Locking as this is a duplicate, but I’m not removing as there’s comments.

The main difference is the Linham has a history that means it’s probably not a hypothetical. He’s already appearing in court on the fourth for harassing a trans woman and breaking her phone.

“I’m not defending their actions, but their reasons were right” is such a cop out of an answer. Have you not considered that racists are going to hold racial minorities they don’t like to a different standard to everyone else, and that maybe the Roma’s behaviour wasn’t so exceptionally bad? Or are you just going to blindly believe the words of people happy to violently remove racial minorities from their town?

a large portion of immigrants were deliberately not targeted

But it wasn’t down the ‘illegal/legal’ dichotomy you say are these people’s primary concern, was it.

antisocial white people all of the time and it doesn’t make the news

No it doesn’t, if it did the Reform/DUP lot wouldn’t shut about it. Or are you comparing a single person or family being ostracised to an entire racial group being pushed out of a town.

Usually the ones I find complaining are about illegal immigrants. Not immigrants in general who abide by the law

This is a wild thing to say when I know you’re aware of the recent pogrom that happened in Northern Ireland that was targeted at those perceived to be ‘illegal immigrants’. Like, do you think these people aren’t just tarring all immigrants they don’t like as ‘illegal immigrants’, like what happened in Ballymena?

Apparently, some flag shaggers on Facebook got mad that a council took down some flags so decided to just do this.

Please make the primary link an archive link so we’re not driving traffic to the Daily Heil. I’m honestly not sure we should allowing stories from there at all.

Dame Rachel told BBC Newsnight: “Of course, we need age verification on VPNs - it’s absolutely a loophole that needs closing and that’s one of my major recommendations.”

She wants ministers to explore requiring VPNs “to implement highly effective age assurances to stop underage users from accessing pornography.”

Stop trying to enforce this at the service level, for God’s sake. What are you going to do when people switch to stuff like Tor?* ‘Online safety regulation pushes kids to that dark web’ will be a fire headline in a couple of months/years.

* I remember seeing someone link to something here they described as ‘Tor for apps’ that I can’t find, does anyone have that at hand?

The report also found more children are stumbling across pornography accidentally, with some of the 16 to 21-year-olds surveyed saying they had viewed it “aged six or younger”.

I’m sorry, but this is genuinely a failure of parents. Like, I’m not normally one to trot out the ‘parents should helicopter their children’ defence against regulation of social media, but giving a bloody six year old not-monitored-enough access to the internet is on the parent.

Also, I’d take this all a lot more seriously if parents actually used the tools already available to them:

We actually already have measures to deal with this: back in 2011 the government worked with ISPs (internet service providers) to come up with a Code of Practice on implementing ‘parental controls’ for all new customers. In 2013 this was adopted by all the major players. So when you (an adult – because you have to be over 18 to do this) register for an internet connection, you are offered adult content filtering by default. You can tweak this, if you like, for example you can decide you’re happy for your family to access social media sites but not pornography. Or if you don’t anticipate any children using your connection, you can opt out of adult filters altogether. Research conducted in 2022, however, found that although 61% of parents were aware of these filters, only 27% actually used them. Again, sing it with me: lol.

Back to the BBC article.

More than half of respondents to the survey had viewed strangulation as children, prompting Dame Rachel to also ask the government to ban depictions of it.

This is an implicit admission that age verification is ineffective. If it was, then children wouldn’t see it and then we wouldn’t need to ban it.

What a shame, would’ve made me like him more if he did.

Edit:

He allegedly “accused Meghan of being an opportunist and thought she was too old for Harry, adding that his nephew was making the biggest mistake ever,”

A friend of Epstein would say that an adult woman is ‘too old’.

1. Good luck enforcing that;
2. No, let’s not just ban everything that some people find objectionable.

He just needs to install GMod.

Of all the things to get mad at Reddit/UK govt for age restricting, war forage should should be far down that list. Watching people get blown into pieces is literally traumatising and ideally children shouldn’t be exposed to it.

God, it’s so stupid that the govt thinks making every website either do its own age verification or pay out of pocket to some we’re-totally-not-going-to-sell-your-data firm is reasonable. Why not require OS-level parental controls to be exposed through some API (that browsers would wrap around) and require service providers to gatekeep content based on that, that would at least be more robust than this, something a simple VPN can get around.

Right, right, this is Tory legislation banking on the fear of having your porn habits linked to your ID deterring you from accessing it.

Client side moderation is a Bluesky thing, I imagine this wouldn’t work on Reddit et al. but that depends on how it’s implemented and is going to be specific to whatever website you’re accessing. Or you can just use a VPN, like the BBC put it:

When BBC News wrote about the seven methods of age verification adult websites may use in the UK and the companies who may be employed to do it, one reader comment resonated with many others.

“Sure, I will give out my sensitive information to some random, unproven company or… I will use a VPN,” they said. “Difficult choice.”

This is really trivial to get around: https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528b3318

Do we have site of any Lemmy instances that defederate from us? It’ll be interesting to see if many do.

Why would they? They’re only legally liable for their own users, not ours.

This already exist: https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/

Did you mean to link this https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/21/audrey-white-74-tells-of-pain-and-fear-after-arrest-at-liverpool-pro-palestine-rally ?

Why is there an Animal Crossing video attached to this? Also, what happened to the original article, did they delete it?

This is the Torygraph, don’t read the comments unless you want to do psyc damage to yourself.

He’s actually already the most popular politician on TikTok.