I love the defiant cursed energy here.

That’s basically the idea behind these laws.

Conservatives want to make porn illegal, which isn’t easy under traditional means, so they’re taking the “Putin” approach as I put it, make viewing porn hard, unattractive or even dangerous and make delivering porn to people hard, unattractive and dangerous.

Requiring an ID from the government to view porn means the government can tell who is watching what. If one of those people happens to run for office or get a little too campaigny, their porn history can be named and shamed.

And porn providers know this, and know that will drive people away from their sites, and on top of this implementing this will likely be bureaucratic and likely expensive, so they’ll stop serving an area.

And when this is applied to non porn sites that have porn like Reddit or twitter or Tumblr, well guess what’s going to happen, those sites will ban porn from their site.

It’s basically banning porn by making it impossible to get porn in a way that doesn’t end up with you getting blackmailed. Children have nothing to do with it.

But at the same time generalized artificial intelligence is very likely possible and will be an absolute game-changer if and when it happens. It’s easily of similar value to fusion technology.

The “AI” we have now is basically advanced Autocomplete.

Fuckin’ hell, investors don’t know shit about the shit they are investing in do they, if all you need to do is slap some bullshit buzzwords on it and they’ll suck your dick.

Damn straight, Browsers shouldn’t deal with social justice issues, they should deal with working to destroy minorities lives and enforce fascism, narking on the browsing history of those who deny the status quo. /s

That is a spicy take I must day

Either you’ve never had mint ice cream or you’ve never brushed your teeth.

Simple! It’s [REDACTED]! Home of [REDACTED]! It’s language of [REDACTED] is world famous for [REDACTED] and it has very good relations with [REDACTED] and Wales!

We tried that but then the CIA sponsored a group of terrorists shot us up and installed a dictator who took our land and sold it to some fruit companies.

They all made a billion dollars with their own labour without exploiting anyone else or taking their labour value. :)

Yeah, fuck having a political party run by a small cabal control everything under the name of communism, that does not work, it’s simple economics! What works is a small cabal of corporate groups run by billionaires control everything! That is the only system that will ever work.

It’s either that or communism, there is no other system and anyone who says there is is a communist!

I live in Scotland. In winter we get no daylight.

Goofus touches several cookies before choosing the one he wants

A very Georgist view, but a lot of companies are just scummy and want to make the most profit possible.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/about-us/news-opinion/2021/adults-support-encryption-if-children-safety-protected/

The NSPCC is running articles saying that we should only have End to End encryption if we can somehow guarentee children’s safety, which sounds like they’re advocating for backdoors.

This bullshit comes up every five years or so and has done since the naughties. It goes like this.

1. Government states they need a backdoor to encryption to stop terrorism/pedophilia.
2. Privacy and tech groups say it’s a bad idea, children’s charities and anti-terrorist groups say it’s a good idea.
3. Someone in the Civil Service informs a top politician that if there is a backdoor, hackers will find a way in and that could mean leaks of things the government doesn’t want the public to see like their affair with their intern or how they are doing to abolish devolution.
4. They use an event to cover it up again.
5. Next government, return to step one.

This has happened under Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Boris, Truss wasn’t around long enough (lol), and now Sunak.

It’s funny because Boris Johnson is currently using an encrypted phone to stop giving evidence to the Covid Enquiry (namely his WhatsApp messages, yes, the UK government uses fuckin’ WhatsApp.

We keep telling them it won’t work, that it will only put the data of law abiding citizens at risk, but they don’t listen and they keep playing the same game over and over.

The core tenant of every form of Communism, regardless of if said party or organisation follows it, is as follows: that the means of production should belong to the workers who work them. If the means of production are not in the hands of the workers, then they are not communist. If they are in the hands of a CEO or a corporation, you have private capitalism or market capitalis like the US. If you put them in the hands of a state, they are in the state, you get state capitalism ala China or the USSR.

The power structure of the state protects an upper class, be it billionaires or “the party”. If you abolish the state, but not capitalism, capitalism will rebuild the state (which is why Anarcho capitalism fails every time) and vice versa (which is what happens with Marxist Leninism).

For a Communist or communalist society to work it needs to be Anarchist or classically Libertarian (aka like Bakunin or Kropotkin proposed, not “money first”). It needs to have a horizontal and democratic decision making process that is decentralised, federated, and involves all the members of the community or communities effected. If there is to be a state, it should be to facilitate the colaboration of communities in a bottom up manner. These are the features of almost every single effective or successful Anarchist or Socialist movements from Rojava or the Zapatistas, as well as non-political movements like the Open Source Movement, railway preservatiion movement, and even the early RNLI.

The power structure thant would forbid a free market would be the collective weight of everyone else rather than a state that, sooner or later, becomes the jackboot of capital.

More like: People on the internet being critical of the current system, Americans on the internet saying “COMMUNISM BAD” as if USSR style state capitalism is the only other possible option.

Yeah, whenever COVID hit we got even busier.

“Hey, stay home and if you go out, wear a mask.”

“NO! I’m going to go out and berrate a minimum wage employee for shit out of their control!”

I’m not going to stop you, get some iron on T-shirt paper, flip it in photoshop/gimp/whatever, print it and iron it.