Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
No, it would be much more socially transformative to ban surveillance advertising and our data being sold.
Daniel Gerke@drgerke1
It would be *much* more socially transformative to ban social media for over-65s
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Draco_Azure98
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
This all seems to be a ploy to link IP addresses and online activity directly to an identifiable person to make them easier to catch and track down. The government falsely assumed that everyone watches porn and they thought they would get everyone that way. It obviously did not work as well as they were hoping so they are now expanding it. (I have always said that initial laws are just a foot in the door, those laws will always be expanding after the fact into their true original intended purpose).
So their plan now is if you want to use any social media or much of the internet in any way, you will need to prove that you are over 18 which means submitting an ID. This will require far far more ID submissions which will massively expand the government database, which was the real plan all along, not the safety of children.
The funniest thing about this is after all the fuss about the Online Safety Act, this blanket ban on kids using social media pretty much renders the entire act pointless and made it a giant waste of time. Which to be honest, proves that the act was never about protecting children but was really about building a giant database that links all online activity directly to a person.
This database would then be constantly poured over by AI to flag "citizens of concern" to the government who may be potential political dissidents, saying naughty anti-government things etc so the government can pre-emptively act against them.
Minority Report. This is literally the plot of Minority Report.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027: - "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s - WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt - Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages - 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month - AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s - Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
The cowards way out - an ill-thought-through attempt to regulate children (& by extension everyone by forcing ID on us)
Instead of regulating social media giants.
Won’t work here like it hasn’t worked elsewhere. Our children remain at risk.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
We are banning social media access for under 16s. These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life. I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Blocking YouTube but not Discord or Roblox betrays that this has nothing to do with protecting children
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps TikTok YouTube Snapchat Instagram X Reddit Facebook Twitch Kick Threads
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I'm guessing the story for Kamen Rider My-th is the red cat(Kamen Rider Mao) hijacked his spot in the Zodiac Riders
The Cat got revenge for the Rat tricking him to secure his place on the Zodiac
Now My-th must fight the 12 Zodiac Riders using the powers of their enemy animals
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Apple built this exact tool in 2021. Within weeks, security researchers showed it could flag innocent people's content. Apple killed it 16 months later. The UK just gave tech companies three months to build it anyway, threatening prison for executives who refuse.
The proposal is for something called client-side scanning. End-to-end encryption (the technology that protects your WhatsApp or Signal messages) works by scrambling your messages on your phone before they leave it. Nobody intercepting them can read them. Client-side scanning changes that sequence: your phone checks every image and message against a database of prohibited content before encrypting it. The lock stays in place, but the inspection happens first. When the government says "scan for nude images," technically they mean "scan everything."
The people who invented internet security have already ruled on this. Ronald Rivest helped create RSA encryption, the system behind every padlock icon you see in a browser. Whitfield Diffie invented public-key cryptography, the math that all web security is built on. In October 2021, both co-signed a paper with twelve other leading cryptographers, concluding that device-level scanning undermines security for everyone while giving law enforcement only unreliable gains. Once that infrastructure is on every phone, any government can point it at whatever they decide to ban next.
The EU spent three years trying to pass something identical. Germany blocked a Council vote in October 2025. On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament voted 307 to 306 to reject it. One vote. German federal police data from those debates showed roughly 48% of the 300,000 chats reported annually under existing scanning rules were false positives, innocent people's messages treated as criminal evidence.
There is one more consequence the announcement left out. The government wants to block nude images on children's devices but not adults'. Enforcing that line means every device in the UK needs to know whether its owner is a child. The only way to do that is mandatory age verification. Signal pointed out where this lands: every UK resident would need to prove their identity just to communicate privately. That means 67 million people submitting identification to use software they already own.
The EU rejected this by one vote two and a half months ago. The UK is now attempting it alone.
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: U.K. advances proposal to force Apple, Google, Signal, & other platforms to scan private content on users’ devices — executives could face prison if they refuse.
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@Gen_3_Trainer Soulsilver I was just grinding some levels and out of nowhere there he was
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@Draco_Azure98 Ooooh very nice. Original Gen 2 or HeartGold and SoulSilver?
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Good morning Pokémon Fans
What was the first shiny Pokémon you encountered?
What game was it in and did you catch it or fail it?
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Your reminder today, as no one will report it, that the leading children's protection charity in the UK, NSPCC, opposes a blanket ban on social media, along with many other children's safety groups.
This is what they've said:
"But for countless children, especially those who feel shut out or unheard offline, social media isn’t a luxury. It’s a lifeline – a source of community, identity, and vital support.
“A blanket ban would take those spaces away overnight and risks driving teenagers into darker, unregulated corners of the internet. Everyone involved in this debate will have the best interests of children at heart, but children’s fundamental right to participate safely in the digital world, to access information, to connect with peers, and to have their voices heard must be protected. They should not be stripped of those rights because tech companies have repeatedly failed to build platforms that protect them."
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
the elite everywhere are terrified that controlling the narrative is a lot harder in the age of social media, and that’s why they are implementing these measures to limit access to news/knowledge to kids.
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Starmer to Impose Nightly Social Media Curfews on 16- and 17-Year-Olds — While Handing Them Right to Vote
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
No, kids don't like their right to information that the news won't cover being taken away from them without any say in the matter. Palestine is a prime example of this, most people would not know the true extent of what is being committed there without social media (evidently you don't know either since you run a fan account for Labour). It is nakedly obvious that, among the myriad of other problems with this ban, the government wants to restrict children to only seeing what the news covers or what their parenrs tell them.
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Literally everyone deserves to go out for dinner, buy coffees, wear quality clothing and have fun experiences whilst also being able to afford rent, groceries, bills & have a little left over for savings no matter what job they do. Why is that so absurd to some people?
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@AlexSlider44 I know we already have sandslash for the pangolin, but I won’t so no to another one
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I want a Pangolin, a Platypus and a Bandicoot Pokémon!
Gen_3_Trainer@Gen_3_Trainer
What are some new Pokémon you're hoping to see in Winds and Waves?
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.
Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation@karaokecomputer
CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei awkwardly smiles through his answer to a question about why Claude AI directly contributed to the US Military bombing of the elementary school in Minab.
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Please stop asking parents.
Parents are tech illiterate, not technical experts and don’t get to decide what the entire country must endure.
They also weren’t told that mandatory identity verification would be required for everyone. Poor reporting from the BBC.
BBC Politics@BBCPolitics
"There hasn’t been enough in the way of [social media] regulation” Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy says the responses to the government’s consultation on social media were “overwhelmingly” in favour of a ban for under-16s #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Wake the HELL UP, Canada 🇨🇦!!!
You're completely asleep as to the tyranny that will fall upon ALL Canadians under all these Bills, with the key 🔑 one being Bill C-34 that will usher everyone into a Digital ID.
Stop falling for the bogus reason of “keeping children safe” from social media as an excuse for age verification. It's a Trojan horse from which there will be no escape under the government’s watchful eye, with AI surveillance of every Canadian. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Nico Lagan@RealNicoLagan
Bill C34: The Missing Piece Connecting Bill C9, C22, C8 To Their Liberal AI Infrastructure Their social media ban under bill c-34 is not about protecting your children. It is the missing piece connecting four of the most dangerous bills the Liberal government has ever introduced together. Bill C-9 defines what you can and cannot say online. Bill C-22 forces platforms to save your data for up to one year. Bill C-8 gives the government the power to cut you off the internet entirely. Their AI for All infrastructure gives them everything they need to enforce it. The social media ban creates the digital ID that connects everything together. All in the name of our children and unfortunately... Canadians will welcome it. Watch the full breakdown 👇
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news and events and more ignorant on what’s going on in the world. This is the goal. Western govts saw the rise of the information age and are seeking to quash it
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
I used to play Xbox 360 late into the morning when I was in school. My parents found out and started turning the router off at night.
Amazingly they didn’t require a parliamentary majority and royal assent.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban [@thetimes]
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Draco_Azure98 retweetledi
wow it’s totally so cool and not worrying how real human knowledge and experience is being suppressed in favour of shitty ai
Whale Insider@WhaleInsider
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China eliminates 12,000 ‘obsolete’ university degrees in push to prepare for the AI era.
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