It’s terrifying. Beyond the inhumanity of the so called civilized nations is the grim realisation that nothing is a red line for them.

That’s good of you. We need more variety of platforms. Having one dominant player is a recipe for disaster as we’ve seen time and again

Starmer is spineless. I’m guessing we’ll go with vassal state

Not a fan of Musk but saying the BBC and Guardian are independent is a stretch.

BBC director and editorial standard setter Robbie Gibb is a rabid Zionist and owner of the Jewish Chronicle, whose funding is a secret.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65839/who-really-funds-the-jewish-chronicle-why-its-troubling-that-we-dont-know

The Guardian kowtows to the Israel lobby and the right.

https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/12/how-the-guardians-editor-in-chief-caved-to-pro-israel-pressure/

Legacy media is inherently self serving and sets whatever narratives are in the interests of the powerful.

So it’s only a problem if you mix it with alcohol or take too much. Uh thanks, I guess.

This list looks like it was written by a LLM.

It is an insult to the proud Doggerlanders.

He was useless as an MEP as well.

Yep I agree. Also I love your user name.

There’s a difference between using LLMs to edit text, provide ideas or give you information that you can double check because you have the subject matter experience. Relying on it as a substitute for skill when something important is at stake like someone’s well being is reckless at best.

Using Generative AI as a substitute for professional judgement is a disaster waiting to happen. LLMs aren’t sentient and will frequently hallucinate answers. It’s only a matter of time before incorrect output will lead to catastrophic consequences and the idiot who trusted the LLM, not the LLM itself, will be responsible.

UK isn’t banning anything. Starmer is a Zionist

There are 195 countries in the world.

Did he mistake the UK for Gaza?

And yes I’ve seen the Pallywood stuff coming out of Gaza just like everyone else has.>

You’re a genocide denier. I’m done with you

Yes that’s my point. They were a terror group and then weren’t when the US decided. In the same way that Sudan was a state sponsor of terror until the US decided otherwise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55300252

In both cases recognising the occupation of Palestine made them not terrorists.

Also if committing massacres made the PLO a terror group then surely Israel and it’s military wing should be a state sponsor of terror many times over since October 7th but instead it receives billions in funding and weapons from the US and UK

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_massacre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuseirat_refugee_camp_massacre

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876

As I said it is a form of political repression.

Also reception isn’t anywhere near as formal as Year 1. It’s pretty much an extension of the nursery experience which many children will have given the need for both parents to work.

Hamas being designated a terrorist group arose because of US and Israeli pressure to de-legitimise any entity that represents Palestinians in the same way that the PLO was regarded as a terror group pre Oslo.

It is political repression and nothing more.

Many of these same countries branded Nelson Mandela and the ANC as a terror group.

Only a handful of countries consider Hamas a terror group. Funnily enough these are the same countries that are complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

This is a “leopards ate my face” law. It’s fine until you get caught up in it however unlikely that appears now.

He says he was arrested under section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 which makes it illegal to stay anything even remotely non critical about a “proscribed organisation” like Hamas. It is extraordinarily repressive.

To clarify this is part of what section 12 says:

Proscription makes it a criminal offence to: express an opinion or belief that is supportive of a proscribed organisation, reckless as to whether a person to whom the expression is directed will be encouraged to support a proscribed organisation.