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DoomsdaysCW
@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide

Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025

Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.

"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.

"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.

"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.

"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.

[...]

"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor

#Censorship#GazaGenocide#GazaHumanitarianCrisis#Orwellian#DoublePlusUngood#EndlessWar #PalestineAction#UKPol#Fascism#CharacteristicsOfFascism
DoomsdaysCW
@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago
#DystopianTimes - The collective West decided to #censor the entire internet instead of not doing #genocide

Ricky Hale and @cemedia
Jul 30, 2025

Excerpt: "Since the #OnlineSafetyAct came into effect, we've seen an awful lot of political censorship and nothing in the way of saving children. Children's lives have not been improved by this bill, but all of us have seen loss of privacy and loss of information we should be allowed to access in a #FreeSociety.

"There is a petition on the Parliament UK website to repeal the Online Safety Act that I have attempted to sign three times. I still have not received the verification email, meaning my signature has not been counted. I suspect this is deliberate and that many more than the official 427,000 people have attempted to sign.

"The government has already responded to the petition by dismissing everyone's concerns and refusing to debate this in parliament. The whole point of parliamentary petitions is to trigger parliamentary debates, but the government is no longer pretending to listen to what we want.

"The level of #overreach in the Online Safety Act is off the chart. Section 179 bans people from saying something false that could cause 'non-trivial psychological harm', potentially banning #humour and #satire. It could also ban any speech that counters a government narrative and is therefore deemed false.

"If your government decides there is no genocide and you say there is, there is nothing stopping them deeming this misinformation and banning you.

[...]

"The #MinistryOfTruth now gets to decide which online content is factual or harmful and that will always be a political decision. There is no impartial way of doing this, and aside from anything else, people in a free society are allowed to say what they want. No one needs to be protected from speech."

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/no-government-has-the-right-to-censor

#Censorship#GazaGenocide#GazaHumanitarianCrisis#Orwellian#DoublePlusUngood#EndlessWar #PalestineAction#UKPol#Fascism#CharacteristicsOfFascism

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AJ Sadauskas
@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au  ·  activity timestamp last week

Australian government: We want to ban anyone under the age of 16 accessing social media.

Google, Meta, etc: You can't do this to us... Errr... Our customers! This is big government interfering in the free market! We believe in freedom! Government does best when it does least!

Australian government: Unfortunately, it seems there's no other way around this, except to require /every/ Australian to provide ID to prove their identity before using social media services.

Google, Meta, etc: No way! There's no chance in... Hang on a sec, you're making people provide us with what?

Australian government: Unfortunately, yes. Every single Australian will basically have to provide uploads of their identity documents to Google, Meta, and the other Silicon Valley surveillance mongers.

How else will they prove they're over 16?

Google, Meta, etc: What sorts of documents?

Australian government: Oh, passports, drivers licences, identity cards...

Google, Meta, etc: Well, we will still blatantly disregard and circumvent your no social media for 16-year-olds policy.

But we do like the idea of everyone giving us even more information about themselves. The law's the law, right?

Australian government: I mean, it will be done through neutral 3rd parties...

Google, Meta, etc: Oh we totally understand. Google Play Secure Identity Verification and Meta for Business Age Verification will totally be organised into separate holding companies.

We uphold the law in every jurisdiction we work in after all...

#auspol #satire
AJ Sadauskas
@aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au  ·  activity timestamp last week

Australian government: We want to ban anyone under the age of 16 accessing social media.

Google, Meta, etc: You can't do this to us... Errr... Our customers! This is big government interfering in the free market! We believe in freedom! Government does best when it does least!

Australian government: Unfortunately, it seems there's no other way around this, except to require /every/ Australian to provide ID to prove their identity before using social media services.

Google, Meta, etc: No way! There's no chance in... Hang on a sec, you're making people provide us with what?

Australian government: Unfortunately, yes. Every single Australian will basically have to provide uploads of their identity documents to Google, Meta, and the other Silicon Valley surveillance mongers.

How else will they prove they're over 16?

Google, Meta, etc: What sorts of documents?

Australian government: Oh, passports, drivers licences, identity cards...

Google, Meta, etc: Well, we will still blatantly disregard and circumvent your no social media for 16-year-olds policy.

But we do like the idea of everyone giving us even more information about themselves. The law's the law, right?

Australian government: I mean, it will be done through neutral 3rd parties...

Google, Meta, etc: Oh we totally understand. Google Play Secure Identity Verification and Meta for Business Age Verification will totally be organised into separate holding companies.

We uphold the law in every jurisdiction we work in after all...

#auspol #satire
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I am a little sad that there is not a CBC headline/alert for #TomLehrer passing away.

Tom Lehrer was kind of the proto-Stephen Colbert and all the other public performing satirists. Just with a piano, instead of a full music video.

is his "We will all go together when we go”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

really that much different from “Billionnaires are actually good”. There’s just a little more glitz in Colbert's version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-9JzV5wfQ&t=165s

#RIP#StephenColbert #satire#USA
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I am a little sad that there is not a CBC headline/alert for #TomLehrer passing away.

Tom Lehrer was kind of the proto-Stephen Colbert and all the other public performing satirists. Just with a piano, instead of a full music video.

is his "We will all go together when we go”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs

really that much different from “Billionnaires are actually good”. There’s just a little more glitz in Colbert's version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-9JzV5wfQ&t=165s

#RIP#StephenColbert #satire#USA
Angela Miller
@Alternatecelt@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

From Private Eye.

#funnynotfunny #haha #publishing #facepalm #satire

Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.
Non-celebrity publishes children’s book by Our Publishing Correspondent this woman has writing children’s Bill Cashgrab books is anyone’s guess.” I The publishing world was THE CHILDREN’S publishing relieved when it became clear there world was rocked this week as a was no marketing budget for this book was released by a new author ~~ book, as that was going on Gwyneth who wasn’t a celebrity. Paltrow’s first picture book, | “We've checked and double- meaning that the non-celebrity checked and she does indeed author's book sold less than 3,000 appear to be a former nanny copies despite excellent reviews. living in West Somerset whose “This means she’ll now have talent was spotted by an editor to put her talent towards paying at Bloomsbury,” said everyone the bills, ghost-writing children’s working in publishing. books by celebrity authors.” “She’s not a footballer like “Well, that’s a relief,” agreed Marcus Rashford, a presenter everyone in children’s publishing like Dermot O'Leary, a pop star eagerly looking forward to the day like Madonna, a comedian like when Al will be able to generate David Baddiel or an actress like children’s books for the celebrities Keira Knightley, so what business to put their name on at no cost.