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12/Sep/2025
Returning rethoric.
(Falling on your own sword.)

The Chat Ban is approaching. The European Commission is attempting to push a proposal to scan virtually as much messages and chats as they can. For safety, of course.

We have a soft form of this in many places already. At most, services will put up filters or flag messages with certain phrases. This wants to be allowed to keep a more constant surveliance on people. This is something that wants to run through your galleries.

Despite OSA still marching forward and many sites block you from seeing a nipple, you can go out and see multiple angle videos of a hate breeding bigot getting blasted almost anywhere right now.

I will not mourn him. He has spend his entire career calling black people subhumans and "sneakily" inciting hate and actions through his many platforms to his many followers.

I'm not gonna drone on about all the horrific, straight up evil junk he vomited into microphones. There are many who have already done work pulling up all his quotes and stances to reflect the irony in a lot of it.

Democrat party members, governors that pretend to be left wing and kirks followers are suddenly screaming this is a step too far while Democratic Lawmakers getting murdered earlier either didn't touch them in any way or they laughed it off.

The moment I heard I figured this will be used to hammer on the banning of firearms for trans people that's been happening. A few hours later media outlets were already speculating in that direction. At the time of writing the casings were supposedly inspected and mostly contained meme's. An "UwU what's this?", a Helldivers2 reference and "If u read this ur gay lmao."

Various USA government officials and people pining to grab the fans Kirk left behind are calling for the extermination of trans people on their social media. When the news broke that someone was handed in and he did not fit their profile, the subject and goalposts change again.

I do not believe in karma, just the luck of the moment and direct action. Many CEO's, lobbyists and just 'elites' have gotten away with vile shit their whole life and nothing came to enact vengeance for those they hurt.

I think of Tetsuya in this moment. Unrelated I'm sure.

Be safe.

8/Sep/2025
How we're doing for now.
(OSA still cometh)

I got lead to a twitter link and glanced at my timeline for a moment. I get a "Log into the app to send a picture of your face" and below that I just see adult material no problem. I'm not sure where twitter is at currently besides Musk spouting neo nazi rhetoric, again, as always.

For a while I had a problem with Youtube that started around the time of the boycott. I was suddenly barred from watching any video on my account, but had no restrictions when logged out. No one had a solution, but people had been getting the same problem for years.

3 weeks or so passed and now it's fine again. I noticed when scrolling through my Tumblr and hitting play on a vid by instinct. Looking back, I started listening more to my music at work again since last year, but also doing it at home now reminded me at how I used to pass the time.

Nowadays I would just run long music playlists and just let it run through full channels I discovered in the background of me writing or whatever. I was reminded of when I would play RuneScape and blast Death metal in my teens. It reminded me of everyone fighting Youtube and the freebooting that happened there so much. How Youtube just started draining away the visitors from sites like AVGN or MEGA64.

Anyway;

Under OSA, the UK Government has decided to also enforce it's ban on "self-harm" content. While I can understand a crackdown on suicide resource, certain eating disorder content and so on, I naturally assume this will include HRT and discussion of surgeries.

Steam in the UK has also updated their rules on "adult" material on the gamestore platform.

In the UK, the chat, voice and video program Discord will also require users to ID themselves with selfies and legal ID documents.

A representative from 4Chan is attempting to sue Ofcom, one of the main pushing forces behind the Online Saftey Act in the UK. Their case is that OSA would violate their "Freedom of Speech". It's not a big of an attempt, but it's something a person located in the US could do to build a little 'barrier' against the next wave of KOSA and OSA. It also seems to be a retalition for Ofcom contacting them earlier about an investigation.

A large part of my problem is these companies and services claiming none of the data we throw out there stays there or doesn't get stored in any way. I just don't believe that. I don't believe that at all.

Better companies that have been in the publics eye for decades have data leaks. Idiots in power will just put desktop PC's with sensitive data to the curb for trash pick up. A massive company like Sony leaks their customers data like at least once every 2 years.

21/Aug/2025
Mini recap and some thoughts.
(I've been telling people for like 15 years we're already in a dystopia. It looks like the first Blade Runner but shittier.)

We're already a bit along in this newest puritanical crusade to "clean" the internet. Still being done in the name of "the poor, dumb, defenseless children" as it always is. Just like when mom's thought Dungeons & Dragons was about learning spells and summoning satan or something equally childishly daft.

Time is a circle and you can only break it by killing the hateful fucks who spin the wheel to their tune.

Death camps being build by the USA, right wing cunts visiting for photo-op's untop of that. A genocidal force playing victim while devastating nothing but civilian targets. The world watches and every government pays to see it happen while us civs are just stuck and almost powerless.

For a while we had the power to just go online and see direct footage some one is taking with their phone in a war zone. Sure, there were bad actors who would swap titles on videos to influence people the wrong way, but we prevail against mis information if we keep searching and learning.

Now that access is being removed. War footage is not very advertiser friendly. It reflects badly on all the worlds governments who want it to happen while pretending to be heartbroken. An informed public is a dangerous public to those who try and enslave it.

Even something like Facebook is made to poison you now. You used to have it to say hi to distant relatives, friends or maybe get notified of fun local events. Now you're in a sea of people who over the decade became brainwashed by right wing bots and stuff meant to bait an extreme response.

At this point you're surrounded by fake AI "people" on that platform. Can you imagine being some one not very internet savvy, stuck on Facebook, surrounded by not a single real person. Just robots posting right wing talking points and trying to peer pressure you along with 100's of other fake people.

They used to have to organize on Stormfront to get people influenced like that, now the platform does it for free and on it's own.

We did what we could to build giant banks of information for everyone in the form of Wikipedia. Now even that is seen as a threat.

VPN's are on the chopping block next. While in the case of the UK courts, they protect the use of VPN's currently, I assume some one will bribe a bunch of lobbyist and high-seated UK ministry members and we'll lose the VPN's soon enough, too.

Australia is also putting forth large restrictions. All known social media platforms & things like Youtube and TikTok will only offer the kid-friendly version and block access to making accounts or otherwise interacting in any way.

Norway and the UK really like that idea and are fighting hard to get it going in their own home.

It was rumored that Google wanted to sue the Australian government over this. Because it directly attacks Google's wallet over a business that already bleeds so much cash but is also such a powerful tool.

Keep that in mind if you see certain companies fighting OSA, it's for their own corporate wallet, not your digital rights.

11/Aug/2025
Wikipedia succumbs to Online Safety Act
(You need to upload a personal profile and bank details before you can access wikipedia.com/fart)

Wikipedia had to fight the Online Safety Act, too. The fear is that children will look at "adult" articles. Or that they end up looking at gruesome war articles.

The first thing that come to mind is an attempt to limit information. There's always some nationalistic stuff they never properly teach you about your own country. There's always wars your country was apart off that they lost or was just a brutal slaughter of civilians.

The limiting of "adult" material. I can only assume this is gonna block very basic human anatomy stuff. The kinda stuff a young person might need if their parents don't take certain medical issues seriously.

The Wikipedia Foundation, was seeking exemption for a lot of it's information but was denied in court. They have a chance to fight it, but it feels a little slim.

To add a quote;
"The British government says the law is designed to protect children and remove illegal content. Technology Secretary Peter Kyle has said those who wanted to overturn it were "on the side of predators"."

6/Aug/2025
A puritanical attempt at purging the web
(Again, once more, the return of, uno mas)

In July of 2025, a group called Collective Shout (Wiki) approached the online marketplaces of Steam and Itch.io about adult games on their service. Collective Shout claims to have written to these stores and payment processors Visa, Paypal and Mastercard and demanded the companies to boycott the markets for allowing adult and extremely-themed games.

As we go along, keep in mind how other platforms like Patreon, Gumroad and OnlyFans also had problems with payment processors not wanting to accept "brand-damaging" transactions in adult spaces. It goes hand in hand with the eradication of NSFW stuff from the internet. Tumblr purge, Pornhub banned off Instagram, IMGUR purge and so on.

Collective Shout claims to not be against LGBTQIA+ expressions and media, but a lot of people on the affected platforms have remarked that SFW that simply featured gay or trans characters were also delisted or removed. Which is either them deflecting the backlash or it states that Visa, Mastercard and Paypal added that.

It should be noted that Melinda Tankard Reist, the founder of Collective shout is also the founder of Woman's Forums Australia. You can search the website for tags in articles and searching "trans" should give you a quick idea of where Melinda's organisation stands.

To quote an article from May 1st, 2025:
"Gender ideology has had a devastating impact on the rights, safety and dignity of women and girls who are being forced to share female-only spaces and sports with biological males."

Collective Shout received backlash when they proudly presented themselves after their boycotting campaign. The blame for the start of the campaign is suddenly thrown to "a random gamer" who approached them with the campaign and Collective Shout just ran with it. That's what they say after the fact.

Steam resisted at first, ignored them even, but quickly started tearing down games and visual novels after they got confronted with the worst of the worst on the marketplace itself.

A reporter from Vice started covering these happenings but had her articles pulled by Vice Operator, Savage Ventures.
(Article 1, Article 2)

Itch.io at first delisted every adult game and there were people reporting SFW LGBTQAI+ content was delisted, too. They slowly started to relist a majority of LGBTQAI+ titles and a few days ago they made it so NSFW you can buy is delisted, but free NSFW content is still available.

They are looking into better payment processors. Some people still claim their games are still delisted or were removed while just being LGBTQAI+ themed SFW works. The Itch.io press person on Bluesky is responding where they can to investigate those claims. Itch.io also released their annual Queer Games Bundle at the start of the month.

Some people find the timing a little suspicious and smokescreeny. I do have to say that this Bundle has been around every year for a while and is between the creators, not the site itself. I would argue that if they left it by the side this year many people would have been furious and lose their last hopes.

In their panic, many stores and other sites may have updated their rules and may have left things a little to vague. SFW Furry stuff and zoo-trash is in the same category in a lot of these as example.

On the Steam side of things, small devs from SFW games that were removed claim to have gotten nothing back from their contact with Steam. I read GoG is doing a giveaway on NSFW titles as a small demonstration. Or just PR for themselves before they go back under the radar.

Currently it's a little quiet. People are calling Mastercard, Visa and PayPal and leaving complaints about not being able to buy anything. Asking why this is the case and debating changing card company to someone who doesn't inject personal morals while also taking a cut of all their transactions.

5/Aug/2025
The next step in KOSA, SOPPA, PIPA, WHATEVA
(Making the web safe by indexing every single person)

There has been a massive uptick in social sites and services demanding age verifications via super intrusive means. Either you give them a perfect scan of your face or you cough over your bank details. Those are the main ways most platforms go with.

Youtube used to ask me for a picture of my face, ID or drivers licence before. In the end I found a plugin to bypass that check and never had to look back since. Youtube is using AI to determine your age though your viewing habits.

So autistic people or super hobbyists might be seen as kids and all little timmy needs to do is search "How to file taxes" 3 times in a row to break the system. Very safe. Could never go wrong.

You may have seen the little articles of people using characters from video games or other forms of proxies to by pass facial scanning. VPN's are making the rounds and I'm very sure you'll see more advertising for them. I even saw some one mention "This person does not exist" since a few years.

A lot of this already started earlier for UK residents in the form of the UK Safety Act. An archaic approach to the online space written by corpses. European countries are also joining in on the ACTS, bills and all that.

All of this is happening under the banner of "think of the children!" which is such an ancient slogan by the Moral Majority even the Simpson's have been joking on it for 30 years.

It's bad enough that plenty of people reported that the system in place also blocks UK users from searching up current events in Gaza or the Ukraine.

I had heard a quick mention that a lot of this leads to 1 person, Peter Tiel, But I can't remark on this for now.