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Wen<p>Labour says Farage’s plan to repeal Online Safety Act shows he is siding with ‘extreme pornographers’ over children</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/29/uk-politics-latest-news-cabinet-keir-starmer-nigel-farage-online-safety-act" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/politics/live/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jul/29/uk-politics-latest-news-cabinet-keir-starmer-nigel-farage-online-safety-act</span></a></p><p>I don’t think so. Farage is picking up any issue that he thinks will bring him votes, and even amongst those who don’t follow the tech or the policies, Labour’s OSA looks badly thought out, easily circumvented and in place for reasons other than pornography. Expect to see them extend the need for ID for all sorts of things…</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Farage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Farage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a></p>
Nemo_bis 🌈<p>Interesting map of the signatures for the repeal of the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> in the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>. Support is widespread although higher in urban areas.<br><a href="https://petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=722903" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.</span><span class="invisible">com/?petition=722903</span></a></p><p>The whole concept of an <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> is just as absurd as that of an <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/OfflineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OfflineSafetyAct</span></a>. People can jump from high places and hurt themselves! Gate them all with age verification!</p><p>The government reply is a classic "will somebody please think of the children". Is there any evidence that web forums contribute to suicide rates?</p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/UKpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpol</span></a></p>
Cllr Gareth KitchenWe are now seeing the consequences of the previous Conservative administration ramming the Online Safety Act through Parliament.<br><br>The UK Govt. has built the most comprehensive censorship apparatus the West has ever seen. <br><br>Forced age related identity checks to view mundane material online yet at the same time our rights to protest are slowly but inexorably being stripped away.<br><br>Where are we heading people?<br><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://stroud.social/tag/ukpol" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpol</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://stroud.social/tag/osa" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#osa</a>
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>I love the <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/UK" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a>, but this <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnlineSafetyAct</a> is absurd. Time to cut the UK off from the rest of the Internet until this Act is repealed. There are 18 million reasons to do so. <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/OSA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSA</a></p>
George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️<p>Looks like universeodon.com is hosted in the <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/UK" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a><span>. We've had to block UK traffic from some of our other instances and I'm seeing the blocked activity in the WAF logs.<br></span><a href="https://bofh.social/tags/universeodon" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universeodon</a> <a href="https://bofh.social/tags/OSA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OSA</a></p>
Lost Phoenix Gaming<p>For people looking for VPN advice following the disaster that is the UK Online Safety Act</p><p>The best VPN choices are<br>- Mullvad (Best and most private)<br>- Proton<br>- IVPN</p><p>Avoid Nord, Surfshark, Express or those type of big companies shilled by YouTubers, VPN owned review sites or people shilling their referral codes</p><p>I don't benefit in any way from telling you this. I have a few years experience with VPNs and wanted to share my knowlege</p><p>The less information you need to give a VPN to sign up the better and Mullvad/IVPN ask for nothing </p><p>I've use Mullvad everyday &amp; had good experience with Proton &amp; IVPN being very good but a little slower/more expensive</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.games/tags/ageverification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageverification</span></a></p>
Emanuele<p>«Just a few minutes after the Online Safety Act went into effect last night, Proton <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/VPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VPN</span></a> signups originating in the <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> surged by more than 1,400%.</p><p>Unlike previous surges, this one is sustained, and is significantly higher than when <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> lost access to adult content.» - <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/ProtonVPN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtonVPN</span></a></p><p>I guess the same statistics applies to all the other consumer vpn vendors.</p><p><a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/privacyMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacyMatters</span></a> <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/porn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>porn</span></a> <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://m.divita.eu/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a></p>
woe2you<p>Well, that didn't take long. Updated with new info.</p><p><a href="https://renaissance-design.net/2025/today-the-online-safety-act-went-into-full-force-in-the-uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">renaissance-design.net/2025/to</span><span class="invisible">day-the-online-safety-act-went-into-full-force-in-the-uk/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a></p>
penwing (they/them)UKPol Online "Safety"
Gary Parker :party_porg:<p>Well, that's the first site (of many, likely) I've found to actually close access from the UK as of today 🤨</p><p>Thanks a bunch <a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a></p>
John Leonard<p>As of today, people in the UK visiting sites likely to host pornographic, self-harm, eating disorder and suicide-related content will have to prove they are over 18.</p><p><a href="https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/age-verification-comes-into-force-in-the-uk-for-risky-sites" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">computing.co.uk/news/2025/age-</span><span class="invisible">verification-comes-into-force-in-the-uk-for-risky-sites</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/osa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/onlinesafetyact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlinesafetyact</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ageverification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ageverification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ofcom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ofcom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technews</span></a></p>
Angela Glansbury 🚽<p>any time someone tells you the Online Safety Act is to prevent children seeing harmful material just tell them it doesn't prevent them from being recruited into the UK armed forces.</p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Gooners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gooners</span></a></p>
TC Won't Give In To Lies<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>davidgerard</span></a></span> </p><p>Nope, won't be doing that.</p><p>Social media techbro destruction has been massively widespread and self-evident. </p><p>And fears of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> abuse of small servers are all hypothetical - leading me to believe those same techbros are helping push an AstroTurf movement. Just like we know they did about GDPR.</p><p>So, perhaps your intentions are good. And I've even engage if you had specific amendments to protect small sitea</p><p>But repeal, nope, that's the techbros' objective.</p>
🥧 asgrim 🇺🇦 :verified:<p>UK folks should sign this petition (which I know never makes a difference, because why would the government actually listen to the people?) but it's worth a shot. I'm starting to see effects of this rolling out and it's making me angry 🙄</p><p><a href="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.parliament.uk/petitio</span><span class="invisible">ns/722903</span></a></p><p><a href="https://phpc.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://phpc.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPolitics</span></a></p>
Chris Fox<p>"The price for being an adult on Bluesky is corporate surveillance, at least in the UK, on a fortnight's notice. This has very little to do, in theory or practice, with protecting children from harm online, and everything about protecting Bluesky and Epic's bottom lines."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bluesky</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/opinion_column_age_verification/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theregister.com/2025/07/21/opi</span><span class="invisible">nion_column_age_verification/</span></a></p>
gtbarry<p>Reddit rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with new rules</p><p>Reddit users in the United Kingdom are now required to verify their age as a way to prevent children from accessing inappropriate content.</p><p>The new requirement comes after the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) introduced new steps for platformsto block children from encountering harmful content, like pornography and material promoting self-harm.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reddit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Persona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Persona</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/reddit-rolls-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-to-comply-with-new-rules/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/redd</span><span class="invisible">it-rolls-out-age-verification-in-the-uk-to-comply-with-new-rules/</span></a></p>
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Approximately 8000 women worked at <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BletchleyPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BletchleyPark</span></a> during WW2. </p><p>One codebreaker I can quickly look up is <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/JaneFawcett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JaneFawcett</span></a> MBE. </p><p>“In 1940, at the age of 18, she was interviewed by senior <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/codebreaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codebreaker</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/StuartMilnerBarry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StuartMilnerBarry</span></a>, and joined the secret codebreaking project at Bletchley Park. She joined a group of women known as the "<a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Debs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debs</span></a> of Bletchley Park", </p><p>… “Hughes was assigned to Hut 6 a "Decoding Room" of women only”.</p><p>“On 25 May 1941, Hughes and several other women were briefed on the search for the German battleship <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Bismarck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bismarck</span></a>. Shortly thereafter, she decoded a message referring to the Bismarck that detailed its current position and destination in France.“</p><p>“Her work did not come to light until decades later, during the 1990s, as it had been classified under Britain's Official Secrets Act”.</p><p>Jane passed away in 2016. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WW2</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CodeBreaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CodeBreaker</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/personal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>personal</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fawcett" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_F</span><span class="invisible">awcett</span></a>&gt;</p>
KB<p>Lots of chat in the press and on Laura K this morning about the Online Safety Act and the upcoming age verification requirement.</p><p>Two points:</p><p>• “The EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] notes that no age verification method exists that is both accurate and respects user privacy.”</p><p>• “Experts consider age-gating to be largely ineffective. After all, teens who are unfamiliar with VPNs can easily learn about them.”</p><p>Just sayin’.</p><p><a href="https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/streaming/supreme-court-upholds-texass-porn-site-age-verification-law-155007840.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">engadget.com/entertainment/str</span><span class="invisible">eaming/supreme-court-upholds-texass-porn-site-age-verification-law-155007840.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AgeVerification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgeVerification</span></a></p>
Schmaker<span class="h-card"><a href="https://toot.whatever.cz/users/Cooba13" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Cooba13</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://cztwitter.cz/users/programydovoleb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>programydovoleb</span></a></span> Rozumim .. já tu snahu považuju za legitimní a třeba poplatky <a href="https://schmaker.eu/search?tag=OSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OSA</span></a> byly velkým tématem i u <a href="https://schmaker.eu/search?tag=Pir%C3%A1ti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Piráti</span></a> .. skoro je škoda, že to tak pěkně utichlo, když sedli do vlády
Kyiv Independent Daily Headlines<p><strong>Thursday, July 3, 2025</strong></p> <p>Russia increasingly targets Ukraine’s cities with cluster munitions, raising civilian toll — [vlog,video] Failed US peace effort left Ukraine worse off, expert argues — Military aid delays will ‘encourage Russia to continue war — Russia cannot launch 500 drones every day … and more</p> <p><a href="https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/07/thursday-july-3-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025</span><span class="invisible">/07/thursday-july-3-2025/</span></a></p>