Not my usual journal type, but this one affects anybody who connects to the internet or likes NSFW content. As most people are probably well aware at this point, the UK's government implemented its Online Safety Act (OSA) a couple of days ago which blocked tons of sites from being accessed by Brits, all with the smoke screen of "its to protect the kids". But that's just it, in my opinion, its a smoke screen used as cover for governments to cease more control away from the people, and put it in their hands.
[rant section] If they were actually concerned about the kids wellbeing online, one effective way of doing it would be to go to ISPs and implement some sort of local modem/router level DNS/Domain filter that is actively updated, and can be turned off or allows only certain devices the parents set (MAC address level filtering is very effective in that regard) It would cost at most £100 for a new modem with a built in DNS filter (similar to a Pi-hole DNS server that can be ran on a raspberry pi or a docker container on your PC) And anybody who doesn't have kids can just turn the filter off and access whatever the hell they want within the law. But what is actually harmful to kids is Pakistani rape gangs and groomer gangs that seem to have free reign over Britain because they'd rather send elite taskforces to arrest you for a non-state approved talking points, rather than arrest actual pedophile for fuck sake.
Also Master Card/Visa and Paypal (and the banks behind them) acting as quasi-government (like the FED) with their blocking of NSFW games on Steam and Itch.io due to a group called Collective Shout, but my opinion is they (collective shout) are just a scape goat that can be used by Mastercard/Visa so they can have plausible deniability, and to dictate what people can and can't buy/see.
And finally there is KOSA for people only in the US; on paper the bill doesn't sound too terrible (at least not like the UK's OSA) but once you get the ball rolling down the slippery slope that is censorship, eventually that ball gains speed and destroys anything in its path. If the bill was ONLY about stopping algorithm manipulation and infinite scrolling and autoplay... ads for drugs, or risqué stuff on non nsfw sites, then it wouldn't be too bad. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions and KOSA's riding on that road with a full tank of gas.
And too, where are the parents at?? Anybody who's used the internet that isn't a grandma that still falls for a Nigerian prince scam 'ought to know by now the internet isn't sunshine and rainbows and never has been, and letting your kids just have unfettered access to it says more about the parents than it does the kids. Also if you've seen videos of iPad kids, [This video] is a good introduction if you haven't. It might shine some light on how parents treat their kids nowadays (obviously its not all parents, but doing your kids like that is borderline child abuse due to its damaging developmental and behavioral repercussions). Ok personal rants about aloof parents over ;p [rant end ;p ]
Censorship really fucking pisses me off, one because I'm a classical liberal (although I'd be considered a "far right" conservative nowdays by some people) and two, because the same people who championed it will do a complete 180 the millisecond they get censored; they all the sudden don't want it anymore when its their problem, and yet they're so short sighted or willfully ignorant, that the moment its not their problem anymore, they'll go back to wanting other peoples stuff censored. That's called being insane, 'doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result' - Rita Mae Brown.
Also if you made it this far, I'll be posting more sexy stuff starting Aug 1st,(turned out to be sep 1st post script) and I'll consider it a big giant middle finger to censorship. I been busy with alot of stuff this month, but starting next month I should have alot more freetime
So when I lost my career and got banned from social media during the lockdown, that wasn't censorship that was "trust the experts."
Now that all those pesky people like me are gone, the new tactic is going to be the one that works best for the ones who remain. It cannot be a "lie." I truly did not "trust" the experts, after all.
I still won.
So when I lost my career and got banned from social media during the lockdown, that wasn't censorshi
Alright, well I didn't sign anything, and it's a pretty clear-cut now that the entire thing was, in summary, a scam.
No matter how many times they repeated, including Joe Biden in his "Cold, Dark, Winter" "speech" (it was typed up by some shadowy "Experts" because Biden could never speak while president)... that nothing I thought mattered because I was (in summary of it) "just going to die from not taking the vaccine soon."
I won because I didn't die, I'm still here, still creating things. I can't get paid, and I have had no income since Biden/Kamala did their "vaccine" mandate and ended the career I am in massive debt and -5 years of my life working for.
Alright, well I didn't sign anything, and it's a pretty clear-cut now that the entire thing was, in
What's their reason for accusing billions of people of a crime they never did to 'save children' instead of just banning children from the internet or telling their parents to not let them on?
What's their reason for accusing billions of people of a crime they never did to 'save children' ins
Its just that, its never about the kids, otherwise they'd do something like that I described in my journal, or at least start educational classes at schools that parents could attend to learn how to turn on the already existing parental safety checks on basically all devices nowdays. They never cared once about the kids, its all just a strawman, otherwise they'd go after the Pakistani rape gangs than have actually done serious harm to real kids and quit allowing uncheck immigration into their country, But to them a wikipedia article or hell, now they're going after Spotify is more of a danger to kids than physical rape.
Its just that, its never about the kids, otherwise they'd do something like that I described in my j
Kinda the same with me, I got demoted to the graveyard shift at first, then fired a couple days later for "non-compliance with company policy" even though my record was perfect... except for refusing the shot and for saying masks are 'like trying to catch mosquitoes with a chain-link fence', they don't work against viruses, large particles yeah, but a virus no.
Kinda the same with me, I got demoted to the graveyard shift at first, then fired a couple days late
I was interrogated about my "religion" (God is no "religion") but I identified as Christian. Christians were the only "non-exempt" "religion" during the "vaccine" mandate.
Biden made sure to resume student loan payments a few months before leaving, to really the twist the knife. That was when it actually destroyed my future officially
I was interrogated about my "religion" (God is no "religion") but I identified as Christian. Christ
If I'd spoken out that I was a Christian (gnostic one but technically a christian) I'd probably been interrogated as well. But I know of other people close to me that were and that made my blood boil that they were not except, but other religions were, complete BS.
The student load thing sucks a fat one big time, my sister is in the same predicament you seem to be in and shit sucks enough to make sucking golf balls through a garden hose a professional sport. They did people dirty with that one.
If I'd spoken out that I was a Christian (gnostic one but technically a christian) I'd probably been
I didn't add the "Gnostic" qualifier but I noticed I only got pay raised to above the amount given for free during lockdown on the "minor holiday" for new contracts and pay raises, and I looked at the company calendar and it wasn't the Christian holidays.
The problem they made is that I am "Christian"
I didn't add the "Gnostic" qualifier but I noticed I only got pay raised to above the amount given f
