Online Safety Bill Etc

[Itshim]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

And how do you know this ?

Sorry to say I heard this as well radio 4 news today

[Carth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

It was probably referring to your previous search history preferences…

No Bananas in search history.

plenty of:
Lower back arthritis
Knackered left knee exercises
Sultry Susan
Chord progressions in D minor
how to spell 'circumference'
Jeff Strand books in reading order
big boobies
Why does my yorkshire pudding go stodgy?
strange gurgling when the bath empties
Solar panels required for 3 bed detached
are sex dolls worth it?

[thenry]

Boobs

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Carth

No Bananas in search history.

plenty of:
Lower back arthritis
Knackered left knee exercises
Sultry Susan
Chord progressions in D minor
how to spell 'circumference'
Jeff Strand books in reading order
big boobies
Why does my yorkshire pudding go stodgy?
strange gurgling when the bath empties
Solar panels required for 3 bed detached
are sex dolls worth it?

Bet you can't guess what one I searched for...

Spoiler: 

strange gurgling when bath empties

[Carth]

[jem]

Originally Posted by Itshim

Sorry to say I heard this as well radio 4 news today

OK but in response to "Several porn sites now being investigated to see if they meet the required level of robust age checks.”

Exactly how? Does OFCOM have teams of 100s or 1000s of staff checking or is it the job given to the apprentice as long as they have first washed the polished the bosses car?

Either way they can make the same claim!

And anyway, they find that filthyporn4U.com (other porn based websites are available) based in Azerbaijan with no UK presence is sticking two fingers up at age verification, then what? Block them? Trivially easy to get around. Ads? These sites are funded by ads, make it illegal for UK based banks to transfer funds from UK accounts to anyone who advertises on them? Good idea, well unless they run an ad for say ‘Amazon’? Could be awkward!

[Anonymouse]

Apparently Peter Kyle's face can be used to pass age checks. Is it just me who can't stop laughing?

[papa smurf]

Exposed: Labour’s plot to silence migrant hotel critics



A secretive Whitehall “spy” unit has been used by the Government to target social media posts criticising migrant hotels and “two-tier policing”.

The Telegraph can reveal that officials working for Peter Kyle, the Technology Secretary, have flagged videos with “concerning narratives” to social media giants including TikTok, warning that they were “exacerbating tensions” on the streets.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...hotel-critics/

[Stephen]

What has that got to do with the online safety bill?

[Sirius]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Exposed: Labour’s plot to silence migrant hotel critics



A secretive Whitehall “spy” unit has been used by the Government to target social media posts criticising migrant hotels and “two-tier policing”.

The Telegraph can reveal that officials working for Peter Kyle, the Technology Secretary, have flagged videos with “concerning narratives” to social media giants including TikTok, warning that they were “exacerbating tensions” on the streets.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...hotel-critics/

The slippery slope to full censorship is getting steeper and this crazy Online safety bill is the main reason. As more and more people are being visited and arrested by the police because someone from the offended group makes a complaint more people will move to VPN's. We are going to end up like North Korea and China soon.

At the moment i am investigating buying shares in a couple of VPN providers if available as it's a win win situation.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Exposed: Labour’s plot to silence migrant hotel critics



A secretive Whitehall “spy” unit has been used by the Government to target social media posts criticising migrant hotels and “two-tier policing”.

The Telegraph can reveal that officials working for Peter Kyle, the Technology Secretary, have flagged videos with “concerning narratives” to social media giants including TikTok, warning that they were “exacerbating tensions” on the streets.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...hotel-critics/

The emails did not ask for the content to be removed, but requested that TikTok explained how it was dealing with it.

Government sources denied that officials had censored the posts, insisting the unit’s role was to monitor online “trends” and point out where platforms’ own rules had been broken.

The amusing part of that article is that the information came from Jim Jordan, the House Speaker in the USA, who was complaining about other Countries supposed censorship laws - this, from a man whose country insists you have allow them access to your social media if you want to visit the USA, and who removed any references to Medal and Gallantry winners if they were Black.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed from its website information and educational materials about the history of black and female service members.
Some of the content removed from the site was on veterans who had received the nation's highest military recognition, the Medal of Honor, according to military news site Task & Purpose.

The content removal is part of a larger effort by President Donald Trump to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices in the military and throughout the federal government.

Approximately 400,000 veterans are buried in the Army-run cemetery, which was established after the US Civil War at the home of the South's general, Robert E. Lee.

On the cemetery's website, internal links that directed users to webpages with information about the "Notable Graves" of dozens of black, Hispanic and female veterans were missing on Friday.

The pages contained short biographies about veterans such as Gen Colin L Powell, the first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is the highest rank in the military after the president.

They also told the life stories of members of the Tuskegee Airmen, the country's first black military airmen.

Earlier this year, the Defense Department had to reinstate training materials on the revered airmen after a national outcry over their removal following Trump's orders on DEI.

Information on Hector Santa Anna, a World War II bomber pilot and career military leader who has been called a hero of the war, has been taken down, as well.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Sirius

The slippery slope to full censorship is getting steeper and this crazy Online safety bill is the main reason. As more and more people are being visited and arrested by the police because someone from the offended group makes a complaint more people will move to VPN's. We are going to end up like North Korea and China soon.

At the moment i am investigating buying shares in a couple of VPN providers if available as it's a win win situation.

Defiantly the slippery slope to full censorship, when you're not allowed to have an opinion, Kim jong wrongun would love this.

[Carth]

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion Papa, it's just that we are now likely to be 'looked at' if we share it with others.

This seems especially so if it infers the present authorities are in some ways not fit for purpose, are prone to telling porkies, change their minds at the drop of a £5 note, promote minority groups at the detriment of the majority, and have the financial acumen of a 14yr old given their first American Express card.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Carth

Everybody is entitled to have an opinion Papa, it's just that we are now likely to be 'looked at' if we share it with others.

This seems especially so if it infers the present authorities are in some ways not fit for purpose, are prone to telling porkies, change their minds at the drop of a £5 note, promote minority groups at the detriment of the majority, and have the financial acumen of a 14yr old given their first American Express card.

oh the Labour party

[Carth]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

oh the Labour party

Gosh, and I thought I was being circumspect