Thousands of websites blocked for UK users from July 25 under new law - "Thousands of websites will be blocked for Uk users from Friday, January 25 thanks to a new law. The Online Safety Act, coming into force on July 25, 2025, will fundamentally change how some websites operate in the UK. The new law requires all sites hosting or distributing adult content to implement robust age verification systems or face serious consequences, including being blocked from UK users or fined up to £18 million or 10% of global revenue. Sites that fail to verify a user’s age using proper technology – such as ID checks or third-party verification services – will be considered non-compliant... This applies not just to traditional porn sites, but also to platforms that host user-generated explicit content such as Reddit, X, and OnlyFans."
Nigel Farage is on the side of Jimmy Savile, says minister amid Online Safety Act row - "Nigel Farage has said he was the victim of a “disgusting” smear after a Cabinet minister said he was on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. The Reform UK leader has demanded an apology from Peter Kyle, the Science Secretary, who made the accusation on Tuesday morning. Mr Farage has pledged to scrap the Online Safety Act, which is intended to reduce online harm and bar children from seeing harmful content on the internet. His party says that the act instead “suppresses” freedom of expression and will “force social media companies to censor anti-government speech”... He said getting rid of the law would help “extreme pornographers” and people like Savile and claimed that “Nigel Farage is saying that he is on their side”... Richard Scorer, a lawyer who represented victims of Jimmy Savile, accused Mr Kyle of “weaponising” them for “political purposes... Mr Kyle’s defence of his remarks comes despite him condemning Boris Johnson for accusing Sir Keir of “failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile” back in 2022... Shortly after Mr Johnson’s remarks, Sir Keir was bundled into a police car to protect him from a group of protesters who accused him of “protecting paedophiles”. The now-Prime Minister blamed Mr Johnson for the mob that surrounded him and went on to praise the “moral courage” of ministers who refused to endorse the remarks. Sharing a video of the mob, Mr Kyle said: “While Boris Johnson sings 70s disco hits to his team, outside in the real world…” More than a third of Sir Keir’s current Cabinet also criticised Mr Johnson over his remarks about Savile. David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, who was with Sir Keir at the time of the incident, said: “Intimidation, harassment and lies have no place in our democracy. And they won’t ever stop me doing my job.” Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, said of Mr Johnson: “Words have consequences, Prime Minister. “How much more damage is Boris Johnson going to do before he resigns? And what more evidence is needed for Tory MPs and the cabinet to call him out?” Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, asked: “What happened to the Conservative Party?”. Ian Murray, the Scotland Secretary, Jo Stevens, the Wales Secretary, and Pat McFadden, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, all called for Mr Johnson to apologise. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, said at the time: “What has happened to the party of Winston Churchill, when a Conservative Prime Minister amplifies far-Right memes to smear his opponent?” Mr Kyle doubled down on the claim after he was challenged."
Weird. What happened to all the hand wringing that happens when right wingers say they're concerned about children?
Nigel Farage is a deplorable, so there's nothing wrong with applying double standards here
Rayner accuses Farage of fuelling revenge porn culture - "Angela Rayner has claimed Nigel Farage would open the floodgates to revenge porn and “fail a generation of young women” by scrapping online safety laws... Ministers had shown they will “take more steps to monitor your social media posts than they will to monitor the unvetted men they house at your expense”"
Amazing smears
Britain’s MPs charge VPNs to expenses as minister urges caution - "MPs are connecting to virtual private networks (VPNs) as the U.K. government’s tech chief pleads with Brits to use them with care... as VPN downloads skyrocketed in the U.K. this week after platforms implemented age checks to comply with extensive new duties under the Online Safety Act, Technology Secretary Peter Kyle appeared to suggest that their use put children at risk... DSIT didn’t comment when asked to clarify why verifying adults’ ages would prevent children from encountering harmful content, as Kyle seemed to claim."
Age verification tools on adult websites bypassed in seconds - "There is also a risk that age verification could push users towards more dangerous corners of the internet in search of pornography. By 10am on Friday, data suggested an extra 66,000 internet users in the UK had begun using the dark web. Ms Kubecka fears this number may only increase. "That is one of the concerns that I have because I don't want illegal or extreme content being normalised in our teens," she said. Google Trends data shows searches for online tools to help people bypass age verification have surged, too."
The UK's censorship catastrophe is just the beginning - "Like all of these terrible censorship bills, the Online Safety Act claims it's about protecting children from the evils of pornographic and “adult” content. But immediately after it went into effect, platforms began classifying nearly all breaking news footage, war coverage, investigative journalism, political protest material and information about reproductive and public health as “explicit” or “harmful" content, thus blocking anyone from under 18 from accessing it. Subreddits dedicated to covering war crimes in Ukraine and Gaza or crucial information on sex ed now requires age verification... A post on r/ukpolitics reads: "If you have a standard X account in the UK - presumably the vast majority of British users - you cannot see any protest footage that contains any violence tonight. Because of the Online Safety Act." Reddit has also blocked access to a slew of subreddits featuring crucial public health related information like r/periods, r/stopsmoking, r/stopdrinking. Other subreddits that provide essential community support to users including minors like r/sexualassault, for example, are also blocked. Young people cannot access any information about sexual assault or potential abuse under these new child safety laws, meaning that they are less able to identify abuse and more likely to be exploited. This mass gating of information prevents people under 18 in the UK from accessing independent reporting and community analysis of breaking news. Instead young people are fed sanitized, mainstream or government‑approved narratives. It's crucial for young people to learn and become educated about the world, and also to be able to gain access to information outside government propaganda and the mainstream media. These laws limit young people's opportunities for critical thinking and civic understanding and they isolate young people from global perspectives. They also prevent them from connecting with other young people in foreign countries. And the way enforcement of these child safety laws works, platforms are forced to err on the side of caution by over‑blocking vague categories of potentially disturbing content. Young people are also being forced to provide highly sensitive personal data like their government documents, selfies, and biometric scans. Organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Open Rights Group have flagged serious concerns that these age verification policies are a privacy nightmare... the proliferation of free or shady VPN apps also raises privacy risks. Also I just want to note that age verification does not "protect youth" from anything but information the government doesn't like. Young people still find a way to access porn, they're simply locked out of accessing crucial content about news, health, privacy, etc. These laws also don't account for educational use or parental supervision on platforms. They just create a binary system where all graphic or controversial content is treated the same, regardless of context. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld age verification laws at the state level, with states like Nebraska and New York seeking to adopt similar frameworks. Australia and Ireland are also introducing variants of age‑checks or digital ID systems. Both the Democrats and the Republicans are completely aligned on ramming age verification through congress and removing all free speech and the right to anonymity on the web. Leftists have completely dropped the ball and there is no meaningful political opposition to these efforts in the U.S. from either party. Meanwhile, a lot of people in the media have spent the past several years feeding into the exact moral panic nonsense that these laws are predicated on."
Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules - "BBC Verify found a range of public interest content, including parliamentary debates on grooming gangs, has been restricted on X and Reddit for those who have not completed age verification checks. Experts warn companies are risking stifling legitimate public debate by overapplying the law. Sandra Wachter, a professor of technology and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute, expressed alarm at the restrictions and told BBC Verify that the new bill was "not supposed to be used to suppress facts of public interest, even if uncomfortable"... Data suggests that the legislation could heavily impact adults in the UK. Large proportions of users - up to 37% on X and 59% on Reddit - access these platforms whilst logged out, according to data from the platforms. This means those users won't be age-verified and will experience the internet in the same way as children... Ofcom, the UK media regulator tasked with enforcing the act, has warned that firms could face fines not only for failing to protect children, but also for breaching freedom of speech under the act... Prof Wachter said that the level of self-regulation afforded to tech companies in choosing how to comply with the Online Safety Act called for well-staffed moderation teams equipped with "time, resources, expertise and nuance" to effectively make decisions. She also noted that many major social media companies, such as X and Meta, have slimmed down their moderation teams in recent years or dissolved them completely. "This trend is very worrying when opaque rules are now applied to make these take down decisions, especially in the current political climate," Prof Wachter said."
UK's most tattooed man blocked from accessing porn online by new rules - "The King of Ink says facial recognition tech has made it harder to chat to webcam girls, after sites started mistaking his tattooed face for a mask. The new rules came into force last week, introducing stricter checks under Ofcom’s children’s codes... ‘Would this also be the case for someone who is disfigured? They should have thought of this from day one.’... The 45-year-old, who changed his name from Matthew Whelan to King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-ite, has previously encountered difficulties using his passport. As the new rules came into effect, he found he was also prevented from using a webcam service... The Instagrammer said he has found a way around the curbs through a Virtual Private Network (VPN), which have become the most downloaded app on Apple’s UK App store since the checks came in... The new rules are designed to prevent children from accessing porn, self-harm, suicide and eating disorder content. As the changes took effect, Ofcom chief executive Dame Melanie Dawes said that ‘prioritising clicks and engagement over children’s online safety will no longer be tolerated in the UK’ and anyone breaching the code would face enforcement action."
The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse - "People are already finding loopholes for these systems. The face scanning systems for Persona and k-ID — the third-party verification software used by Reddit and Discord, respectively — can both be easily tricked using Death Stranding’s photo mode. (Facebook and Instagram use a similar service called Yoti, which so far does not appear to have been fooled the same way.) X doesn’t yet have a direct verification system, and is instead currently estimating age based on factors like account creation date, social connections, email addresses, and legacy verification... Outside the biggest platforms, some sites are entirely inaccessible. Cybersecurity company McAfee reports that more than 6,000 websites that host adult content have already implemented age assurance methods, but others have opted to geoblock their services in the UK. A wide variety of unrelated, innocuous websites have followed suit. That includes forums for owners of EV Renault vehicles, electronic music production, beaded jewelry patterns, and tech-focused blogs. Many smaller forums simply don’t have the resources to support third-party verification systems or risk millions of dollars in fines. Wikipedia has voiced similar concerns over other Online Safety Act rules that could require it to verify its adult contributors, which the Wikimedia Foundation behind Wikipedia says could leave volunteers vulnerable to “data breaches, stalking, lawsuits, or even imprisonment by authoritarian regimes.” As such, while it’s still available for now, the platform is also considering blocking UK users to avoid compliance... UK residents have launched a parliamentary petition in response to the sweeping age verification requirements, urging the UK government to repeal the Online Safety Act, and describing it as “far broader and restrictive than is necessary in a free society.” The petition has attracted more than 350,000 signatures at the time of writing, surpassing the 100,000 signatures needed to force the government to consider holding a debate over the demands... VPN apps are currently five out of the top 10 most popular free apps on Apple’s iOS store in the UK. The top spot is currently held by Swiss-based VPN provider Proton VPN, which surpassed ChatGPT over the weekend."
GB Politics on X - "🚨NEW: The Metropolitan Police will more than double its use of live facial recognition"
f4mi ‼️ on X - "why does every piece of news from the UK in the past 2 weeks sound like they are speed running the worst cyberpunk timeline"
Meme - Soon Enough. @SznVibes: "At this moment I knew I fucked up"
"I'm making you come at 12 on Friday"
"First off you're not making me do shit second off I don't remember scheduling any dick appointments"
"This is your boss Maribel I got a new number."
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "Pew Research is showing some incredible partisan swings from 2023 to 2025.
18-29 Men: 🔴R+44
18-29 Women: 🔴R+14
30-49 Men: 🔴R+15
30-49 Women: 🔵D+3
50-64Men: 🔴R+3
50-64Women: 🔴R+1
65+Men: 🔵D+6
65+Women: 🔵D+2"
Anil Cacodcar on X - "I would interpret this comparison with caution – it is not apples to apples. The 2023 survey is from the American Trends Panel. The 2025 survey is the National Public Opinion Survey, a different project that has a different methodology (web + pen & paper + phone)."
Meme - "Teenagers today have no idea how hard it was not to jerk off to these ladies from the 80s *Cindy Crawford*, *Kelly LeBrock*, *Kim Cattrall*, *The Golden Girls*"
Murray Hill Guy on X - "She’s hot because she’s not beautiful. Because she’s accessible. She looks like she could’ve been your babysitter or your best friend’s older sister or the lifeguard at your pool. She doesn’t look like the garden variety lip-filler-and-Botox influencer chick, she looks real. Sydney is the epitomization of American beauty."
Meme - John Lennon: "THE LORD OF THE RINGS BOOKS"
Chuck Berry: "THE LORD OF THE RINGS MOVIE TRILOGY"
Yoko Ono: "RINGS OF POWER"
OK Then on X - "Singaporeans are the Swiss of Asia, The Japanese are the Germans, The Koreans are the Irish, The Thai are the French, Indonesians are the Italians, The Mongolians the Polish, The Taiwanese the Canadians, And the Chinese, the Americans."
Meme - "lady: I thought you didn't give tickets to pretty girls
cop: we don't. sign here"
Meme - Emily Murnane @emily_murnane: "Any time there's any nepotism discourse, I do unfortunately feel the need to revisit Brooklyn Beckham's photography book"
"elephants in kenya. so hard to photograph but incredible to see. *Elephant in shadow*"
I always hated the backlash to Brooklyn Beckham’s photography book | Digital Camera World - "Of course, some people miss the point that terrible photographers don't usually get to publish books of their photography and no one has a right to be published, especially if one's work is bad."
Meme - Best of Nextdoor: "When neighbors start talking, good things happen."
"Chickens. To my neighbor that complaint to the city about my chickens. I want to thank you because I didn't know I'm allowed to have up to 25 and I don't even have half of that. So thanks for the complaint, I learned something today."
Meme - "1998 *Leonardo diCaprio avoiding Kate Winslett's eyes*
2008 *Leonardo diCaprio avoiding Kate Winslett's eyes*
2009 *Leonardo diCaprio avoiding Kate Winslett's eyes*
2016 *Leonardo diCaprio avoiding Kate Winslett's eyes*
Leo's still avoiding her look ever since she left him to freeze."
Meme - Dwarf to Sleeping Dwarf: "HEY, LAZY! WAKE UP! GET TO WORK! WAIT... IT'S NOT LAZY. IT'S WORKY! WHAT... WHAT IS GOING ON? Is IT GAS? DID WE HIT GAS?"
Dwarf succumbing to fumes: "THE... CANARY... WHERE IS... THE..."
Snow White laughing with canary: "La La La La La La La"
Canary: "Tweet tweet tweet tweet"
Threads - "In Asia 🇭🇰, dating usually starts with friendship.You talk every day, hang out non-stop, banter over late-night street wanders… Then one day, they take you to a fancy restaurant, hand you a bouquet, read a cute surprise letter, and ask:“Do you want to be my boyfriend/girlfriend?” (That’s the big moment 🫣)After moving to Europe 🇬🇧, I found that dating here is:
1. People invite you on a date without even being friends first?! 🤯
2. They wanna hold hands after just a few dates?! 😩 Wait… we barely know each other🥲
3. First date and they show up with flowers?! 🥀👀That’s a cute start I do appreciate ~ (In Hong Kong, you get one when they ask you to be official, and then maybe again 3.5 years later after serious hinting 😂)
4. Europeans are sooo good at giving compliments 🥹They make you feel like a princess on dates 😆 (But if it’s British people… you’ve gotta decode whether it’s a compliment or sarcasm 😬)
You tell them “Let’s just be friends first”? They look at you like you just cancelled the entire season of Love Island. 😂"
Gerald Ratner on X - "I live in constant fear that Trump will deport my Latina mother-in -law. Who lives at 1837 3rd st , LA 90023 blue house . She gets off work at six."
Meme - "-Health insurance CEO.
-gunned down in an act of premeditated murder
The Left "Lol, good riddance"
-Serial child molester
-killed in self defense by teenager he was chasing
The Left "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!""
Meme - King: "I will allow you into my kingdom, but you may only work as a banker."
Jew: "Ok."
1000 years later
Nazi: "Isn't it funny how there are so many Jews in the banking industry?"
Jew: "..."
OnlyFans ranks #1 in revenue efficiency, surpasses top tech giants - "OnlyFans has emerged as the world’s most revenue-efficient company, which generates an astonishing $37.6 million per employee annually, far outpacing tech titans like Nvidia, Apple, and Meta. According to data compiled by World Visualized, OnlyFans tops the chart in revenue efficiency by a wide margin, leaving industry giants trailing far behind. At $37.6 million in revenue per employee, the adult content subscription platform is an order of magnitude more efficient than its nearest competitors. Nvidia, renowned for its powerful GPUs that underpin the AI revolution, ranks second with $3.6 million in revenue per employee. Cursor, a lesser-known but highly efficient player, closely follows with $3.3 million. Apple, despite its global brand and scale, manages $2.4 million per employee, less than a tenth of OnlyFans' figure... In contrast, tech giants like Amazon, Tesla, and Microsoft—known for their vast workforces—show significantly lower revenue efficiency, with Amazon at the bottom of the ranking at $0.4 million per employee."
Meme - "What are some "guy secrets" girls don't know about?"
"the average guy is so starved for positive attention that a simple compliment is enough to get him interested in you"
Meme - "*Fellowship of the Ring*
>Top row
>warrior, warrior larping as a wizard, ranger (warrior subclass), warrior
>Bottom row >warrior, warrior, warrior, warrior, warrior
>HERE'S YOUR DIVERSE FANTASY PARTY BRO
Jesus christ Tolkien..."
Meme - Arwen: "Aragorn saw my mellons earlier"
Elrond: "He what?!"
Arwen: "My friends, dad!"
Meme - "Her: "Bet you can't tell me something that would make me happy & sad at the same time"
Me: "You have the tightest *pussy* out of all your friends"
Her:"
Meme - "IF YOU HAVE A BAD DAY AT WORK REMEMBER THAT THIS GUY DIED AT WORK AND THEY RESURRECTED HIM SO HE COULD GO BACK TO WORK *Robocop*"