Open Rights GroupMar 10

🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨

Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.

This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/mps-give-ministers-powers-to-restrict-entire-internet/

#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet

MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.

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Show threadKerplunk

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Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨

Keir Stalin Starmer and Orwellian Surveillance Fetischist Shabhana Mahmood given even more power to damage citizens rights.

UK Labour is a desaster in action.

Mar 10 at 3:38pmWeb
Show threadDJGummikuhMar 10
@Kerplunk @openrightsgroup how the flying fuck can labor be an even bigger Desaster to the uk than the tories??
Show threadPete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫Mar 10

@DJGummikuh @Kerplunk @openrightsgroup

They're the continuity Tory party, put in place to keep the oligarch agenda going after the wheels fell off the traditional Tory party's clown car.

Show threadJames T MonkeyMar 10

@DJGummikuh @Kerplunk @openrightsgroup The Tories voted in favour of the Lords’ amendments, which is a blanket Australia-style ban for under-16s, including restrictions on VPNs. Labour’s objections were that a blanket ban would just send kids underground and block them from critical information that they have a right to access, but their solution is vaguely-worded ad-hoc powers.

I think that’s better on balance but hard to say, and still bad. Many Labour members abstained.

Show threadLukefromDCMar 11

@teamonkey @DJGummikuh @Kerplunk @openrightsgroup Of course the kids will go to noncompliant underground sites, followed by the rest of the UK public.

As for VPNs, remember that VPN hosts not based in the UK plus Tor node operators can tell OFCOM et all to frack off.

Show threadMarioMar 11
@DJGummikuh @Kerplunk @openrightsgroup what if I told you the left wing and the right wing belong to the same bird?
Show threadDJGummikuhMar 11
@mariob @Kerplunk @openrightsgroup doesn't really have to do anything with ideology. This is not about some fringe partys this is about partys that once were considered centrist.
Show threadMarioMar 11

@DJGummikuh @Kerplunk @openrightsgroup ideology makes it sound very tolerant. I was mostly making reference to practices and policy making.

I am quite unsure in what era were the left/right parties being centrist. Their approach is simple: divide and conquer.