Faye Scarlet | 🌙🖤🌹

Did you know you can oppose government censorship without supporting the content? You can think something is awful, refuse to engage with it, and still not want the government deciding what gets removed. Because the moment we justify censorship based on “I don’t like this,” we hand that same power to someone else, who might decide your work crosses the line. That’s how that works.

Utah’s “age verification” law for porn failed as predicted and is now being replaced with a law targeting VPN users, and it’s no longer limited to kids or XXX. This is how surveillance and control spreads: “child safety” expands into broad control over access and anonymity. 🏴‍☠️

EL CASO EMPEORA La policía del Reino Unido no solo arrestó a la VTuber Mimi Yanagi, también ALLANÓ su casa para confiscarle sus dakimakuras, figuras de anime y doujins. Amigos de la artista revelaron que las autoridades le vaciaron la habitación llevándose "absolutamente todo" su botín otaku como evidencia criminal, e incluso le quitaron su Discord. (Curiosamente, le dejaron sus cuentas de videojuegos).

UK-based VTuber and artist Mimi Yanagi was arrested on April 20 for her own drawings of anime-style characters. These drawings were 100% fictional, made up by her, with no real people involved. UK law still treats these kinds of drawings as illegal child pornography, police took all her computers and devices. She has now been released on bail, but she is not allowed to post any “adult” content. She must also use an account name approved by the police. The UK is lost, you can’t even draw now, they will put you in prison

‼️🇺🇸 Utah is about to become the first US state to legally target VPN use as part of online age verification. The law goes into effect Wednesday, May 6, 2026. 🔴 If you are physically located in Utah, you count as a Utah user, regardless of whether you use a VPN, proxy, or any other tool to disguise your location. Websites are now legally responsible for age-verifying you anyway. 🔴 Sites that handle "material harmful to minors" are banned from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN, or from offering any means to bypass geofencing. The EFF calls this a "liability trap." Websites cannot reliably tell where a VPN user actually is, so the safest legal move is either to block every known VPN IP outright, or to force ID-based age verification on every visitor worldwide. Either path subjects millions of users to invasive identity checks, regardless of where they actually live. The Cato Institute put it bluntly. When a policy can be defeated by a privacy tool millions of people legitimately use, the policy is the problem. The collateral damage is, as always, the people who actually need VPNs: 🔴 Journalists protecting sources 🔴 Domestic abuse survivors hiding from stalkers 🔴 Activists in hostile environments 🔴 Remote workers tunneling into corporate networks 🔴 Travelers banking from abroad 🔴 Anyone who simply does not want their ISP, employer, or data brokers reading their traffic This is not staying in Utah. The UK's Children's Commissioner has called VPNs a "loophole that needs closing." France's Minister Delegate for AI and Digital Affairs has named VPNs as "the next topic on my list." The EU is rolling out age verification across all 27 member states by end of 2026, with EVP Henna Virkkunen openly admitting they have no plan for VPN bypass yet. Utah is leading by example. EFF: "Attacks on VPNs are, at their core, attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy."