Thread 106526841

>Technology platforms are to be compelled by law to proactively find and stop content promoting self-harm to adults as well as children, in a bid to boost online safety.

>The change to strengthen the Online Safety Act will make clear to social media companies that it is not optional as to whether to take quick action on protecting users from “toxic material”, the new Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said.

>She said such content is so harmful that it can be “the difference between life and death”.

>The change – legally requiring tech firms to prevent such content from appearing in the first place, rather than simply reacting to it – is expected to come into effect this autumn and will mean that encouraging or assisting serious self-harm will be treated as a priority offence.

>The Molly Rose Foundation – set up by bereaved father Ian Russell after his 14-year-old daughter Molly took her own life, having viewed harmful content on social media – welcomed the strengthening of the Act.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ofcom-liz-kendall-samaritans-government-b2822293.html

The OSA is getting worse. So much worse. Now all Brits will be blocked from viewing "self-harm/suicide" content even if they are verified as 18+.

If they apply these laws liberally, then we could end up with a bizarre scenario where people in the UK can no longer listen to a song that romanticises suicide (so a significant portion of rock/alternative music), or watch a film/play a video game that features a suicide/self-harm scene.

Just seems like normal UK stuff

>>106526841 (OP)
All according to projections.

Can't wait till they start blocking resources on weight loss because anorexic kids will use them to starve themselves lmao

>>106526841 (OP)
I'm meant to care what Airstrip One and Big Brother Starmer are doing - why?

post cunny and prove that You are free white man

>>106526841 (OP)
Stop having toxic and problematic thoughts. Be happy.

>>106526864
This. It's amazing how no matter who you vote for, it's always the wrong choice. And in the UK it seems to be twice as true somehow.

kys

>>106527034
???

>draft law
>be warned it's ineffective
>scrap it
>draft same law
>same warning
>push it through anyway
>people circumvent it
>"we don't care"
>extend the ineffective law
what is the purpose here? coz it ain't protecting nobody

>>106527018
The UK population are the sheepiest cattle ever. They'll eat up whatever propaganda is thrown at them.

>>106526841 (OP)
>slippery slope happening this quickly
They didn't even give it a few months before moving on from "this is just to protect kids".

>>106526841 (OP)
Just how oversocialized and labotomized is the average britbong? Are buildings no longer tall enough for you guys to drop off? Don't know how to make a brownoid "disappear" that you had enough with?

>>106526841 (OP)
UK is basically on its way to becoming failed state

The UK is a failed state.

>>106527064
Kill democracy. Citizens have a fundamental right to all information, the right to skepticism, and the right to be wrong. Democracy has a dark side consequence too, like negativity, and people that are confidently incorrect.

Democracy is fundamentally incompatible with trust. Trust is the primary mechanism of fascism.

Filtering information like this is therefore stealing democracy. It is normalizing trust in neo feudal overlords. It is a coup. The only issue with failed coups is the timeline. This has been a long term plan. Within a decade, citizen will be functionally equivalent to slave. "You will own nothing and you'll be happy about it," because otherwise you will be dead.

>>106527306
>>106527399
well that was quick

honestly, at this point just ban us from the internet completely. if i reflect back on the past decade i don't think i have gained anything positive from this whole experience, i could've been outside or had actual real hobbies

>>106527478
OI U GOT A LOICENCE FOR FLYIN THAT KITE??

>>106526841 (OP)
I made this OC a couple days ago and was waiting for a thread to post it in.

>>106527523
i don't. but the older i get the more i feel ted was right, technology was a mistake

>>106526841 (OP)
Islamic country wants to censor the internet not surprising

>>106527306
>>106527399
Checked and kek

>>106527064
It's a mix of pork barreling and just adding more laws to the point where everything eventually becomes illegal through some technicality or an interpretive dance of the law.
They don't have to enforce these laws or care that their presence still costs money, but they need them for the occasion when they want to fuck somebody or something up that isn't hurting or bothering anybody that other laws are too narrow to catch.
It's the phase of late stage democracy when it transitions to pound me in the ass authoritarianism communism. The vast majority of people need very little oversight or government and care very little for politics, but the Karens and kikes of the world want power and to dictate the world. The allure of power is strong for the sociopaths of the world to reach the highest levels of government but is of little interest for regular honest people, until it becomes a real problem for us.

>>106527585
Shariah law would be an improvement over where the UK is heading desu
At least Islam, while shit, comes with SOME benefits when it comes to women and lgbt topics for example.
In the UK you get the surveillance police state, terrorist attacks and the rainbow feminism on top.

>>106526841 (OP)
Suicide is a noble and rational act by a man who understands he has no worth or value to offer his tribe members.

Reminder that British subject VOTED for all this

>>106526966
happiness is mandatory.

>people still think democracy exists
there is only propaganda

>>106526841 (OP)
Nothing to see here, social media companies like X (formerly Twitter) will ignore this as usual and send you sarcastic updates on posts your report that read like:
>We're sorry to report that our automated AI shit found nothing wrong. If you think this was a mistake you can file another report. We know this was frustrating but we do hope it won't put you off from reporting future posts.

>>106527691
big corpos have teams of lawyers and lobbyists who allow them to comply and/or tactically ignore legislation, but small businesses, individuals and hobbyists.

John's Model Railway Forum or whatever can't afford to comply with a 1000 page legal document or have 24/7 jannies monitoring every post so they'll just shut it down and move to Faceberg further centralizing the web and placing it under corpo control.

y r u so dark?

>>106530731
What are the restrictions on VPNs, tor and i2p? They're as unrestricted as any country. Or do they mean restrictions that apply to VPN companies operating in the United Kingdom (a bad idea to do that in the first place)?

>>106530876
Ah,
>Advertising the use of VPNs can be illegal under the Online Safety Act.
In the same sense that advertising gambling or alcohol can be illegal in some contexts. Irrelevant for any user of the services and the ads are still all over YouTube anyway, VPN usage spiked massively after this bill passed.

Charles in Charge

>>106530889
that's how it starts
10 years later you get a visit from the police for having connected to a known VPN IP

>>106530988
They already said they're not going to ban them though. It especially doesn't make sense due to their prominence in the enterprise and business use-cases (VPNs are not just a thing privacy conscious people use. They're a crucial tool for connecting to infrastructure)

>>106527702
Mohammed, please.

>>106531005
>the bolice can't possibly tell the difference between connecting to a well known corpo IP and a public NordVPN server

>>106531005
>They already said they're not going to ban them though
Sorry, I didn't know you were 12. Good bless your innocence.

>>106531086
They literally can't if you front it through the same VPS / Cloud provider that some random business uses. Loads of VPN providers use cloud hosting for their servers and don't necessarily fully own their infrastructure.

They can of course get a warrant to compel information from the cloud provider but short of that there's no way to tell the difference.

>>106531109
If they wanted to ban them they'd have done so already.

>>106526841 (OP)
You're focused on this and meanwhile the EU is having another go at passing Chat Control, meaning an end to encrypted communications (for plebs like you, politicians are exempt of course). Western countries are all turning into dystopian shitholes.

>>106531159
The EU is going to colectively burn in uprisings that it might as well fracture in the near future anyway

I´m not even living in the UK and it STILL PISSES ME OFF!

Are there no freedom-minded brits left to finally topple this disgusting Nanny State?

>>106526841 (OP)
>OI! OI! OI! YOU FAHKIN CUNT! I CERTAINLY HOPE YOU GOT YOUR SUICIDE LOICENSE!?

>>106526841 (OP)
lol we went from oh no think of the children to oh no think of the adults real fast

>>106531005
>They already said they're not going to ban them though.
Yeah after proposing a ban and then getting so much fucking backlash that they had no other choice than to backpaddle. Give them 2-5 years, maybe less depends on how desperate they get, they'll try again, they always do.

>>106531518
not enough to do anything meaningful

>>106526841 (OP)
>do you have a loicence for suicide?

>>106531529
You jest but the Assisted Dying bill passed this year:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jun/20/assisted-dying-vote-uk-politics-latest-news-updates

You will be able to get a suicide license now provided you meet certain criteria.

>>106526841 (OP)
I dont care, you voted for this

>>106531561
To be fair if I was living in the UK I would certainly look for a way to kill myself too.

>The government that protects muslim pedo rape gangs raping white girls
>The same government claims this is too protect children
This is all so they can get their foot in the door and start to ouright ban other forms of content, next it will be extreme political content which means banning anyone to the right of labour to try and ensure they won't be completely destroyed next election, which they will be because
>Lost the muslim vote for supporting israel
>Lost the working class vote for helping and participating in the muslim pedo rape gangs who hate them, whites and israel
>Lost the socialist vote to Jezbollah
Like with the scottish girl carrying weapons, they tried to do you it was the little girls harassing immigrants and no one believed that shit because we have the video

Sites have to moderate their content? wow that's 1984 shit

>>106526841 (OP)
The social safety industrial complex says you can't learn about suicide. The hugs machine won't let you leave. You must be loving it, indefinitely.

>>106527034
what does this post say? I’m in the UK and I can’t see it.

>>106526841 (OP)
what about substance abuse? will smokers, drinkers and trannies be banned from media forever?

>Legalize suicide
>Ban suicide material online

>>106531529
>>106531561
>Law doesn’t say anything about killing your self if you’re alive to kill the other self.

The rise of angsoc ladies and geltelmen

>>106531830
It just says [Content withheld in your region due to legal reasons]

>>106531723
>>Lost the muslim vote for supporting israel

lmao you are such a great political analyst. Who the fuck are the muslim gonna vote for then ?

>>106526841 (OP)
>Oi Mate you 'af a loicense for killing 'urself?
>Alright then laddy, it's the Tower for you then

>>106526841 (OP)
actually it is not going to do any of that: it just means you should use a VPN if you are in the UK. the law is literally : "use a VPN, goy"

>>106530845
Because a ban on any content is effectively a ban on complaining about the ban, one so far reaching as to make you persona non grata anywhere if they ever find out you complained. People treat it all the same, doesn't matter what it is, a ban on all pictures and talk of hamburgers makes anyone who openly likes hamburgers the equivalent of a pedophile. If you can only say something is bad, the "middle" position is somewhere between "delete it and order the man to shut up" and "kill him". Likewise if you can only say something is good the middle ground is somewhere between "affirm it if it comes up" and "force everyone to participate".

>>106531592
There are other people who need to die first.

>>106531962
The UK has islamist sharia law parties forming up as independants, so one of those or more likely Jezbollah.

>>106531992
> islamist sharia law parties

How the fuck are these allowed? Sharia law doesnt sound very democratic.

>>106526841 (OP)
I'm sure this is the last change and the ball won't keep rolling down the hill

>>106527064
It's simple. The conservatives pushed it through because it's popular and they wanted to be reelected, Labour enforced it because it's popular and they want to be reelected. It's a stupid retarded law but it's popular with tech illiterate boomers and parents who would rather stop everyone from having fun than learn how to set up a firewall through their ISP.

>>106527403
>Trust is the primary mechanism of fascism.
Lmao why did the Gestapo rely on informants to capture and punish people for wrongthink then?

>>106532013
Honeypots.

>>106532013
It's very democratic to let people vote for their own laws. It's just what happens if you import in millions of people with radically different cultures and views on the world into a system that actually allows people to vote on what they want.

Watch this bold prediction of the future: Next on the list of things to protect children from are radical political extremist views. Of course what is defined as extremist is up to the opponents of these viewpoints.

>>106532057
>It's very democratic to let people vote for their own laws

Not if these new laws take away fundamental freedoms, including other freedoms guaranteed by the constitution. You are condemned to be free britbong, whether you like it or not.

>>106526841 (OP)
Censorship