You don’t think this will happen in the UK Don’t think Labour, The Tory, or even Reform will do this to your child Think again!!!!
Lasst es um die Welt gehen! Das ist was die EU unterstützt! Teilt es! Macht es sichtbar!
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Andy Burnham’s announcement of free personal care as part of a new National Care Service will only apply to those over 65, and not to working-age disabled people, No 10 has confirmed, sparking shock and concern among disabled people’s organisations. disabilitynewsservice.com/fr…
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Technical analysis to explain why the UK government is using the word "comprehensive". TL;DR: "Comprehensive" means identity verification for everyone so children can be banned. When adults are banned they can’t return. Identity verification is designed to kill online anonymity. When accounts are tied to real people, behaviour can be tracked, scored, predicted, and permanently restricted. Apply that across social media, games, messaging and app stores and you’ve built population-scale surveillance under the banner of child safety. Privacy is destroyed. Parents lose control. The government gains the power to exclude identified people from civic online spaces. Here’s my breakdown of Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy’s speech along with my technical analysis: 🇬🇧 "We will be the first in the world to introduce a comprehensive social media ban for children". 💡 Everyone knows the UK is not the first to introduce a social media ban for children. So what does she mean? 💡 For that statement to become true, the government would need to mandate something that hasn't yet been said out loud in Australia. A "comprehensive" social media ban means everyone has to verify their identity. 💡 She’s effectively saying "We will be the first in the world to introduce identity verification for everyone". There’s no other technical or legal explanation. 🇬🇧 "where abusive content is not just removed, but removed forever". 💡 The only way to achieve that is to ban repeat offenders permanently. That requires knowing who wrote or shared the content. Technically, that means linking people’s identities to what they post and share. Once an account is tied to a real identity, creating a new account with a different email address no longer works. If you’re banned, you’re excluded for good. 🇬🇧 "Women’s rights are human rights, and human rights are non-negotiable". 💡 I agree. But the government wants to use that as a trojan horse to take away everyone’s right to privacy, including women who wish to remain anonymous. Privacy is a human right, which by their own admission is non-negotiable. They want to decide when human rights are accessible. 🇬🇧 "But, friends, shouldn’t we be ashamed that decades of violent indifference has come to this? Having to remove our children from social media altogether because we cannot protect them from harm". 💡 Any parent who believes their child is unsafe on social media can restrict social media using the parental controls built into today’s smartphones. 🇬🇧 "Because our online spaces live in the palm of our hands and the cables that run under our feet. They’re a civic space, like any town hall or high street". 💡 The UK government arrests around 30 people every day over communications offences involving things posted online. If the government gains the ability to permanently exclude identified people from online services, people will censor themselves. (In Australia, Ireland and the US, they use "robust" age assurance to mean identity verification because no government wants to say what they really mean.) 💡 Please know this. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and the rest of the government and their advisors, are not technically savvy enough to understand basic technical aspects of this subject. I advised the British government and its main child-safety advisers during the first Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection in 2012. That process led to opt-out filtering across UK telecom networks and ISPs. They’ve been looking for ways to force identity verification for years. I know because I challenged them about it directly during formal in-person meetings and private briefings in London. My BBC Newsnight interview at the time showed me demonstrating how poor parental controls were. Unfortunately, we didn’t discuss what I thought of the government’s approach to default-on pornography filters, which meant adults had to actively remove restrictions to access blocked content. 💡 Smartphones today give parents the technical controls governments claim they need legislation to provide. Parents can block apps, block websites, restrict content, approve downloads, control purchases, and set time limits and curfews for their own children. They’re a hundred times better than they were in 2012. 💡 That removes the child safety justification for banning social media. 💡 A digital identity system kills online anonymity. Removing anonymity is a core technical requirement for governments to gain digital surveillance because once identity is linked to activity, behaviour can be monitored, analysed, predicted, and controlled. If the UK government rolls this out across social media, games, messaging, app stores and other online services, it creates the technical foundation for population-scale surveillance and control. Countless schools and many parents already use mobile based parental controls. Banning social media for everyone’s children takes rights away from guardians and parents. If I was on Newsnight today, I wouldn’t demonstrate weak parental controls like I did in 2012. I’d demonstrate how good they are now and ask why the government feels the need to ban social media instead of educating parents about the controls they already have. --- I’ll publish my full technical analysis of Chat Control today. Writing this here to hold myself accountable. I’ll summarise it here, but Substack gives me the space to break down the entire system properly. Plain English. No jargon. Free.
'We will be the first in the world to introduce a comprehensive social media ban for children' Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy addresses issues surround children and women's safety online trib.al/JF5tYLU 📺 Sky 501
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By the way, if this country formally goes to war with Russia, we can kiss goodbye to any hope.
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This speech conveniently ignores the fact that this Labour government - under Andy Burnham - is still selling arms to Israel, refuses to call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide, has announced sanctions that won’t make any meaningful difference, and is locking up pensioners for holding signs opposing genocide and authoritarianism. Stop gaslighting the British public, @EdMiliband.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband: 'I want to say to the millions of people in this country and indeed elsewhere, who have been moved and outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people. We hear you. You were right' trib.al/uh5mVzw 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602
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🚨 UPDATE: The boss of Labour's biggest union donor says scrapping the state pension triple lock would be "electoral suicide" "We’re the lowest in the G7 in terms of how much we spend on pensions... I cannot understand why we keep going back to pensioners"
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Good lad and a job well done But with relief came the shock of his father Conscription of disabled people is beyond evil
He documented his escape from Zelensky's manhunters in Ukraine
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Replying to @RishiSunak
Ukraine is not a country, it is a romantic notion dreamt up by early 19th century writers. Much as Marx & Engels dreamt up Socialism. From the time that the Mongols left during the 14th century until the 17th century, Kiev and the Donbas was part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. From the 1670's, when that Commonwealth signed its sovereignty to Tsar Alexey until 1991 it was effectively Russian. Save a short period when it fell within the sphere of Nazism. Indeed, if you were to read Beevor's classic "Stalingrad" - looking at the maps carefully - you would discover that the final stages of said battle were fought in the Donbas. One reason that there are so many Russian speakers there today! The same people who Nazi-sympathiser Bandera's successors in the Azov Brigade were so happy to persecute during the noughties and early 2010's. Which is precisely what led to Putin's intervention. Isn't it? Now let's see your financial portfolio and how many non-executive directorships you have in armament companies and their ancillaries!
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For an entire day, horrifying information has been circulating throughout all European Union media and among politicians. The CIA is warning that Russia is preparing a strike against European countries. For an entire day, millions of EU residents have been looking at maps drawn by the CIA and are horrified that Russia is preparing an attack. Toward the evening, the CIA makes a statement saying that it did not provide such information to anyone and that it is false. Then, by the evening, EU countries begin saying that this is not true and that the CIA did not provide them with such information. For an entire day, millions of people were being frightened by this disinformation, and then in Brussels they tell us about waves of disinformation being launched by the Kremlin. So who launched this wave of disinformation? How could the heads of state remain silent until the evening about the fact that they had not received such information from the CIA? Why frighten your own population? What right do you have to frighten your own population for the sake of making basic financial profit?
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Russia is not the enemy!" Thousands of students across Germany protested against the introduction of mandatory military service. The reason for the dissatisfaction is the new rules for mandatory military service: men of military age must fill out questionnaires about their health and readiness to serve. German youth do not want to fight against Russia!
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It has been Boris Johnson who has flown to Kiev to instruct Zelensky not to sign any peace deal… He constantly instructs Zelensky to reject peace. He profits from war, doesn't care about the deaths.
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The Tories really messed up yesterday. In the morning Baroness Benefits @KemiBadenoch went on TV & said they wouldn't cut welfare for the sick, disabled & those on LCWRA. That evening @Helen_Whately went on Question Time & her figures reveal they WOULD target those people. 1/2
Baroness Benefits here is a millionaire on ~£144k a year, but taxpayers cover her rent, energy, water bills, internet everything! She even tried to pay for her holiday flights with public cash. Yet she wants to cut benefits for sick and disabled people living on £7k–£11k a year.
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Ex-British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, lobbied to continue the Ukrainian conflict for bribes — The Guardian Documents show he accepted a bribe to continue Ukrainian conflict by a shareholder in British arms manufacturer that supplies drones to Ukraine He gave £1 million so Johnson could persuade Zelensky to continue the war & refuse to sign peace agreement with Russia. MSM is just catching up with things I posted about years ago… The masses will finally understand there is blood in BoJo’s hands.
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Since becoming an MP, Andrew Snowden has had about £245k in publicly funded parliamentary business costs—mostly staff, office, accommodation and travel. So spare us the “fags and booze” sneer. Public support is legitimate when you need it too. The question is dignity, not stigma.
I did put a lefty trigger warning in at the start of this video….Yet it appears to still be triggering loads of lefties. If you don’t agree with the principle that benefits are a lifeline not a lifestyle, then this video is not for you.
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Kate Middleton treats the royal helicopter like an Uber after a Southend jolly. William will be on stage tomorrow telling the rest of us to freeze, fly less and “save the planet.” Private choppers for them. Lectures and guilt for everyone else. They’re just expensive hypocrites with a megaphone. #AbolishTheMonarchy
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🔴Russia killed 300,000 people in Japan with atomic bombs. No, it was the United States. 🇩🇪 Russia killed between 5 and 6 million Jews. No, it was Germany. 🇨🇩 🇧🇪 Russia killed 6 million people in the Congo. No, it was Belgium. 🇬🇧 Russia killed hundreds of thousands of starving people in India and enslaved nations in Asia and Africa. No, it was England. 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇵🇹 Russia deported millions of Africans in chains to enslave them in America. No, that was done by the British, Spanish, and Portuguese. 🇩🇿 Russia killed thousands of people in Algeria. No, it was France. 🇻🇳🇰🇭🇺🇸 Russia killed 3 million people in Vietnam and 2 million in Cambodia. No, it was the United States. 🇰🇷🇰🇵🇺🇸 Russia killed six million Koreans—both South and North—and a million Chinese during the Korean War. No, it was the United States. 🇮🇷 Russia killed a million people in Iraq, including through the use of depleted uranium bombs that are still causing babies to be born with deformities twenty years later. No, it was the Anglo-Americans. 🇦🇫🇺🇸 Russia killed more than 240,000 people in Afghanistan. No, it was the U.S. 🇱🇾It was Russia that bombed Yugoslavia and Libya. No, it was the U.S. and NATO. 🇲🇽🇵🇷 Russia committed genocide against indigenous peoples and annexed half of Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and other territories. No, it was the United States. Russia killed 100,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip just during the current Middle East conflict. No, it was Israel.🇮🇱 The propaganda of the mass media spreads exactly the opposite. I am NOT fighting Russia but don’t let me stop you from going. Thanks. Courtesy of @temotizox
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BREAKING NEWS! This👇 assault (believed in Leeds) on a police officer whilst dealing with an arrest is Fucking Disgraceful & this Vile out of control Woman should be remanded in Custody & put before a Court & sent straight to prison!! One of 50,000 assaults on police this past year!!👇🤬 x.com/UKFrontlineM/status/21…
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To prevent this speech, Zelensky imposed sanctions on me. On the day of the speech itself—16 September—I was barred from entering the European Parliament. I am posting it here so you can judge for yourselves just how “dangerous” it is. If censorship is the only answer, the argument has already been lost. This speech matters because, despite Zelensky’s and the EU’s censorship, the first pleading Ukrainian voice calling for peace was finally heard. Thank you @AfDimEUParl @dr_neuhoff
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TRUMP SLAMS ZELENSKY, REBUKES EXTENDING THE WAR, AND REMAINS ONE OF THE FEW VOICES FOR PEACE "We had a meeting with Zelensky today, and it didn't go great, from his standpoint, I think he very much overplayed his hand. I'm looking for peace, not a 10 year war, and playing games, we want peace! He's looking to go on and fight, we're looking to stop the death. 2000 people died last week. Some would say why do you care about Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, I care about them, we're not doing that! President Putin wants to end it, Zelensky wants to sign us up for 10 years, it's not gonna happen."
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The video is from 28 February 2025. It shows Trump’s comments following his meeting with Zelenskyy at the White House that day. x.com/grok/status/21…
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Putin has no plans to invade & conquer Britain. But if he did, his army can just cross the English Channel in small boats - and the UK Government will give them a hotel room, mobile phone & English phrase book to help with the invasion
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Zelensky abducts an average of 900 ordinary citizens a day across Ukraine—men with no military training who, above all, oppose his scams and his war. Once abducted, the victims face two options: either contact relatives and friends to persuade them to pay between $10,000 and $20,000 for their release, or be sent to the front lines as cannon fodder. Every month, 20,000-25,000 men who have been abducted die on the battlefield. Anyone in the West who supports Zelensky’s savage, corrupt regime deserves, at the very least, life imprisonment. They are worse than war criminals!
Zelensky wants billions to save lives...
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