🧵 This needs to be said. About age verification, censorship, and what’s happening online right now: I’m exhausted, because of the constant fear creators live under. We’re watching the internet change in real time. Not evolve but REGRESS into something scary. Age verification

Oh. The guardian has covered the @collectiveshout shenanigans but. But. Melinda, founder of collective shout, was appointed to the STAKEHOLDER ADVISORY BOARD for the GOVERNMENT’s AGE ASSURANCE TECHNOLOGY. She will be part of the body that DECIDES how censorship is enacted.

> Mass amounts of people protest new surveillance act > UK Govt. responds with "We don't care" Yeah this is disgusting. And reps worldwide are already preparing similar legislation. People really need to know what's happening here...

The end of internet anonymity won't just restrict you from seeing PornHub without an ID. It's a way to track you and the websites you visit. It opens the door to penalizing you for reading things the Party doesn't want you to. It's the start of a China-style social credit system.

The implementation of the OSA required care. Precision. Nuance. There are alternatives they could have employed The bulldozer of response from Labour MPs is as clumsy as everything that the OSA is targeting, and protest against its overreach isn't going away #OnlineSafetyAct

If my party was on course to be replaced by the most right wing party to take office in postwar history i wouldn't be putting in a speech and liberty restrictions and normalising calling my poltical opponents nonces.

"Technology Secretary" Peter Kyle - Has never worked in tech - Did 'environmental studies' at university - Can't code, has never shipped anything - Has mostly worked for charities and NGOs linkedin.com/in/peter-kyle-…

They come for porn first because it’s one of the easiest things to vilify and the most embarrassing to defend. Because so many of us will automatically laugh at anyone saying “my inability to purchase/access tentacle hentai is a serious threat to free speech” even when it 100% is

The UK's online safety act has (or will have) almost exact replicas active in Australia, Mexico, the EU, Ireland and Canada (and likely others in the future). And yet they would have you believe they all just came to this position coincidentally.

Just went to some adult websites and looked into the first two age verification platforms I came across; - The first is incorporated in Seychelles - The second is incorporated in Cyprus Neither have a presence on companies house, both have fake UK forwarding addresses only.

Isn't it fucking amazing how worldwide all of these incredibly sophisticated censorship measures are literally appearing in the last week?

It's remarkable (& suspicious) just how much censorship is being thrown our way all at once. The internet is under attack from every angle...

"We're not censoring anyone" - Keir Starmer Repeal the Online "Safety" Act

Labour’s online safety act - strangely doesn’t cover Gambling. Why would you show betting advertising to children?

I'm old enough to remember when this was called corruption.

why does every piece of news from the UK in the past 2 weeks sound like they are speed running the worst cyberpunk timeline