🚨 Wide ranging powers have been voted through to restrict Internet access 🚨
Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.
This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.
Rob Mullins: “Biological Sex”, Social Segregation, and the Freedom to Reassign Sex ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...
Cool healthcare system we have where my GP has no appointments available before April 3rd, when the online booking form simply runs out of dates
Important story:
"The chair of the competition watchdog’s cloud inquiry has quit, saying he is frustrated at the slow pace of action against Microsoft and Amazon, while also citing concerns about its wider independence."
The Govt recently confirmed Amazon's former UK chief as head of the CMA.
This is very unfair on Chris Mason
There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Really important intervention from @daniellalock.bsky.social into why both grounds for the High Court finding the Palestine Action ban unlawful matter, and that notwithstanding some of the criticism of the Court, why it matters that the court is asserting a high bar for such a ban to be justified:
This loss of talent will have long term consequences for our national research base. Government and funders should do something about it.
Asserting international law only when it is in your own/allies interest means not being committed to international law at all. Being dragged into a war by more powerful allies against direct interest and better judgement means having no strategic autonomy. The UK Govt is in a mess.
“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.
Nobody believes this is defensive, surely
As well as the obvious, there's a certain kind of British (English) right winger who views Ireland as a sort of wayward child who'll see the error of their ways and return to the family fold eventually
These people are wrong, obviously, but that's never stopped them
If I was a head of state, I would simply be less enthusiastic about legitimising executing heads of state
“At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. … It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/25c4107...
If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.
But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims
Between this and Starmer's letter yesterday, Labour's leadership seems resolute in learning nothing at all from recent events
the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy
“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”
cant.stop.laughing
They seem to believe they're some kind of anti-fascist, too. Remarkable
It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*
Have to say, this is tremendously funny
I wouldn’t put it past our political class to draw the conclusion that, in the absence of an economy that creates graduate jobs, we will just have to cut back on graduates.
Well now, doesn’t feel like gaslighting at all that individual programs are being made “accountable” for the future earnings of their graduates.
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A glimpse of a future where everyone needs to use the cloud for everything because AI-driven hardware shortages have made local computing too expensive, but also AI has broken the cloud
Oh, the grand old duke of york
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Big problem with the BBC is its sheer credulity and lack of intellectual curiosity about stuff. It feels like it has lost the will to interrogate (with rare exceptions)
What did the Queen know
