Online Safety Bill Etc

Originally Posted by Paul

Ditto, looks like someone deleted it.

TBH, it sounds rather like a lunatic fringe film to me.

Yeah the description is properly bonkers. But the idea that it’s getting censored in the UK in the name of ‘online safety’ is also bonkers, as well as a bit chilling.

People should be free to be nuts, unless and until they’re proven to be causing real-world harm.

[Carth]

True, history is littered with famous people that were probably thought to be nuts, or slightly unhinged, when they first announced their 'new' ideas or inventions.

[damien c]

Still available for me

https://x.com/OracleFilmsUK/status/1930356088404357464


This is the full description from the films website, former ITV and Sky news employee.

"The Agenda: Their Vision | Your Future is a feature-length independent documentary produced by Mark Sharman; former UK broadcasting executive at ITV and Sky (formerly BSkyB).

In fiction and fact, there have always been people and organisations with ambitions to control the world. And now the oligarchs who pull the strings of finance and power finally have the tools to achieve their global objectives; omnipresent surveillance, artificial intelligence, digital currency and ultimately digital identities. The potential for social control of our lives and minds is alarmingly real.

The plan has been decades in the making and has seen infiltration of Governments, local councils, big business, civil society, the media and, crucially, education. A ceaseless push for a new reality, echoing Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, or George Orwell’s 1984.

The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future examines the digital prison which awaits us if we do not push back right now. How your food, energy, money, travel and even your access to the internet could be limited and controlled; how financial power is strangling democracy and how global institutions like the World Health Organisation are commandeered to champion ideological and fiscal objectives.

The centrepiece is man-made climate change and with it, the race to Net Zero. Both are encapsulated in the United Nations and its Agenda 2030. A force for good? Or “a blank cheque for totalitarian global control”?

The Agenda presents expert views from the UK, the USA and Europe."

No me, then again, maybe you need to be logged in. I am not.

Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.

[damien c]

Originally Posted by Paul

No me, then again, maybe you need to be logged in. I am not.

My dad just got it via the link using Brave Browser on his iPad.

If I try to access it via Edge using my X Account for the music YouTube channel I have, then I cannot see it because it says it's blocked due to UK Law, the replies to the post more than like show why it's labelled as "Harmful".

Originally Posted by damien c

This is the full description from the films website, former ITV and Sky news employee.

and David Icke is a former BBC employee.

[damien c]

Originally Posted by Chris

and David Icke is a former BBC employee.

Not shocked at that, the BBC have some very wrong people working for them.

[damien c]

Welp Discord has started now.

Had to reinstall Windows this morning, went to click on a chat room inside a server and now I must send them a photo of my face, photo of my driving license front and back, no information as to who see's it, where it is sent to, whether it is stored anywhere or not.

Good Old UK Government, cannot and won't protect people on the streets but they will do everything to make sure you don't say something online or see something online that they don't agree with.

[idi banashapan]

Originally Posted by Chris

DuckDuckGo has been pushing its own browser a lot recently. It has a built-in VPN (for $$$ … though the browser itself is free).

Opera has free VPN built in. You just need to turn it on in settings

[cimt]

Vivaldi does too.

[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by idi banashapan

Opera has free VPN built in. You just need to turn it on in settings

I imagine that this is a better solution as there's no guarantee that the free VPN's won't misuse your data.

[damien c]

Originally Posted by idi banashapan

Opera has free VPN built in. You just need to turn it on in settings

Just be careful with this as iirc the last time I looked at it, they used a VPN that connected you to Russian servers only and had no servers in other locations.

If that has changed now, then people can give it a try and see how they get on with them.

Problem I have with VPN's is that typically you don't get full speed from your broadband are they are limited to may a 10 Gig of traffic per month.

I am yet to find a VPN provider that I would trust enough to use.

[peanut]

"VPNs top App Store charts as Online Safety Act age checks kick in" - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o

Instead of protecting kids, it's peeing off every adult. VPNs will just be the norm and then they'll be less protection. Those that give details out will probably end up subjected to some hack/leak of some kind. All this for what? And at what cost, apart from looking like a dictatorship country and a laughing stock.

[idi banashapan]

Originally Posted by damien c

Just be careful with this as iirc the last time I looked at it, they used a VPN that connected you to Russian servers only and had no servers in other locations.

If that has changed now, then people can give it a try and see how they get on with them.

Problem I have with VPN's is that typically you don't get full speed from your broadband are they are limited to may a 10 Gig of traffic per month.

I am yet to find a VPN provider that I would trust enough to use.

Good advice.

By the sounds on it, you only need the VPN for the landing page. Once you’re in, you can turn the VPN off and it should work as normal.

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Originally Posted by peanut

"VPNs top App Store charts as Online Safety Act age checks kick in" - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn72ydj70g5o

Instead of protecting kids, it's peeing off every adult. VPNs will just be the norm and then they'll be less protection. Those that give details out will probably end up subjected to some hack/leak of some kind. All this for what? And at what cost, apart from looking like a dictatorship country and a laughing stock.

Don’t worry. I’m sure there will be legislation around VPN use before too long.

Originally Posted by damien c

Just be careful with this as iirc the last time I looked at it, they used a VPN that connected you to Russian servers only and had no servers in other locations.

If that has changed now, then people can give it a try and see how they get on with them.

Problem I have with VPN's is that typically you don't get full speed from your broadband are they are limited to may a 10 Gig of traffic per month.

I am yet to find a VPN provider that I would trust enough to use.

I have used SurfShark for a couple of years now, and never been limited to what I download per month.

I am currently on 250Mb/s with VM, and this is the speeds I get on my iPad wirelessly using VM, then three different VPN locations - I’m happy with those speeds, as I would’t use a VPN for online gaming.