…and here comes the Online Safety Act
Kit Knightly
The UK’s Online Safety Act officially came into force two weeks ago, and they have wasted no time using it.
Alternative social media network Gab has already been threatened with a massive fine for its supposed failures to “police speech” on its platform. Anecdotes are piling up, small forums and communities blocking access from the UK for fear of attracting OfCom’s ire and the like.
But rest assured, an OfCom spokesperson promised the Telegraph they would “only take action where it is proportionate and appropriate”. So that’s alright.
The Financial Times headlines…
UK to crack down on illegal content across social media
It’s a bland piece of dishonesty by omission, pretending to objectivity even as it hides behind language. They only specifically mention child porn and terrorism and other criminal behaviour as “illegal content”, but don’t mention that the act is about far more than child porn and drugs.
It has entire sections dedicated to “false communication offenses” – meaning publishing material the state has deemed “misinformation”, and a second section specifically and explicitly giving newspapers and media companies immunity from those offences.
Nobody is talking about any of that, though, because fortunately enough Adolescence came out at the exact same time the act came into force, and has totally steered the national conversation on this topic while flooding social media with “concerned mothers” who really want the government to “take action”.
That’s right, the formerly-creeping now-galloping authoritarianism is a great thing because we need to save our children from…whatever.
From across the pond, Donald Trump and JD Vance are happily playing heel on this issue, with officials from their administration (allegedly) suggesting OSA impacts on free expression might threaten a trade deal or result in more dreaded tariffs.
This is all positioning, of course. It’s standard stuff. Trump is against the OSA, so to millions of entirely brainwashed people, that automatically makes it A Good Thing.
It also allows for editorials like this one in the Guardian, headlining “The Guardian view on online safety: don’t let Trump dictate the terms of debate”. Now Keir Starmer can “stand up to the bully Trump” by refusing to “water down” the “protections”.
Now Keir Starmer can “stand up to the bully Trump” by refusing to “water down” the “protections”.
The predictable charities and pundits are all “appalled” at the idea of “watering down” the OSA “protections”, and their suggested alternative – which won’t happen – is a complete social media ban for children.
They’ve tried that gambit in Australia already, and it’s not really a social media ban so much as it’s an excuse to end online anonymity.
How do you ban children? You can’t, not without making everyone prove their age.
The “compromise” option is that we don’t ban children, but then we would need to know who is and isn’t a child in order to best protect them from radicalization and hate speech…so everyone better prove their age.
And, of course, all this needing to prove your age stuff flows neatly into a government-issued digital identity.
Some people even suggest that it should be illegal for anyone under 16 to own a smartphone.
How do you enforce that? Well, you’d need to prove your age (and therefore your identity) to own a cell phone, so buh-bye pre-paid anonymous phones. (They really don’t mind leaning into the “Oi mate, you got a license for that?” meme, apparently.)
Usually I would dismiss this as one of those ridiculously extreme positions designed to make the actual goal seem more palatable, but I could actually see this one going ahead. After all, we don’t want kids wandering around with access to the internet 24/7, where they could fact-check teachers in real time for example.
And because it’s just rules, and they love having more rules.
That’s our “new normal” in a nutshell, isn’t it? More and more rules for rules’ sake.
OffGuardian will carry on warning anyone who’ll listen while we can, but with the Online Safety Act out in force and taking no prisoners, who can say how long that might be?
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The digital ID required to prove you’re an adult will form the basis of your digital wallet that includes the coming digital currency (CBDC). Any online wrong-think will then result in debanking, bypassing the need for court procedures.
it cant possbly be enforced if there’s a concerted effort to resist it they black everybody the cant everybody to court its unenforceable if we don’t comply
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this cant possibly be enforced if there’s a concerted effort to resist it if all ignore they can’t take everybody to court they can’t block everybody just completely ignore it carry on sying what your saying there’s nothing they can do about it
Starmer’s masters like Stalin’s idea that the safest place for individuals is in separate cells in prison. Sheep can roam freely.
Word press already censors certain keywords and certian topics and if you do a review online on certain review sites The word like cowboy, scammer and charlatan, con artists are considered defamatory.
Just ban cell phones altogether. No need for any age restrictions then.
perhaps you miss the irony in calling to ban anything which could be harmful. you become just like the system.
Just ban the internet from cell phones. Mobile calls and text are useful.
Dear Kit,
There has been lately a lot of “regulation” for the online space. DSA in UE as a general rule and on top of that each country with two censoring authorities, one over the telecommunications and Internet providers and the other over radiotelevision and public postings (with very weird local rules, modified constantly). I have seen around many posts deleted, accounts closed and even legal threats. Everything is done for our own good, to fight disinformation and repel the Russian cyber atacks but all is so opaque, there are never proofs of the Russians meddling and there is a clear unbalance between the sanctions applied to the non-affiliated, independently funded organizations or people expressing opinions contrary to the governments and the legacy media or sponsored influencers (for the same “crimes”). I believe that keeping blogs or sites where people can comment would be a way to remain informed and in connection. The articles can be about anything but the comments will help us put together pieces of information to understand what happens. This is what OffG is very good at, thank you and thank all the commenters in good faith.
The Online Slavery Act.
“we’re going to ban social media for under-16s,”
https://time.com/7273443/australia-social-media-ban-anthony-albanese/
Australia leading the charge again – where have we seen that before?
Australia?
So it turns out the future isn’t simply – “Orwellian” – its also rather – “Kafkaesque.”
Don’t forget Satanic!
Sorry bruh, but the “satanic!”-thing is the repression of speech mechanism of the previous millennium. You know, from the times where church & state were not separate things, but one and the same.
As such, hailing to the last oppressive institution as means to take on the current one is a bit weird an argument, I’d say.
Unless the financial side of church and state are currently being used as one, the argument would hold.
Or gvt is the life blood of satan, any of these should still be used during this period of time, as they were in the last period.
Or the more things change, the more they stay the same. Take your pick.
Sorry bruh, but it’s not. Satanic, in the context I offered, is the adulation and promotion of things that are objectively and measurably untrue over those things that are objectively and measurably true.
Off topic.
The Drainstream media and disinfotainment industry are as devious and sly as ever.
Did anyone catch a UK TV series called ‘Unforgotten’?
There’s a character in the series who is into conspiracy theories.
He is portrayed as an autistic, violent and deranged individual.
There is also some not so subtle mockery of his views.
All designed to confirm that only the government and the Drainstream Turds can be trusted of course.
“Do not attempt to adjust your set, you are entering the Outer Limits”
Standard reply incoming …
GET RID OF YER TELLY
Outvoted on that one.
This is easy for them.
For your own safety, reduction of crime and prevention of fraud or
protecting the elderly and venerable
or the children.
Throw in veterans or anti s and it is a full house of easy bullshit excuses.
Here’s my take on the online safety act, Soviet Britain, and crackdowns on dissidents:
UK Police State Solidifies
Freedom.. Once upon a time, this was the great divider. Indeed the west’s enemies hated you, it was often said, specifically for your freedoms.
There is something quite beautiful, in seeing those lies stripped back. In ‘The West’, as a concept, being eaten away, and from the inside. Falling from grace like a pube in a bathtub with the plug pulled, thrashing around in ever decreasing circles.
Dame Keir can be seen as a ‘hard man’ in not bowing down to the Orange Man. “It’s for the children, didn’t you know?”, so the Dame earns some street cred from certain quarters of the British public and the OSA stays in place.
In response, Trump slaps the UK with some more tariffs for not yielding to the ‘rights of U.S Big Tech’. Perhaps, Britain reciprocates. Up go the cost of goods, effectively taxing the plebs further on both sides of Atlantic. As in the case of Canada, an outbreak of patriotism occurs, flag waving and nationalistic fervour.
Meanwhile, other so-called nation states join in, upping the ante with more tariffs, and in doing so throw more petrol onto the flames. More flag waving and nationalism. Ordinary people across the world pay more and more for goods until they cannot afford to buy certain items while food and basics sky rocket in price, helping fufill the mantra of “You will own nothing….”.
Next, the recession/depression arrives and the patriotism has now been stoked to fever pitch. The peons, even the ‘awake’ ones, have long forgotten about the global lockstep of Covid-1984 and are sufficently riled up – believing that sovereign nations exist – it is time to send them off to war.
After an ugly war, or maybe just to the brink of it, or even the manufactured, scripted illusion of a war, then the pre-planned solution of global governance will be given as the only solution to kinetic wars, trade wars, competition, differing regulations and national disagreements.
Finally, all will live in harmony in a digital panoptican of technocratic global control and regulations.
Yep, that’s pretty much it.
Price inflation seems the main economic strategy now anyway, to relatively shrink debt and allow house purchases. I still see young adults stepping on the housing game. Unless you take on a tenant it’s mad at todays prices.
All approved content will be Safe and Effective™.
So JD Vance was right about Europe….
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
Seriously though… UK isn’t Europe and what they’ve got there is coming here shortly. AFAIK, Vance, Trump, GOP and a lot of the Dems want to get rid of Section 230, which will open the door to this Online Safety Act crap in the US. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
‘More and more rules for rules’ sake’. Hardly! This is all about ending free speech on behalf of the impending NWO tyranny. But it was probably just a lapse in logic; Kit does warn that speech controllers will soon be coming for OG too.
How can the kids fact-check teachers when the internet only contains government lies, the same lies the teachers have to spew forth otherwise they lose their jobs? Facts are the last thing you will find on the UK internet.
Also consider visitors to the UK; I have been critical of the UK in online comment sections, and so I cannot visit the UK any more as I will probably have broken their laws so will be arrested and thrown in jail for whatever duration their corrupt judges are told to hand out. I also probably fail their “anti-semitism” rules as well, so as a Brit, I cannot visit my home because of comments about Jews and criticism of the government. Some will say that those two crimes are in essence the same.
“rules for rules’ sake” doesn’t quite capture the mindset, I think
the optimal situation from the point of view of those in charge, whether they actively strive toward it or merely instinctively drift in its direction, is a criminal code that renders every citizen without exception guilty of some infraction or other
whenever necessary, then, troublemakers or inconvenient elements can legitimately be branded as offenders and on the basis of this stigmatized status they can be gotten out of the way, not merely expediently, but to the cheers of the law-and-order crowd
They really are trying to bring in minority report style governance.
All that phone and computer data will help them usher these draconian laws in.
Will voting against the government also be deemed “trouble making” and get you thrown into jail?
It seems to me that the new democracy is less about governments earning your trust in order to be elected, and more about people earning the privilege to not be thrown in jail for wrong think.
Don’t need a law for censorship. Happens all the time. Just noticed that NIH has deleted any mention of biofield therapies, energy medicine and the like from their government website. Energy healing – deleted, no discussion. I’m sure there are plenty here who will cheer that censorship. They have not funded any studies in that area in over 15 years. Funny, but we are all familiar with the energies of human interaction, and the healing we feel from a sympathetic friend, but no, can’t study any of that. Just fund intricate intracellular pathways and the latest pharmaceutical.
ugh, this internet’s pretty much gone to the dogs, hasn’t it? maybe we’ll just have to invent another one and this time not invite the squares
There are all those wonderful “libertarian” alternative sites….
1) Duckduckgo – turned out to be run by Israelis.
2) X – unusable without registration.
3) Telegram – also requires registration.
4) Rokfin – Corbett mentioned recently that he’d been kicked off it for no stated reason.
5) Substack – “no vaccine misinformation” is part of their guidelines.
Dear Edwige,
about 1) : what does it mean ? I thought the code is open source. If it’s about CEO, CBO Weinberg and Fischer then yes, maybe, I dont’t know. What happens if I use Duck ? Thanks
Online safety?
Remove all advertising, Corparasites and Influencers.
Imagine the peace.
Is there a safe government anywhere? When will those lawshakers be arrested?
1984 censorship.
False allegations and charges, political prisoners, ppl debanked for wrong opinions and demonetised for wrong content.
Government are the real terrorists now.
I don’t know how the dark web works but I’m sure the people they should be worried about do !
Why push the potential problems to the establishment underground where they will be much more difficult to police ?
Is this simple incompetence or am I missing something ?
Anything deemed illegal can be taken down on the dark web. It depends how far law enforcement will go to destroy sites like this.
Is that true ?
I have heard about snuff sites and nasty porn and violence.
I hear that the www. as we know it is 10- 15% of the internet.
Anyone with definitive info ?
Yes it is. Search for ‘Dark Web Crimes’
So why, then, do snuff & kiddy porn sites still exist?
Are they too busy sanctioning ‘truther’ sites?
No idea. Honey traps maybe. Perhaps you can shed some light as to why snuff and kiddy porn sites still exist since you appear to know more about them than I do.
Again, no idea. The war on everything it in it’s infancy.
They state (lie) that their censorship is to protect the children and that they want to eliminate child pornography online. This means that child pornography online still exists. That’s what I take from their hypocritical “concern” about our poor children.
Stop sniping and snarking at those who want to work for freedom. Instead, investigate those who want to eliminate it.
I’m fully aware of how censorship works and the excuses made to force it on us. If you’d be kind enough to tell me something I don’t know then I’m all eyes.
If nobody (or very few) people can
hearsee the “free Speech” is it still a problem for the establishment?If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Here’s a good resource for privacy focused individuals, now only available on the Dark Web
https://nowhere.moe/
Call it by its function: Online Censorship Act, or,
Online Total Censorship Act…
Only witty comment below the article: “Why would they have to torture them if they had proof of their crimes?” https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4980618/Nazis-secretly-tortured-death-Britain-named.html
The rest shows roughly the average mental state of the present-day British population brainwashed with Jewish historical lies. So nothing has changed in this regard for over 110 years, not even in the face of their population being replaced by millions of “POCs”.
“She teaches at the London Jewish Cultural Centre”. Anyone who is committed to the (whole) truth is clearly out of place there. But she dares to ask “Did the men who investigated war crimes commit war crimes themselves within its regal walls?” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fry
The more obvious question, namely whether her countrymen also committed war crimes outside their legal walls (e.g. with years of bombing terror against the German civilian population), which remain unpunished to this day, and are even considered “heroic deeds”, is not asked.
Well, even with little imagination one can abstract in how many cases these criminals used such “methods” to eliminate all witnesses who disputed their “narrative”, either by “legal” execution or faked “suicides” (Himmler, Hess etc.).
Speaking of Soviet style methods, book tip:
https://archive.org/details/stwxt/mode/2up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Hoffmann
The perverse effect of the whole thing is that practically all the devastating German ruined cities that we know from the films about WW2 are unconsciously attributed to Hitler. Someone who “caused such things” must of course have been a horrible monster.
The destruction caused by Hitler’s army (Spanish Civil War, “Blitz”, Stalingrad) is comparatively harmless. The “Holocaust”, at any rate, cannot be denied according to the current diction, not even in its extent.
So could it be that the “Allies”, i.e. the Bolshevik Eastern power and the plutocratic Western powers, and – as their “common child” – Israel, have lied to us all through their teeth? And that this lie is now also leading to their own unstoppable decline?
The “popular historian” Snow (great-great-grandson of PM David Lloyd George), who is born with a golden spoon in his mouth and who (among other things on his YouTube channel “History Hit”) generates a lucrative side income from the incessant British historical myths on the one hand…
…and the demonization of Germany on the other and was consequently rewarded with an “Order of the British Empire”, is visibly trying to justify the destruction of Dresden as a “necessary evil”, even if he tactlessly slaps his old compatriot in the face. The ugly word “war crime” does not cross his lips.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7bPRMoYuzI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Gregg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Snow
https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryHit/search?query=nazi
They only ever talk about Dresden, which is a mere diversionary maneuver that can be used to hide virtually the entire rest of the Allied destructive fury. KI provided the following information:
“With around 75,000 destroyed apartments, Dresden contributed around 1.5% to the total number of destroyed apartments in Germany. The number of victims in Dresden accounts for about 5-6% of the victims of the air war in Germany. The destroyed area of Dresden (15 km²) is relatively small compared to the total area of destroyed towns and villages in Germany.”
Mr. Six has just filmed a five-hour interview with an astonishingly sprightly 101-year-old honorary citizen of a municipality who survived Eisenhower’s Rhine meadow camp as a simple Wehrmacht soldier. Hitler’s day of coming to power coincided with his 10th birthday.
He had never heard of “mass murder” in concentration camps before the end of the war. In captivity, however, like everyone else, he was forced to watch Hitchcock’s (and/or Billy Wilder’s) infamous propaganda fabrication about Bergen-Belsen.
His father died in the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp – after the war, where the Stalinists interned him. When asked whether he considers the official death figures for the victims of Allied maltreatment in the POW “camps” to be credible, or James Bacque’s figure of 1 million, he says it could have been hundreds of thousands.
Activate auto-subs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Six
Most even here don’t want to delve too deeply into this truth.
Correction: Schornsheim born in 1924, not 1923.
Billy Six: “On page 289 you write: One day a US officer, a German-Jewish Major Samuel Cohen, drove back and forth along the main camp road in a jeep and shouted over the microphone and loudspeaker: ‘Are you hungry?’ After the answer in the cages was ‘Yes!’ he roared: ‘You can be happy: soon you won’t be hungry anymore, because then you’ll all have croaked, and that’s what I wish for you Nazi pigs!’ Desperate, powerless indignation on our part at so much inhumanity. End quote. How did you know the name of this American soldier?”
Kurt Schornsheim: “I found out later, when I was in the military hospital. I asked one of the doctors and he told me.”
Billy Six: “And he also told you that this was a German-Jewish officer.”
Kurt Schornstein: “The name alone tells you that.”
https://youtu.be/EGENfzSG8Qk?feature=shared&t=9489
comparing the relative harm of atrocities in war is a pretty barren exercise
was Stalingrad worse than Hiroshima? etc
there’s not much substance to such discussions
the fire-bombing of Dresden somehow became a cause célèbre, perhaps because of the reference to it in that popular book by Kurt Vonnegut, but of course Allied raids on cities like Hamburg and Tokyo killed way more civilians
the Nazis starved Leningrad’s residents, but in WW I Britain’s naval blockade resulted in untold thousands of hunger deaths among the Second Reich’s women and children, and in 1943 the Bengali famine, engineered by London’s war planners, claimed millions of lives
there was also the monstrous episode of a British air attack against a German dam, possibly the year after the famine, calculated to drown the population of whole towns
the BBC not long ago presented a feature on this massacre lionizing the brave pilots who risked all for the good fight, and by the same logic the indiscriminate vaporization of those Japanese cities in the last days of the Pacific conflict was another unimpeachable paragon of virtuous slaughter
Dresden was Operation Thunderclap. Is the Thunderclap Newman song ‘Something in the Air’ about it? Pete Townshend was behind that band (he played bass and they used his recording facilities) and his father had been in the RAF.
Of course the Anglo-American establishment blamed Dresden on Stalin – like they blamed the Russians for all the missing German PoWs who were killed in American and French camps. See ‘Other Losses’ by James Bacque.
None of these guys can deny 6 million is 6 million no matter how hard they try!
Yea yea, of course! Exactly 6 million.
At least for people who also believe
in Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.
Scripture and Tradition — Fr JM
Billy Six (born 24 December 1986) is a German independent…..
Say 2+4 is 6. December is 12 = 2 x 6. Total 3 x 6 = 666. 1986 is 1+8=9, 9 is 9, 6 is 6 =996=666. = Billy Six born 666 666.
Not questioning yr comment. Just found this little detail a little weird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_family
https://forebears.io/surnames/six
Thanks for the trouble. Now I understand better why we are so many on our planet. No matter what some people desire they will never get rid of 6 million..
I would strongly advise Kit and the other owners of OffG to move their entire operation away from (what I presume is) their UK internet provider, if they have not already done so, into something far from the reach of these odious fools.
The problem is, even if Kit moved his stuff to a foreign server completely, His Majesty’s Government could still have it blocked in the UK.
Is Usenet still around? Something that is not web-based may be the only way to keep free speech alive in the near future. 😢
Their tentacles reach far and wide. To keep his site alive we may have to go back to using code words as we did during the Divoc era.
The crows are flying high over Moscow tonight.
Nelson has been replaced by Balls.
*This site. Don’t use a wireless keyboard guys 🙄
The way to get around this for British users is to use VPN and virtual-access the site via another country.
VPN’s are on the hit list. YouTube now demand you complete a captcha for all content if using one. This will become the norm for all sites when the gatekeepers demand hosts either get on board or be destroyed.
https://www.usenet.org/en/about
Circumventing the “blocks” is the least of your issues, can easily be done with a “trusted” vpn provider like mulvad or airvpn, or using i2p or tor.
I do not think students “fact-checking teachers” is a good thing.
Teachers, I am afraid, are not the bad guys. Teachers are not out to get you. Teachers are not trying to deliberately teach you lies.
I would also ask: who lies more? The Internet or teachers?
I am afraid the answer is the internet, by a mile. I am constantly amazed at the lies and hoaxes and spin I see on the internet masquerading as fact.
The anthem, “We Don’t Need No Education,” is, I am afraid, mendacious.
We need a lot of education. Every bit we can get.
And thus, I wholeheartedly support confiscating cellphones before a class meeting. Unless you have actually, personally, been a teacher, you cannot imagine how horribly cellphones disrupt students’ learning.
“Oh ! If Only teachers could get and hold student’s attentions the
way cellphones do !! Why, the little buggers would eagerly gobble-up
the propaganda being fed to them, and embrace the discipline they’ll
need to be productive cogs in The Economy !!
I am sure you have never been a teacher or you would not think in the crude way you do.
Education unfortunately has become indoctrination, and induction into specific world views.. if Knowledge was not so tightly controlled perhaps You would be right…
How do you know? Have you ever been a teacher? I am sure you have not. I am sure you know nothing about what teaching actually entails.
And that may be true. However, some of us see the results of most of what is taught today and those results do not bode well for the future of humanity. I do get that most teachers have to spew a lot of what they are ordered to spew, but what passes for an education today is indoctrination in so many ways. When almost all the “history” that is taught in schools today is blatant lies, I’m not sure how you can defend that as an education unless indoctrination is the final goal. Is critical thinking still taught at all? How about questioning authority? If even teachers are not to be questioned, how exactly does that teach students how to think and not just what to think?
A thoughtful reply. I was struck by the OP’s supercilious implication that one must perforce be, or have been, a teacher to authoritatively or credibly comment on the education process.
I think it’s a safe guess that everyone who comments here has spent years, even decades, sitting in classrooms observing and interacting with teachers from dawn to dusk when school is in session.
Apparently in the view of an Actual Teacher, this experience counts for nothing. 🤨
Students, I find, hate teachers, and consider themselves superior to teachers, because teachers know more than they do, and try to force them to learn–which they hate worst of all.
IMO, teachers are as much moronic dupes as is the general public and those in other professions (think doctors). There are good people and not so good people in all professions. But the underlying level of brainwashing plus, of course, the school’s and the government’s curriculum diktats are constraints that prevent even the awakened teachers from speaking the truth.
In Australia right now the state is doubling down on even more Holocaust teaching that was already a must, thanks to the very active Jewish / Zionist lobby here.
I wholeheartedly agree. Were I a teacher they would not be allowed.
Thank you very much.
We were lied to before the internet. The internet has just enormously expanded the lies but does also have access to the truth too.
We don’t need education, we need truth and wisdom.
I am sure not having cellphones in class is sensible. My wife was a teacher and she agrees. Pupils would text each other during lessons.
But banning cellphones won’t stop the lies promoted as truths in lessons.
And teachers are often very dumb servants of propaganda. My wife, retired, did not see through the COVID con but I did. She has bowed to authority for a long time without thinking; so many teachers are like this.
Where does your wife stand on reading, writing, and arithmetic? How do you think that students master these skills? By listening to dumb servants of propaganda? Do you think reading, writing, and arithmetic is propaganda? Do you, or would you, like living in a world of people ignorant of it? If not from teachers, how do you propose they acquire these skills?
Before I reply to your questions let me ask, are you a teacher?
My questions were rhetorical. If you had a good education from teachers, you would see that.
Clearly you never read the nuance in my earlier comment. Perhaps that is the result of your education. I said ‘often very dumb servants’ not ‘always’.
The 3 ‘R’s as they call them are very basic and can be taught by anyone competent, not necessarily a trained teacher.
One thing for certain, if this digital id came into effect, most forums would be empty, twitter would be dead, the videos and posts would never go orchestration viral.
Trending would end.
The so called experts including alt msm plus blogs will see a huge reduction of analytics which relates to money.
Your helping selling the fact that the internet is some amazing huge thing that everyone is on.
50.000 so called subscribers and how many comments.? less than 100 and most are bots or multi posters working for the intelligence services selling MSM and MSM + talking points i.e Jesus, migrants, Blame Keir, Blame Trump, Blame little square, Blame Moslems,
I remember pre internet, I recall shopping in real shops.
This fake new digital world with its fake viewer counts ends the minute I turn the laptop off. it main use is escapism to deal with the madness of the world we find our selves in.
The biggest thing on this internet is porn and wannabee celebrity’s with there fake sub counts and that sums up the internet which brings me to Your hero.
Ron DeSantis signed an age-verification law
anti-porn dome in Florida,
Dec 26, 2024 — The law will require viewers of online pornography in Florida to first verify their age by uploading their “government identity documents”
We are at a time where virtuality, non-reality reality, can actually be experienced in real time and it does present society with problems. The mobile anonymity for children via messaging in email and social media has become deeply problematic and dangerous. A friend discussed the suicide of a 14 year old who was having a “romantic” relationship with AI. I’ve been thinking about how we could keep kids from social media distractions, meanies, AI and other adult material. Kids are not allowed guns, alcohol, pot, and adult publications in normal physical life virtually for as long as humans have raised children. Kids should also not have the confusing distractions of the adulthood environment while learning and slowly growing up on their own. Those of us who graduated high school before 2000 grew up quite fine in a kids real world of human in-person interaction or dumbphones, at playground, malls and library, just quite fine thank you.
I suggest bifurcating devices, both computer and phone, with hardware porting to 1) a Kid/library information broadband that could exist in Libraries and for kids <18. An adult broadband 2) would include email, social media, and adult products and publications. If smartphones, both kid and adult were banned in schools, the distractions at school would end and kids could return to the world that existed before smart phone tunnel vision. Computers at schools would all be the Library Broadband type except for a teacher’s office. Parents would largely control purchase of appropriate devices and use at home. Hacked or sneaked devices in the hands of kids would be rare and if color coded, like red, yellow and blue, a threat to be busted, so not widespread in use. The widespread use and anonymity is what promotes mean usage. The AI romantic partner thing, would be a corporate mean use that would also be thwarted. No one could go to the Library and anonymously screw around there as they would be limited to the information broadband. [Homeless in the US are given smartphones. The only thing they are given generously, for whatever reason].
I’ve also thought for a long time, that the internet should be split 50/50 public sector vs private commercial sector. The commercial bandwidth/channel would be leased from the public and this would pay for the public sector bandwidth development and maintenance, which could have all kinds of free/low cost access for journalism, the arts and other public sector low profit activities that the commercial sector has marginalized and bypassed.
What do y’all think?
During the plandemic/lockdown era we saw the governments’ overreach into the private sector, the latter of which forced their employees to get jabbed or get made unemployed.
I don’t think this would work.
Though I’m not tech savvy, perhaps another solution would be an entirely separate internet run from various points across the world, also on a user pays basis.
I agree with no cell phones at school. Certainly during class.
However, more to the point, I’d pay money for a ban on ADULT cell phones in gyms. saunas, steam rooms, locker rooms, pools (I recently swam beside a fellow who used his nose to swipe the phone on the deck of the pool.), restaurants.
Oh for a ban on loud cellphone conversations on SPEAKER while shopping in a store with other people who really don’t want to know about your hernia, your divorce, your kids report card.
I think a ban on texting and reading texts while you’re driving is a pretty good idea.
And how about a ban on texting during red lights so that when the light turns green you are ready to proceed and not hold up the all the driver’s behind you.
Just sayin’.
The problem is who do you allow the power to determine which conversations are OK and which are not? Covid should have shown us all the power of those in authority to monitor speech and how that worked out with truth. Free speech is free speech for a reason. Once you start down the road of deciding who gets to see what, as this article points out, you head down the slippery slope of full censorship.
There are so many good things that COULD be done by governments if they were honest governments, but they are NOT. Once we figure out that problem then maybe all these nice safeguards would work in a positive manner, but until that day, and I don’t see that day coming anytime soon, we either live with what many of us consider odious speech or fully government sanctioned speech regulated for our “health and safety.” Online Safety Bill anyone?
Personally, I think there should be a cell phone kill switch function so any use of that in a vehicle while one is driving would be impossible. Sounds like a good idea, until one looks at just who would provide that kill switch and to what end. That’s the rub. And by now we all should know that.
Oh I absolutely see your point. I hate the idea of mandated bans. Because you’re right – who decides.
I own a cell phone. Only got one when the last payphone anywhere in my area was gone.
I like having the phone. I just think cell phones, while useful, bring out the worst in people.
No boundaries anymore. No sense of civility and decorum. No sense of anyone else even existing.
And this is from adults. The one good thing about texting, which is how young people communicate, is that it is quiet.
Yeah, speakerphones are generally obnoxious. As a non-driving adult, I’m enchanted by the lovely idea that drivers might somehow be persuaded, or even coerced, to use smartphones responsibly while driving. For me, “responsibly” implies “minimally”. Dream on! 😴 💭
I assume that all drivers are pedestrians too, once in a while, even if only while walking across parking lots. In recent years, I’ve become more self-conscious about the automatic reflex of seeking eye contact with drivers who are stopped in traffic or tooling around a parking lot I’m walking through. Yes, this also includes technical “jaywalking”, e.g. crossing a street where vehicles are lined up at a red light.
Call it geezer-griping, but the “eye contact” technique hardly ever works any more. All the stopped drivers are looking down at their smartphones. Of course, this is sufficient to risk crossing in front of them; I would prefer that they actually see me, but since they’re not seeing anything but the screen they’re unlikely to move until they’re nudged by drivers behind them.
And in the latter situation, making eye contact with the driver of an approaching moving vehicle in a parking lot is often precluded by those opaque tinted windows. I’m told that they’re illegal, but if so the tinted-window cartel is making a mint from scofflaws. 📱 🚘 😠
The first thing I say to my nieces and nephews when they get their driver’s license is “The most dangerous place to drive is in a parking lot.” and then I give a few tips.
I would add that it is also the most dangerous place to walk.
I am a complete Karen when out walking and having to use a cross walk, where there is a traffic light or not.
I don’t even wait for eye contact. I hold up my arms, like a traffic cop, so that the cars know way in advance that they have to stop. I combine this with a “Thank you” wave as I cross.
I am sure you have encountered the new realm of driving through red lights, WALK lights, and the ubiquitous, in Massachusetts at least, taking a right turn on a red light EVEN IF THERE IS A WALK LIGHT FLASHING.
I remember a Johnny Carson joke from a million years ago about the fact that they had not been able to give a name to the millisecond of time between a light turning green and a New York driver taking off.
That’s the same millisecond that occurs between when the light turns green and I beep to the bowed head in the car in front of me.
That third paragraph should read “whether” there is a traffic light or not.
Yes– all of the above.
I belatedly took driving lessons and got a license when I was in my forties. Alas! for various reasons, I wasn’t motivated to take the logical next step of acquiring a vehicle and driving experience; instead, I regressed permanently to non-driving status. I disappointed all of the people who assured me that once I got the hang of driving, I would be comfortable behind the wheel and it would change my life (for the better, presumably).
But I well remember all of the “traditional” driver’s ed lessons about yellow lights, and my very good teacher enforcing the reasonably cautious and safe practice of both preparing to stop and actually stopping.
Now, of course, as you point out, even red lights and “NO TURN ON RED” signage is generally ignored or taken as a mere suggestion. And, judging by many (though by no means all) drivers in my neighborhood, a yellow light now means “speed up to avoid the outrage and torment of having to actually stop and put your entire life on hold for ninety seconds”. 🚦 😡
Yes, but at least if you have to stop you can check your texts!
To people on this site it all makes perfect sense.
The drama, the ‘online safety bill’ digital ID, joining the dots is a no-braner.
Thing is, the amount of people falling for this is astonishing.
I was talking to a TDS jab-fan the other day who was mesmerised and terrified at the same time about the biggest threat to life and limb in the Uk – knife weilding adolescent white boys.
Oh, and he can’t wait for the reassurance of compulsory digital ID.
The knife is to protect ourselves and our physical ID. Nothing else.
Does online safety extend to saying that genocides of Palestinians is an act of pure evil?
Would that be changed if I explicitly stated that the genocide was carried out by Israeli JEWS?
Meanwhile, in the US, Trump is waging his own little war against free speech — this one not for ‘the safety of the children’, but rather in support of Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
The light has gone out in the West, I’m afraid. Will it stay out forever, I wonder? 😢
“The light has gone out in the West, I’m afraid. Will it stay out forever, I wonder? “
Meanwhile, back in Jolly Olde England…
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/03/the-assault-on-shakespeare-impoverishes-the-world/
Ref:
“Americans have a love-hate relationship with Great Britain, the Mother Country.
Some Irish Americans understandably harbour a longstanding animus toward the ‘fookin’ Brits’, while others sneer with condescension at the monarchy and British colonial history.
But virtually all Americans have traditionally admired British culture.
No matter whether the culture is high, low or middlebrow – Noel Coward, James Bond or Harry Potter.
Here in America we appreciate the inestimable contribution of the British. It is the standard by which all others are measured. And of course, the jewel in the crown is Shakespeare.”
Get used to it ‘fookin’ Americans. We own you and you owe us!
The part about Trump being the “bad guy” who opposes the Online Safety Act is full of nuance. First off, we in America do not see Trump as opposing censorship but rather fully embracing it. Which makes it appear none of his staff showed him the memo.
But then, Trump seems utterly bored with such issues as online porn or devious chatbots. It’s only what affects him personally that matters in America. Now he might be afraid his special Trumpian X and related accounts will be interfered with and Brits will be deprived of his great wisdom. That lapse could cause the entire West to collapse into a Bidenesque horror show. Can’t have that.
“First off, we in America…”
Who is this “we” of whom you speak?
Sane, honest critics of Trump (i.e., not Chuck Schumer).
Howard, who I generally find one of the more unique and interesting posters on here, unfortunately suffers from massive TDS.
No.
He has TAS.
Trump AWARENESS Syndrome.
Fully aware that Trump does everything he does for Trump.
Nonsense. Trump does everything for Israel.
That’s a prerequisite, for all of them.
The problem with that though, is the assumption that what’s good for Israel is good for “insert country name here.“
Johnny, there’s no beating around the bush at this point. Anyone defending or insinuating those that hate that asshole have some kind of derangement syndrome, like little Pilgrim here (and quite a few others), are just plain fucking stupid idiots. That’s fucking ridiculous. I’m getting real tired of that bullshit which is why I haven’t been around this Trump fucking fan whackjob blog much lately. I don’t really care anymore about these idiots. Fuck them.
Trump is our darling, is fighting for the little guy, will Make America Great Again. Eat it up, you wont get a better meal than that.
And of course that’s all bullshit, but what is the other side offering? At least “Maga” has the decency to offer lip service to it. The Left is pretty undisguised at this point in its contempt for the working class, and the “little guy.”
Trump’s MAGA: Make America Great Again.
Leftist MAGA: Make America Go Away.
You could also write the latter as MAD: Make America Die.
Agree. I dont know. I see a lot of the usual disgusting ME policy goes on, but I also see much more logical rational thinking in the Trump administration.
They are taking up the real challenges in a rotten system. Would the Leftist ever dare to challenge Deep State by employing both RFK jr and Tutsi and do what they do? Never.
No. The Left is completely Morally Corrupt.
I’m not insinuating it at all. I’m saying outright that there are people who thought processes are fully deranged ( I think demented is actually a more accurate term,) on the subject of Trump, and you appear to be one of them. Do you think your post comes across as rational? Thoughtful? Honestly.
Ironically, if someone posited, say Covid Derangement Syndrome, I don’t think you’d have the first problem seeing it. Or maybe you believe that people who questioned the Convid scam “are just plain fucking stupid idiots.” I know you don’t really believe that. There are people who are still wearing masks, for heaven’s sake, and still getting boosters. Why do they do it?
No, Trump Derangement Syndrome is right. TDS, no matter what level of intellect its victim has, hijacks the ability to think clearly and dispassionately, and replaces it with a passive aggressive,often fully aggressive, near hysterical emotionalism. Psychological projection is a key feature.
Can it be cured? Prognosis doubtful in most cases, because it requires the victim to rethink and reconsider their own identity and values, a risk too great to take for most, who may be forced to come face to face with the realization that they don’t hold the moral high ground they think they do. Because they see him as presenting an existential threat to themselves, he must be defeated “by any means necessary.” He’s the monster under the bed, but they would do well to remember Nietzsche’s dictum about those who fight “monsters.”
It might be more useful for those afflicted, to start asking, in earnest, why his supporters like Trump so much, rather than clinging to ones feelings of hatred for him. By doing so, one may broaden ones own humanity and understanding. For too many, however, the armor of their emotions is more comfortable to wear, and the ego will not risk a threat to itself.
(Obligatory Disclaimer when discussing Trump. I did not vote for him on any of his Presidential runs. Nor did I vote for his rivals, who frankly, make him look like a veritable prince.)
Greed is always at the top of the $uiturd$ agenda. Trump’s sales pitch just makes it more obvious.
In the last three election cycles, billionaires supported Democratic candidates over Republican ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Askpolitics/comments/1hzszic/which_party_is_the_the_party_of_billionaires/
Different heads, same Hydra.
God damnnit, stop put my innocuous posts into pending.
Interestingly, my non-substantive post gets through, while the substantive ones don’t.
?
Wha?
My posts keep getting “pended,” for reasons unapparent to me, and objectively, curious.
In the last three election cycles, billionaires supported Democratic candidates over Republican ones.
Dems get more support from Billionaires than Reps.
We know (there’s that “we” again) that Trump, like every president, merely does what he’s told by whomever “they” behind the scenes are.
Okay. However, I compare what Trump (or any public official) does to what a Hit Man for the underworld does. In a jury trial, would the judge instruct the jury to render an innocent verdict because the Hit Man was only following orders? Did that excuse fly at the Nuremberg Trials?
Just the Gaza and the Tariff issues alone paint Trump as (charitably put) less than fully aware of consequences. As to his MAGA base (and I know many), they are obsessed with three things, to the exclusion of all else: Illegal Immigrants, China and Islam.
No matter what Trump does, his base will find a way to excuse it . Even if he takes away their Social Security, they would conclude that he’s way ahead of the libtards – by taking their SS benefits away, he’s pulling the rug right from under the libtard commies.
Nailed it Howard..
Largely agree. So, why single him out as being uniquely egregious?
The voting populace agrees with Trump on those issues. Personally, not counting Chy-na, I’d like to see Trump go a lot further on the other two issues, and most of the country would as well. Putting the interests of other Peoples ahead of those of your own country is perverted, and unnatural. Look to non-human animals for the correct perspective there.
I generally agree with you here, though I believe that Trump is more aware than you give him credit for. He’s wrong, however, but so is every other politician of consequence. Most of the MAGA base I know are quite skeptical of Trump, and don’t think he goes far enough on any of the three issues you list.
On those three issues, I tend to agree with them. If you’re a wannabe immigrant who comes here illegally, and knowingly so, which they ALL do, you can quite frankly, get fucked. While individual Muslims can be very fine and likeable people, we, like the rest of the Western world, don’t need them in our countries in any appreciable numbers, where they tend to create conflict and strife. Islam exists, almost entirely, in opposition to both Christian and secular Western ideals. Let it maintain its own sphere, and keep out of ours.China is a special case, and I withhold any opinion due to lack of knowledge .
And so is born TDS. As Trump himself has noted, he could create a cure for cancer, and his detractors would still crap on him. They simply will not credit him with anything. I believe I lot of his (situational) supporters would not look kindly on him were he to mess about with their social security; they mostly don’t want foreigners to have access to it or other social welfare programs, and really, they shouldn’t. Many are skeptical on the Israel question.
I had noticed a big difference between Trump of 2020 and Trump of 2024. I actually voted for Trump in 2020 – because I was a bit fearful of having a dementia patient for president, and because Dr. Stein was not the Green Party’s candidate. Mainly, though, I voted for Trump because (perhaps incorrectly), even though he did the Warp Speed vaccine dance, he seemed iffy regarding the need for the vaccine – and definitely seemed opposed to making it mandatory. And I do think the votes were stacked illegally against him.
But as I noted, he’s not the same man. He’s different. He’s far more belligerent and reckless and anti-Constitution. There’s something wrong with his thought process – and it has nothing to do with ideology. When I call him deranged, I mean that quite literally.
That’s not my down-vote.
There is a difference between the two Trumps. I see it too. I agree with you on “Warpspeed.” His advisors sold it to him as something good, but overall, he was more skeptical on the need/ utility of the vaxx; less so on having his name associated with something they were telling him would reflect well on him. He chose wrong, but will never admit it. That’s who he is, ego-flawed.
He’s different, I agree. He’s sold out, to an unwanted place, but the other side was already there, lurking. So what do you do? He’s still better on the issues that the other guys who had the temerity to run a guy with dementia.
They’re going to get us one way or another.