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- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 23 minutes ago:
It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years
Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 41 minutes ago:
Why report on this now? The article even acknowledges that this happened last month. Also, there is no ‘UK Green Party’, Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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- Comment on sinful 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules 4 weeks ago:
Locking as this is a duplicate, but I’m not removing as there’s comments.
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 4 weeks ago:
The main difference is the Linham has a history that means it’s probably not a hypothetical. He’s already appearing in court on the fourth for harassing a trans woman and breaking her phone.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t actually played it, it’s on my wishlist.
- Comment on He really said this, look it up! 5 weeks ago:
Glad to know that playing Super Lesbian Animal RPG is praxis.
- Comment on Tourists dismantle cross and use stones to create Star of David 1 month ago:
Please make the primary link an archive link so we’re not driving traffic to the Daily Heil. I’m honestly not sure we should allowing stories from there at all.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”
She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”
Stop trying to enforce this at the service level, for God’s sake. What are you going to do when people switch to stuff like Tor?* ‘Online safety regulation pushes kids to that dark web’ will be a fire headline in a couple of months/years.
* I remember seeing someone link to something here they described as ‘Tor for apps’ that I can’t find, does anyone have that at hand?
The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.
I’m sorry, but this is genuinely a failure of parents. Like, I’m not normally one to trot out the ‘parents should helicopter their children’ defence against regulation of social media, but giving a bloody six year old not-monitored-enough access to the internet is on the parent.
Also, I’d take this all a lot more seriously if parent actually used the tools already available to them:
We actually already have measures to deal with this: back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them. Again, sing it with me: lol.
Back to the BBC article.
More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.
This is an implicit admission that age verification is ineffective. If it was, then children wouldn’t see it and then we wouldn’t need to ban it.
- Comment on Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering 1 month ago:
What a shame, would’ve made me like him more if he did.
- Comment on UK pornography taskforce to propose banning ‘barely legal’ content after Channel 4 documentary airs 1 month ago:
- Good luck enforcing that;
- No, let’s not just ban everything that some people find objectionable.
- Comment on ‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know 2 months ago:
He just needs to install GMod.
- Comment on UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage 2 months ago:
Of all the things to get mad at Reddit/UK govt for age restricting, war forage should should be far down that list. Watching people get blown into pieces is literally traumatising and ideally children shouldn’t be exposed to it.
- Comment on Government response to the Repeal the Online Safety Act petition 2 months ago:
God, it’s so stupid that the govt thinks making every website either do its own age verification or pay out of pocket to some we’re-totally-not-going-to-sell-your-data firm really goes to show how out of touch they are. Why not require OS-level parental controls to be exposed through some API (that browsers would wrap around) and require service providers to gatekeep content based on that, that would at least be more robust than this, something a simple VPN can get around.
Right, right, this is Tory legislation banking on the fear of having your porn habits linked to your ID deterring you from accessing it.
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 2 months ago:
Client side moderation is a Bluesky thing, I imagine this wouldn’t work on Reddit et al. but that depends on how it’s implemented and is going to be specific to whatever website your accessing. Or you can just use a VPN, like the BBC put it:
When BBC News wrote about the seven methods of age verification adult websites may use in the UK and the companies who may be employed to do it, one reader comment resonated with many others.
“Sure, I will give out my sensitive information to some random, unproven company or… I will use a VPN,” they said. “Difficult choice.”
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 2 months ago:
This is really trivial to get around: gist.github.com/…/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b331…
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 2 months ago:
Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.
Why would they? They’re only legally liable for their own users, not ours.
- Comment on Thread concept: List of sites about to block the UK over the Online Safety Act 2 months ago:
This already exist: onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
- Comment on First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io . 2 months ago:
Too bad cryptobros are more interested in using it as a speculative investment/scam machine than an actual currency.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 months ago:
I didn’t say if God changed though, I said if God changed what they willed. From some quick Googling (I haven’t actually read the bible), this seems to happen in the bible (Jeremiah 26:13). God can change their actions without changing themself.
The Euthyphro dilemma is moreso about polytheistic religions. It doesn’t work with nor was it written about Monotheism.
2 millennia of Christian philosophy would disagree with you there.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 months ago:
No it’s not? I’m arguing that morality must be something separate from God. If the only thing that makes something morally right is that God wills it, then if God ever changes what they will, what is morally right will change.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 months ago:
You’ve just moved some words around. God must have reasons for thinking something is good, otherwise goodness would be arbitrary. You can argue that god is only one who can know those reasons/criteria, but I don’t think there’s a good argument that these reasons/criteria can’t exist without them.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 2 months ago:
Because God must use some criteria to assess if something is morally right or not, otherwise morality would be arbitrary (see the Euthyphro dilemma). These criteria can exist without God, therefore morality can exist without God.
- Comment on Woman, 74, tells of pain and fear after arrest at Liverpool pro-Palestine rally 2 months ago:
Did you mean to link this theguardian.com/…/audrey-white-74-tells-of-pain-a… ?
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- Comment on Pride rainbows taken off police cars after court ruling 2 months ago:
This is the Torygraph, don’t read the comments unless you want to do psyc damage to yourself.
- Comment on UK to lower voting age to 16 2 months ago:
He’s actually already the most popular politician on TikTok.
- Comment on moderation 2 months ago:
Perfect moderation doesn’t exi-
