MissCougar
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But at the end of the day there's a lot of junk that is just upsetting or depressing all at once, just don't let it get you too down. Hope for the best! Try to smile another day.
UK age verification laws. Question to the admins.
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Alice_Margatroid43
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All this censorship bollocks, inflation, cost of living, political instability and global bullshit has made me even more miserable than I already was. And I was a right miserable bastard long before any of this started. I literally snapped at my brother recently because of the stress. I feel really bad about it, am I right in being so pessimistic about the future?
These things come and go. A lot of people feel the same way you do. That's why I believe this isn't going to last.
This isn’t just a UK issue, look at what China did a
Too many countries are moving in the same direction at the same time.
The internet will probably slowly be transformed into some kind of intranet, with only a few leaks here and there.
ISPs have been blocking websites for years, which proves that the desire to police what’s acceptable and what’s not,
even when no laws were broken, has always been there.
There’s nothing stopping governments from going after VPNs if they decide those tools go against their interests.
In the UK, around 49% of people had used a VPN on at least one device before the recent changes.
Daily requests for VPN services surged by 1800% in just a few days afterward.
Can a government accept that? I doubt it... especially when it’s clear that people are trying to bypass the law.
For now, they’re tolerating it, probably out of fear of public backlash.
Try asking any AI what the future holds, and every one of them, analyzing human behavioral patterns and current news, will predict that China will become the global standard for internet "security".
It's not a matter of IF we'll be tracked down to our biometrics, it's a matter of what they'll do with that data.
That might be the only thing people will still be able to resist, at least to some extent.
At some point if you'll want to play a spicy game probably an offline AI may create it for you.
That will be permitted or at least not monitored.
But to get there we need to start killing creativity and free expression first... it's clearly the most sensible thing to do. /s
At last we should be glad that politicians will still be able to express their kinks, doing all we're fine just fantasizing about, but in real life and with no social/legal repercussion. That is and will always be the peak expression of a true democracy.
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.Too many countries are moving in the same direction at the same time.
The internet will probably slowly be transformed into some kind of intranet, with only a few leaks here and there.
ISPs have been blocking websites for years, which proves that the desire to police what’s acceptable and what’s not,
even when no laws were broken, has always been there.
There’s nothing stopping governments from going after VPNs if they decide those tools go against their interests.
In the UK, around 49% of people had used a VPN on at least one device before the recent changes.
Daily requests for VPN services surged by 1800% in just a few days afterward.
Can a government accept that? I doubt it... especially when it’s clear that people are trying to bypass the law.
For now, they’re tolerating it, probably out of fear of public backlash.
Try asking any AI what the future holds, and every one of them, analyzing human behavioral patterns and current news, will predict that China will become the global standard for internet "security".
It's not a matter of IF we'll be tracked down to our biometrics, it's a matter of what they'll do with that data.
That might be the only thing people will still be able to resist, at least to some extent.
At some point if you'll want to play a spicy game probably an offline AI may create it for you.
That will be permitted or at least not monitored.
But to get there we need to start killing creativity and free expression first... it's clearly the most sensible thing to do. /s
At last we should be glad that politicians will still be able to express their kinks, doing all we're fine just fantasizing about, but in real life and with no social/legal repercussion. That is and will always be the peak expression of a true democracy.
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SloppyTurdSlapper
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Apparently the other User mentioning that the DSA coming to Europe was spot on. UK is the cornerstone for this to be established. Now I don't know how the situation is over there, but if they don't start to be skeptical about the bad that they get with the good, something's going to disappear. I'm not pointing out any specific ones, but some might just run with this without a second thought as they want to be a part of the group.
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Also a Cat video to cheer some of you up because they dont like drones.
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Also a Cat video to cheer some of you up because they dont like drones.
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And the definition of hate speech is whatever the British government decides constitutes hate speech.
And ignore it as usual but not before calling every objector a paedophile, as is their normal response to anyone who stands against them and their policies.
SloppyTurdSlapper
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I would argue that it was not China who brought that up. Sure that Country has its problems, but you should take a look at Singapore and its utopian ideology. Southeast Asia is highly advanced when it comes to watching you.
Really funny.
It's reported people are creating fake ID's with the UK prime ministers face on them and using it for age verification to visit really dodgy gay porn sites.
Will the police be kicking his door in in the middle of the night with handcuffs at the ready?.
People are so inventive, I love it.
It's reported people are creating fake ID's with the UK prime ministers face on them and using it for age verification to visit really dodgy gay porn sites.
Will the police be kicking his door in in the middle of the night with handcuffs at the ready?.
People are so inventive, I love it.
VegitoHlove
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This is hilarious and to be expected. There are so many ways (outside of VPNs) to circumvent this, it's not even funny. Stupid fossils censoring things, like I wonder how many of them "broke bread" with Epstein.Really funny.
It's reported people are creating fake ID's with the UK prime ministers face on them and using it for age verification to visit really dodgy gay porn sites.
Will the police be kicking his door in in the middle of the night with handcuffs at the ready?.
People are so inventive, I love it.
Pretty much. There's not actual investigation, reasoning, logic or good intentions behind anything. It's just "I don't like it, get rid of it" and everyone shits themselves for some reason. I'll happily be called anything they want to call me for complaining.
If you cannot trust your people to remain normal, then believe me, the issue is not the media or the content going around.
I know there are plenty of issues in Japan, but considering the content they have, they are pretty fucking calm when compared to the rest of the world. Violent anime, crazy ass hentai, tremendoulsy gory imagery in mangas, lots of porn. At the same time they have some of the most wholesome stuff ever, and some of the most purely romantic animations.
The whole puritan crap is just an excuse, they just know most organizations won't be like "No, but porn is not actually that bad", so they crank it up to a 100 and directly call you some magic word that triggers other idiots, like throwing a firecracker in Dying Light, and then wait for you to get torn apart.
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Soon it will be cameras everywhere, linked to a social credit score, internet access layered based on a citizen or subjects clearance level, ID cards, perhaps even microchips implanted internally, it seems we are moving away from free internet, away from cash, away from person to person interactions in favour of everything digital. We used to talk to the checkout girl, then it was self checkouts, now there are stores with no staff. We used to talk to people and play outside, then it was smartphones and apps, now....it's talking to AI chatbots.
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Alice_Margatroid43
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It's insane how me mates on steam thought I was a massive schizo conspiracy theorist for being so against the UK Government before these laws even happened. I never trusted either Tory or Labour. I was calling the Government authoritarian for years, such as the sugar tax, constant changes to gun laws, banning of certain blades, they're probably going to come for my shotgun as they raised the price for licence fees, while they're at it, probably take away my antique firearms too and most likely destroy the bloody things, and my deact collection. I predicted labour was going to make things worse and they laughed at me for it. If Thatcher and Blair are anything to remember, Both parties are untrustworthy.
I predicted labour was going to make things worse and they laughed at me for it.
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You and me both, the stick I got from the lefties every time I posted what Labour intended knew no limit for insults.
The crazy thing is they never made any secret of it and people still voted for them, albeit a minority of voters.
Everything they've done was mentioned and proposed at party conferences and at fringe meetings but no one was paying attention, because politics is boring, right?.
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You and me both, the stick I got from the lefties every time I posted what Labour intended knew no limit for insults.
The crazy thing is they never made any secret of it and people still voted for them, albeit a minority of voters.
Everything they've done was mentioned and proposed at party conferences and at fringe meetings but no one was paying attention, because politics is boring, right?.
koza123456789
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lads, lots of doomposting here, so cheer up and remember 2012 or 2011 (can't remember :V) when EU first tried to censor the internet, it doesn't have to end badly, cause people are so used to internet freedom I don't believe we're ready to give it up, there will be some politician who will make it his/hers strategy to get the support of angered internet users and if he/she gets enough support, the main powers will jump on the train of defending internet freedom beacause they still do care about the popular opinion
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Alice_Margatroid43
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Along the lines of "wow you were right sorry for being a wanker". They do keep saying my government is stupid which It is, unfortunately for them, they are mainland Euros and one lives in Greece who is one of the countries getting that test for their age verification app, he isn't happy about it.
Talk about getting ridiculous
Now you need ID to get a pizza
Now you need ID to get a pizza
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