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Jan Vyklíčil
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Twins Prank Burt 📞
Bongo: Yo, Burt. It's Your Grandma.
Burt: Excuse me?
Bongo: I said it's your grandma, Sonny. What are you doing?
#fishtanklive #fishtankdotlive #bingobongo #twins @Ashleymetica @BurtBronx #burt
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@hidinghoney @justalexoki it's closer than a dumbass might believe
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@justalexoki Getting it up isn't quite the same as finishing. Try again
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@DNSLprojects Cause he's mad at old fans of the show and wants new fans
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@prestonjbyrne Cool. But by this logic, if I sell to americans out of the EU, I do not need to be ADA compliant and can't be sued?
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We still haven’t been properly served in the USA; as far as we’re concerned Ofcom might as well have been sending hamster photos.
If Ofcom wants to come to our courts, waive immunity, and sue us as a plaintiff, we’ll talk about their fine.
Ofcom won’t, because it would lose.
Independent Reviewer@terrorwatchdog
OFCOM fines 4Chan (round 2): £20k fine in Oct 25, and now a new fine £520k for different breaches of Online Safety Act. Since Oct 25 fine unpaid, no need to guess that 4Chan will not pay new fine. Is this case now on the road to court-ordered "business disruption measures" (ss144-8)? Whatever your take on Online Safety Act (4Chan: sovereignty-busting overreach v OFCOM: you are UK-linked so play by UK rules), this is going to be an important test of OFCOM's resolve, and I suspect some political resolve if US Administration gets involved (as 4Chan will be hoping).
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what kind of question is that
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@MCarloRM @piratenparteibb Ordinary law-abiding tech-illiterate citizens will lose their privacy. Thats all.
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@piratenparteibb What if secure communications (i.e. E2EE) get banned because "think of the children"?
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#Chatkontrolle ist die irre Idee, dass sichere Kommunikation abgehört werden könnte. Nächste Woche dann: Trockenes Wasser.
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@ArkiHitmontop @DeepHumor they also benefit heavily by knowing that a given user is a real person therefore making more money form ads as they are not shown to random bots/AIs
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@DeepHumor The worst is countries being lobbied to push this cancer have the gall to claim theyre doing it "against big techs" without a hint of shame despite big tech being the biggest ones being benefitted, increasing and legalizing the datamining, taking down all competition etc
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Remember that Meta is the scumbag company that is funding age verification laws in the first place. They’ve wanted this from the beginning
Skyler@skylermzx
just to create a facebook account? yeah, hell no
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@charas_faith @supercoolguy70 @SentientTtv not really. At least in the EU, the leftists and pirates are the only ones strongly against it. It's actually pushed by Meta's lobbying, politicians from all sides who want to end online anonymity/free speech, and mental retards.
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@PaulMaddison121 @durov Sad that many small forums were forced to shut down due to the burden of compliance with the Online Safety Act. That's my main issue with it, that it's disproportionate and that it doesn't streamline age verification to make it actually safe from illegal data retention/data leaks
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This is how the EU/UK now regulates social media:
🤐 Offer CEOs secret deals to censor dissent.
🚨 If they refuse, open criminal cases against them.
😑 When people push back, say it's "all for the children".
🎭 "Protecting children" has become the standard legal/PR cover.
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@PaulMaddison121 @durov Yes, the EU parliament exists, and it usually gets rid of the worst things in these proposals, but it is no magic. The main problem is that these laws are usually very disproportionate towards small/volunteer-run projects in comparison to their lack of real impact on big tech.
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@PaulMaddison121 @durov If we are talking about the European Commission, there really was no discussion. Their digital law proposals are at best technologically illiterate and incompetent, and at worst actually dystopian.
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@dueepascal @durov @sparstormo @elonmusk why should the CEO suddenly be the one liable and not the company? where is personal liability for the likes of Zuckerberg? this is laughable
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@durov @sparstormo @elonmusk C'est faux vous abritez des criminels dans votre réseau alors que la justice voulait avoir accès à leurs données
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Macron’s France is losing legitimacy as it weaponizes criminal investigations to suppress free speech and privacy. The U.S. Department of Justice has refused to assist France in its investigation of @elonmusk, calling the case politically motivated.
The French prosecutor’s office claims to be independent, but that is untrue: French prosecutors are hired, fired, and promoted by the government. The judicial police — who provide often misleading reports to investigative judges — are also controlled by the government. 🎭
I’m under a similar investigation in France: over a dozen charges, each carrying up to 10 years in prison. Proud to stand alongside Elon Musk and others targeted by Macron's campaign against digital rights. In Macron’s France, being investigated is the new Légion d’honneur.🎖
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@TigiSmartVibes @durov Thing is that I'm not sure if I have faith in a better solution being sought, for I am skeptical of the competence and, in some cases, even the good faith of the people pushing for these regulations. Not to say there aren't good actors in this, but their influence is insufficient
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That’s a fair critique … and it actually reinforces the point that this is a complex issue.
Bad implementation can absolutely backfire. But that argues for better, more technically informed regulation, not abandoning it altogether.
The real challenge is designing rules that actually scale with impact, instead of disproportionately hitting smaller players.
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@PaulMaddison121 @durov then how do you explain the absolute lack of discussion about alternate less egregious solutions and the total lack of foresight about second-order effects of these laws? when neither your rights nor the voices of experts suddenly matter. Surely there's nothing fishy about this
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@PaulMaddison121 @durov That might be the sentiment for some who are pushing for this, sadly, the laws are usually written in a bad way by technologically illiterate politicians, plus the lack of discussion about alternate solutions is frankly telling that the true motive is a lot more sinister.
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@durov But it actually is to protect children most of the time Pavel to be fair
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@TigiSmartVibes @durov This is a good sentiment; sadly, the lack of technological literacy in politicians makes the new "safety" laws like the DSA or the Online Safety Act poorly worded and disproportionately affect small platforms and volunteer-run projects while failing to truly punish big tech
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This feels like an oversimplification of a genuinely complex issue.
EU/UK regulation isn’t about “secret deals” …. it’s about forcing massive platforms to take responsibility for the real-world impact of what they amplify.
Of course, any regulatory power should be questioned … that’s healthy. But framing all attempts at accountability as censorship risks ignoring very real harms like coordinated misinformation, exploitation, and algorithm-driven radicalization.
If we care about free speech, we should also care about the conditions that shape it … not just reject regulation outright.
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🚨Regulations don’t kill innovation. A protected environment must exist.
People are harassed on social media platforms every day.
Troll armies are a serious evil in our contemporary society.
Child safety is essential for sustainable development.
Dissent must be reasonable and must not incite violence or disturb public order.
Those in power often exploit it.
You smart people, Big Tech company owners across the planet, can you not think of better ideas for self-regulation?
Sit together. Discuss. Act.
@durov @elonmusk @sundarpichai
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@mickfox @prestonjbyrne nigga, have you heard of DNS blocking? you literally set the child's DNS to a safe and censored one like Quad9, and you are set
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@prestonjbyrne You know these apps aren’t required to access these services, and a web browser will do it too? Good luck giving kids an internet connected device and keeping them off these services. On-device parental controls don’t work. It’s all or nothing at the moment .
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Why is it that European parents have no ability to delete these apps off their kids' phones?
Why does it always have to be the government making the call, and why does the government's call always involve censoring adults as well?
Answer: because censorship is the point
Jonathan Haidt@JonHaidt
Here's a strong statement by Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, on why Spain & Europe are moving decisively to protect children from social media: ft.com/content/128b2e…
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@justalexoki @Dshoopy copying digital files is free. they aint losing shit.
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