Yup. Shit’s gonna get fucking wild as the gUStapo is born.

Who’d win? Are we going by Heads of State or do constitutional monarchs sit this one out?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)

Signal is an open-source, encrypted messaging service for instant messaging, voice calls, and video calls.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

You were saying?

That exists. It’s called Signal.

Yeah but it’s a little bit like finding out that the Taliban banned Opium production: the reason they’re doing it is because they want the price to shoot up and they wanna move the country onto making Meth.

I agree, I fixed it.

I mean he spends more time in the States than in Clacton so…

some people do want to use AI

Scam artists, tech bros, grifters, CEOs who don’t know shit about fuck…

It doesn’t need to make money, it just needs to be a “Problem”.

Because some of the age gated subs included help forms for alcoholics.

The government apparently care more about concerned moms than they about the opinion of actual technical people or freedom of speech.

You are the first person I have actually encountered in any discussion of the OSA who mention “concerned parents” because I don’t think they’re getting enough blame for what the OSA has done. Like they’re constantly either running articles like “The OSA would’ve saved my child’s life” or “The OSA doesn’t go far enough” and they have been the the crux of the whole shitshow from day one.

Like we know Data Collectors, Social Authoritarians, and Government Spies have been the people doing most of the leg work but I don’t think it would have passed if not for the years of “think of the children”. Even the parents of Brianna Ghey, the murdered transgender teen, is saying that “if we had the OSA, my child would be alive”, ignoring the fact the mainstream press and the government itself played a bigger role in her death than the internet ever did. The current fucking prime minister MOCKED TRANSGENDER PEOPLE in front of Brianna’s father along with the then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Yeah, so fun fact: a lot of support group subreddits were blocked under the OSA. Some were unblocked, but the point still stands.

The reason why they got blocked is that, when you look at sections 60 through 62, it’s actually really vague and could block a lot of dark, distressing but necessary content. Like children’s charities have voiced concerns over this. A forum for single dads and forums for people with certain medical conditions in the UK have had to shut down, and some sfw subreddits have been age blocked for LGBT content.

Also, there are two parties who effectively decide what gets blocked: The website and the Government, and the Websites don’t want to get in trouble with the government so they overblock. Some people have used the OSA for propaganda purposes, for example, the OSA gives an exemption for news media, so you can talk about things like Jimmy Savile and terrorism, but Twitter blocked posts that would be legal under this exception to claim it was the government who did that.

On top of that, it’s the websites and services who have to run the age checking service, which is why a lot of sites have shutdown or geoblocked the UK, because they don’t have the money or resources. In short, the law is vague and service providers had to overblock to cover their arses.

Jesus that’s Dystopian.

I was referring to the UK. IIRC Farage is very much a monarchist.

I mean, I would describe myself as more of an anarchist: I don’t trust the state or capitalism. When I said “Call me a Paranoid Communist” I was referring to the fact that capitalism is gonna fuck us.

In my experience, the people who really like large muscular men are other men.

Hey…we already have that without needing to use GPS. No really, we have that, without needing to use GPS. No. Really. We have two systems in fact.

We have m-tickets. Most major train, tram and bus companies in the UK have that. You can go onto your phone and buy a ticket without the need for GPS tracking. There’s also Contactless on your phone. My city has something called TapTapCap/ToTo. On the buses, you can pay for your fare by tapping on a contactless terminal and it tracks how many journeys you make and caps the fare at the price of a day ticket if you make more than three Journeys. The Trams here have ToTo which is the same deal, but you have to tap on at the smart card terminal and tap off at your destination, as long as you do that and don’t go to the Airport: you get the same deal.

That can easily be implemented. Fuck, mTickets have been implimented in Scotland. All you’d need to do is adapt the smartcard terminals, which use the technology as the bus passes, to do something like taptapcap. And before you say “oooh, we couldn’t possibly put Smartcard totems on remote stations or Parliamentary stations”, there are smart card terminals on every station on the West Highland Line. Yes, including the Fort William to Malaig section. There are Smartcard terminals on the Far North and Kyle of Lochalsh Lines. If Scotrail can do that at places like Dunrobin Castle, GBR can put Smartcard Terminals at Drigg, no GPS surveillance required.

OK so three things:

1. How are they going to ban Mastodon. Like they cannot ban every mastodon instance.
2. From what I know about people in regimes like this: VPN usage is basically normal because of things like this. I live in the UK and I’m using a VPN.
3. Hamro Patro, if you don’t know, is the Nepali “everything” app. It’s officially a calendar app, but it also does News, Horoscopes (something that’s important to Nepalis I guess), Exchange Rates, Radio and Podcasts. It is one of the most popular apps in the country and the most popular Nepali developed app period. This is like if the US banned the CNN app or if the British Government banned the Sky News app.

Men: “Pfft Women wouldn’t date Adam Sandler, they only date muscle bound chads!”

Women:

I had a quick look at Hamro Patro. It’s a Nepali calendar app which features news, horoscopes, exchange rates, radio and podcasts. It is the most popular natively developed app in Nepal basically.

Just to put this into context: Imagine if the American Government banned the NBC app or the British Government banned the Sky News app.