monk
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If we’re banning anybody under 16 from watching YouTube then we should also ban anyone over 60 from watching gb news. I know which one causes more real world harm and it’s not the kids watching try not to laugh challenges
Jess Brown-Fuller MP@JessBrownFuller
Some tricky conversations this evening about the impending social media ban. ‘I don’t even know who this government guy is’ ‘Keir Starmer’ ‘Keir Starmer, what does that mean’
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Jess Phillips just admitted she’s stunned Starmer announced the under 16 social media ban because “personally as an individual [he was] definitely opposed to it. He’s obviously gone on quite a journey.”
She says she would never have resigned if he’d done this earlier, which she’d been pushing for.
So what changed? Exactly what everyone’s saying: Starmer knows the end is near. He’s rushing out a shambolic announcement with zero details to claim some desperate legacy win. Even the tech secretary was out this morning with no real answers.
Classic dying administration stuff.
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@munirawilson Because the government has your best interests at heart?
How's life in North Korea?
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We can't let loopholes undermine a social media ban for under-16s. Big tech have proved time and again that they will always cut corners - even at the cost of our children's wellbeing - they mustn't be allowed to dodge the ban.
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@sciantificnew "If you have a problem with being sent to gulag you shouldn't have questioned dear leader Kim-Jong Un"
LITERALLY YOU.
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If banning social media for U16s means linking a profile to an ID to verify age then I think that's all the more reason to do it.
If you are worried about legal repercussions of what you are saying on SM then that's a pretty good hint that you probably shouldn't be saying it.
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@hunterredfieldd @LBC Not even North Korea can achieve full Tyranny.
And they aren't North Korea...
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@admcollingwood So, you are a censor you complains about censorship.
Ironic🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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This is difficult. I think those of us on the socially conservative end of the political spectrum support the desire to get kids off social media, and certainly protect them from pornography (frankly, I would happily ban porn, if it was possible). On the other hand, do I trust this government (or the broader Yookay political class) not to use this as a means of clamping down on dissidents and brining in digital ID through the back door? No I do not. If anybody more tech savvy can show me a way to square this circle, I would be delighted to read it.
@tphuang @balajis @philippilk
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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@LibDemCorey All internet bans are government overreach.
Anything else is just a slippery slope to tyranny.
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Starmer's social media ban is total government overreach and it fails to even address the root cause of the problem.
Are Labour going to use this as an excuse to further roll out sketchy foreign third-party age verification sites? Get your calender prepared for a big data leak!
Scottish Young Liberals@ScotYoungLibs
🔶🗽The Scottish Young Liberals OPPOSE Starmer's new social media ban for under 16s and big-brother style digital curfews aimed at 16-17 year old voting-age adults. This government overreach must end now. Regulate the PLATFORM, not the consumer. #onlinesafety #rejectblanketbans
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How would you describe Keir Starmer?
1️⃣. Dictator
2️⃣. Traitor
3️⃣. Deceitful
4️⃣. Incompetent
5️⃣. All the above
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@iainpdooley It's not parents, it's tyrants.
And November isn't far away....
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This is where we are now: virtue signalling MPs celebrating draconian online restrictions for *everyone* just to appease feckless, lazy parents.
Restrictions this censorious, authoritarian govt has zero mandate for.
Catherine McKinnell MP@CMcKinnellMP
A mum stopped me at the station to say how happy she is that we are legislating to protect children online. She’s excited for her younger son to have more quality time during his childhood. That’s all any parent wants, and the Government is taking action to support this.
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@BlokeOnWheels I don't exactly know or care.
What I do know is the people who champion digital ID would scream bloody murder if they had to suffer it.
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I'm pretty sure the majority of people who shout the loudest about digital ID, (and before anybody asks, yes I do have my own reservations about the whole thing) , would be absolutely fine with it if !it only applied to other people or groups.
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The UK is such a dumpster fire.
The new social media ban for 16 and under is all about getting your ID so they can arrest more of you for mean tweets.
X Freeze@XFreeze
Britain now arrests more people for social media posts than China, Russia, and Turkey combined nearly matching the rest of the top 10 countries combined Britain really leads the world on these thought crimes Insane how the UK, which used to be a free country, turned out to be so totalitarian
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@commontruth_ "Liberal Democracies" are all going in this direction unfortunately...
Endpoint of government...
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Countries that significantly restrict or ban VPN use:
• China
• Russia
• Iran
• North Korea
• Belarus
• Turkmenistan
• Iraq
This is the company Britain wants to keep, we are not a liberal democracy.
BBC Breakfast@BBCBreakfast
'We will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions' Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told #BBCBreakfast she will outline more details next month about the social media ban on under 16s in the UK - as well as additional restrictions on Virtual Private Networks, curfews and chatbots bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@GR0MB0 @Gavia2020 @triffic_stuff_ Censorship of people the government disagrees with.
"oh well they are here illegally"
Censorship of people the government disagrees with
"oh well they are committing hate speech"
Tell me the difference, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE.
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@monk276 @Gavia2020 @triffic_stuff_ For illegal aliens maybe, but I'm sure you have something much dumber & more imaginary in mind👍
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🚨Tech Secretary Signals Fresh Assault on Privacy: “We’re Coming Back for More” With VPN Bans and Extra Measures 💬 🚫
Starmer’s regime is barreling toward full-blown authoritarian control and they’re not even hiding it anymore.
Just days after rushing out a blanket social media ban for under-16s, the Tech Secretary is already on the airwaves admitting they’ve got no real answers on enforcement… yet proudly announcing “further statements in July” on VPN restrictions, curfews, chatbots, and more crackdowns.
Before the first ban is even rolled out.
This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s a thirst for surveillance and censorship. They want zero privacy. They want to know exactly what you’re doing and saying online at all times. Age verification, facial scans, VPN blocks – the infrastructure of a digital police state.
Starmer is an authoritarian with no real mandate, racing to ram this through before the public boots him out. No detailed plan, no proper scrutiny, just more control.
This country is being f*cked by a government obsessed with power over people.
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@Mr_Anderson_Esq Yep almost like all the people who predicted this were right all along...
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It seems the line between adults being forced to verify identity for porn, and being forced to verify identity to be online, is only a few months.
And we all predicted it.
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The farmers hate him, the working class hate him, the armed forces hate him, the pensioners hate him, and now the fucking kids hate him.
Well done stammer you fucking prick.
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@CouchNish Almost like the people who supposedly want "progress" want society to go back about 30 years...
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Weird how the same people who want their country to “go back to how it used to be” are so opposed to having their children live a life the way theirs used to be (pre-social media).
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@haroldtplopps @eliotranch Even though it doesn't stop anyone from watching Porn.
Almost like it wasn't about protecting children after all....
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@eliotranch or goes to show how dumb she is porn is already blocked under the online safety act. so then she moves on to why do all you men want children on social media. real fact is user-to-user platforms is everything on the internet i read a amazon review do i need to ID.
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What's especially brilliant about Kirstie Queen of Slop's searing insight here, is that the porn ban actually demonstrated how most people would either find other (sometimes less moderated*) sites or use VPNs.
And very obviously, the government can't track your alcohol consumption and decide to imprison you for it. (Yet.)
*moderated is a very loose term considering how much horrific shit was on the main sites, but still.
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@GeorgeGilbertX Always has been.
The Conservative party has always been the racist brand of Socialism...
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Anti-libertarianism is a socialist ambition and here we have "conservatives" proudly boasting social media surveillance as a victory.
This is not what the Conservative Party should be about.
Conservatives@Conservatives
Today’s U-turn is fantastic news for young people, and the parents trying to keep them safe.
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