Hey everyone. It's me again.
When I made my recent journal the other day regarding the UK making an embarrassment of itself with it's stupid ass online safety bill. I was in a panicky state as I was and still pretty deeply worried for those of us who like to draw the things we enjoy doing and our rights to view, watch and enjoy what we want.
This online safety bill is pure authoritarianism disguised as "Protecting muh children" Where in reality it's nothing more than a tyrannical power and money grab. Starting with the adult NSFW sites by forcing them to make users show government ID or show their face to biometric AI scans which is a terrible idea and a cyber security disaster waiting to happen.
Then they apparently over here in the UK make people on sites show ID to even watch protests and then the normies and those who defended this policy will be surprised Pikachu faced when the very thing they advocated for affects them down the line.
Cause that is the end goal of these laws and policies designed to police speech, as well as what we do in our private and spare time.
And let's be real. Do we honesty think we can stop minors from looking at mature content? of course not. They will always find a way to do so regardless of what governments try and sites try to do. people lie about their age all the time and have already found loopholes to bypass these stupid ill thought out measures.
youngsters are always gonna get their hands on alcohol, cigarettes and even vaping. And those of us who are adults have always enjoyed the artwork, even adult themed art at our own consent
So we shouldn't be the ones. Nor should the sites get punished because some minors might get a peek at the stuff they aren't supposed to. If anything. It should be the parents job to monitor what their own kids are doing.
It's not the job of the damn government, nor websites to constantly babysit parents kids for lazy suburban karens who can't be bothered to take responsibilities for their own kids.
Parental control settings on phones have always been there for a reason.
Anyway. I want to offer a message of hope.
Whilst we do have every right to be concerned. Cause goodness knows I do too. And with these governments and payment processors trying to deny us the right to do what we want and buy what we want with our own money.
What I'm trying to say is this.
Don't get demoralised.
Don't get black pilled.
Don't delete or self censor yourselves.
Cause that's exactly what these fascist douchbags in power want. Even if we flee and create a parallel internet. They will probably chase us away from there too.
And if we allow ourselves to be beaten easily and wave the white flag. Then they have won.
We must make a stand and try to fight back by annoying the hell out these companies and governments and apply as much pressure as possible.
We as artists have busted our asses off building up our livelihoods and worked on so much amazing art and years worth of work. Are just gonna sit by and let them take that away from us? hell no!
We owe it to ourselves to stand up for our rights to enjoy and create the artwork we love and built up fan followings of and we need to send those tyrants in power a message to tell them to go screw themselves and we aren't giving up without a fight!"
never apologize for the art you draw. Nor should you feel bad for the art you enjoy.
What do we have to lose? So let's not make it easy for them. Make them sweat for every inch and make it hard for them.
And I encourage you all to even petition and write to your local representatives and local MP's in the UK and tell then you oppose these tyrannical online laws and use any means you can.
Don't lose hope. Don't give up.
I will continue to draw and make art as normal and work on client's comms. I am still looking into VPN's and possible means as I'm weighting my options. And will keep drawing the stuff I enjoy as much as possible. I owe it to those of you who have been there and supported me and my work all these years and I am forever thankful for it.
Anyway. Hope you are all doing well and keep doing what you love. That's the thing tyrants will never understand.
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