2025-07-25 - OFCOM: "Ofcom engagement - Availability of KiwiFarms in UK"

[thegunbuilderguy]

Does anyone know if this can work?

 

[torvalds]

Does anyone know if this can work?
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This is what Japan does when you want to buy alcohol or cigarettes at a store, you just click a button on a screen that says you're over 20, no actual ID checks or anything.

The bottom text does say they *may* ask for an actual ID, but I've never seen it happen once in my 20 years here.

 

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Does anyone know if this can work?
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Seems like the same kind of "this is fair use so you can't sue me" notifications posted to stolen content on youtube.

Works until it doesn't I guess. But then again, no one fucking cares if an unelected private NGO working on behalf of the government of the Yookay gets assmad that you aren't obeying their paste eating retard commandments on what you're allowed to say online, so I don't know why they're even bothering.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

That's approaching an order of magnitude more support for violence than supported the Revolutionary War at the time we started killing British assholes in the street for being uppity about taxes, and it's a lot more support than you need for armed insurrection to start.

Problem is, in order to have an armed insurrection, you need access to arms.

 

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Problem is, in order to have an armed insurrection, you need access to arms.

The good news is that improvised and DIY firearms exist and can be built

This private information is unavailable to guests due to policies enforced by third-parties.

 

[Geoff Capes Vapes Apes]

Problem is, in order to have an armed insurrection, you need access to arms.

There are about half a million rifles and 1.5 million shotguns in private ownership in England and Wales.

 

[CansOfCant]

This is what Japan does when you want to buy alcohol or cigarettes at a store, you just click a button on a screen that says you're over 20, no actual ID checks or anything.
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The bottom text does say they *may* ask for an actual ID, but I've never seen it happen once in my 20 years here.

I'm curious. I see 'hai', but where's 'iie'?

 

[>IMPLYING]

Problem is, in order to have an armed insurrection, you need access to arms.

Against my government I think a few thousand people armed with one of these will suffice:

 

[ScooterL]

Reps Fitzgerald, Jordan and Kiley write in British newspaper to fulminate about foreign censorship of US citizens.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2025/08/18/american-delegation-free-speech-europe-shocked/

Spoiler: Text

We led a delegation to investigate Europe’s targeting of free speech. What we saw shocked us

Scott Fitzgerald, Jim Jordan, Kevin Kiley

Earlier this month, we led a delegation to Brussels and London to see how aggressive European speech regulations affect American free speech rights in the digital town square. What we saw shocked us.

Last Congress, the House Judiciary Committee examined how the Biden administration pressured social media companies to limit free speech in America. We successfully fought back against that overreach. But today, the most serious risk to free speech comes from across the Atlantic.

In August 2024, during our investigation, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, admitted to the Committee that “senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humour and satire”. Zuckerberg acknowledged that “the government pressure was wrong”. Most importantly, Zuckerberg committed to not doing so again, and Meta made policy changes that promoted free speech on the company’s platforms, including Facebook and Instagram.

Today, robust debate has returned to the modern digital town square, supported by the Trump administration’s efforts to root out the censorship-industrial complex in the United States.

Despite these achievements, American free speech remains at risk. The threat now comes from foreign censorship laws that seek to have global effects, including here in the United States.

Countries around the world, particularly in Europe, are giving themselves new censorship powers by enacting vague laws that require limitations on free speech online. Because most of the large tech companies have global content moderation policies, any changes to these policies will affect what content Americans can see and post within the United States, too.

For example, the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) both require large social media platforms to assess and “mitigat[e]” – that is, censor – content that includes undefined categories of so-called disinformation and hate speech.

As nonpublic documents obtained by the committee show, European regulators push companies – including American tech companies – to change their terms of service and target political speech. Many of these laws also require adults to risk their privacy and anonymity when engaging in political debate on platforms that make up the modern town square.

To the extent there was any doubt about the intention of these laws, Thierry Breton – one of the architects of the DSA and the first European Commissioner in charge of its enforcement – appeared to attempt to use the DSA to censor American political speech in the lead-up to our 2024 presidential election. Breton issued his warning to Elon Musk, an American, ahead of an interview with president Trump on X, an American platform, because of the potential “spillovers” into the EU.

Think about that. An unelected European bureaucrat appeared to threaten an American social media company for hosting an interview with an American candidate in advance of an American election because the content could offend Europeans. Talk about a dangerous precedent.

To ensure compliance with their censorship regime, European regulations give bureaucrats the authority to impose massive penalties. The maximum penalty under the DSA is 6 per cent of worldwide revenue, and for Britain’s Online Safety Act, it is 10 per cent of worldwide revenue.

By tying the punishment to worldwide revenue – the bulk of which is from the United States – instead of the local jurisdiction, these laws amount to a direct tax on Americans to fund European governments that have strangled their own economies.

The DSA and the OSA are not the only European regulations taxing American companies. Europe has levelled regulation on top of regulation for years that have hurt its own companies big and small, especially those in the tech industry. Europe’s economy, once on par with ours, has fallen far behind.

While Europe struggles with a surging migrant crisis and a stagnant economy, it looks to American companies and consumers to bail it out. Instead of fixing these problems, Europe’s leaders revert to censoring critics of their failing policies.

Free speech is a fundamental part of Western democracies. We disagree with the emerging censorship regime in Europe and we hope, for the sake of their citizens, that our European friends rethink their misguided policies.

European governments are obviously free to set their own laws, but we can’t be silent when these laws harm the First Amendment rights of American citizens. We must continue to stand up for free speech here. Our investigation will continue.

President Trump and vice-president Vance have also made this threat of European censorship a top priority. We encourage the Trump administration to continue taking all steps to protect Americans’ right to free expression online.

Rep Jim Jordan, Rep Scott Fitzgerald, and Rep Kevin Kiley are US congressmen and serve on the House Judiciary Committee

 

[torvalds]

I'm curious. I see 'hai', but where's 'iie'?

Nowhere... I presume the clerk would just cancel the sale on their end if they never click it or say No verbally.

 

[Hepativore]

Problem is, in order to have an armed insurrection, you need access to arms.

The problem is that the weaponry and equipment that most governments have access to and give their militaries would quickly make short work of any real insurrection that would arise. Even in the US, a lot of people like to fantasize about overthrowing a corrupt federal government, but homegrown militias and military cosplay can only do so much when the tanks start being rolled out and the missiles start being launched.

 

[Sumptinsfuckey]

The good news is that improvised and DIY firearms exist and can be built

This private information is unavailable to guests due to policies enforced by third-parties.

True, and Luty's book, if its still available on that dismal little isle. However, that also presupposes that Brits still have the will will.

There are about half a million rifles and 1.5 million shotguns in private ownership in England and Wales.

Wow that's just sad. My state has about half the population of the U.K. but I'd bet we have at least 10 times that number, not even counting AR's. Frankly, Brits deserve whatever thier government does to them.

Against my government I think a few thousand people armed with one of these will suffice:
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Depends, the U.K's military is actually fairly competent.

 

[An Idle Observer]

4chan loses on purpose to set precedent?

The issue with this is simpler.

Let's assume they lose.

The only way that really happens is if the UK holds a show trial that 4chan doesn't dignify with a response, in which case fuck them, no one's collecting the fines and nothing happens, or the US allows extradition somehow, which would be so convoluted and a headache 4chan kinda wins anyways by just region-locking the Yookay, laughing in VPN, and then nothing happens. The UK fundamentally doesn't have an enforcement mechanism without basically threatening the entire US's tech industry.

 

[Polock]

The problem is that the weaponry and equipment that most governments have access to and give their militaries would quickly make short work of any real insurrection that would arise. Even in the US, a lot of people like to fantasize about overthrowing a corrupt federal government, but homegrown militias and military cosplay can only do so much when the tanks start being rolled out and the missiles start being launched.

Have you completely ignored the goat fuckers in the middle east? We spent a gorillion trillion dollars blowing them up with satellite guided bombs while they were shooting back at us with antique jezails and we still couldn't get a meaningful victory and any gains we made collapsed immediately when we left.

We are going way beyond the national guard doing riot suppression or even political activists getting shot at protests that got out of hand. Trying to think of what the state of the nation would look like if the government felt the need to drop bombs on itself is difficult to imagine just because of how absolutely fucked everything would be by that point.

 

[An Idle Observer]

Trying to think of what the state of the nation would look like if the government felt the need to drop bombs on itself is difficult to imagine just because of how absolutely fucked everything would be by that point.

I don't find it hard at all. Immediate failed state, riots in the streets, either Starmer goes full Saddam mode at that point and cancels all elections for the forseeable future or Parliament collapses inside of its own asshole and it is truly anarchy.

At that point in time opportunists around the globe will start looking at the real estate becoming free, and you'll probably have a 3-way fight between the US, Russia, and EU interests (I would bet at the behest of primarily Germany and France.) for the spoils. Ireland probably matters at some point, migrant issues absolutely become a thing at this point and that's been enough to get the unionists and separatists to march hand-in-hand, but I have a feeling they side with one of the other powers as opposed to trying anything truly independent. X factor is how involved the US wants to be in particular dictating how many resources and of what kind they would deploy, be it military or diplomatic.

 

[Polock]

I don't find it hard at all. Immediate failed state, riots in the streets, either Starmer goes full Saddam mode at that point and cancels all elections for the forseeable future or Parliament collapses inside of its own asshole and it is truly anarchy.

I was talking about the state of the US since that's what the other poster was talking about.

The UK is a different beast since basically everything about it is different than the US. I definitely could see the USA playing its favorite card of quietly supporting a coup in order to further its own goals, its like our national pastime.

 

[An Idle Observer]

I definitely could see the USA playing its favorite card of quietly supporting a coup in order to further its own goals, its like our national pastime.

TBH, I don't see it happening quietly if this is the goal. It'd be overt. JD Vance has already taken inroads to shaming the UK for censorship and rights violations, I heard yesterday that they've already commissioned a human rights report on them and it is not glowing, so we've already postured ourselves for a more overt, "Told you so," kind of stance. I was vague with committed resources in no small part because I could easily see the US not getting militarily involved over entirely diplomatically/culturally. The revolution will not be served without Big Macs and a Coke kind of deal.

 

[General Kalani]

TBH, I don't see it happening quietly if this is the goal. It'd be overt. JD Vance has already taken inroads to shaming the UK for censorship and rights violations, I heard yesterday that they've already commissioned a human rights report on them and it is not glowing, so we've already postured ourselves for a more overt, "Told you so," kind of stance. I was vague with committed resources in no small part because I could easily see the US not getting militarily involved over entirely diplomatically/culturally. The revolution will not be served without Big Macs and a Coke kind of deal.

The US should just annex the UK. Kill Starmer, Khan and the rest of their leaders, niggers and muslims. problem solved.

 

[DavidS877]

The US should just annex the UK. Kill Starmer, Khan and the rest of their leaders, niggers and muslims. problem solved.

Sadly the US doesn't have enough money in the budget to provide the necessary dental care to the UK if it were made a US holding.

 

[The Thinking Abacus]

Sadly the US doesn't have enough money in the budget to provide the necessary dental care to the UK if it were made a US holding.

Annex Canada too and send the former UK citizens there.