🚨‼️ 🚨‼️ Regularly scheduled nonsense posts about tv and clothes and silliness hav been temporarily delayed due to UK fuckery. 🚨‼️🚨‼️
If you are based in the UK, please watch this video. This is in regards to the UK's plan "Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media"
In short, because the viewings for state-run BBC and consumption of BBC-news are declining, the UK is attempting to control other media sources such as Tik-Tok and Youtube, and force the other platforms to give priority (exclusive?) content that is state-approved material, with primary focus on UK-based content.
You can see a run-down on their priorities on this post. (Image from that link)
This is connected to the debate on "The future of terrestrial television," a government initiative to improve terrestrial television and internet access. They even promise a "universal free service to deliver live TV over broadband." They're mad that people have stopped watching BBC, so they're trying to install an IP-switchover to deliver content.
Okay, that doesn't sound too bad... trojan horses never do seem that bad. In exchange for delivering access to all this terrestrial-- read, BRITISH-- content through your internet, they're aiming for complete control over your consumption online. This is why they're considering banning VPNs in the UK. They want to ensure that the content you have access to is British content, and state-approved at that.
So they want to control your access on television and broadband, and now they're demanding control from other platforms what you are and are not allowed to access on platforms like youtube and tik-tok.
Considering how much fuckery we've seen from this government, I would not be shocked in the slightest if all the sudden, any and all access to external media-- say, for example, a video of John Oliver criticising the UK government-- is erased once they have control of our tv and our broadband.
This is 1984 shit. If you haven't been paying attention to what the fuckers are up to, you really need to start paying attention. Because everything this government is doing is insidious-- I'm now officially far more unsafe under the Labour government than I ever was under the Tories-- and I sure as hell was not safe under the Tories.
This is all packaged in 'we want to make the UK more accessible, we want to make sure rural areas have internet, we want to make sure the information you access is accurate. And we want to make sure the content you get is British. (ie, we will control the narrative). Our definition of what is acceptable and British (ie, cis het white British).
They just banned social media for 16s-- "protect the children." On the surface, this sounds understandable, cos social media is poison.
But what that means is that in order to prove that you're not under 16, you have to hand over your government identification so the government can link it to your social media.
Which also means they can very easily watch and access anything you do, and PROVE that it's you if you say something they don't like-- such as TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
These are the same fuckers who are trying to ban wikipedia.
There is a Qualtrics survey for the "new Strategic direction for the UK" where you can tell them if you think this 1984 shit is acceptable. Please note, a lot of the questions are carefully set up with a lot of propaganised language. For example, this is a question trying to get you to say that you want to find British (nationalised) content on youtube and tiktok and other streaming platforms and that British content should be your priority for access. They don't even give you an option to write in on this question to say whether or not British content is a priority for you. They want you to say that you have a difficult time finding this material so they can go back to the other platforms and tell them to prioritise the state-approved media.
Question 22. How easy or difficult is it for you to find culturally relevant content on video platforms, including video sharing platforms like YouTube and TikTok and streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video?
Examples of culturally relevant content could include stories set in Britain, with British presenters, representing British values or referencing British events or customs.
Options:
*Very easy - I have no issues in finding culturally relevant content on these platforms
*Somewhat easy - I have very few issues in finding culturally relevant content on these platforms
*Neither easy nor difficult - no opinion either way
*Somewhat difficult - I have some issues in finding culturally relevant content on these platforms
*Very difficult - I have a lot of issues in finding culturally relevant content on these platforms
*Not sure
So If you do the qualtrics form (which, please do because we need to tell them this is some Orwellian bullshit), please read each question very carefully.
If they get enough people filling out the qualtrics forms saying that we're not okay with this shit, they will have a more difficult time justifying pushing this shit through.
If you do the survey, this website might be helpful to read u and answer the questions on the television and internet access questions. And this site for information on the "Watch this Space" questions.
Okay, I'm tired of talking about all of this now, but these are really actually HUGE deals that will affect every single internet and tv user in the UK. So if you're not paying attention to all of this, I understand why but if you don't, things are going to get so much darker, so much sooner. Please forward this to anyone in the UK or people who are politically minded who can highlight things like this.
🚨‼️ 🚨‼️ The UK is turning further and further right-- and not just conservative annoying right-- properly fascist nightmare. So I know it takes a LOT of emotional energy and exhaustion, but if we don't fight this now, there will be no way to fight it once these are installed laws. 🚨‼️🚨‼️
We now return to regularly scheduled nonsense posts about tv and clothes and silliness.
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