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The farce of the Online Safety Act. YouGov tweets are now being censored – politicalbetting.com
The farce of the Online Safety Act. YouGov tweets are now being censored – politicalbetting.com
Last week the Online Safety Act came into force and as long predicted it is a bloody mess as we can see social media companies such as Twitter having to censor content regarding the act which is an Orwellian nightmare, the screenshot above shows a YouGov tweet having to be hidden.
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If were Coldplay's lawyers for the LOLs I'd ask for every bit of communications between Mr Byron and his mistress.
Hopefully there was no sexting going on.
His wife will just put in a claim for a % of what he's claiming from Coldplay.
You may have set up your household to allow your daughter to use social media without undue damage to her development and mental health, but this requires knowledge and skill that is not yet widespread throughout parents of your daughter's class.
The social pressure on young kids to get onto social media because their friends are is where the most damage is caused. You're celebrating this.
And of course, you could go on about poor parenting or whatever, but this tech is so new I don't think it's reasonable to expect all parents to be experts in how to ringfence it and to protect their kids against its more pernicious effects.
@RoguePOTUSStaff
This is the story of his life, right here.
Caddy tosses a ball on the ground, then POTUS pretends it's the shot he made.
https://x.com/RoguePOTUSStaff/status/1949530230827204898
For a guy who spends so much of his time on a golf course, you might have imagined he actually liked to play the game, but no...
He'd have done better to have kept his thoughts to himself, and just said - "oh, they're a bit shy, let's move on!" - and then flipped the camera.
It really isn't any of his business.
This could be the most consequential week for the economy in years: The state of President Donald Trump’s economy is about to come into full view. A slew of crucial economic data is set for release this week, including the jobs report, inflation, consumer confidence and corporate earnings. We’ll get the first glimpse at America’s second-quarter gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the economy. And, most crucially, the Federal Reserve will decide whether to cut rates or hold steady one more time.
As if that weren’t enough, Trump’s trade polices also come due: Friday is the administration’s self-imposed deadline for settling tariff rates for all 200+ US trading partners. Trump’s top economic advisers will be negotiating a trade framework with China in Sweden. And an appeals court will hear arguments this week about whether the bulk of Trump’s tariffs are even legal, to begin with.
🚨EXC: John Swinney says the SNP will have to win an outright majority at the Holyrood election to secure indyref2.
He has revealed his strategy for a referendum in the Record and will table a motion at his party's conference.
This is big news for the indy movement. Swinney is saying the SNP need to win 65 plus seats on their own and not in partnership with the Greens.
https://x.com/paulhutcheon/status/1949722744871944303
Best sign in Scotland at the weekend.
We got back to the hotel from the theatre (*) at about eleven, and went to a restaurant for a drink and a snack. A young couple, probably early twenties, were at the table next to ours. And whilst many of the oldies at the surrounding tables were staring at their mobiles, this young couple were chatting as they played a tiny travel chess set.
(*) Book of Mormon, which was actually very funny, and quite thought-provoking.
Politicians are impressively dense when it comes to technology. You can't use algorithms to make the internet safe for kids. They're not magic.
Also, I have had a VPN for several years, so I can pay and watch sporting events not broadcast in the UK.
Yes I'm celebrating my daughter, with permission and consent, being able to stay in touch with her ex classmates and friends. Its a good thing in my view.
Any parent who doesn't want that can prevent it by choosing not to give permission or not getting them a phone etc
Quite a bit of nonsense is written about Gen Z.
They really would excuse him if he were caught buggering a goat, wouldn't they?
(Mind you, the most disgusting thing about that video is he's using a buggy at Turnberry, which is flatter than a snooker table.)
He plays all 18 holes and after sinking the final putt turns to his caddy and says, 'Waddya think of my game?'
The caddy thinks, then says, 'Well, it has some good features, but I think golf is a better game.'
'You know nothing about goats...'
But it’s just a shakedown
Is the cult really going to transfer to JD Vance?
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/28/moscow-pyongyang-direct-flights-russia-to-north-korea-tourists
His golf swing is farcical, he could not do a round of golf without a buggy, and as for his handicap who knows
He is only deceiving himself and quite frankly it's just a circus of stupidity
Mind you, he seems to have charmed UVL in welcoming 15% tariffs plus billions of dollars worth of US energy and armaments from him thereby making Europe dependent on Trump's US for energy and defence security
0.2% might be closer to the mark.
Under what tort is he claiming damages, anyway ?
At a public event, reinforced by the terms and conditions on the ticketing, 1st Amendment surely applies.
And what duty of care is owed in those circumstances ?
As we've seen in other sectors, China is seriously undercutting us on costs and development times. And our technology advantage is eroding.
In the short term our big pharma companies will benefit. But if China takes over more of the research and development, they'll eventually get sidelined too.
GSK licenses COPD drug from Hengrui Pharma for $500 million upfront: HKEX filing
It's a PDE3/4 inhibitor — similar to Verona's drug that Merck bought out for $10B
+ GSK gets option for 11 of Hengrui's preclinical programs across oncology, respiratory, immunology, inflammation
https://x.com/AmberTongPW/status/1949631934877016162
The fact they may take in a few more US energy and arms imports doesn't necessarily make them dependent either
So we've established President Trump is golf's equivalent of Auric Goldfinger...I must confess he always reminded me of someone.
As a liberal (please insert your own definition of what constitutes a "liberal" as everyone thinks they are one but everyone has their own idea of what one should be), I'm usually torn between the notion of the freedom to and the freedom from.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions though if it's been paved by some highways contractors it'll need to be repaved in six months and that's probably where we are. It probably seemed like a good and sensible idea at the time but the consequences of implementation weren't thought through - there probably wasn't sufficient time allowed in the legislative process to consider all the ramifications.
We haven't seen the actual text of the deal, but I would give decent odds that there's no actual binding commitment to purchase a defined amount of either LNG or military armaments.
The 15% tariff is real, of course.
It's a more rational level than the 50% etc nonsense, but it will be interesting to see how much, if at all, the US actually benefits from the 15% vs 0% in the other direction.
It something economists will study, as I don't think the outcome is entirely predictable.
I bet Fleming never dreamt his character would one day be President.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/28/david-amess-daughter-katie-mp-murder
It’s worth a read not just for the criticism of Prevent but as a lovely insight into Sir David Ames’s as a person by his daughter. Seems like he was a very good egg.
A couple of posters here were saying that it would only affect bad people.
The real fun will come with the convenience of this. The police love an online crime - great for the stats. Long before “arrested for tweeting while setting fire to immigrants”, we had the crime of “posting nasty things about Chardonnay”.
The next stage will be going after people for wrong think - there are plenty of opinions that’s are offensive to some people and whose truth is questionable.
The following stage is options that are offensive - and their truth is an offence. “Your truth contradicts my religion.”
After that we move to “it’s offensive to say that the chocolate ration increased from 20 grams to 15 grams. It actually increased to 14 grams.”
I can hear people saying that Starmer & Co. won’t do that. But look at the polls. And who might come next.
Just imagine Trump and his pals on the Supreme Court with this stuff to play with.
"I'll take a pedo over a commie any day.."
https://x.com/RightWingCope/status/1949546870444822625
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7IyrpY8tF8
TL/DR; Russia is losing its police. The army pays a lot more and attracts the same type of people; other, safer jobs pay as much. The police vacancy rate is 25 per cent nationally but 75 per cent in some, mainly rural, areas. This means police concentrate on serious crime and let more petty offences slide.
Thank heavens that could never happen here.
Oh, and in Russia vigilantes are filling the gap. We don't see that here, except in Northern Ireland and in Leon's prognostications. Yet.
His crackdown on organised crime must have put the Mafia back decades.
He reached out to China before Nixon and pioneered commercial ties with their government.
All in all…. #GoldfingerForPresident
Rumour has it cabinet is not being recalled for Gaza but because there is some evidence someone called Keir Starmer a poo-poo head online .
Dangerous times we live in.
Online arse act. Governments love that shit
My issue with where we are isn't about freedom of speech but fairness of speech - there are too many voices which don't get heard or, more accurately, a small group dominates the debate with repetitive argument from their truth.
Is that small group in any way representative of opinion as a whole? No, it's certainly not the case here for example.
It has always been the case money and time buy you a voice or voices - it's been the case in the printed media for decades and it's probably true in the online world as well.
One of those things has not happened here, yet, but judging by today's and yesterday's threads, it is only a matter of time.
Otherwise, how could it be done?
Unfortunately for us, no political party is going to have the guts to remove most of this legislation.
So kisscams will no doubt be a standard rider in any stadium tickets.
Russia as you say has already restricted them, and China, Iran and Iraq ban or restrict VPN use as well
Sweepstake to be set up.
Arguably making Twitter a little more difficult to access may reduce the spread of some output from nutters and neo-fascists.
And I assume the lobotomised hypocrites in our media will start yelling about Evil Starmer being to blame.
I do wonder if some places will impose greater restrictions than necessary in order to raise a cloud of dust.
I'm also not sure that his is the way, however.
And that is the greatest danger of all in the Online Safety Bill. Who sets what can be said? We see it on PB already - the chill hand of free speech suppressed (for totally understandable reasons).
Hence in Stalin’s Russia, the desparate propaganda - to counteract the Wreckers, Saboteurs and Foreign Spies. Who were *everywhere*
I could easily see Reform or Dried Fruit claiming that since The Media Industrial Complex is hostile to The Truth, expressing certain opinions comes under the Act.
Do countries like Germany get charged rent for storing much of their bullion in Fort Knox?
And yet I was discussing things technological with some friends the other day and I mentioned my use of a VPN. Faces were generally a bit blank and one friend in particular looked mystified and said “what’s that? Visible pants or something?”
He’d never heard of VPNs or what they do. He’s 58. He has a first class degree from… Imperial College
It is incredible how untech-savvy even smart people can be. Hence our MPs enacting this fecking stupid bill, perhaps
Jo
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