🚨 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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/115975171799648858

Quasim's summary on Bluesky was better than this one.

"2022: Massachusetts enacts a 4% tax on millionaires. Critics predict catastrophe.

"2026: MA sees 39%⬆️ in number of millionaires, $5B⬆️ in new revenue, & MA is bottom 10 in poverty.

"Taxing the wealthy creates more wealth. Taxing working people creates more poverty."

If I had the skills, I'd create a script to send this to Gov. Ferguson and everyone else in the WA legislature once a day, every day until we enact something similar in Washington state.

Stop listening to the whines of rich people who will never functionally notice being slightly less rich. They'll make noise about leaving the state, saying how bad it will be. Some might even go somewhere else. Most won't actually bother, and the end results will benefit _everyone_.

MN Judge: "ICE has violated nearly 100 court orders."

ICE Fascists: "We're acting on orders of DHS Secretary Kristy Noem."

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen."

Nuremberg Trials: "I was just following orders is not a valid defense to criminal behavior.'

Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute every illegal action by this regime.

Anything less is unacceptable.

I know that Stephen Miller gets a lot of hate on here, but hear me out.

I think we could hate him more. We have the capacity, we all just need to put in a little more effort.

December 31: ICE agent kills 43-year-old Keith Porter, father of two, in Los Angeles. ICE agent not charged.

January 7: ICE agent kills 37-year-old Renee Good, mother of three, writer and poet, in Minneapolis. ICE agent not charged.

January 24: ICE agent kills 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU Nurse, in Minneapolis. ICE agent not charged.

For a “law and order” party, the Republicans sure accept a lot of unlawful killings.

A lot of people are correctly noting the galling hypocrisy of US conservatives who spent decades fetishizing gun rights and specifically the insurrectionary theory of the 2nd amendment suddenly justifying a man’s public, summary execution on the grounds that he was (legally, non-threateningly) armed when he encountered police.

And I get it. They are hypocrites. The hypocrisy is galling. I get it.

But I am begging you to move rapidly past this realization to a place where you never, ever take this people seriously for even the tiniest moment. Everything they say, every single thing, is said instrumentally to achieve their goal of power in that particular moment. There are no principles. They will not feel shame when caught in the discrepancy. Do not waste time on it, do not entertain it, do not debate it, do not lend it credence as an idea that warrants a serious and considered rebuttal.

Do not take them seriously ever again.

Kyle Rittenhouse walked up to police carrying an assault weapon during protests in Kenosha, then killed people, and Conservatives called him a hero.

Alex Pretti filmed officers during a protest, kept his handgun holstered, was wrestled to the ground, had his weapon taken away, and then was shot dead, and Conservatives are calling him a terrorist.

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