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Orwell’s Big Brother is definitely peering into every aspect of one’s life in the United Kingdom.

The latest step into dystopian hell is the so-called Online Safety Act, and it was enacted into law in the name of, again, as you might imagine, FOR THE CHILDREN.





As these sorts of things tend to be.

The way people in the UK might navigate the internet is changing.

Under the Online Safety Act, platforms must take action – such as carrying out age checks – to stop children seeing illegal and harmful material from July.

Services face large fines if they fail to comply with UK’s sweeping online safety rules. But what do they mean for children?

What it’s meant to ‘protect’ tender young eyes from are pornographic images and the sorts of cyber bullying that so sadly often ends up with a young suicide because they simply can’t take anymore.

What it would do in effect worried free speech advocates who have been appalled at the steady erosion of rights as Labour has secured its grip on the powers of government in Britain. Already able to stalk your social media posts, videos, and texts, would the government now have a legal means to block access to contrary information simply by deeming it dangerous and forcing platforms to censor it?

Free speech advocates were subjected to vile insults of being on the side of pedophiles and accusations of supporting internet predators for daring to object to the bill’s excessive restrictions.

Farage is siding with disgusting internet predators

Last year, Nicholas Hawkes sent photos of his erect penis to a 15-year-old girl. It’s sadly too common an occurrence, making victims feel exploited, disgusted and unsafe.

But in this case there were consequences. A month later, Hawkes was convicted under the new offence of cyber-flashing created by the Online Safety Act – the first person to be convicted.

So when Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, boasts about his plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, it makes my blood boil.

Repealing the law would benefit men like Hawkes, a registered sex offender, and other disgusting predators who contact children and groom them online.





The first few days of implementation of the OSA have answered that censorship worry with a resounding ‘yes.’ 

What Pakistani grooming gangs?

FOR THE CHILDREN

Richard the Islamophobic Lion Heart has been censored as well as has chatting about single-sex loos.

A week has passed since the Online Safety Act’s age-verification rules came into effect, turning vast swathes of the internet dark for users based in the UK. Although the bill was sold as a necessary measure to protect children from pornography, it is not just ‘adult’ content that has suddenly been restricted.

…A thread on X detailing the life of Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades has also been suppressed, presumably it’s been deemed ‘Islamophobic’.

…Even though single-sex spaces are the law of the land in the UK, as confirmed by April’s open-and-shut Supreme Court ruling, it seems that posting online about single-sex spaces is now a no-no. A disgruntled 53-year-old user of X discovered that a tweet calling for single-sex toilets was branded too ‘sensitive’ by the censors for her to read.

And you can be damned sure you won’t be saying objectionable things about you-know-who.





Or any of his flubs or policies.

Because he won’t let you.

…News that the name ‘Keir’ is dying out in the UK, with not a single baby born last year sharing the name of the prime minister, seems to have touched a nerve with online watchmen. A Guido Fawkes article headlined ‘Keir Suffers Extinction Event’, featuring a baby with Starmer’s head superimposed on it, has been put behind the age wall on X.

And it’s not just irreverent articles about the prime minister’s unpopularity that are banned – protests against his policies are also being obscured. A video of a protester being restrained by police outside an asylum hotel in Leeds has been hidden from UK users. X has since confirmed that this was thanks to the Online Safety Act.

Now no one in England will know Starmer’s approval rating is lower than wormdirt. That should help him. Or maybe not. This act of his FOR THE CHILDREN is proving surprisingly unpopular.

Does everyone in England hate children?

…The Government has firmly rejected calls to reverse the legislation, with officials confirming on Monday that no repeal was planned and implementation would proceed swiftly alongside communications regulator Ofcom.

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle launched a fierce defence of the act on Tuesday, claiming those seeking its removal were “on the side of predators”.

Public opposition has grown significantly, with an online petition demanding the act’s repeal attracting more than 468,000 signatures.

Critics spanning politicians, free-speech advocates and content producers have argued the regulations have been applied excessively, leading to the removal of lawful material.





Unsurprisingly, the only ones quick enough on the draw to get around the online blocking algorithms are the children.

The clever little sprouts whipped up a bypass in no time flat, leaving the web Stasi flat-footed and in the dust.

Isn’t it always the way? In the meantime, don’t even think of having any discussions about lactose intolerance or Neanderthals.

Because you’re siding with the pedos.

And fomenting ethnic division.

A real ‘come at me bro’ war is heating up with the White House, after UK Tech minister Peter Kyle – the same one who called Farage a tool of child predators – sent letters to several U.S. firms ordering them to comply with the act.





…The law, which regulates online speech, allows the British government to levy massive fines on companies like Apple, Truth Social, and X if it finds that rules on hate speech have been broken.

Those in the president’s inner circle see the potential penalties as an unwarranted foreign intervention into American free speech.

“President Trump has made it clear that free speech is one of our most cherished freedoms as Americans,” a senior US State Department official told The Telegraph.

“Accordingly, we have taken decisive action against foreign actors who have engaged in extraterritorial censorship affecting our companies and fellow citizens.

“We will continue to monitor developments in the UK with great interest and concern.”

Since the law came into effect last week, Ofcom, the UK’s online regulator, has written to several American firms ordering them to conform to the act, in letters seen by The Telegraph.

It has sparked outrage from US lawmakers and legal experts, who say the overreach is a threat by the UK to silence American companies and citizens.

The letters also threatened dire consequences if the Americans told the Brits to piss off. The Americans are fightin’ mad and fightin’ back.

OFCOM HAS AWOKEN THE SCREAMING EAGLE, AND THEY ARE REALLY NOT GOING TO LIKE THE RESULTS





I like the cut of this Preston Byrne guy’s jib.

It’s one thing for Starmer and his fascists to keep crapping all over his own folks, quite another to dictate terms to us and ours.

He really isn’t going to like the results if he lets everyone get fired up over this. 

Heh.


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