Fuck Me in the Hell

Stop killing games is setting up a sister campaign called “stop killing the internet”

It’s all about stop these censorship laws and age verification

They talk about how messed up it is that instead of threatening CEOs to give users more power over their own devices or algorithms, but to set up curfews and age verification

It fully launches in about 13 days!

https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/

⭐️🗣🌐NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TAKING ABOUTTT!!!! LET'S GOOOO!!!! 🌐🗣⭐️

Link: https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/

Great news! I'm excited to see where this goes :D ! I know right now there are a lot of people working behind the scenes right now that we can't see.

Campaigns like this keep popping up, and it gives me hope! Let this give you hope, too!

⚔️✊️KEEP FIGHTING OUT THERE GUYS! WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER! ✊️⚔️

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/uk-social-media-proposed-legislation-9.7235381

Good news is that they won't try putting it into effect until 2027! So that at least gives us some time!

Also I find it REALLY IRONIC that they say it's to "protect kids", EVEN THOUGH ROBLOX AND DISCORD ARE EXEMPT FROM THIS (aka, the places KNOWN for being filled with child predators😭)

I've also seen this person claim Bluesky will be affected by the ban

https://x.com/i/status/2066531257190662650

But like...they've literally shown ZERO proof of this so idk

(of course this is still really early, stuff could absolutely change!)

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It's good that they are extending it to 2027 that give you all some time to fight back sooo....

⚔️🔥HERE IS YOUR CHANCE GUYS!🔥⚔️

Yeah, this sounds like a wholeeee mass surveillance and no more privacy online grab to me!

I have this feeling they are going to try to use this highly private data to opress a lot of people and force their own views down our throats

I mean, it's really suspicious that Discord/Roblox was not first on the list since they are more known for that happening there.

It really makes you think 🤔.

⭐️🌐Our governments are turning into authoritarian and fascist regimes stand up against it today!⭐️🌐

"YES! And because it would lead to the suicide of numerous queer kids and cut off abused kids from their only lifelines right?"

"... ... ..."

Remember Jess Phillips's recent resignation letter? Emphasis mine:

TW: it explains how CSA materials are created.

"Over a year ago I presented solutions, long worked on by brilliant civil servants that would end the ability for children in the UK to take naked images of themselves. 91% of online child sex abuse is self-generated by children groomed, tricked and exploited in to abuse. The technology exists to stop children being able to take naked images of themselves. We could make this possible on every phone and device in the country. We could stop this abuse. It has taken me a year to get you to agree to even threaten to legislate in this space. Not legislate, just threaten. This is the definition of incremental change. Nothing bold about it. The announcement was meant to be in March, I'm still on a promise this will happen in June, I've given up believing it. How many children were left without a safety net in the time we dilly dallied and worried about tech bosses?"

/end TW

I have my differences with Jess Phillips. Notably, she's fooling herself if she thinks Starmer is a good man, though I assume he once talked a good game to his Labour colleagues: after all, they made him leader.

But there is no mistaking Phillips' genuine sincerity here. This is an unusually candid example of the genre of "MP resignation letters" that drips with the real frustration of someone who knows, because she is a woman in politics, that even many "good" men won't act against abuse when it really counts.

She's asking what we're all asking:

If child safety was so important to Starmer, why did Mr. "My Father Was A Toolmaker" fail to use a tool at his disposal? I think the answer is twofold:

1. He's compromised by his relationship with the US state and its hand-in-glove relationship with Big Tech (consider the Palantir deal), and is reluctant to be seen as acting against the sector or the men - often abusers of women and eugenics enthusiasts - who are its most powerful exponents. It's easier to say, by implication, that it is the children who are wrong, and the children's overall online behaviour that must be policed.

2. Age verification's main intended utility is not child protection, but the ability to easily link adults' IDs to our activity online. This matches the hard lurch to the right that Labour, and our public institutions and processes, have taken under not just Starmer, but prior Labour governments. The Tories did not invent much of the damage they did: on many issues, they picked up Labour's ball and ran with it. Now Labour have the ball again.

There's growing criminalisation of protest. There's over-reach via the use of our counter-terror laws. We are seeing broader enshittification of the public consultations process for proposed legislation (in the linked example, as part of a longstanding ableist propaganda project meant to damage the disability benefits system). His government seeks to erode the protections we still enjoy under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Specifically, age verification seems intended to support the government's attempt to make digital IDs happen. The public have been saying clearly for decades now that we don't want national ID cards in any way, shape or form.

I'm not naive here.

I see that Jess Phillips's vaunted technological solution to CSAM creation would likely still be imperfect and heap limitations on adults who don't cough up our IDs. I'm saying this, after all, on Tumblr, whose auto-mod can't tell a photo of a snowfield from a photo of a body.

But we don't need a false choice between "adults who won't dox themselves cannot take nudes" and "adults who won't dox themselves are deprived of important community-building methods, during a time of spiralling political repression".

In an ideal outcome, the Starmer government would:

actually care about the internet-facilitated abuse of children, women, and marginalised people

give us the measures we've been asking for to combat the likes of Grok

create genuine and feared consequences for the people - mostly men - who harm us

fund real, actionable education for parents and guardians, to help them understand the online world through which their children move, and protect them from its dangers

But on the whole, that's not what Keir Starmer is offering us.

The question is, what are we going to do about it?

For one thing, digital privacy campaigning org the Open Rights Group has proposed a rights-based approach to protecting our freedoms online that would still address the child safety concerns the Online Safety Act purports to tackle, and it involves accountability for the digital giants, greater transparency, and greater protections. Join them here.

For another, human rights org Liberty has been fighting successive governments on repressive policy for decades now. Sign up for their email updates to learn about actions we can take.

NetChoice Applauds Sens. Cruz and Wyden for Introducing the JAWBONE Act to Stop Government Censorship - NetChoice

Preston Byrne on X: "The JAWBONE Act is best thought of as a patch for one of two major censorship vectors for online speech. The first of these, which it addresses, is USG jawboning where it can't act directly. The second, foreign censorship, remains to be addressed. https://t.co/tiQCIbYGE5 https://t.co/tE6D6Qzhsp" / X

Preston Byrne on X: "I will be participating in a webinar hosted by @ITIFdc on July 8th, "How Should The United States Respond to Foreign Regulation of Online Speech?" https://t.co/1KfO7ZQHwl" / X

Preston Byrne on X: "If the UK government would like to understand what online services and speech regulations it needs to repeal and replace to catch up to the U.S. in the AI race, helpfully, the @ASI already wrote the bill to do it. Here you go https://t.co/nmivFwutz6" / X

Preston Byrne on X: "Starmer seeks British carve-out from Trump’s Anthropic AI ban We can give them that if they exempt American companies from the Online Safety Act. I’d say that’s a fair trade https://t.co/cyrTqHE2gy" / X

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The developments within the past few days in age verfication have been less that ideal.

DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE! THAT IS WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO! (I see a lot of people getting down about it. You can be sad and take breaks for your mental health ,but still keep moving! Do not let that keep you from fighting! Be productive and have faith/hope!)

⚔️✊️CONTACT YOUR REPS. SIGN PETITIONS AND PROTEST! ✊️⚔️

The current laws being enforced on the UK public is not to protect children & teenagers, it’s a blatant scheme disguised to fear-monger, isolate & control the country’s population. I don’t care if I’m sounding like a crazy conspiracy theorist, the idea that people can no longer have privacy if they want to access the bare minimum online is absolutely bizarre and dystopian.

If you’re against these acts by our government and want to fight against unlawful forms of censorship, there’s a few things you can do; (will be updated as time passes)

Support organisations such as Open Rights Group & Big Brother Watch

Sign petitions against Digital ID & The Online Safety Act

Contact & complain to your local MPs about your concerns around these new laws being put in place.

Attend any protests or rallies in your area if possible

Don’t give up, keep posting & sharing anything you can!

The U.K. doesn’t care about you or kids. It’s an authoritarian reign by the government to have the public under their dirty, oppressive, pro-genocidal hands.

UPDATES:

VPNs no longer work for iphones with newer ios updates

Google & Apple have until september to enforce their users into this new law which allows AI to scan their private photos / etc for nudity or anything deemed mature.

Yall have got to get more comfortable going outside of ur norm. We are not inept in the face of tech oligarchy.

A website requires ur ID? Dawg, do not use that website. Don't use it. 'But every social media where I live requires that and thats the only way I connect with people,' babe ur gonna learn to talk to ppl irl or ur gonna learn about some digital back doors, I promise it is worth it. I promise it is not that hard or scary.

Ur grocery store is trying to implement digital dynamic targeted pricing? Brother do not use the app, don't scan shit. As far as they're concerned u don't have a phone. Bring everything that looks good up to a register with a human being and have them tell you the prices. Leave anything you don't wanna pay for there. Pay with cash.

Ur apps are tracking and/or censoring what u say or consume? They're showing you more ads than humans' posts? I've got it, I've got it... don't use them. Literally why are you continuing to use them. The scariest part of this shit is that y'all really believe you have to engage with it. Why is anybody on tiktok or instagram anymore? Yall cannot breathe without censoring urselves. I could not physically hold my breath for the amount of time it takes to scroll past ads between real human posts on insta-- and that's not even specifically people I know. why are yall giving your time and brains to this?

These things are not hard, they just require you to stop thinking via ur phone. Hell, you don't even have to get fully offline to get the fuck off of apps. They're hurting us. We've lived in an analogue world for much longer than a digital one. You've probably lived without any of these things before. I'm so sick of the "we can't do anything to stop the tech monstrosities" rhetoric... you literally can disengage. That is doing something. It's barely even truly inconvenient for most people. Literally just disengage.

The United Kingdom is preparing to enact sweeping legislation that bans social media access for children under the age of 16 and strictly prohibits artificial intelligence “romantic companion” chatbots for users under 18. This dual-pronged regulatory strike represents the most aggressive digital ring-fencing effort by a Western democracy to date. The legislation signals a fundamental shift in how…

I think your talking about the UK social media ban, and which case, yes it technically will only effect the people in the UK, but it also must be remembered that other countries are wanting to try these ideas as well.

Like Europe's chat control or USA's KOSA