“It’s all so tiresome”: UK’s Social Media Ban Trudges Ever Onward
Kit Knightly
The UK government’s “consultation” on social media harm is over, and – brace yourselves – it turns out they’re going to have to do something about it.
I know, I was shocked too.
The main talking point is that “social media is like cigarettes”. Everyone is saying that, it’s the meme of the day.
It’s a sentiment originally taken from a new report submitted to the consultation by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
Titled “Growing up in an online world”, it contains this hilarious line in the foreword:
…there is, I think, an overwhelming consensus that excessive screen time can harm children and young people and we need to call this out unflinchingly rather than passively wait for someone else to prove causation”.
Which is a pretty neat summary of how our political system works in general, and certainly in this case: We don’t know if there’s even a problem yet, but by God we’re gonna do something about it.
That the something they end up doing makes them rich and powerful is just one of the curious coincidences tyrants can always rely on.
{Sidenote: This morning the BBC had “Overwhelimg consensus” in their headline on this story, but at some point the absurdity of that quote was realised, and the headline changed. Now there’s this disclaimer near the end: “There is no consensus among the wider scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.” Funny stuff.}
Elsewhere, the report wails about “a wave of radicalized children” who pose “a real risk to society”, and calls social media “an incredibly powerful and uncontrolled commercial detriment to health”.
In a similar vein, The Guardian is warning of a “tsunami of harm”, and has assembled an all-star cast of interested parties to talk up the scariness of social media meanness.
After meeting with “bereaved parents” earlier today, Keir Starmer has “vowed to take action”.
His potential rival for the leadership has been even more vocal. Political eunuch and leadership hopeful Wes Streeting is all over this, campaigning hard to be the next disposable suit full of bugger all to “lead the country”:
Big tech’s behaviour has been akin to big tobacco, introducing an addictive and harmful product whilst avoiding regulation.
We’ve got to give our children their childhood back, and that starts with a social media ban for under-16s. pic.twitter.com/soRbjbHIsG
— Wes Streeting (@wesstreeting) May 26, 2026
He thinks a ban should be “just the start”:
Social media should be treated like tobacco – it’s extremely addictive, bad for our health, and big tech is borrowing the big tobacco playbook to avoid regulation. We’ve got to give our children their childhood back […] A ban for under-16s must be the start, not the end […]We have given the pen to tech moguls to write our future for us. It’s time to take the pen back.”
Streeting is an idiot whose ambition outweighs his intellect by a factor of ten, and who clearly doesn’t understand the rules of the game he’s playing.
Some political handler behind the scenes probably told him to go hard on this issue because it will make him look tough and assertive, but the likely truth is he’s being wheeled out as the extreme option so a “sensible middle ground” option – probably Andy Burnham – can enforce “common sense policies”.
What will those policies be? It doesn’t really matter, but we’ll get to that.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall, notable only for garnering less than 5% of the vote in the 2015 leadership election, is out there promising “action”:
‘The question isn’t whether we are going to act, we will’
As a consultation on social media use for under-16s comes to an end Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told #BBCBreakfast the Government plans to take actionhttps://t.co/jJ6RakraWV pic.twitter.com/6lLD8yVoY9
— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) May 26, 2026
…they haven’t decided what “action” yet, exactly but it’s definitely going to happen.
The Guardian has a handy list to choose from, including but not limited to:
– social media bans
– “digital curfews”
– “function limitations”
– age gating “addictive features”
– protecting children from personalised algorithms
– enforcing screen time limits.
Which one will it be?
Well let me answer that question with another question – Who cares?
The powers that be certainly don’t.
This is very much an “any colour you want so long as it’s black” situation.
Choose an outright ban – “Great, please submit your ID to prove you’re over 16 and exempt from the social media ban.”
Choose screen time limits – “Great, please submit your ID to prove you’re over 16 and exempt from screen time limitations.”
Choose digital curfews – “Great, please submit your ID to prove you’re over 16 and exempt from the digital curfew.”
Since all the proposed measures rely on age verification for enforcement, they all achieve the end goal: No more online anonymity, for kids or adults alike.
Debating the list is pointless, and making a choice counterproductive. It’s like choosing the colour of your electric chair: It makes no difference to the end result, but your entirely cosmetic choice lends tacit approval of the whole process.
We all know where this is going: Age gating everything, everywhere and then – eventually – digital ID.
It’s just…
…and you’re left wondering, who is this even for?
What is the point of this worn-out, unenthusiastic propaganda?
We know what they’re going to do, they have said they’re going to do it, and still they feel the need to play out this performative umming and erring.
Just get on with it.
All the people who don’t believe them will NEVER believe them, and all the poor fools who do believe them will always believe them.
So why carry on this absurd pretense?
It’s like when you’re watching a really dull movie – one that has telegraphed its “clever twist” in the first ten minutes – but is still insisting on dragging out the run time for two more hours of what the writers evidently consider skillful foreshadowing.
Or when you get a call from an unknown number, and some eager breathless voice announces “this is not a sales call”, before launching into a fifteen minute speech about double glazing or solar panels, and you’re just waiting for a pause long enough to say “no thanks”, and hang up.
It is a sales call, and you’ve known that from the beginning, and they know you know, but they can’t stop talking because then you’ll leave. They have to keep talking because they know you’re not listening.
So maybe that’s the answer. Maybe they can’t take a breath because people will hang up.
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Social media is like tobacco… from the same people who brought you vaccines are like seatbelts.
Is social media harmful? Yes. Is media harmful? Yes – funny how it’s never framed that way despite the overwhelming evidence that news consumption reduces the sacred “mental health” they’re so concerned about. The ‘tell’ is that they got interested in the harm after convid blew up their faces.
“Personalised algorithms means Big Tech can keep pushing MSM sources on those who’ve rejected them. Somehow I don’t expect that BBC viewers will be finding OG articles in their feeds.
Streeting is being set up as the No.2 to Burnham, No.2 in the sense that Cheney was No.2 to Bush (and in the other sense as well). He reminds me of Matt Hancock. He’ll be used up and spat out quickly with a subsequent career on “Reality TV” and the social media he affected to hate. BTW the US is being set up for a Carlson-Massie ticket in 2028 (whether that’s to get them in or merely to split the Republican vote remains to be seen). Massie has said many good things but look into his background.
Feigned reluctance is one of the main ways the British system works. It was the same with convid: liberty-loving Johnson was just so reluctant to introduce restrictions…. until he did and they were among the most restrictive in the First World. Play their cards right and the reluctance becomes the justification for more extreme measures (“if only we’d acted earlier we could’ve nipped this in the bud, but now…. “).
“a wave of radicalized children”
Oh, hang on! I’ve seen this one! They all have blonde hair, glowing eyes and speak in clipped upper class English accents. And they can telepathically control adults.
And just behind them, waiting in the wings, is a second battalion of little girls levitating on beds, vomiting green slime, with heads spinning and doing unspeakable things with crucifixes on their unspeakable parts.
Huh?
Film references.
And nice that we were treated to that glimpse of the Holy Grail.
You had a deprived childhood, yes ?
That was the 1970’s, the young Gen-X was subjected to a mountain of movies and TV shows that depicted them as freaks and or Evil. Then the millennials came along, Teenage mutant Ninja turtles gave way to the Power Rangers and all the other positive kid memes. Anyone not a Gen-Xer wouldn’t know the significance. We were the generation women took pills not to have.
…andI thought I was the only one that realized all of this.
They need to keep up a constant bombardment of fakery to keep everyone bewildered and helpless. Seemingly they don’t dare stop for a second.
The state of Vermont has banned the pesticide Paraquat, which has links to Alzheimers disease and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and childhood leukemia.
https://truthout.org/articles/vermont-becomes-first-state-to-ban-pesticide-linked-to-parkinsons-disease/
https://nitter.poast.org/thehealthb0t/status/2060375685169131828#m
The Fraudian has been working itself into a lather over the so-called ‘Neets’ in this hiatus while we’re waiting for this Labour re-boot. Their ‘concern’ is crafted to appeal to the ‘left’ (lost potential of youth) and the ‘right’ (cost to the nation).
Something’s coming down the pipe here, some sort of “national service” perhaps….
Frustrated young men with little future and no outlet for their energy (i.e. no job because AI and robots have taken them all, no family because women think it’s patriarchy, no money because of inflation) are always the biggest danger to any social system.
The staggering cost of Net Zero in Britain
Below are excerpts from cost estimates for achieving net zero in Britain. The £7.6 trillion by 2050 leaves out the trillions required for the gobsmacking cost of massive transmission and energy storage systems to back up, store, and balance solar, wind, and other alternative energy resources. Plus the increasing costs of copper and other minerals and metals to construct them as ore concentrations continue to decline and the energy cost to get them out of ores increases. Not to mention the cost of the coal to make the steel and cement in blast furnaces and kilns, and the diesel transportation to move ores and parts to fabrication plants and final delivery.
energyskeptic.com/2026/the-staggering-cost-of-net-zero-in-britain/
Thankfully Tony Blair wants to do away with net zero!!!
Israel’s largest export item to the world are diamonds – Israel has no diamond mines.
Nor does Switzerland, so what’s your point? They, the Israelis, import the rough diamonds from SA and cut and polish them. They also have no metal mines yet their biggest export category is electrical machinery.
My point is the focus is well and truly on Israel – or should I give it its proper term – an illegally, squatting oppressive military force – which is committing genocide.
Everyone and their granny, knows that this evil force would collapse quickly – without the likes of the US and the West propping it up.
Basically they are saying to us f*ck You!
redpillbot (@redpillb0t): “TODD BLANCHE: “We’re not going to prosecute the predators in the Epstein files and we’re not going to release their names to the public.”” | nitter.poast.org
Why are you even interested? Do you like being distracted from the issues that really matter for your future health and economic security?
More to the point – why are you interested that I’m interested?
Because I’m just trying to help you break you out of the totally negative mindset you seem to have developed. Focusing on all the emotional propaganda the mass media is feeding you is what they want! Putting all your mental energy in things like the Epstein files and similar stories is what the system wants.
Of course they are not going to prosecute them, the elites are Never prosecuted, you should know that by now. Was anthony fauci prosecuted? Were any of the heads of the Banks that were exposed over the years prosecuted?
Reading your arrogant comments across the threads – I doubt you’ve ever helped anyone in your entire life, except yourself.
Because it is only the Trump administration doing all these evil things. Along with that other country as well. These two are the ONLY instances of bloody murderous Empire in the world’s entire existence and they are fully in charge, no ownership class needed to set the agenda for them. If we can just vanquish those, then all will be good again. Nobody else is shorting the oil markets, nobody else is betting on AI companies or taking out derivatives on anything worth the trouble during the ebb and flow of the latest big war. No one else is profiting at all.
If Trump and his minions did not exist our owners would need to make up such characters to achieve the levels of outrage, division, distraction and hopium that we’ve reached today. Meanwhile, no one has time to worry about the things that will truly affect them personally, not with all these divisive figures to hate being trotted out when necessary. The outrage porn will continue, and both “sides” will continue to revel in it, no matter how much worse the real damage gets due to the installed willful ignorance our owners dish out for our daily consumption.
I was outraged a long time before Trump arrived on the scene.
“Hopium”? I voted for Obama twice.
Trump and his minions are only a continuation of whichever administration has been chosen to continue and control the narrative.
Same job, different boss.
The Trumpster won’t be happy until he starts WW3.
“President Donald Trump has suggested that the US would attack its ally Oman if it attempts to seize control of the Strait of Hormuz, which has effectively been closed since the US and Israel launched attacks against Iran in February.
According to Reuters, Trump made the remarks after Iranian state TV reported that it obtained an unofficial draft agreement that would reopen the vital waterway, with Iran and Oman jointly managing maritime traffic.
“No, the strait is going to be open to everybody,” Trump told journalists during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday. “We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. That’s part of the negotiation that we have.”
“It’s international waters. And Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. They’ll be fine,” Trump said.”
You’ve got this wrong: Netanyahu won’t be happy until he prevents ANY US President from seeking an off-ramp to Middle Eastern wars, which spread to cause WW III.
It’s not about Trump, it’s about Zionist control of US elected representation.
I agree with you.
Here’s a new manoeuvre. There is apparently a new horror movie called “Backrooms” which is based on some kinda video game nomenclature as “The Independent” (sic) reports:
This report is headed:
How about that? An anonymous post sets up a new meme and this is confidently predicted to set up a whole new franchise! Gosh – it all happened so organically!
Regarding regulation of social relations, like children’s access to social media/adult circumstances, this article below on regulating college athlete salaries, payrolls, and balancing college athletic programs among all schools, is archetypal example of why society must regulate large systems within capitalism that become critically socially out of balance. As we can see in 2026, the folks with the most money flywheel any circumstance into proprietary elite playgrounds for themselves and their personal profit. The rest of society is thrown off the train as permanent losers.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/college-football/article/key-senators-strike-bipartisan-deal-on-sweeping-college-sports-reform-with-transfer-eligibility-and-cap-enforcement-152527197.html
Any college football fan, not from the SEC or Big Ten, will tell you that rich schools athlete salaries, yearly transfer portals and professional style aggressiveness has destroyed the competitiveness and regional nature of college football. All importance, money and attention is in the top 20 teams, the national championship tournament and the incremental creation of a college “super league”. This situation broke apart the Pac 12 conference, basically West Coast college football with a long tradition going back to 1900. The power of accumulating money in the hands of the few, becomes totally corrupting and demands regulation to prevent damage to the whole. It’s like a football game without equal rules applied to everyone. It evolves into a no weight limits cage fight between the biggest and baddest. This is also a metaphor for regulating monopoly, wealth and poverty to a balanced system where everyone has a chance to compete fairly.
Otherwise, we have Koyaanisqatsi, Life out of Balance. Like 2026.
The Trumpster truly is a narcissist.
MonitorX (@MonitorX99800): “https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/26a1.svg– The Trump administration is pushing for a $250 bill with Trump’s portrait, which would make him the first living person depicted on US currency since 1866 when it was banned by the Congress.” | nitter.poast.org
If Trump remember the kippah on the portrait it would be perfect.
Someone should tell him if his portrait was on toilet paper, he would get more exposure.
WARNING!! 2026 Pandemic — “DTD’s” (Digitally Transmitted Diseases). SELF-ISOLATE — STAY HOME! STAY INSIDE! You may be an asymptomatic carrier!
Not entirely unfunny (in fact, actually pretty funny).
https://www.youtube.com/@FlexYourFreedoms/videos
America has it good compared to totalitarian
Europa: there, you’re allowed to film anything.
https://archive.is/IFWmv
Arguably, the two most ubiquitous features of the ‘Age of the Internet’ are social media and mass surveillance. In fact, some might further argue that the former is a feature of of the latter.
As a propaganda tool, social media seemingly has no parallel – as a means by which to evaluate the temperature of the public consciousness.
If the “authorities” seek to neuter the social media feature, they threaten to lose a key feature of the Internet as a mechanism of control… could be a good thing.
It was over for prosperity in the UK back in 1945 but they dragged on, supported by the new superpower America. Then they had a brief respite with North Sea oil and boomed a bit, now they have nothing. Just overpopulation, Mountains of debt, and no product or resources to trade with the rest of the world for the food and energy they desperately need.
Most of the population was sucked in by the alternate energy swindle, hoping it would bring cheap electricity to their freezing cold nation but it’s proved to be very expensive electricity and the massive debts for it still have to be repaid. Then of course it will all break down in 20 odd years and leave nothing but hills covered in techno-detritus.
Is this the worst case scenario? No, this is just the facts.
Exactly. Since Reagan-Thatcher’s incremental privatizing gut of society, the wealth club has become predatory upon common society. They used to be predatory upon colonies/foreign regions, but when that tapped out, like Iran is proving for the US, the only profitable victims left are the homeland commoners. Every economic sector in the US is tailored to exploit the working class and poor, extracting every dollar of disposable income and forcing them into debt to their banks. Social media is a two-way mirror for them to closely surveil their victims, manipulate, distract and occupy them until AI is rolled in to become the overlord of a remote controlled society. We have an opportunity now to disrupt this entire schema, by not participating in any of this social manipulation and economic usury. Just stop paying them, obeying or cooperating in all ways possible.
Yes Sandy, the future is not a pretty picture, but that was obvious to those looking around 20 years ago when I found the rabbit hole. people don’t talk about it anymore but the same rules apply today, get out of debt, disconnect from social media platforms, move rural far from the city. That last one was fun, most people said “I can’t do that, my job is in the city.” Well so was mine, but I PLANNED and 12 years later went out and bought a place, they were cheap as chips before covid, now they are nearly the same price as the city homes. Window of opportunity closed (Ka-Chunk)
There are still a few windows of opportunity open but no one will find them while they are running around with their hair on fire hey.
If you look at the “Us and Them” system we have now it is the same as the one they had before WWII. What happened in the intervening years was abundant cheap oil lifted the poorer classes out of the muck and gave them a nice job and a nice home and shopping malls etc. But that oil, that CHEAP oil is gone forever and now the masses are being bamboozled by dreams of household Robots and unlimited Alternate energy. Flying cars and bases on Mars. If they knew the truth, that the good times were really over, they would sell all their shares in these pointless consumer goods companies and stop wasting money on Netflix and start saving and covering their asses for the future. I doubt even the millions in homeless camps and living in their cars understand this, even though “they” are the beta testers for the future povo life most will face.
Perhaps I got a bit paranoid over the age verification restrictions that I knew were coming in Australia that I went out and bought piles of books on topics like Technocracy, Transhumanism, Agenda 2030, Freemasons, Zionism, Sabbatean Frankists, Jesuits, etc, because I actually believed that by now I would no longer have access to things like YouTube, social media and even the internet itself. Or so I thought, which was obviously wrong. Because it’s now May 28th 2026, and I’m sitting here reading Offguardian and I was just on Instagram a short time ago. And I still have access to YouTube as well. And yeah… as a smoker, I’m aware how addictive social media is… cough, cough, when instead of spending hours doom scrolling, and perhaps getting a bit paranoid, people could use their time much better by reading some of the books they’ve bought! Ahem. Or joining like minded groups. Or getting out into Nature more often. Just my thoughts.
Good onya Gezzah.
Completely irrelevant to the article… but I was in Castlemaine today trying to sell the street magazine that I sell, in Gisborne yesterday, and given the economic situation in Australia, with cost of living increasing, the fact a lot of people are now getting squeezed financially, it’s making things tougher. I observe people closely, and the mood of passersby this week has been quite glum; their body language and facial expressions are very telling. And yes, all this has been planned by the pyschopaths at the top of the pyramid. Part of their agenda to usher in their new digital gulag system.
Castlemaine and Gisborne?
They’re a long way from the Big Smoke.
Free trains Gezzah?
You might have done just as well to spend you’re money on a VPN, then you would have it all, just like six months ago. BTW, with a VPN you have access to all those ‘free’ book sites which contain most of what you are curious about.
Point taken Tom, and I hear you about all those free book sites. Call me eccentric or a bit of an old fuddy duddy, but my entire music collection is piles of physical CD’s that I can hold in my hand. All the books in my library are physical books that I can hold in my hand. I don’t stream anything or read digital books. Just the way I am, and yes, it would have been a lot cheaper doing what you suggest. As it turns out, the only site I used that implemented age verification in Australia was Substack. And I deleted the Substack app as soon as I found out what they’d done.
So, I’ve been wondering… How do you find like-minded groups? There are apps out there but they’re all set up and controlled by mainstream operators and, therefore, populated by normies, such as Meet Up.
Good question.
Gosh, they should probably all quit (no payouts then) and be replaced by AI and robots:
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/05/27/nearly-a-third-of-europes-health-and-social-care-workers-face-cancer-risks-at-work-study-f
Coming next – how Powerpoint gives teachers bubonic plague….
LOL. A world without abundant cheap energy, Oil and Coal, can’t afford to support a massive white collar population of mouse pushers and retail facilitators, lawyers and investment advisers, marketing men and vets for French Bulldogs. AI is just a cover story to hide the fact that those jobs are all vanishing. They have been going in great numbers since the GFC, well before AI was given as the reason.
Never believe what you are told in the mainstream media, NEVER.
They all had to take the C-shots and about a third getting cancer sounds right.
Next up: toxic caterpillars!
“The danger comes from thousands of tiny hairs covering the insects, which can become airborne and spread through the wind.”
GB News (Galloping Bullsit News?)
Wait till they carry ebola
And then of course there’s the Tony Blair ghoul urging the stoppage of payment to the elderly and disabled to increase spending on “defence”. Defence against who? Against the elderly and disabled!
He’s seen trump making billions while he only made millions, he wants another chance now to fill up his bank account.
The media machine rumbles on. Another Pride march gets cancelled due to vandalism. And then stuff about skyrocketing “hate” on social media. So keep pushing the paedo celebration and then just wait for the inevitable protest branded as vicious bullying.
They hung Mussolini up – to a lampost.
Now there’s an idea.
Good heavens ! Viruses popping up all over the place and extreme weather events happening too !
We’re Doomed, i tell you ! We’re DOOMED !!
Please DO NOT use air conditioners during heatwaves as data centers need it more. Thank you.
need ‘the energy mre’, that is.
Data centres could use the equivalent of a quarter of Sydney’s current annual drinking water supply within a decade, according to the state’s peak water utility.
Currently data centres use approximately 3.5 billion litres of Sydney’s drinking water supply per year — which is less than 1 per cent of total demand.
They are already doing it. E-mail keeps trying to shut me off until I give them more and more information about myself, which they excuse on the basis of “security”. (Who on earth wants to read an endless queue of receipts from Ebay?)
Updates on your package delivery -ffs, what happened to common sense. Just deliver the thing. End.
Ah, yes– “toxic positivity”: a succession of e-mail notifications, e.g. “Great News! We are preparing your order for shipment from our warehouse!”
I used to be enthralled by such missives, and immediately ordered party balloons, champagne, etc. But this only triggered new cascades of ecstatic updates, like a sort of Ponzi scheme, and I had to stop or go bankrupt. 📧🎈 🍾 🥂 💸 😣
Ahaaa so you are trading on Ebay. We only wanna know what you are buying and why you are buying it and your closest financial network. We have to make a financial credit evaluation of you. Authorities demand it for safety and security reasons.
Pending.
‘The researchers found that the correlation between infectious diseases
and authoritarian governance was as high as 73%. For social sciences,
this is an astonishingly high and extremely rare encountered correlation [….].
What it says bears repeating: authoritarian rule goes hand in hand
with outbreaks of infectious disease. It follows that if someone wanted
to introduce totalitarian rule over the whole world a global panic would be
the perfect means to facilitate that agenda/’
Alex Krainer – ‘0f Authoritarianism and Pandemics.’
Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062275
In other words: Spook the kids and they’ll all run to Daddy (or Big Brother)
for Protection…
And the way They’re throwing the Virus Scare at us, one ‘virus’ after another,
suggests They might be about to make Their move (under cover of The Oil
Crisis)…
Brilliant find!
Thank Alex Krainer (Trendcompass)
but you’re welcome, anyway…
The correlation is obvious – when you think about it…
When there’s a threat, we all run to A Strong Man (Champion) to defend us…
The Elite know that about us, now use the knowledge to control us…
OK, everyone, if you really are serious about online privacy and defying these ham-fisted attempts at installing universal digital ID, then you’ll STOP POSTING LINKS TO SUBSTACK ARTICLES!
For the past 5 months and counting, Substack has been unnecessarily requiring every Australian user to “verify our age” by providing high-resolution images of our face or a government-issued photo ID of some sort (passport, driver’s license, etc.).
Please, stop supporting Substack with your attention and your restacks! Otherwise, I just can’t take you seriously.
If you want to know what happens to your biometric data if you comply:
The weird spiderweb that is Substack’s “age verification” requirement
Let’s run this company out of business, or at least seriously affect its bottom line with mass defections.
Thanks!
If the post’s title gets your attention, you can dial-up the post without supplying
facial, etc…
https://(author’s handle).substack.com/p/(title of article/post)
Works for me…
Tricky. What’s the alternative?
Sub = under
Stack = pile of shit
That kind of situation dictates a refusal to comply and abandonment of use. FB years ago required me to endure ridiculous authentication protocols, so I just stopped using FB. Social media is a fucking waste of time anyway. Shadowbanning, bots, AI, god knows what one’s seeing when there. It’s a two-way mirror world of their making. Dismaland indeed.
“The question isn’t whether we are going to act, we will!”
Yes, we know that, Liz – when do politicians do anything else? The ‘liberal’ Guardian telling everyone what they can think and say again.
“Social media should be treated like tobacco – it’s extremely addictive, bad for our health, and big tech is borrowing the big tobacco playbook to avoid regulation. We’ve got to give our children their childhood back […] A ban for under-16s must be the start, not the end […]We have given the pen to tech moguls to write our future for us. It’s time to take the pen back.”
I would not actually be opposed to this. Social media, cell phones, and all the rest of the digital on-line nicotine is not really any good for people, especially kids. But I also know banning anything only increases its popularity among young people and even a lot of old people. I started smoking, drinking, and using drugs at about age 13 largely because they were banned and all the adults were saying I’d ruin myself if I did. I just had to try. By 20 I was pretty much bored with drinking and drugs, but I continued to smoke cigarettes well into my 30s. Then I got over or out grew all of it.
In the state where I live, all kids in public schools are given a lap top in the first grade and their learning is primarily transmitted to them via the laptop and the apps and websites sold to the school districts for “educating” kids. They never “read” a book. They see some summary or some information about the book and then they are quizzed on it. Everything is an on-line exercise.
This isn’t really education. It is computer game playing. The designers make everything fun for kids in order to keep their attention. TV used to be called “the plug in drug.” Now cell phones and laptops are also drugs administered through the eyes.
I’m not sure kids will ever “out grow” any of these new electronic drugs because they change and upgraded constantly. I wish laptops and cell phones could be banned but they just cannot. Banning never works.
You forget (or deliberately omit) the biggest evil that the kids suffer from: the parents.
Not in general, just parenting in the western countries is a horrible joke.
The parents have abandoned any pretense of raising the children, preferring instead to have govt pedophiles do it for them.
You want to ban internet for children? Stop sending kids to brainwashing in schools, provide them with books, tools and A LOT of your time and see how they flourish.
YES, I am doing this and I am not rich. Amish are doing too and many other groups that have decided that raising children is more important than a new car or a new cellphone every year.
If you keep your kids at home schooling in western Liberal societies they will be removed from your home, as you will be blamed for isolating your kids.
Mom and Pop are supposed to work both, while their kids are in kindergarten and school..
Homeschooling is growing.
A few have woken
There is some truth in it. Children love other children to play with.
I kept my own until he was 2 years old, then I could see he got crazy when we passed some kids on his age.
So I decided to place him in a kindergarten and it was a great success at least 1 year.
But children can survive stupid adults if they have their comrades and friends beside them. The adults become secondary and their first life is to play together and befriend other children.
All true Roy but alas the parents are mostly from the Internet age themselves, and a crappie brainwashing education process.
All good and well but note that cults, just like other strongly religious groups brainwash their kids too. Never mind the patriarchal aspect of how girls and women are kept there, in addition to the reports of animal and child abuse happening within these groups.
My point is that physical and emotional abuse tends to happen in all groups and if parents happen to be fervent followers of any such groups the children will be no better off than in the state-run brainwashing institutions.
Only independently thinking parents could offer a truly liberating upbringing for their children.
It’s been revealed that Silicon Valley Big Tech parents dont let their kids use
the devices because they know the effects they have. One billionaire Tech
Bro allegedly wont let his kids use them till the kids are at least 12 years old…
The billionaire techies keep their children away from even TV until a certain age, according to a report 10-15 years ago. The harm is well established. A child enjoying TV or laptop with a parent/guardian is a different matter.
Can anyone think of any government in history they would trust with the military information technology available now. No political hierarchy could ever be trusted with it.
From an article desperately trying to convince you the warm weather is caused by “man made climate change”
Its quite something, that in almost every article, they tell you they are lying, and mocking you.
DO NOT COMPLY
33, really?
It’s the return of Tony Blair.`
The Devil looks after his own
There’s something wrong with TB’s face, it’s should have bars across it.
Gaps have started to appear in the local supermarkets shelves. Over the
next few weeks more and more shelves will remain empty… The corporate
propaganda media, and the government remain mum… They could claim
they dont want to incite PANIC BUYING by commenting on The Shortages,
but the government intends to exploit The Shortages, to blame them on
Panic Buying, and Hoarding – and will even allege BLACK MARKETS are
involved…
The government will claim it has no choice but to act, to establish “Fairness”
though Rationing… Rationing will require Ration Cards – Vaxx Passports are
ideal for use as temporary Ration Cards – until you get your Digital ID.. (And
if you’re a Vaxx Hesitant, dont have a Vaxx Passport – get Digital ID – or
starve)…
……. By the end of the year everyone will have submitted to obtain Digital ID..
The Rationing will continue – because even if the Hormuz Strait is opened
today – there will be no return to The World As We Know it…
Have more and more people really woken up, since ‘covid’, about The Elite’s
plans for us ? I seriously doubt it…
Of Pandemics and Totalitarianism
https://trendcompass.substack.com/p/of-pandemics-and-totalitarianism
Excellent article! Thanks for the link.
The author linked to an August 2020 article he’d posted, in which he argued
‘the pandemic’ was cover story while the REPO crisis was ‘solved’. I had figued
as much myself but dare not say it. Wish i’d come across his article at the time…
Solzhenitsyn says the majority will only wake up, when trucks are unloading scarred dead bodies on their doormatt.
The USSR had a fraction of the power of distraction that the Cabal has now, the plandemic zombies have been driven even deeper into the denial, that allows our gangster government to thrive. It’s all dread and circuses.
Me too doubt it. I would like to hope but……. 😏 .
Anyway Lukashenko continues to impress me. I always liked this man as a real cowboy.
But if any have a chance it is the US people.
Americans have rejected technocracy before and can happen to be the people who do it again.
Then the rest of the world could follow.
Pathogens and Politics:Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0062275
Maybe it’s because I’m an old fogey, but I find the whole idea of having to carry a personal computer with you at all times pretty bizarre. Never mind social media, I believe the whole smartphone “revolution” to be harmful in a multitude of ways, to adults as well as children. Sensible policies would be to at least ensure that businesses must always offer workable alternatives to do things via “app” so that people are not essentially forced to use the damn things but I’ve never heard any politician even propose such as thing. I apply my rule of thumb to anything proposed by governments/organisations/billionaires – if they say they’re doing it for the good of the little people, they’re not. It will be for the usual reasons, namely money, power or control (or some combination of the three). It’s the same with the proposed social media ban for kids – the reason they’re doing it is nothing to with the wellbeing of children. They simply do not give a damn.
No crook or imbecile in authority has explained or provided contingencies for these:
-. phone damage, corruption, software update failure or loss
-. no electricity: terrorism, vandalism, solar EMP, etc.
-. online delivery/trade/QR code scam – very common
-. scam on bank account: “social engineering”
-. scam or incompetence by bank.
Off-Guardian itself is behind CloudFlare. There’s a good reason for that, you get attacked if you’re not. But it’s also akin to a digital ID. CloudFlare knows who you are and what you read and write.
Some info on it.
“Cloudflare is a publicly traded company, meaning its ownership is distributed among public shareholders, institutional investors, and company insiders. The company was founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince, Michelle Zatlyn, and Lee Holloway. As of recent data, 78.31% of Cloudflare’s shares are held by institutional shareholders, with the largest individual shareholder being Venrock Associates V LP”
The Rockefellers own the majority of shares in it.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Venrock
And.
I don’t believe for one second our data isn’t shared by them.
“Cloudflare collects personal information to provide its services, but it does not sell or rent your personal information. They prioritize user privacy and transparency in their data handling practices. If you have concerns about your personal information being shared, you can access, correct, or delete your information through their privacy policy.”
A wee bit more on Clouflare, all three “owners” are major WEF attendees one is classed as a possible future young leader, another is a Trilateral Commission member, you don’t ask to join the (TC) they ask you.
Its more than likely Cloudflare (according to this) is a NSA asset, on data collection – our data that is.
Cloudflare – Wikispooks
Should an IT amateur like me interpret it that way, that they place trojan horses inside our computer and suck it up?
Or do they only suck Republicofscotland’s and our funny comments here?
Just asking two small question and immediately a 5000 thousand crowd of commentator maniacs give it a thumb down 🙄 .
“[. . .] an idiot whose ambition outweighs his intellect by a factor of ten.” Lol! And, at the same time . . . . OMG! Just get on with it.
The problem for the PTB is that they don’t like the masses getting their information from it – it hinders their nefarious goals for us and the planet – yes too much blue screen time is bad, its bad for everybody not just kids – but using that excuse to to curb our access to information is not really possible for them – smoking drinking alcohol and vaping are bad for kids – but that will continue as its not a threat to them – finding out the truth of what they are up to on social media is.
Streeting is a Zionist/corporate puppet.
The goal is to have as much human activity as possible taking place online, rather than physically in real life, making as much information as possible trackable, analysable and exploitable. Standardizing and homogenizing the life experiences of all people as much as possible, in order to make them more predictable, and therefore controllable
I would therefore expect some walk back on this in the case of children in order to get digital ID via age verification in place.
Once that is implemented I expect the age restriction to be relaxed on some pretext or other, while digital ID remains.
That’s quite possible actually. They have no interest in genuinely protecting kids that’s for sure. All they want is to put people under ever more surveillance
I didn’t think of that Taboo, you make some good points. The bottom line is the ghouls want to get as many people as possible to take up digital identity, because as we are well aware on here, digital identity is the foundation of the digital panopticonic gulag they want to bring in.
Your points are very plausible.
However, if this is truly the case, why are people getting banned from social media?
In April, I was was banned from FB and my account of 20+ years deleted without a trace.
The account was in my real name and I’m not contemplating going back.
So that’s one less social media user they can harvest for data.
There’s a calculation to be made here. True, you will make no more social media contributions, but that has to be weighed against your ‘obviously disturbing influence” in the walled garden of social media.
I wouldn’t be so sure that your account was completely deleted. Inaccessible definitely, but perhaps zipped and vaulted away. I don’t believe that any of this information collected is thrown away.
…and of course your remaining Internet activity will be leaving traces, which are becoming ever more amenable to analysis.
Just look at all of the data storage/ data centres under construction.
You were banned from social media because the algorithm calculated that the benefit of having your future information was exceeded by the cost of your ‘ disturbing influence”,meaning for one thing that it already had accumulated considerable information.
I wouldn’t be so sure that your account was fully deleted. Made inaccessible yes,but maybe zipped and vaulted.
Your remaining online activity continues to generate traces, which become ever more amenable to analysis.
All of that storage capacity/data centres must be for something.
Moderator,
Please remove the 10:11 reply.
Thanks, I thought the 10:11 reply had got lost. Composed it again.
This is still the responsibility of the parents. The “government” can go after the corporations if they want to.
The government isn’t doing this to protect the children – isn’t that obvious? They have invented or exaggerated a “problem” with children in order to eradicate online privacy for adults – all of us!
Yes. But nobody ever in the whole mainstream “discussion” brought up the fact that this is not even the responsibility of the “government”.
Think about that.
If the UK Government was really concerned about children’s welfare and concern for their safety, why aren’t they doing something about the shocking levels of child poverty in the United Kingdom, especially in places like Middlesbrough, Oldham, Blackpool, Pendle to name some. That’s of course, if they were actually concerned about the welfare of children….
“Hey Doc, I don’t feel well”
https://drwojakmd.substack.com/p/healthcare-leading-cause-of-death
US medical system kills at least half a million people.
US have a population of 1/4 of China. In China dies 12 mio people ‘naturally. every year, for whatever reason.
That means US have 4 mio ‘natural’ death a year, hereof 0,5 mio from healthcare.
Excuse me but I dont find that alarming. 1/8 of all deads in US to be healthcare is natural!
Pure naturally.
3 mio sorry.
Not as tiring as this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/hajj-2026-muslim-pilgrimage-photos/106725952
44c ! That is HOT!
Oh well, God’s will must be obeyed.
A report claims that 45 of the hottest cities (or the 45 hottest) are in India, most at 44C. Modi has been solicitous, asking people to take precautions.
I doubt this report.
The biggest problem here is, yes indeed somethings need to be child/adult gated. I posted my ideas here before, and have not yet heard mention of ideas for similar hardware age limited approach.
My scheme has changed after thinking on it for a while…
1) Internet broadband delivery will have to be reconfigured to a default universal Library Access mode that is free of encryption for access. Web publishing would exist in two separate realms: non-commercial/information (.info) and commercial (.com and everything else). All non-commercial, non-profit/information sites would have to apply for the new extension (.info) and would have to agree to maintain a non-commercial, non-commerce presence with no transactions or prurient content. Commercial sites include everything else and each publisher can have appropriate free and commerce sites as desired.
Without profit and commercial transactions, there would be no social media, addictive eye candy apps, pornography, perverts, and psychos to harass and manipulate people. A nice quiet study zone like a Library WITHOUT COMMERCIAL OR NERVE STIMULATING DISTRACTION.
2) Adults can buy a hardware de-encryption device, dongle or whatever, that interfaces/unscrambles Adult Access. This must be purchased at a computer/phone store, with ID check just as alcohol. Jurisdictions could designate localized age limits. (For practical reasons, this may make smartphone access too cumbersome thus eliminate Adult internet access, which I say is a good idea for everyone. People could actually start living publicly in a society and live face to face.)
It is time humanity realizes digital technology needs to be regulated so that human beings do not lose sovereignty over their and their family’s lives. “Progress” is no longer for it’s own sake. It needs to serve the needs of individuals, communities and society, or it must leashed so as to provide that tool like function. AI is the terminal edge of the elite’s digital Panopticon that includes social media, and must be caged like a Godzilla.
They have already brainwashed you into thinking there’s a problem that the “gumment” needs to solve. Why are you happy giving all that power to the evil regime intent on ruining our lives in so many ways?
So there should be no regulation of anything and the entities with the most money are allowed to do anything they want? Libertarians.
I basically agree with you about the toxicity if digitalism, but this is not about that, and government/corporates don’t care about children or anyone else, and are merely leveraging these concerns to suit their own agenda.
And that’s why the adult world, with it’s elite groomed psychopathic class society, needs to be separated so by the time they are adults they can easily see the psychopathy and evolve it to a harmonious relationship with Universe.
We already have age restrictions for movies.
Policing phone access will be a tad more difficult.
There’s no policing, other than sites not separating commercial content to the appropriate channel. You want porn accessible to kids? You want psychopaths accessible to kids? You want kids development years traumatized by totally worthless full access screen time? Come on!
The easy answer? Do not provide children with any device, period. Why should this not be up to individuals to decide what tech to use and what not to use? While government regulation sounds benevolent, we sure ought to know by now most of it is anything but. Life is risk, period. No one is guaranteed anything. That may sound Libertarian to you and perhaps it is, but at this late date if we refuse to see that we do still have some tiny bit of control over what tools we use and what tools we refuse, then we really are already in the gulag whether we admit it or not.
And I’m sorry, that binary attack BS – “oh, you’re against that so you must be FOR this” is not a valid argument and you know that. No one thinks kids should access porn, or that psychopaths should have access to kids, but thinking government can, or will, protect kids from either of those things should be seen for the fallacy it is by now.
The word government has been fatally disabled and fractured into whatever any one person decides they think it means.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/government
Government is a form of governing. Self-governing is my desired form. In tribal size groups, governing is easy and usually is held together by the collective social standards of the group where each basically adheres to commonly agreed upon rules or they make decisions as a whole in a tribe meeting to that end. No “reps”, a direct democracy of an agreed upon nature.
In mass culture, where basically no one knows more than 100 others, what happens when local cultural rules are shattered without consent of locals?
Your statement assumes that regulations can’t work because “government” will screw it up, so best to police the situation at home within your family and let each person and family do the policing. I agree the existing government will not design or attend to it regulation properly. But self-governing among consenting adults can design rules of operation that are consensual, fair and effective if agreed to. Every time I propose something, this is the standard. Self-governing “government” if you will, because this is the only arrangement that will work to the satisfaction of a society.
Many libertarians, imo, have almost no acknowledgement of society or social responsibility to negotiate effective agreements to the limits of harm that accrue from unlimited human activity, in mass culture. Earth’s natural systems no longer constrain human activity, naturally. If individual entities decide to clear cut, strip mine, nuke, cheat, steal, kill, trick or manipulate, and there are no agreed upon rules to assert non-consent from an agreed upon consensus of society, there is nothing to stop them but self organizing vigilantes. To allow the above scenario to proceed, as it does now with the rich who live above the law, is naive and ecocidal on the macro scale, and unnecessarily foolish on the micro scale.
There is a false binary going on here, government vs no governing. The PTB, the government, love to make the governed believe there is no such thing as effective self governing. It nukes the governed minds from thinking they can effectively self govern, without “leaders”, without “representatives”, without cops, without military, without surveillance, etc.
Anti-authoritarians and anarchists have rules about how to hold effective meetings and make decisions with mass consent and no leaders. Agreeing upon consensual behaviors that work for everyone is possible, but not unless we acknowledge the possibility and work towards it’s design and implementation, outside the existing oligarchy. This is always where i am coming from. I never advocate working through the existing oligarchic abomination y’all call “government”.
An important goal of propaganda is to seem non-commercial when it is.
Kit, please don’t be as partial as the oligarchs’ MSM.
Let’s provide some context: UK is one of the most brainwashed country in the world where the proles have absolutely no problem with the pedophiles in power killing their children with the jab, starving them with junk food or brainwashing them to become willing slaves.
You can talk about how the govt will implement the policy decided by the billionaires but it’s important to keep repeating:
MOST PEOPLE IN UK SUPPORT THE PEDO BILLIONAIRES.
Just like in US, EU etc they might whine online or at the pub but where it matters (with their time and their skin) they LOVE their masters.
Any investigation that does not mention this basic fact is just propaganda or a feel good piece. More importantly, any solution presented will fall flat unless we acknowledge and work around this basic fact.
One has to protect one self and earn money. Therefore I am never saying anything against my government. For a government is good.
Prepare yourselves!!!
Here in the sunny colonial outpost, aUStralian kids can be seen running and screaming down the streets with their devices, being pursued by the thought police and their parents. It’s horrific.
Give Children Their Childhood back – Abolish
SlaverySchooling !!One notable feature of Democracy is Children dont have a say in what
affects them…
And we know why: Given a say. it’d be “We Want Lollies for Breakfast,
Lollies for Dinner, and Lollies for Tea,”
** “Adult Opinions Matter !” – though –
** “Some Opinions Are More Equal Than Others !”
Some kids are quite responsible, while some (most?) adults are only controlling themselves out of fear of daddy govt.
Where do you draw the line? In the past, countries had wealth requirements to vote.
Some ancients used a random lottery to select the rulers (which would work a million times better than what we have today!)
In the end, unless a country is under genocidal foreign occupation (like Palestine) the people get the government they, in their heart of hearts, want.
“Where do you draw the line ?” ? Isnt that what the government is doing.
It’s what Humpty Dumpty told dimwitted Alice: “Who has the power to
Draw The Line is all that matters.”
Every Law passed is a Line drawn. Every Law a Restriction. And most
are for Your Protection (and if you are RICH, there’s more Law protecting
you and your Riches)…
Simple. Make taxation opt-in and if you want to have a say (“vote”), you’ll have to pay those taxes 😛
I like the scene from Zulu!
Yeah, but what would we do without violent flash mobs.
All these bans are an attempt by the Israel supporting billionaires and their tribe to restore the reputation of Israel. Social media users mostly hate Israel, but the likes of Musk, Elison, Facebook etc are all Zionist supporters with all of them trying to ban anti-Israel posts on their platforms.
If social media became pro-Israel, then the young kids would be allowed to watch it all day every day. The likes of Kier Starmer only worries about the people with money who are trying to protect Israel, not the people like us and certainly not the children, the same sort of children being raped by Saville when Starmer was turning a blind eye, or the sort of children being murdered in Gaza, or the sort of children being murdered in Russia.
Kier Starmer’s MI6 just killed 16 students in Russia, now he is concerned about bereaved parents? Ummm, why is it that I don’t trust that billionaire-installed puppet.
That will be the social media like Facebook and Tiktok being owned by radical Zionists genocide suporters and funders who are not trying to brainwash the children of today? That means that the UK government wants yet more powerful radical Zionist genocide brainwashing for your kids; maybe to turn them into IDF recruits?
Wait; I thought sitting was the new smoking.
<sigh> I just can’t keep up.