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[German Shocks]

I thought the UK was the land of the free?

 

[Tams]

I thought the UK was the land of the free?

150 years ago... sure, somewhat.

 

[Rat Rage]

They should ban it for all people. Social media and A.I. will be humankind's downfall. Better act quickly, until it's too late.

 

[Fbh]

Fuck that, I'd use a VPN until they inevitably ban those too in a couple of years.
I don't oppose the idea of restricting social media access to kids and young teens, but it shouldn't be done in a way that takes away what little privacy and anonymity those over 16 still have online.

 

[Comandr]

Fuckin' tuck in, fam.

This is framed as funny, but it's actually pretty scary.

This kid is basically saying they have NOTHING else to do other than consume algorithmic content on various social media.

Not go outside. Not play with friends. Not hang out with family. Not engage in hobbies or meaningful pursuits. Not read.

I understand this child was being hyperbolic, but I do think there's a kernel of truth here, that they have no other meaningful plans, and I think that's really a showcase of today's society.

There are a tremendous amount of problems with society at large today.

Kids can't read.
Massive over consumption.
People being retarded/assholes for internet points.
Attention spans across the board are fucking shot.
Video games have to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
Studio executives have mandated that movies get dumbed down and over explain everything so the film can be "watched" as a second-screen experience.
Dating in 2026 is a fucking nightmare. If you don't instantly meet a laundry list of requirements set by someone, they swipe left and you're completely forgotten.
People are butchering their bodies to pursue whatever idealized beauty trend is currently happening right now.
Fast fashion aesthetics both in clothing and home decor are incentivizing the rapid production of cheap goods to meet a breakneck, ever changing demand.


A lot of this... Can be distilled down to a common problem. Social media.

Social media really first "started" with "MySpace." Sure, there were other websites prior, but it didn't really EXPLODE until MySpace. Everyone had a MySpace page. And in your social circle, you fucking knew where you stood when it came to someone's Top 8. This created an environment where people started putting a lot of focus into their online presence. We posted everything, constantly. Work. Kids. Events. Parties. All of it. Because everyone you knew was also on MySpace, it meant that everyone you knew also knew everything you were doing, thinking about, etc. And you for them. You became hyper connected.

Suddenly, you didn't really need to hang out as much anymore. Getting together for a movie night with your friends or just walking around the mall and catching up was suddenly less important, because you already knew everything they were doing. You liked their posts all week.

This grew even more with Facebook. Introducing games like Farmville increased our screen time dramatically. Not only were we posting every random thought we had, when we weren't doing that or liking posts from friends and family, we were spending more time online playing stupid games and being shown advertisements. That idea caught on.

With the advent of the "modern" smartphone around 2007, there was now a whole new way to capitalize on this behavior. It became easier than ever to take pictures right from your phone, post, and share everything you were doing.

Fast forward nearly 20 years and people are more addicted to their phones than ever. We post everything we are doing, but instead of a picture and some text, it might be an entire video, a live stream, whatever. People are constantly voicing their opinions online. And "The Algorithm" is constantly feeding you more content based on stuff you have previously engaged with. To make matters worse, various platforms like tiktok, etc, will actually PAY YOU based on how many views your videos are getting. So now, people are financially incentivized to be radical online, whether that's through ragebait, or extreme behaviors, or whatever.

So now this has created a society that today has very little patience for anything. The next thing they might like is only a swipe away. They can't figure anything out on their own, because they are so accustomed to being told exactly what to do and how to do it. This creates an environment where no one needs to sit down and problem solve. To "figure it out."

Now, if Atreus doesn't tell Dad how to solve the puzzle after about 45 seconds, the player is just going to get bored and quit playing, and do something else. That disengagement is the worst possible thing for a game developer. So they design around it. They know that modern players don't have the patience or attention span for it, so they design around it. If there's any friction at all, the player will just give up. Then it's back to scrolling for more dopamine.

You can be retarded and or an asshole to others because if you record yourself doing it, you might make money, or it might make you popular. Remember when people were just straight up stealing anything not nailed down? Potted plants? Car doors? Remember when all those stupid internet challenges got people hurt, and people have died?

Remember when the internet told us labubus were the most important thing in the world? And people would GET INTO FIGHTS over stanley cups and a fucking tote bag? And people would spend hundreds of dollars on fucking squishy dumplings? Then all of your home decor HAD to be beige. Then gold and silver. Then christmas colors. Your house is beige still? Gross. Kill yourself.

You don't have square shoulders? You should get plastic surgery. Your forehead is HOW MANY fingers wide? You're already 19 and you don't have a BBL or any botox? What do you mean "I've never had any lip surgery before?" Are you even trying to be pretty at all or.. is ugly just.. fine? Maybe you should try hitting yourself in the face with a hammer because everyone knows broken bones grow back stronger and thicker so you can break your jaw over and over again to become a gigachad.

Of course then to meet the overwhelming demand that social media has put on plastic surgery, new clinics pop up all over the place with questionably qualified "doctors." Before your procedure has even fully healed, square shoulders are out. Now you just look like an ugly linebacker. Ew. Gross. Cringe.

Fashion has gone from "what's in this season" to "what's in this week." Everything is made cheap and fast these days, and nothing is made to last anymore. It doesn't need to. You're going to wear that dress or pants for a few days, maybe for a video or two, and then it's off to the landfill.

Social media is a plague that has ruined society in so many ways, or at the very least, heavily contributed to its downfall. Too many voices, often from bad actors looking to make a buck, had too much power, and way too much influence over the masses.

Ban all of it. As much as I would like that, as long has the almighty dollar makes the world go 'round, that ain't happening. Not when that industry generates around 250 billion per year in revenue from ads alone.

It's like watching a train crash in slow motion. I don't see a fix for this. Not until people decide enough is enough and just quit using the platforms.

 

[Dr.Guru of Peru]

Fuckin' tuck in, fam.

Yeah. A bit of a rant (but I read it all) and I don't get all of your references, but this is largely what I think. Get on public transit these days and see what kids are doing - each and every single one of them is glued to to their phone, watching mindless 10 second short-form video after video. No one has any attention span - Idleyes suggested schools competing with screen time, but how do you do that when you have a society of people addicted to the instant dopamine rush that comes with short form content, or where a kid without access to a chatbot would be an instant disadvantage in basically every single academic or social situation imaginable?

Kids shouldn't have access to smart phones. It needs to be cardable IMO - if you're under 18 and using a phone in public, be prepared to show an ID if you want to keep your phone.

 

[Draugoth]

Fuckin' tuck in, fam.

This is framed as funny, but it's actually pretty scary.

This kid is basically saying they have NOTHING else to do other than consume algorithmic content on various social media.
I understand this child was being hyperbolic, but I do think there's a kernel of truth here, that they have no other meaningful plans, and I think that's really a showcase of today's society.

There are a tremendous amount of problems with society at large today.

Kids can't read.
Massive over consumption.
People being retarded/assholes for internet points.
Attention spans across the board are fucking shot.
Video games have to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
Studio executives have mandated that movies get dumbed down and over explain everything so the film can be "watched" as a second-screen experience.
Dating in 2026 is a fucking nightmare. If you don't instantly meet a laundry list of requirements set by someone, they swipe left and you're completely forgotten.
People are butchering their bodies to pursue whatever idealized beauty trend is currently happening right now.
Fast fashion aesthetics both in clothing and home decor are incentivizing the rapid production of cheap goods to meet a breakneck, ever changing demand.


A lot of this... Can be distilled down to a common problem. Social media.

Social media really first "started" with "MySpace." Sure, there were other websites prior, but it didn't really EXPLODE until MySpace. Everyone had a MySpace page. And in your social circle, you fucking knew where you stood when it came to someone's Top 8. This created an environment where people started putting a lot of focus into their online presence. We posted everything, constantly. Work. Kids. Events. Parties. All of it. Because everyone you knew was also on MySpace, it meant that everyone you knew also knew everything you were doing, thinking about, etc. And you for them. You became hyper connected.

Suddenly, you didn't really need to hang out as much anymore. Getting together for a movie night with your friends or just walking around the mall and catching up was suddenly less important, because you already knew everything they were doing. You liked their posts all week.

This grew even more with Facebook. Introducing games like Farmville increased our screen time dramatically. Not only were we posting every random thought we had, when we weren't doing that or liking posts from friends and family, we were spending more time online playing stupid games and being shown advertisements. That idea caught on.

With the advent of the "modern" smartphone around 2007, there was now a whole new way to capitalize on this behavior. It became easier than ever to take pictures right from your phone, post, and share everything you were doing.

Fast forward nearly 20 years and people are more addicted to their phones than ever. We post everything we are doing, but instead of a picture and some text, it might be an entire video, a live stream, whatever. People are constantly voicing their opinions online. And "The Algorithm" is constantly feeding you more content based on stuff you have previously engaged with. To make matters worse, various platforms like tiktok, etc, will actually PAY YOU based on how many views your videos are getting. So now, people are financially incentivized to be radical online, whether that's through ragebait, or extreme behaviors, or whatever.

So now this has created a society that today has very little patience for anything. The next thing they might like is only a swipe away. They can't figure anything out on their own, because they are so accustomed to being told exactly what to do and how to do it. This creates an environment where no one needs to sit down and problem solve. To "figure it out."

Now, if Atreus doesn't tell Dad how to solve the puzzle after about 45 seconds, the player is just going to get bored and quit playing, and do something else. That disengagement is the worst possible thing for a game developer. So they design around it. They know that modern players don't have the patience or attention span for it, so they design around it. If there's any friction at all, the player will just give up. Then it's back to scrolling for more dopamine.

You can be retarded and or an asshole to others because if you record yourself doing it, you might make money, or it might make you popular. Remember when people were just straight up stealing anything not nailed down? Potted plants? Car doors? Remember when all those stupid internet challenges got people hurt, and people have died?

Remember when the internet told us labubus were the most important thing in the world? And people would GET INTO FIGHTS over stanley cups and a fucking tote bag? And people would spend hundreds of dollars on fucking squishy dumplings? Then all of your home decor HAD to be beige. Then gold and silver. Then christmas colors. Your house is beige still? Gross. Kill yourself.

You don't have square shoulders? You should get plastic surgery. Your forehead is HOW MANY fingers wide? You're already 19 and you don't have a BBL or any botox? What do you mean "I've never had any lip surgery before?" Are you even trying to be pretty at all or.. is ugly just.. fine? Maybe you should try hitting yourself in the face with a hammer because everyone knows broken bones grow back stronger and thicker so you can break your jaw over and over again to become a gigachad.

Of course then to meet the overwhelming demand that social media has put on plastic surgery, new clinics pop up all over the place with questionably qualified "doctors." Before your procedure has even fully healed, square shoulders are out. Now you just look like an ugly linebacker. Ew. Gross. Cringe.

Fashion has gone from "what's in this season" to "what's in this week." Everything is made cheap and fast these days, and nothing is made to last anymore. It doesn't need to. You're going to wear that dress or pants for a few days, maybe for a video or two, and then it's off to the landfill.

Social media is a plague that has ruined society in so many ways, or at the very least, heavily contributed to its downfall. Too many voices, often from bad actors looking to make a buck, had too much power, and way too much influence over the masses.

Ban all of it. As much as I would like that, as long has the almighty dollar makes the world go 'round, that ain't happening. Not when that industry generates around 250 billion per year in revenue from ads alone.

It's like watching a train crash in slow motion. I don't see a fix for this. Not until people decide enough is enough and just quit using the platforms.

The internet is a good place. In can be used to study, meeting and escape government overreach. The problem is that social media is controlled by a bunch of billionaire maniacs.

I honestly think that smartphones should never have been a thing and the internet should have kept being a place for nerds/people with computers only to hang out.

Not go outside. Not play with friends. Not hang out with family. Not engage in hobbies or meaningful pursuits. Not read.

I understand this child was being hyperbolic, but I do think there's a kernel of truth here, that they have no other meaningful plans, and I think that's really a showcase of today's society.

That's the problem. In parents/adults think that playing outside is dangerous what should they pick? Play outside or not?

This is out fault, not children's fault. They are just living in the world we gave them.

 

[Gp1]

Completely agree that we should cut screen time, not only social network and especially for children in development years

And I completely disagree that the state should be taking measures to do it.

How they are going to enforce it?

Yt, by the way, has tons and tons and tons of good content.

Wait until someone call the social network /AI a source of desinformation and that we should ban or register users with their SSN.

And i find funny that this kind of law/decree only comes when the right wing dominates the social network (in general, every country has its own peculiarities) and the left somewhat dominates the mass media.

 

[Tams]

Fuckin' tuck in, fam.

This is framed as funny, but it's actually pretty scary.

This kid is basically saying they have NOTHING else to do other than consume algorithmic content on various social media.

Not go outside. Not play with friends. Not hang out with family. Not engage in hobbies or meaningful pursuits. Not read.

I understand this child was being hyperbolic, but I do think there's a kernel of truth here, that they have no other meaningful plans, and I think that's really a showcase of today's society.

There are a tremendous amount of problems with society at large today.

Kids can't read.
Massive over consumption.
People being retarded/assholes for internet points.
Attention spans across the board are fucking shot.
Video games have to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
Studio executives have mandated that movies get dumbed down and over explain everything so the film can be "watched" as a second-screen experience.
Dating in 2026 is a fucking nightmare. If you don't instantly meet a laundry list of requirements set by someone, they swipe left and you're completely forgotten.
People are butchering their bodies to pursue whatever idealized beauty trend is currently happening right now.
Fast fashion aesthetics both in clothing and home decor are incentivizing the rapid production of cheap goods to meet a breakneck, ever changing demand.


A lot of this... Can be distilled down to a common problem. Social media.

Social media really first "started" with "MySpace." Sure, there were other websites prior, but it didn't really EXPLODE until MySpace. Everyone had a MySpace page. And in your social circle, you fucking knew where you stood when it came to someone's Top 8. This created an environment where people started putting a lot of focus into their online presence. We posted everything, constantly. Work. Kids. Events. Parties. All of it. Because everyone you knew was also on MySpace, it meant that everyone you knew also knew everything you were doing, thinking about, etc. And you for them. You became hyper connected.

Suddenly, you didn't really need to hang out as much anymore. Getting together for a movie night with your friends or just walking around the mall and catching up was suddenly less important, because you already knew everything they were doing. You liked their posts all week.

This grew even more with Facebook. Introducing games like Farmville increased our screen time dramatically. Not only were we posting every random thought we had, when we weren't doing that or liking posts from friends and family, we were spending more time online playing stupid games and being shown advertisements. That idea caught on.

With the advent of the "modern" smartphone around 2007, there was now a whole new way to capitalize on this behavior. It became easier than ever to take pictures right from your phone, post, and share everything you were doing.

Fast forward nearly 20 years and people are more addicted to their phones than ever. We post everything we are doing, but instead of a picture and some text, it might be an entire video, a live stream, whatever. People are constantly voicing their opinions online. And "The Algorithm" is constantly feeding you more content based on stuff you have previously engaged with. To make matters worse, various platforms like tiktok, etc, will actually PAY YOU based on how many views your videos are getting. So now, people are financially incentivized to be radical online, whether that's through ragebait, or extreme behaviors, or whatever.

So now this has created a society that today has very little patience for anything. The next thing they might like is only a swipe away. They can't figure anything out on their own, because they are so accustomed to being told exactly what to do and how to do it. This creates an environment where no one needs to sit down and problem solve. To "figure it out."

Now, if Atreus doesn't tell Dad how to solve the puzzle after about 45 seconds, the player is just going to get bored and quit playing, and do something else. That disengagement is the worst possible thing for a game developer. So they design around it. They know that modern players don't have the patience or attention span for it, so they design around it. If there's any friction at all, the player will just give up. Then it's back to scrolling for more dopamine.

You can be retarded and or an asshole to others because if you record yourself doing it, you might make money, or it might make you popular. Remember when people were just straight up stealing anything not nailed down? Potted plants? Car doors? Remember when all those stupid internet challenges got people hurt, and people have died?

Remember when the internet told us labubus were the most important thing in the world? And people would GET INTO FIGHTS over stanley cups and a fucking tote bag? And people would spend hundreds of dollars on fucking squishy dumplings? Then all of your home decor HAD to be beige. Then gold and silver. Then christmas colors. Your house is beige still? Gross. Kill yourself.

You don't have square shoulders? You should get plastic surgery. Your forehead is HOW MANY fingers wide? You're already 19 and you don't have a BBL or any botox? What do you mean "I've never had any lip surgery before?" Are you even trying to be pretty at all or.. is ugly just.. fine? Maybe you should try hitting yourself in the face with a hammer because everyone knows broken bones grow back stronger and thicker so you can break your jaw over and over again to become a gigachad.

Of course then to meet the overwhelming demand that social media has put on plastic surgery, new clinics pop up all over the place with questionably qualified "doctors." Before your procedure has even fully healed, square shoulders are out. Now you just look like an ugly linebacker. Ew. Gross. Cringe.

Fashion has gone from "what's in this season" to "what's in this week." Everything is made cheap and fast these days, and nothing is made to last anymore. It doesn't need to. You're going to wear that dress or pants for a few days, maybe for a video or two, and then it's off to the landfill.

Social media is a plague that has ruined society in so many ways, or at the very least, heavily contributed to its downfall. Too many voices, often from bad actors looking to make a buck, had too much power, and way too much influence over the masses.

Ban all of it. As much as I would like that, as long has the almighty dollar makes the world go 'round, that ain't happening. Not when that industry generates around 250 billion per year in revenue from ads alone.

It's like watching a train crash in slow motion. I don't see a fix for this. Not until people decide enough is enough and just quit using the platforms.

You do realise she was being incredibly sarcastic?

Given she has an American accent, she truly is fitting in.

 

[Comandr]

You do realise she was being incredibly sarcastic?

Given she has an American accent, she truly is fitting in.

What? You're kidding. I thought she was being sincere. Gosh, Tams. You always have such great insight for me. I'm so glad you go out of your way to comment on my posts.

 

[cormack12]

This is why the Internet was only ever meant for introverted nerds. Normies can't handle this kind of sandbox environment.

It used to be a stage where nerds would compete to be the best player on a server, the most knowledgeable on forums or usenet or the smoothest talker in an irc chatroom full of men.

Now it is a place where people deliberately make themselves look stupid for engagement. The Internet is this wonderful place with most of all human knowledge, ideas and theories and we are collectively as stupid as the Dark Ages.

This will be a drop in the ocean ten years from now as regulation develops.

 

[YCoCg]

Fuck that, I'd use a VPN until they inevitably ban those too in a couple of years.

You were optimistic, they're going to announce plans to tackle VPNs next month.

 

[nush]

You were optimistic, they're going to announce plans to tackle VPNs next month.

Even China can't stamp out VPNs.

 

[German Shocks]

You were optimistic, they're going to announce plans to tackle VPNs next month.

Russians will never let this happen.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

What's the UK's status on voter ID? There's a small contingent in the US that wants ID for voting in elections to be illegal. Is that the case in the UK?

It'd be ironic if they want online ID but not voter ID.

 

[YCoCg]

What's the UK's status on voter ID? There's a small contingent in the US that wants ID for voting in elections to be illegal. Is that the case in the UK?

It'd be ironic if they want online ID but not voter ID.

We have to show ID when voting, that's been a thing for ages, they usually accept a passport, drivers license or a Government ID card.

 

[photogaz]

I thought the UK was the land of the free?

 

[fall1n1-9956]

Remember, it's never about the kids, it's always about population control.

If they cared about kids the whole Epstein gang wouldn't exist anymore.

 

[German Shocks]

Remember, it's never about the kids, it's always about population control.

Control the indigenous population, only to let the immigrants flood in?

 

[fall1n1-9956]

Control the indigenous population, only to let the immigrants flood in?

Let immigrant flood the housing and the job markets. School classrooms stay behind to accomodate students that can't even speak the language.

Now nobody can climb the ladder. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer.

A poor and uneducated population is a controlled population.

 

[Bojji]

Remember, it's never about the kids, it's always about population control.

If they cared about kids the whole Epstein gang wouldn't exist anymore.

Andrew, Savile, Muslim Rape Gangs...

But no, we most protect the children online, introducing draconian laws that collect even more data on all citizens (and flag minors... this data can be very useful for some people).

 

[Werewolf Jones]

I thought the UK was the land of the free?

 

[nightfly]

When has a "full ban" on anything ever been the "right choice"?

 

[Bojji]

When has a "full ban" on anything ever been the "right choice"?

Full ban on slavery or child marriages in the west?

 

[German Shocks]

When has a "full ban" on anything ever been the "right choice"?

Full ban on murder?

 

[delirium trigger]

I can't believe so many of you support it.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

We have to show ID when voting, that's been a thing for ages, they usually accept a passport, drivers license or a Government ID card.

I believe the UK even accepts expired IDs when it comes to voting

 

[Brazen]

That's not what happened.

Which part?

When has a "full ban" on anything considered socially acceptable ever been the "right choice"?

Might be the better way to rephrase the question.

 

[AJUMP23]

Andrew, Savile, Muslim Rape Gangs...

But no, we most protect the children online, introducing draconian laws that collect even more data on all citizens (and flag minors... this data can be very useful for some people).

You would have never heard of this if wasn't for Social media. That is why social media is the problem. They don't control the narrative.

 

[nightfly]

I believe the UK even accepts expired IDs when it comes to voting

Has the UK always required ID to vote? I am SOOOO pissed the SAFE act didn't pass here!

 

[Toots]

Queer Stormer doing something sensible ?
Colour me pleasantly surprise.
I know it is to better control social discourse but still it will do tremendously good to UK teens.
A win is a win.

 

[DeepEnigma]

You would have never heard of this if wasn't for Social media. That is why social media is the problem. They don't control the narrative.

 

[SoloCamo]

I know it is to better control social discourse but still it will do tremendously good to UK teens.
A win is a win.

And this is why the west will continue to fall as the noose tightens slowly with their own approval.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

Has the UK always required ID to vote? I am SOOOO pissed the SAFE act didn't pass here!

I dunno, probably?
There's no such thing as "voter ID cards" in most of europe, ID cards are just mandatory in most european countries and you're only allowed to vote if you're a citizen so it just goes hand in hand.

 

[nkarafo]

You realise that this forum is social media?

It's not the same kind of social media. It's "social media" before things like Facebook needed a term to differentiate themselves from regular forums. And that term is social media. Thus NeoGaf isn't really "social media".

 

[DeepEnigma]

Queer Stormer doing something sensible ?
Colour me pleasantly surprise.
I know it is to better control social discourse but still it will do tremendously good to UK teens.
A win is a win.

How is it sensible and a win when they're still allowed only on narrow controlled platforms without dissenting opinion? Ones well known for grooming and pro-Islam/commie drivel.

Social media isn't taken away, just ones that challenge the ideology.

Parental controls exist for a reason. This is just more overstep for the nanny state.

"Think of the children, just not the ones being groomed and raped."

 

[delirium trigger]

There was a video from one of those WEF events, maybe a year ago, where a bunch of elected officials complained to each other about how social media made it difficult to govern people. AKA mind control.

Go fuck yourselves.

 

[Nvzman]

You can complain about the algorithm, you can complain about influencers, but the core of social media is people talking to each other. This is a bad precedent and lazy society solution to problems.

This is a gross overgeneralization and actually highlights what's wrong with social media. Instagram, Facebook, X, Snapchat, TikTok, etc all curate posts, messages, feeds deliberately to cater to YOU. So what this ends up really doing is creating like-minded groupthink hives and creates more and more alienation and intolerance towards open-mindedness. Id strongly argue its exactly why politics, media, etc are all so highly volatile and cutthroat nowadays. You say most of the shit people say online in the real world, you look insane and unhinged.

Its basically MGS2's AI speech from 2001 exactly to a point. It just creates nothing but "ponds" of groupthink. The UK fucking sucks (and the propaganda perspective ALSO rings true) but this is absolutely the direction social media needs to go. It needs to be treated like alcohol.

 

[calistan]

Which part?

You know exactly which part, don't play dumb. No point discussing this here.

 

[Brazen]

You know exactly which part, don't play dumb. No point discussing this here.

Not playing dumb, genuinely asking, and yes discussion boards have a point in discussing....

 

[Madserb2023]

I think social media isn't good for any age, but this isn't being done for protection, it's to curtail the shift to the right that you seeing in the next generation. Literally, to the day, that they have been mentioning the increasing conservatism amongst especially young men, there has been a panic in more liberal countries like the UK and Australia to stop it. I am 99% sure if there was a trend towards left wing politics, they would be advertising Facebook for 5 year olds.

 

[EviLore]

Politicians are speedrunning the destruction of the UK on all fronts.

 

[Windle Poons]

But no, we most protect the children online, introducing draconian laws that collect even more data on all citizens (and flag minors... this data can be very useful for some people).

Exactly this. Hiding it behind 'protecting children' but soon you'll have to prove your over 16 to access social media and to do that they'll need a photo of you or your debit card details etc.

But its fine because its protecting children. Pull the other one Starmer, its got bells on.

 

[YCoCg]

Politicians are speedrunning the destruction of the UK on all fronts.

If only there was some way these parties could be held responsible for breaking their words and pledges, literally EVERYTHING Starmer said to get elected and in power has been abandoned or u-turned on, this isn't what the people voted for, it's beyond fucking annoying to ALWAYS have this happen in the UK where a party will say anything to sweet talk voters and then ditch it after getting into power, it legit leaves most people apathetic towards voting because even when we do, these cunts are A-OK with throwing the people under a bus right away and then going "oh well, we're in power for the next five years now".

 

[DeepEnigma]

If only there was some way these parties could be held responsible for breaking their words and pledges, literally EVERYTHING Starmer said to get elected and in power has been abandoned or u-turned on, this isn't what the people voted for, it's beyond fucking annoying to ALWAYS have this happen in the UK where a party will say anything to sweet talk voters and then ditch it after getting into power, it legit leaves most people apathetic towards voting because even when we do, these cunts are A-OK with throwing the people under a bus right away and then going "oh well, we're in power for the next five years now".

They clearly show there's no voting your way out of this mess.

And rub it in your face.

 

[SoloCamo]

If only there was some way these parties could be held responsible for breaking their words and pledges, literally EVERYTHING Starmer said to get elected and in power has been abandoned or u-turned on, this isn't what the people voted for, it's beyond fucking annoying to ALWAYS have this happen in the UK where a party will say anything to sweet talk voters and then ditch it after getting into power, it legit leaves most people apathetic towards voting because even when we do, these cunts are A-OK with throwing the people under a bus right away and then going "oh well, we're in power for the next five years now".

When forums like this are eventually under the same social media umbrella as viewed by the law (it will happen eventually) those statements may get you on quite a few lists. That's what so many people don't seem to understand, the ramifications of this are huge.

 

[Bojji]

You don't hate them enough

 

[Windle Poons]

I thought the UK was the land of the free?

It's the land of the fucking tax.

Seriously one of the leaked what's app messages the other week was what else can we tax to pay more benefits.

 

[DeepEnigma]

It's the land of the fucking tax.

Seriously one of the leaked what's app messages the other week was what else can we tax to pay more benefits.

 

[AJUMP23]

Essentially the perfect metaphor.