Fuck Me in the Hell

Dr. Serkan Toto, CEO of Japanese game industry consultancy firm Kantan Games (totally not someone who is pro Sony and someone who benefits from this, but we'll get to that) has said that Sony will try not to reverse their decision

"I sympathize with physical media fans, but Sony will not reverse this decision," Toto (ignore his doomer attitude) told IGN.

"They of course knew what the online reaction would look like, and they now wait for this storm to pass.

"Sony has over 120 million active PlayStation users," he continued. "Around 50 million people subscribe to PlayStation Plus. As a thought experiment, let's say 500,000 cancel in protest, that would be just 1% of that business gone — of course not enough to Sony to start rethinking. Digital is just too lucrative."

Toto says Sony wants to save money on manufacturing games, distribution and not having to give retailers a cut

"I do think Sony will respond in some capacity given the backlash (and tbh they shouldn't have announced this until they were ready to disclose how discs would work on PS6)," said Daniel Ahmad, Director of Research & Insights at Niko Partners, via a post on X/Twitter. "But I'd be surprised if they do a full reversal at this point."

"Their current profit margin has been too weak for years now, so they feel like they must act," Toto concluded. "From an economic perspective, digital sales just make too much sense especially for platform holders."

guess what? this "expert" is actually pro sony!

The analyst, Dr. Serkan Toto who said that people should give up and that Sony won’t give in, “ is accredited by Keio University, a digital media & Microlens R&D facility & trade partner of Sony's located 10 minutes from Sony Global HQ”

And he also benefits “monetarily by developing the microlenses that will supplant the Austrian disc factory.”

So he is a Sony guy and someone who benefits from this

so don't listen to him and keep on fighting guys!!!

Instead look into getting a VPN, using a other AT Protocol Client like deer.social or witchsky.app aswell as using this

In the end this will likely get worse so please fight back on bad internet bills and laws!

From now until the Senate vote, This period of time is our last chance to stop KOSA.

Upset at Discord and Youtube's age verification policies? If KOSA passes, your alternatives to these sites will be affected too. You would not be able to avoid it, not unless you decide to leave social media entirely, which many people cannot do. You would have to choose between privacy and access to your accounts. All is NOT lost, but our hope relies on calls, petitions, emails. I cannot stress enough how important these next few months are. Every call made in the next few months is for the future of the online world. If you have struggled to find time to make a script, or don't know what to say, use 5 Calls. They give you a script to use while calling. People have also provided other scripts. @daytimemin for example has a document with scripts.

Find your senator here: U.S. Senate: Senators

You might have seen that a bill package including the notorious Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) passed out of the House in a rushed vote last week.1 This bill and many of its counterparts would lock large swaths of the Internet behind invasive online ID checks and threaten our ability to speak out online.2 This is far from the end of the road. And calls and messages from people like you have made a huge impact. We’ve been fighting these bills for years, and I can tell you with certainty that the tide is turning. Legislators are shifting, fearmongering “kids safety” arguments are losing their grip, and we’re building a strong, diverse movement of people refusing censorship. KOSA is not yet law, and with the House and Senate disagreeing on fundamental provisions, we have a critical opportunity to build momentum against this legislation and other nonsensical Bad Internet Bills that threaten to kill the Internet as we know it. Now’s the time to dig in. Call and tell your lawmakers how you feel about the KIDS Act passing. Then, check out our brand new Bad Internet Bills tracker, where you can take targeted action against all the most dangerous bills threatening encryption, free expression, and community online.

KEEP UP THE FIGHT

If you’re not sure how your rep voted last week, you can check here.3 Together, Matt at Fight for the Future

P.S. If you believe in our anti-censorship work and can spare the cost of a coffee per month toward the fight, we’d so appreciate it.

Footnotes:

NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/kids-internet-and-digital-safety-act-passes-house-free-speech-concerns-rcna352341

EFF: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online

I got this email from Fight For the Future and it is really helpful in communicating where we currently are in the fight against the KIDS Act and KOSA.

We should be using this time during the Senate's break to be calling, spreading the word, and doing everything we can to push back against these harmful bills. The return from break around July 15th, which is when Cruz said he wanted to consider the bills. So please, call while you can.

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'EU Chat Control passed despite of a majority (314-276) vote AGAINST it.' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same: What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype, and Xbox, as well as emails via Google’s Gmail and Apple’s iCloud. What remains unchanged: Public social media posts and files hosted in cloud storage could already be scanned without this law. Furthermore, private messages can always be reported by users, or monitored by authorities using targeted, court-ordered wiretapping. What is still NOT being scanned: End-to-end encrypted chats, such as those on WhatsApp, have always been exempt from these scans. Additionally, European providers of messaging and email services have never implemented chat control measures.

To my fellow Europeans, please keep fighting this. This is not about children's safety, we all know those who voted for Chat Control don't give a single fuck about children (quite the contrary even). It's about giving the US, and their allies from hell, access to our lives, they let them infiltrate every single tiny space of our privacy, more than we already do on our own.

With chat control 1.0 now reading everything on your phone (except end to end encrypted messages), this is only a soft launch of CC 2.0 (which is getting voted on in september) which will scan everything. Welcome to the future of mass surveilance.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@ari-doodles-stuff @floralfemmes @sandcheeze13 ( cera i know I haven't updated the tags here on here 😅)

Hi this is Reby,an Italian girl who lives in the UE trying to spread awareness before the censorship. For my Americans the UE approved temporarily chat control,it doesn't block socials but it uses and Ai to read your messages. This is important because 361 voted for yes and we need more votes to oppose or people just speaking before mass censorship and losing basic rights such as Privacy and freedom of speech. You can use sites like Fight Chat Control or some petitions which I'm going to link right now

https://c.org/NJGx5HjYXH

Please if you can reblog it or just sign the petition it would be a huge help

Chat Control 1.0 may have passed, again. Now Meta and Google can scan our private messages until April 2028.

But, not all hope is lost. I have seen the way the deputies slowly but surely changed their positions on the matter. If Chat Control wasn't passed as a second reading, it would have been rejected.

This is why we must keep making noise. We must keep signing petitions and sending messages to our representatives. Because it works, because their position shifts with every action we take.

We can keep fighting against worse measures.

In the meantime:

You can go from messaging apps like WhatsApp to once that encrypts your private conversations like Signal or Threema.

2. You can start looking for a good VPN to protect yourself on the Internet. Proton VPN comes with the free email address.

3. You can change your mail from Google to Proton, Tutamail, Infomaniak and surely more...

I don't know how many people do this with me. I don't know where they are nor who they are but I know for a fact I'm not the only one. You're not the only one either.

here’s how to turn it off

“If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings.

Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen.

Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab.

Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.”

the article

“As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.”

“META LAUNCHED ITS inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.0 and Google’s Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race.”

Called MUSE Image, it’s deeply integrated into instagram

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes.

All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

“Meta positions this feature as a cheeky way to personalize generations with images of real people.

"Whether you want to design a custom event invitation, mock up a collaborative creative concept, or generate a personalized graphic, tagging a username lets Meta AI use public photos to build a visual that’s ready to post,” reads one of Meta’s announcement blogs about the new AI tool.

The Instagram updates are rolling out first in the US.”

“If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings.

Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen.

Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab.

Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.”

“Instagram’s help center site includes more details about how this feature will impact users, saying that “people may be able to create content with your Instagram content using AI features at Meta” if you leave your account public and on the default settings. (A previously archived version of this page from 2025 does not include similar, AI-focused language.)”

Check out mary-ext’s GitHub page for options and instructions: https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318

I can confirm method #2 worked for me on my desktop.

Normally, I wouldn’t endorse something like this, but this level of age verification is egregious.

Whatever you do, do not submit your personal ID, passport, credit card, SSN, your own face, or anything for age verification. This sort of data would be an identity theft gold mine for hackers. Just look what happened to the 70,000 UK users who had their info leaked after a cyber-attack on Discord thanks to their forced age verification process.

I’m sorry that we have to deal with this sort of nonsense. I’m sick and tired of this, too.

The only silver lining I can see out of this is that maybe it’ll motivate some of us to finally drop these social media platforms for something else. Maybe a different platform that actually respects privacy or focus on other things in life.

I just now opened bluesky to use social media as one does and got asked to verify my age.

That says "verify again" because I bit the bullet to see what they'd ask of me in the email of how to prove my age.

I haven't clicked this one yet and I don't think I will be doing so any time soon, as I immediately googled "Is KWS safe" and on reddit from a post over a year ago explains it will take a ton of your information. It stands for 'kids web services' and they're transparent about what they use or want on their website. I still dont trust it though.

The short of it is it seems it will ask you for ID and credit/debit card information to prove your age as well as a picture of your face. We all know the issue with face cams/pictures already I imagine. Short answer to that is its easy to trick but also very dumb and will say a young looking adult is under 18.

I will not be selling my digital soul to this machine and I don't think you should either so I guess this means I'll just go do anything else except be on bluesky. Which sucks because recently I had been having a fun time reaching out to some small fandom community and interacting with some artists.

This reddit post seems to have more updated information as it is recent. Im still confused on if its a Texas or United States thing though. People are debating and noting that its Bluesky's choice on the matter and one commenter's wife suggested that you make your complaints heard to bluesky.

GITHUB HELP THAT FIXED MY ISSUE