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Another by-election, you say?!
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🇬🇧 Not going to lie, I am actually looking forward to tomorrow's by-election in the UK where the people of Makerfield get to elect either Andy "King of the North and future Prime Minister" Burnham or Robert "local plumber and self-proclaimed sexist" Kenyon to parliament.
Put on your prediction hats! Who will win?
#UK #UnitedKingdom #UKpol #UKpolitics #Politics #AndyBurnham #RobertKenyon #ReformUK #LabourUK #poll #Makerfield #byElection
- King of the North (Labour UK) (47%, 16 votes)
- King of the Sexists (Reform UK) (8%, 3 votes)
- Please make this stop (Spoil the ballot) (44%, 15 votes)
Banning under-16s online restricts access to information while creating huge privacy risks.
Instead the UK government should target the root cause of online harms.
That means tackling the business model of social media platforms – from targeted ads and algorithms to user lock-in.
Sign the petition ⬇️
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship #StopKillingTheInternet
Break Big Tech: Dismantle the root cause of online harms
Platforms like X, Facebook and Instagram harvest our personal data so that they can target us with ads. Their platforms are designed to keep us online, pushing out content that will keep us engaged.38 Degrees
Age verification is being extended to block vast areas of the Internet.
That means millions of people handing over ID documents and biometric data to unregulated providers.
It becomes a treasure trove for hackers, as has already been seen since introducing age checks with the Discord data leak.
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship #discord
An under-16s ban means making every adult prove they're over 16 for access.
The data shared for age verification can also be used by platforms and the wider data broker ecosystem to send you ads and customised content.
It's a policy that fuels the very business model that generates online harms.
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship
A social media ban addresses the symptoms, not the cause of online harms.
Platforms rely on extensive data collection to target ads and keep users online for longer.
Algorithms prioritise content most likely to capture attention and drive interaction, spreading harmful, polarising and addictive content.
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship
The UK social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms.
Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads.
Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.
Read our response ⬇️
openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship
🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨
Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.
This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.
Find out more ⬇️
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#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet
MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.Open Rights Group
“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers."
Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks.
This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content.
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
politico.eu/article/uk-eyes-sw…
#onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
UK eyes sweeping powers to regulate tech
The U.K. government has laid two amendments that would let it sidestep parliamentary debate so it can update online safety laws.Mizy Clifton (POLITICO)
🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨
A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications.
That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers.
Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/no-…
#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
No ID Checks for Web Access
Take action! What’s the problem? The Government has proposed amendments to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would give Ministers the power to restrict access to "internet services".Open Rights Group
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"My numbers are tanking, my Party is in open rebellion, I really need a good policy that the public can get behind me on....."
Analysis: “A New Line Crossed”: The U.S. Provokes Iran
"It's not clear if Trump himself understands this, but everyone around him knows they did not verifiably destroy the nuclear program last night."
Re "actually impacting Iran’s capabilities, the strike was largely symbolic."
But "it's the first time we're bombing a state [with] the capacity to inflict serious harm on Americans in the region.”
~Harrison Mann, fmr US army major
dropsitenews.com/p/iran-united…
#US-IranWar #USPol #EuroPol #UKPol .
“A New Line Crossed”: The U.S. Provokes Iran With Attacks on Nuclear Sites
Iran has now been forced to decide how to respond to U.S. attacks on its sovereignty.Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)
Interview: "Stop the War on Iran": 1,000+ academics Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza
"After Trump’s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence."
"What this is doing is immiserating further the lives of ordinary people" ~Iranian-American scholar Kaveh Ehsani, DePaul U, Chicago
democracynow.org/2025/6/23/ira…
#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #AntiWarProtests .
Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide
After President Trump’s attack on Iran over the weekend, civil society leaders are organizing to demand an end to the violence.Democracy Now!
Interview: "Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East"
Although UN inspectors & U.S. intelligence assessments say Iran was not building nuclear weapons, Netanyahu wanted to drag Trump into its war on Iran.
"The danger now is that, having brought the U.S. into this, Israel will seek to go further up the escalatory ladder. It wants the chaos.”
~Daniel Levy, fmr Israeli peace negotiator
democracynow.org/2025/6/23/isr…
#US-IranWar #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #Trump #Israel .
Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East
“Netanyahu’s purpose was to drag Trump in,” Daniel Levy, a former Israeli peace negotiator, says of the U.S. attack on Iran. Over the weekend, the U.S.Democracy Now!
Interview: "They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence" Israel’s war on Iran
"The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media."
Unpacking the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq War:
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…
#Israel-IranWar #US #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #USImperialism #iraqWar #boughtMedia .
'They Cooked Up Their Own Intelligence' Chris Hedges on Israel’s war on Iran | The Listening Post
The war on Iran feels eerily familiar – from justifications that hold no water to the uncritical reporting in the media. Chris Hedges joins us to unpack the unsettling parallels with the 2003 Iraq WarChris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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Netanyahu the opportunist
Netanyahu is living out the Zionists' (incl his daddy's) dream of expelling the Palestinians, wiping out all enemies, & fulfilling the "Greater Israel" project (see map ).
Zionists have been doing ethnic cleansing, slow genocide & stealing Palestinian land since imperial Britain gave them the go-ahead in the 1920s.
Pappé on Nakba
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#Zionism #Nakba #Netanyahu #GazaGenocide #USPol #UKPol #EuroPol #BDS #EthnicCleansing #USEnablement @palestine .
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.www.youtube.com
So well put by George Monbiot. Applies to our tepid Labor government here in Australia too. People don’t want to be regarded only as economic units, and if you block leftist reform they reach for hard-right chaos.
"The democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in."
#UKpol #USpol #auspol theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it
We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capital, says Guardian columnist George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
I've still not heard back from my MP Steve Reed, about the letter I sent to him about this.
Shower of bastards.
Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.
We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.
URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.
Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐
action.openrightsgroup.org/sav…
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality
Save our sites - Write to your MP
Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act.Open Rights Group
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.
US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:
🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'
The Home Office must back off ✋
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy
It couldn't be clearer: Encryption is online safety.
It keeps our data secure from hackers. Our systems secure from global bad actors. Our rights secure from State oppression in a digitalised society.
Sign and share our petition to save Apple encrypted data ⬇️
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…
Keep our Apple data encrypted
It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.38 Degrees
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Turns out ecologists and entomologists around the world have been warning about declining insect numbers for years. The culprits are climate change, habitat loss, light pollution, intensive farming, pesticide and fertiliser use. But it’s a struggle to get people to act.
It’s not just about bees and butterflies, the poster children of the pollinator world. Other, less photogenic pollinators such as hoverflies, moths, wasps, soldier beetles and earwigs are also showing declines. Several of these species don’t just pollinate. They also eat the pest insects that ruin crops.
Already, in the apple and pear orchards of south-west China, depleted populations of pollinators have forced farmers to hand-pollinate their trees, carrying pots of pollen and paintbrushes with which to individually pollinate every flower. If it sounds labour-intensive and time-consuming, that’s because it is.
#green #ukpolitics #uspol #ukpol #climate #environment #insects #agriculture #farming
WHITE SUPREMACISTS FEAR GENDER NON-CONFORMITY
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The idea underlying white male supremacy is at least 6000 years old
Class hierarchy - which arose with the city state - came out of earlier patriarchal notions of women's "natural" inferiority
The ancients held gender nonconformity to be "womanly", hence "weak"
This "womanly, hence weak" label became attached to other out-groups as politically required
origins of misogyny
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Coalition's misogyny stems from a history of female oppression
The key to ending the misogynistic attitudes of our governing politicians may be in examining the history of the Western patriarchy.Independent Australia