Wow Mirror now reporting an ad van protesting the Trump visits has been ceased by Police. It appears the U.K. does actually have a free speech crisis!

Daily Mirror

Ad van with picture of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein stopped by cops in Windsor

Footage shows an advertising ban with an image of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein being driven away by a police officer as the US President's visi...

#freespeech #trump

Arrested for ‘malicious communication ‘. The communication was projecting an image of Trump with Epstein on Windsor Castle.

The Independent

Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle

Arrests come as Trump lands in UK for landmark second state visit

A reminder that according to the Ministry of defence VPNs allow users to bypass state-imposed censorship. #VPN #Censorship

Someone said Ofcom haven’t really done anything with the Online Safety Act. That’s a bit unfair as they have produced around 1700 pages of guidance. It’s really a bureaucratic magnum opus of the modern age. The UKs gift to the world, something for historians to puzzle over. It’s subtly subversive - an anarchist Trojan - anyone who reads it loses hope in Governmentality. #onlinesafety #Ofcom

The petition against the online safety act is hitting 170k. I’ve not seen a petition reach such numbers in a long time.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

I would encourage people to also sign up and support campaigns working on this issue >

Open Rights Group

Become a member

Open Rights Group is the UK’s largest grassroots digital rights campaigning organisation, fighting to protect everyone’s rights to privacy and ...

#onlinesafetyact #privacy

Anyone using Grindr will have to upload an ID document and photos to US company Facetec.

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Grindr just introduced this essential security feature for UK users

Grindr has announced that UK-based users will now undergo an essential security check to combat underage use of the software.

what could go wrong?! #privacy #onlinesafety #biometrics

When the facial recognition algorithm says You are guilty. Sorry if a women in Manchester wrongly accused of shoplifting and getting banned from shops despite being innocent.

BBC News

Woman mistaken for thief after shop face scan alert

An apparent mix-up led to Danielle Horan was wrongly accused of shoplifting by Home Bargains staff.

#biometrics #news #survillance

Big tech is upping its censorship game. For example you can switch your VPN and watch how Tik Tok now censors different search terms about Trump in different countries. Tested this myself. So much for ‘free speech in the US’. #TikTok #Censorship #Trump

An online cycling community forum says it will shut rather than having to deal with the onerous requirements of the Online Safety Act

LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) | LFGSS

Before you read on, note that the forum platform is just a piece of technology, and it can be thrown away, what matters are the people, the relatio...

many of us warned they would destroy the best bits of the Internet while trying to tackle the worst.