Speaking of snarky assholes, Null's reply to Ofcom's initial mail has his typical politeness when dealing with foreign govermnents.
Unless a benevolent alien comes to do it those that do the governing are also men.
Nah, none of these things happened.
It is not only that.
Sellers and their wall street buddies need to sell governments and other tech companies the solutions for problems that didn't exist before all these bans.
The quote is modified to fit reality, not the idealistic fantasy that was flying around in the 1990s thanks to the 'End of History' hazard. Look up Electronic Communities: World Village or Cyber Balkans by MIT back in 1996/1997 and come back and say that it's latter half isn't prophecy.
Unironically, this is reality. Though, Agent K said it best:
Sure, but the first step in avoidng a trap is knowing of its existence.
Historically, containment threads tend to not contain shit. Sometimes they even are part of the reason why forums fall.
And an Update to this:
Been hearing people say they should but zero confirmation of them actually planning to.
Seem to recall seeing an excerpt from Parliament (or the House of Lords? I dunno how it works, I'm lucky to even Know the Terms. Literally no justifiable Reason to Know the nuances of how other countries' Governments function before this year and last time I talked about the UK Government this much was Brexit) somewhere Being confused by children already knowing not only about OSA but how to get around it and the answer to how reminded them of a trip to China for how to get around their Censorship. Although vaguely recall thinking at the time they were demonstrating a lack of Self Awareness so there probably was something like denials of being anything like them or something, can't quite remember it beyond that and the later statement. Anyway, later on they also brought up the proposals to ban VPNs and how stupid doing such is. So even if utterly illiterate about tech and Believing kids too stupid to Know how to use something they're infamous for being more savvy about and even justifying a paradox of how they're capable of bypassing things but somehow not this in particular they're still able to come to a conclusion that VPNs probably shouldn't be banned. Or at least one of them do.
'specially when the results are indistguishable. Stupidly malicious or maliciously stupid. Seems like half the planet wants to prove that this decade. Screaming 20s.
Creating Laws that necessitate strutures and databases they simply don't feel like making let alone maintaining. Been saying: putting the cart before the horse then never bothering with getting a horse for the cart and abandoning the cart. US Purityrannicals have been gloating about this tactic for almost 2 years now by using Age Verification that way.It is not only that.
Governments all over are hitting record low levels of popularity while a bunch of special interest groups like all the usual Silicon Valley New Thing
Namely A.I. this and that.
Just an attempt to keep the bubble going.
Greed and stupidity, basically.
*taps the Title and first Posts in the entire Thread*
It's keeping me from talking about this elsewhere on here for the most part. Not fully but mostly.
"extremists" warned when they were debanked years ago that the consequence of successes against them would be that more would suffer the same fate, as the tool was found to be useful and effective, and would be taken up by others.
Turns out that championing censorship doesn't protect you from censorship.
This is not the 'everything censorship' thread, nor should you be bringing up such controversial political items. Stick to news and examples directly relevant to NSFW content bans. Also:
Post less of this oblique Rule 8 bait (which is not an invitation to be explicit). That goes for those who swallowed this bait as well.
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Meanwhile Signal has said that they will not abide by this bullshit and there is something called session that looks to be even more privacy focused and decentralized.A revised Chat Control 2.0 that's somehow worse got voted through the Law Enforcement Working Group, effectively still enforcing mandatory scanning and just outright outlawing anonymous communication by requiring citizens to verify their age before using a service.
It's not dead yet. Make the word happen.
I guess 2026 will be the year of the Linux desktop at least it California.
Huh?
This thread has a limited waiver of Rule 8 for the specific purpose of discussing various censorship initiatives around NSFW content, which are directly relevant to QQ's purpose. It does not have any waiver for tangentially related, factually dubious political commentary on the US political situation as a whole.
