rlgtF37.mp4
unauthorised…
Apologies for that – found it here as well.
conspiracybot (@conspiracyb0t): “Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations — allegations — of Donald Trump raping children and threatening to kill children.” That’s a sitting member of Congress, on the record, describing what’s in the files. If DOJ altered or removed records after public access, the public deserves a preservation log.” | nitter.poast.org
I really don’t understand the Iranian regimes leaders – the US has sent a third of its total military to the ME – and more hardware is on the way – as the US puts it all in place to attack Iran – If I ran Iran – I’d have blown up what was already in place, and hit Israel hard again, take them by surprise I say – instead Iran is patiently waiting for the US and its minions to having all their ducks lined up to attack Iran.
I’m no fan of the Iranian theocratic regime – but that doesn’t give the US or Israel or any other nation the right to attack it, because it will not comply with their narrative, Iran is a founding member of the IAEA, yet all we hear and read about is Iran should not have nuclear weapons – and its nuclear facilities should monitored or destroyed, what about other nations with nuclear weapons or facilities – no they get a pass from the corrupt West.
Mind you the IAEA is headed up by the Zionist – Rafael Grossi.
Alastair Crooke: IRAN Has GAME-CHANGING DEFENSE
Thank you for that link, I know China and Russia have been sending modern weapons to Iran, and that China has dedicated a satellite and a radomed ship – to monitored military movements in the region and send real time info to Tehran.
Some will say – its not inevitable that the US and its minions will attack Iran – however Israel wants Iran attacked, and it hold great sway over the USA, so for me an attack is inevitable, they say offense is the best form of defence.
There you have it in a nutshell. It the (((billionaires))) [take note of the parens] who run Israel and the US and Britain and half of the rest of the world want the US to attack Iran–then the US will attack Iran,..
Australia, Florida and now the UK..
In some way this innocent article about Starmer and VPN is ridiculous, on the other hand it is perhaps the most important article of them all.
Because it at least woke me up to where the whole discussion club here on OffG is heading.
I give you here a fantastic article about the same danger written for Africa, but could be as well for us here in the first world: https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/01/africa-must-not-sleep-in-the-ai-epoch/#more-164492 Enjoy.
Absolutely disgraceful – its their home lands not Britain’s or America’s (Diego Garcia).
“The British government has served a notice to leave the Chagos Islands to a group of Chagossians, who are attempting to establish a settlement on the atoll. The notice, served by a British patrol boat, warns that failure to comply with the eviction order could result in imprisonment for up to three years or a hefty fine. This action has been met with strong opposition from the Chagossians, who have been exiled from their homeland for over half a century and are seeking to return to their ancestral territory.“
Pay to Reject……….First time I met that one.
If I recall correctly the English government first sent troops to the Chagos islands to intimidate and bully the Chagossian people to leave the island, when that failed they killed their livestock and beat the Chagossian people – and eventually forced them to leave, many headed for Mauritius – where they died in large numbers – the English government of the day, then rented out part of the island chain to the American’s (Diego Garcia)
I think its so rooted in their 300 stupid history that they cant imagine another life form. Fooling around on the other side of the globe, harassing, genocide, murdering.
Drunk on power and gossing by subduing a little tribe with elderly people and children.
Oh, its far longer than 300 years from 1066 onwards in the British Isles.
I’m not sure, but I think their excuse was that global warming was going to submerge the Chagos Islands.
A VIP ban would be much healthier…
Ash Wednesdays.
Yet Chinese new year and Ramadan shared the same day.
Let that sink in.
A rare alignment of solar and lunar calendars. Much like an eclipse
Illuminati, and thats not the only thing it means.
Looks and sounds like Denmark has a loose cannon at the top:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/02/denmarks-prime-minister-suffers-from-delusions-and-calls-all-russians-crazy/
She is BONKERS.
Woke WEF women virus case: that EU Kaja Kareless is another case, or UvdL.
Quickest way to bring the EU house of colonial cards to the ground though; it would take the CCP or the Islamists decades.
Georgia Meloni shows that not all European women became bonkers.
It’s getting to be a real spectator sport watching these so called progressive politicos heads explode.
The “derangement syndrome” is at near epidemic levels now. I wonder if they make a vaccine for these suffering fcks..
Time for more popcorn…
They need people on the internet doom scrolling, how else does propaganda work?
Covid worked because of the internet.
No, the covid thesis was rejected because of the internet. If all we had had was telly then we would have all taken the shot as well.
Covid worked because of people watching “case numbers” on TV every day.
Covid worked because the anti-vaxxers on top of it didnt wash their teeth but continued to breath people directly into their heads. It was so disgusting and bad smelling. How many millions did the anti-vaxxers not killed? Its unbelievable.
I am outraged why every one of them was not fired from their jobs and banned from all public traffic …globally.
Hypnotised, mesmerised and square eyed.
I don’t understand this story about British protesters.
“wishing to combat the oligarchy by overthrowing the nation state system, rallying to promote revived Templarism or feudal serfdom under a restored hereditary system of princes” What??
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/how-not-to-embrace-techno-feudal
Looks to be a good-sized demonstration. Or is it a phoney image?
Anything you wish, AI will be at your service.
Erik, the video of the demonstration & Matthew’s explanation of the reason for it are on his normal show, sent to my email as usual. Please just take a look at it.
Thanks.
Astroturf = phoney grassroots MerylNass invention. Cute, huh?
Astroturf pro-compulsory-vaccination orgs sprouting like mushrooms.
“American Families For Vaccines” funded by Pharma of course– and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The main income for pediatricians seems to be those numerous visits for shots. And they get a big bonus from pharma if a high % of their patients are fully vaxxed. Bankruptcy looms.
Fascists, the lot of them.
I have a question.
https://www.sott.net/article/152823-Full-spectrum-dominance-How-the-US-Military-Industrial-Complex-seeks-mastery-over-the-entire-eco-system-by-controlling-information-flows .
In this article they describe the world we are living in today. “In 2002 the US Pentagon’s DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) responded to the alleged lack of intelligence data after the September 11th attacks by establishing the ‘Total Information Awareness’ office, commandeered by John Poindexter”.
We now know this MIComplex is a selfserving unit who create their own fictional enemies and actions (9/11, ISIS, Al-Qaia, Corona-19) after a solution in search of a problem concept.
I see this in an overall scenario as one absurd theater like Mao’s The Long March, and Robespierre’s Guillotine party, WWI, m.m. Human failure along the historic lines.
For example Obama killed 9 civilians out of 10 potential AI found terrorist in his weekly killing approval list, and claimed if just AI got more data this figure would be improved.
I am yacht enthusiast and my fellow sailors anchored up inside a port in the Mediterranean because of a weather message of storm.
But the AI measured message about the wind direction were wrong and complete opposite, why all the yacht went down in the storm, drowned, happily without human victims.
These last two stories and several more experiences tells me this AI shit is of NO or at least only military value. Only pouring money and work down in a black hole.
Putin ones said in an interview that US had poured 6-7 trillion dollars out to hot air piiifft.
Do any of you see any civilian purpose of this AI shit? I dont.
Ok, we are saying the money part is crucial, digital id and wallet, cbdc, but is this true?
Cant we find food and shelter and have a nice life without money? In my opinion we can.
But a US military beast fooling around in the world placing military bases everywhere, surveillance everyone and everything, as we all are potential 9/11 maniacs planning to attack America is a much much worse scenario as I see it.
US military bases around the world one matter. AI another. Ne’er the twain shalt meet it would seem in any intellectual discourse.
Each having its own value in the big scheme of things
We’re curing cancer, right?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-CYkmKIMpOM?feature=share
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-CYkmKIMpOM?feature=share
What a lovely Lady 😍 .
Erik, People seem to like GPS-aided driving. I HATE some of the incompetent-AI phone answering, but when it’s efficient I don’t mind. Robotics in manufacturing is productive.
It’s useful, but we’ve seen can be manipulated, in search engines.
“We don’t need a nation of thinkers; we need a nation of workers.”” — John D. Rockefeller
“the social problems that one will have in substituting machines for humans will be far easier in those countries that have declining populations.” –Larry Fink, Black Rock
“Public banking is the solution; it’s through control of money creation that these monsters have acquired power over us.” — Ellen Brown, author Public Banking
Sovreign money creation and ignoring loans from vampires is why China is enemy no. 1.
… and why Gaddafi, various US presidents and others had to be murdered.
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” (John Gilmore, 1993)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Gilmore#Quotes
Who has a dollar bill handy to see if this is real.
https://nitter.poast.org/rabbitholebot/status/2023574421034701191#m
US’s ecomedy. Found a new word.
The propaganda organs do seem to being rolled out over this issue.
Starmer the great hero standing up to the giants of Silicon Valley
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/starmer-showdown-musk-online-safety-4238026
Or the timely release (17th Feb.) of documentaries to drive the point home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002rls3/storyville-the-darkest-web
That said, fighting pedos is a legitimate battle
Ah, Starmer, the effete fuck, forever besmirched with the filth of the grooming gang coverup. Buddy, you don’t get to lecture anyone on morality. Maybe instead start with resigning and repenting as best you can.
A good Lenten message for anyone
DARPA Giveth and DARPA Taketh Away.
Don Huffines is the new comptroller for Texas.
Here’s some disturbing info on Huffines.
We Now Know Who Bought Epstein’s Ranch. It’s Worse Than You Imagined.
English media reporting – that Starmer appears in the latest tranche of released Epstein files.
Meanwhile it looks like MBZ might have been couped.
“It was just announced that the Turkish president’s visit to the UAE has been postponed due to the sudden illness of Mohammed bin Zayed, with reports suggesting his condition is critical.
Is he truly ill, or has he been removed, overthrown, or perhaps even eliminated by his brother Tahnoun bin Zayed, who is said to have Saudi backing”
This post was submitted from Holland, the previous one from the UK. Starmer needs to sack his tech advisors.
Hopefully not from one of the more commonly listed ‘exit nodes’. Then it really would be a tech challenge to block
🙂
The linux kernel has a built in VPN (wireguard), which is trivially easy for anyone with a bit of tech know how to set up on a 2 quid a month VPS. There’s also client software for MacOS and Windows systems. Good luck with banning that Starmer.
🙂
Wouldn’t help if a *platform* (such as Substack) itself restricts all VPN access, as a consequence of Government pressure. Cloudflare already has built-in facilities for that (it can block both Tor and the more notorious VPNs). Wireguard being one of those too-common-a-VPN to escape potentialblocking.
Of course, no platform could block *all* VPNs (there are always technical workarounds) but finding a working VPN for a platform could become increasing difficult.
Yes you could set up a VPS or rent a commercial VPS but then there’s no anonymity in that, if that was the goal in the first place.
And if only ‘uber-geeks’ are able to gain unfettered entrance, then the government would seem to have won anyway
With a little extra messing (and admittedly leading to slower response times), use of wireguard can be made to be very difficult to detect. Anyone interested should look at udp2raw and/or shadowsocks.
Setting this up on a 2 quid a month VPS does require some linux knowledge and a reasonable level of tech competence. But a single VPS set up thusly could provide VPN services for many users. Only one needs the necessary experience and the rest can continue to use their Windows/MacOS/Android devices if that’s what they’re stuck with. Just a minor download and trivial configuration setup needed.
Wireguard itself is a feature of the linux kernel. Starmer cannot ban the use of a linux VPS in a Dutch/German/Japanese/French data center, or even a UK one come to that.
It may be possible as you suggest, with such a set-up (VPN etc installed on top of a VPS), to disguise traffic in such a way that it doesn’t look to be coming from a VPN. And the very fact that it would be your own private VPN would certainly help, in that that the ip address wouldn’t be associated with any commercially-known VPNs.
The main problem then would appear to be whether the platform (such as Substack etc) decided to block or restrict access from all data-centers (known ip address ranges). And also whether the country in which the VPS is hosted decided to adopt similarly draconian measures as in the UK or Australia. In which case, the VPS would presumably need to do a ‘runner’ to a more favourable country.
I suppose time will ultimately tell what the optimal technical solution is, once the actual Government measures and platform become clearer.
Errata:
‘and platform’ ==> ‘and platform responses’
The internet does not exist. It was just a beautiful trap for a few years.
The World Wide [spider’s] Web concept would seem to speak to that.
‘Come into my parlour’, said the spider to the fly
It appears that the evil power that is presently running our world amuck is hell bent on controlling every facet of our lives. To what end you say?…yours and mine…
Cash and cash only folks, don’t be feeding the animals that want you dead by giving up your sovereignty and your hard currency to these vile beings.
“When Cash Disappears, So Does Something Else”
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/when-cash-disappears-so-does-something-else
A summation of Rubio’s Munich Security Conference speech – which is basically the USA’s plan to dominate the world by force, and to hell with laws that can stop it.
U.S. Calls For New Colonial Era – Moon of Alabama
Full Spectrum Global Dominance. US havent progressed further than that silly doctrine for stupids.
Its MIC Pentagons totalitarian control idea of the globe from 1990’es which are at stake.
https://www.sott.net/article/152823-Full-spectrum-dominance-How-the-US-Military-Industrial-Complex-seeks-mastery-over-the-entire-eco-system-by-controlling-information-flows
The 9/11 false flag and many more ALL false flags was invented, organised and arranged to promote this stupid vision that an “enemy” was out after to attack the United States and its stupid citizens.
Waarom wordt mijn comment niet gepubliceerd? Omdat het tegendraads is? Wat maakt dit hier dan? Komaan zeg.
I can’t find any outstanding comments by you. Would you mind writing in English? Thanks, A2
Of course, A2.
Please forgive me. But I was angry, because how can I participate in a discussion when my input is on hold for over three hours?
(The reason you don’t see excellent comments from me is because they are on hold. 😉 )
We have nothing flagged for you that I can see, perhaps this is a you issue? If you’re using certain vpns I know it can dump you straight into premod. Perhaps you could troubleshoot a few things your side before you wade in too judgementally and risk souring things? We really do try our best, you know. Thanks for writing in English. A2
In a sense the state is protecting its claim on the ‘children’ as its stamping of a future on the face of the present.
When the future has been stamped out, death can save its stakeholders from their consequences. At least that is the wish to escape given power by a death cult as its ‘final solution’.
What exactly is the state?
It may seem corporate-financial or governmental and political or collectively unconscious.
Love-to-hate generates a ‘state’ of mutually agreed selective blindness.
The shifting conflicts of which operate the ‘mind’ that engages with the offer to gain function from fictions set over ‘fear and pain and loss’ – which like Orwell’s Room 101 can be uniquely targeting to your personal profile.
Many come here to let off steam, as a form of self-medicating or augmented ‘reality’.
The state can be seen to extend as the masking social order relative to what it is invoked to mask over and defend against.
The Adversary played a role in Job’s awakening as in the story of Jeshua/Jesus.
Recognising the deceiver is both the basis for release of faithlessness, and restoring of faith in the living – regardless the social masking order.
It does seem that a death wish is systemically denying life even while invoking the name of anything true in vanity and futility.
Where you choose to stand is your freedom – but a house divided cannot stand.
This is not really addressed to the ‘future’ recognition of self-illusions as never having been true.
The mind that wants to be deceived is habitually attuned to the ‘masking signal’. Weaning from ‘Meds’ can pass through psychotic episodes. How shall we ‘prep’ for an Intimate Infinity? Why not practice love’s awareness in the ordinary, as ‘living this day well’?
Its never too early of to late to begin, and beginner’s mind is the true recognition of love’s willingness in expression. I use a shorthand in saying I feel to give to God, what I cannot in my heart, love and understand. The idea of a loveless understanding runs a gaslighting service. Thanks – but no thanks!
Could potentially have been expressed more succinctly but yes, would agree with the essential solution. Love conquers all
Also inside the screen matrix?
Arguably so. Doesn’t love make good cinema?
Got it. Stupid me. I was in the sentimental mode thinking of real love.
Off course Matrix follows through its name AI with AL Artificial Love.
Ohh boy.
It’s even worse than that, Kit.
Our new Glorious Leader in May is Nigel Farage.
Yet to be announced, of course, but Starmer needs to hand over the keys to the turquoise uniparty before that pesky Rupert Lowe gains traction.
Nigel’s “victory for democracy”, in restoring the cancelled local elections, ensures a wiping out of Labour in May.
Expect a “surprise” snap election.
Oh…………. Nigel supports the “Online Safety Act”
Nigel supports every part of the New World Order – in spite of what he is currently saying. Have no doubt, he is one of “them”.
Nigel Farage will bring in more chi com moslems.
Imho limiting access to on-line content by “Children” has far more to do with protecting the “Narrative” rather than protecting them.
11:28 AM · Feb 15, 2026
Just so we’re clear. The people who have yet to arrest a single child rapist Epstein “client” want all of us to have to use an ID/face scans to access the internet to “protect children.” — seasters jones.
The governments of the world all use a form cloud fire software, and VPN triggers this the most.
According to computertech magazine, a majority of the people now use
there mobilephones as main use.
The usage of laptop is 2nd and the usage of a desktop is 3rd.
VPNs to UK’s “social media ban” is about keeping the mobile phones/laptops zombie users in fear.
Good luck with that.
It’s technically infeasible. There are VPNs right now working from mainland China with obfuscated servers. If an “identity verification” would be added it’s just another joke, because nothing would stop anyone from downloading the VPN via Tor and I very much doubt they’ll ban the US navy spy dragnet that is Tor.
Best of luck Keir.
They will arrest and drag you out of your home if they find out though.
Which is bad for you, obviously, but also bad for the rape victim and future victims who’s perpetrator will not be caught.
When police resources are being used for stopping the victimless crime of using a VPN, it means these resources are taken away from actual crime that needs dealing with.
And this sounds far away, but given how the UK’s police is now wasting resources on “non-crime hate incidents” already, taking people out of their homes with a grand show de force for daring to use a VPN will be here in no time at all.
VPN and other efforts at privacy hurts the feelings of billionaires and shareholders in ITC businesses – that launched far-fetched products or services, or that may get their government contracts terminated.
With respect, that’s a slightly different issue. Gaining access to the unfettered Internet is one matter. Persuading a particular platform to “let you in”, another.
The difference between escaping prison and being allowed into the ‘club’.
Most of such talk about China is from the echo chamber. It is getting harder to maintain the China-bad propaganda due to visa-free travel and relevant comments on other websites.
This is true. I’ve been there. To access “Western” internet services you need a VPN is what I meant.
What you need in Mutha England is a PM with gumption.
In aUStralia we have Anthony Albanese and he is TOUGH.
He’s just announced that aUStralia will not be taking any ISIS Brides:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-17/anthony-albanese-on-isis-families-trying-to-leave-syria/106352492
Dems fightin words.
Meanwhile, (there had to be one) aUStralia will continue to kiss USian arse until the cows come home.
You know, wars, weapons, nuclear subs, US military bases etc etc.
Albanese sold Australians out to the USA – via the AUKUS deal, in which Australians will pay billions for a small number of subs that will take years to build – bearing in mind that Australia now cannot put a fighting force out without US back-up, Paul Keating and ex-Aussie PM spoke of the US building smaller diesel subs – but with a greater number 20 I think, that would surround Aussie waters and protect the continent, for a smaller price that the AUKUS subs, he made good sense on the matter – you can find a 20 minute conversation online of him speaking about it.
Australia is now the tip of the USA’s spear against China – Australians stupidly stopped selling beef to China its largest beef trading partner because the USA told it to, China just went elsewhere for its beef, however Australian farmers are trying to win Chinese orders back – whilst the US uses Pine Gap – via its Radomes, to track any missile launches from China and NK.
If Starmer really wanted to protect British youth he should have surrendered himself years ago to the police in the massive racist yUK Pakistani rape gang scandal cover up.
Cover up indeed? I guess that’s why its been all over the Sun and your other favoured reading materials? Five hundred thousand girls and young women raped? Bullshit. Five hundred would still be terrible, but sensationalising doesn’t help matters. Obviously, Starmer has no intention of protecting any plebs, but you’re just a drongo opportunist racialist fool, taking advantage of an exaggerated story that fits in with your vile anti-Islamic beliefs, pathetic sod that you are. Try to find something constructive to occupy your days; incessantly commenting on this site, and masturbating over gay porn, isn’t really very productive.
Pakistani rape gangs also shared common religion…
Guess what it was?
The man who burnt a Quran in England on the street and was stabbed and beaten for doing so – he was acquitted of a hate crime but the English COP is appealing his acquittal, the man says he will flee to the USA as he fears for his life.
The story.
The Spectator (@spectator): “My name is Hamit Coskun and last year I was convicted in a British court of religiously aggravated public order offense. My “crime”? Burning a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London. Moments later, I was attacked in full view of the street by a man. I was hospitalized. Then I was arrested and convicted in Westminster Magistrates Court. I managed to get that conviction overturned, with the help of the Free Speech Union and the National Secular Society, but now the Crown Prosecution Service is appealing my acquittal, with the case being heard tomorrow in the High Court. Now I am in discussions with the White House about claiming asylum in America in case the decision goes against me. https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/270d.svg Hamit Coskun Article | https://spectator.com/article/i-burnt-a-quran-now-i-may-have-to-flee-britain/” | nitter.poast.org
Jess Philips wants the Epstein files looked into and people named, and prosecuted – yet she voted against a Pakistani rape gang investigation in England.
The Apple is rotten to the core.
But we already knew that:
https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/16/apple-just-bought-a-sinister-pre-speech-tech-company-implicated-in-genocide/
Have you ever walked down a busy road, or through a shopping mall? These days I estimate 80% are mindlessly looking a worthless content on their telephones while stopping randomly at the top or bottom of stairs so they can ‘like’ something. And that is just the adults. These are adults who encourage their children to do the same to keep them occupied so as not to distract the adult from the exact same activity.
The ‘social media’ platforms should all be completely shut down!!
They do not serve any useful purpose and propagate false narratives, much like the BBC.
What is society going to be like in 20 years?
It does leave open the question if where do we get reliable news and information. But it is certainly not Facebook, Instagram or TikTok.
🎼 Phone zombies, phone zombies stumbling down the street
Watch they don’t knock you down as they’re sending off their tweets.
Phone zombies, phone zombies, they are everywhere
Mother Nature, other people? They don’t fucking care 🎼
First verse of a song I wrote dedicated to the Zombies
They are teaching that conversation is unusual, while ignoring people at the same table and taking photos of food for daily updates on social is normal.
Many messages, some with dangerous links, now come to phones from the electronic equivalent of multi-barrelled bazookas. These imitate cell towers and hold many SIM cards. Even in a car parked nearby, more advanced devices can follow your phone activity closely. Using free public Wifi for sensitive matters is definitely foolish.
Today, one gets the impression that one is dealing with spiritual illiterates who need to have the meaning of irony spelled out for them: “Can we still afford irony, sardonicism, sarcasm? Just look at the serious danger that threatens us every day!” I suspect that their intellect is so underdeveloped that it already serves their masters perfectly well. So they have not become external observers, but internal prisoners.
In the name of their masters, they are now forcing their unconditionally “serious” perspective on us, without adding even a spark of healthy distance from their “personality.” If these barbarians, these apes, were to “win,” the Eloi would no longer be able to laugh at the Morlocks! And that would be their death sentence: dying because of God’s unwillingness to continue to tolerate their lack of humor! Ridiculous!
Eloi will always laugh at Morlocks. Against the undergrounds slaves; those misguidedly slaving away while others enjoy free fruits at the table and simply enjoy the beauty of God’s Creation, devoid of ‘evolutionary’ thoughts.
What could Morlocks possibly gain other than the fear of God’s judgement against who feed on the blood of others?
‘God’s creation and God’s judgement’
Completely contradictory terms.
That’s why MAN MADE religions are a fraud upon the ignorant.
Don’t get it. Perhaps elaborate for the sake of posterity.The Creator of the Universe as somehow unworthy of judging what the Creator had made?
Would seem somewhat contradictory, at least in my terms…
Judging is a human trait.
God, which is simply Life itself, is above human ego and/or frailties.
Karma makes more sense. A balancing of light and dark if you will.
God, or Life, doesn’t ‘create’. It simply is. Always and forever.
Drop religion and embrace Truth.
Pity for yourself. You walk around blind in a labyrinth if you dont have this simple universal basic in order.
Three independent famous well reputed university professors, all three more or less atheists and without any interest at all in the divine side, have declared that it is without any doubt that a creative for called God must have created earth, moon, sun, birds, etc.
DNA is so complicated put together that when found, it is considered the ultimate proof of design.
But if you prefer to continue to walk around in blindness no problem for us.
force………creative force.
Would they be the same professors who dished out vaccines?
Okay, it’s a pain, but really we are quibbling:
https://dissidentvoice.org/2026/02/the-world-is-burning-and-the-first-fire-is-hunger/#more-166206
Read this and get some perspective.
CIA head is specialist in Bio weapons. https://gospanews.net/en/2023/07/05/wuhan-gates-69-how-and-why-the-spy-of-biden-gates-hid-manmade-sars-cov-2-in-us-intelligence-dossier/ .
The non bullshit VPNs don’t keep logs so there’s no way to connect a user to a request out on the Internet.
Also, one can use crypto to pay for a VPN.
I see you’ve got mullvad. And you can use monero as the crypto and not give a name or email address.
Using Proton’s VPN did not help me — an Australian in my early 60s — access my own Substack account after they introduced their totally unnecessary “age verification” requirement for Australian users in early December.
I tried any number of ways to access my account, which contained all of my own, original content. I somehow bumbled into being able to manually cut & paste my posts one day (cut from Substack, pasted into MS Word docs), but I have no idea how I got there now. And it was laborious!
Oh, and here’s something I didn’t know about Substack: all of the images — including mine — that were embedded in my Substack articles were now live links to Substack after I’d cut and pasted them into Word docs. Substack had turned my images into redirects to their site.
I suspect getting around the “age verification” requirement involved some combination of completely emptying my browser’s history in advance, using a VPN (Firefox private window didn’t let me do it), and then starting from scratch: open substack, search for my name, and then go to my archive of posts.
It was a lot of rigamarole, just so that I could get to the content I had created and published exclusively on Substack (at that time). VPN alone was not enough. Substack was still able to block me at every turn.
So, Substack users in other countries considering a similar social media ban for under-16s: pay attention. Back up all of your original posts now, before you can’t get to them anymore. And then back out of Substack before it has you by the googlies.
I expect the Internet will be filled with these kinds of keys, codes, and close and constant change. Some day ending in total confusion of what is what.
F… the Internet my arse.
If you’re posting to SubStack note how the app’s interface specifically permits you to download a screenshot. Copy and paste text is deliberately hard to achieve ESPECIALLY on a mobile device. (Not so hard on a computer browser using multiple tabs, but not any more ‘private’.) This is to facilitate easy screenshot outrage spirals, to demonize the app as Hard Right (or Pro-Muslum or…absolutely anything) and drown out discourse.
Personally I’m sceptical about any VPN given away for free on the shop front App Stores and believe they create false reassurance. If you’ve got something to say go Stand in the Park.
I am unable to even get to Substack since their “age verification” requirement came into effect for Australian users. Every path I take, I run into their “age verification” popup. So, I cannot note that the app’s interface permits me to download a screenshot.
I guess I knew that already, come to think of it, but screenshots would have been a very inefficient way for me to archive my own content on my computer — something, admittedly, I should have been doing all along. But never did I expect that I would suddenly lose access to my Substack account!
And I did not download the VPN from an App store. I downloaded it directly from Proton’s website.
Sure, something that’s free is often worth only what you paid for it. 🙂 That said, Proton’s free VPN does seem to work, as evidenced by the fact that it blocks me from using an Australian streaming service I subscribe to that is available only to Australian users. If I’ve forgotten to disconnect the VPN and turn off the browser extension required for it to function, then I am blocked from watching anything on the streaming service.
And yet, this VPN is useless when it comes to accessing Substack since the “age verification” requirement came into effect.
This could be even more worrying, the fact that the authorities have the power to target individuals, or groups, with potentially lethal technology in the high street. Courtesy of Mark Steele who is in the process of legally challenging the Met police.
https://saveusnow.substack.com/p/irrefutable-evidence-to-prove-that
Wouldn’t want all those kids learning how evil the zionists are, or how they murder people in Gaza. That would be terrible, it would make people have a realistic view of their neighbourhood zionist. Can’t have that. Starmer steps up to protect the boss.
Tzahal (IDF) is the most moral army in the world,
Why would VPN companies want to cooperate with this edict.
Money.
Money makes the world go around, world go around, world go around.
Money money money money money, if you wanna be rich…………….
You socialist guys cant take facts, cant you? “You will own nothing…and be happy“. You will be happy man 😅 .
I see most of you guys here already programmed into Matrix. “Our fight for freedom to a VPN on Substack…….”. My dear Ulysses, my dear Ulysses..