For the record when you ignore them coming for kinks you don't care for this is always the end result. No one should get to decide what is porn cuz it ain't EVER gonna line up with what any normal person would call porn.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Respectfully they should not be asking anyone of any degree to do this. Users should not be expected to ID check to get full access to their device - We should not have to ID our device to send age signals it's silly to pass this onto device makers as the central issue is "Who dictates access"

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · last wk.

"Pornhub sent a letter to 300 state officials on Tuesday, lambasting the 'performative, ineffective, and unenforceable age verification laws' that they helped to pass. The platform argues that age-gating should target device developers, rather than websites, to safeguard privacy and user safety."

We are introducing biometric survialance for this BTW.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 7d ago

Kids: 1 KIDS Act: 0

I hate to say ‘I told you so’, but I told you so.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2w ago

A year after the Online Safety Act, British regulator Ofcom confirms its age-verification regulations haven't stopped kids from accessing porn — despite widespread industry compliance. "Our research shows that almost half of the pornography services visited by children have no age checks in place"

X/twitter continues to be a bad place to try and share information on Government policy. Despite the fact we only repost and Create threads (often days apart) We still get the spam hammer. Can Governments just leave that site? You can see xenophobic accounts spam,but we get the routine hammer?

A year after the Online Safety Act, British regulator Ofcom confirms its age-verification regulations haven't stopped kids from accessing porn — despite widespread industry compliance. "Our research shows that almost half of the pornography services visited by children have no age checks in place"

Use of Age Assurance Report 2026

This report assesses how sites and apps use age checks to protect children from online harm.

ofcom.org.uk

The great dumb discussion about "banning" VPNSs' is that any Grade 4-12 computer class or lesson in digital hygiene will tell you to use VPNs on public WiFi. We teach children don't use public WiFi without a VPN. Don't do sensitive tasks like transactions,doing documents on public WiFi without it.

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social · 3w ago

Children's circumvention behaviours online www.gov.uk/government/p... report commissioned by UK Government, about how the little tikes are getting around age checks (including use of VPNs) Time for another poorly conceived policy intervention? #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #childrights #techpolicy

Discussing Privacy and the greater impact of Age verification in South Africa a guide🧵 #1 You will not receive media coverage on the basis of privacy concerns or information access. The primary framing of Age verification in SA is - Parents rights - Teenagers feeling worse after using social media

We a year later are still playing the song and dance of Ofcom trying to age gate Wikipedia,like its' been a whole year and we are back to this discussion at its' anniversary. I wonder if like last year people will be downloading copies of Wikipedia for offline use. AV is access control not saftey.

Owen Boswarva@owenboswarva.bsky.social · 4w ago

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/07... update from @wikimediafoundation.org #Wikipedia #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

One Year Later, How the Online Safety Act is Destroying the Sex Work Community www.polyesterzine.com/features/one... by Maedb Joy #ageverification #socialmediaban #deplatforming #openweb #techpolicy

3 mos. after the ban went into effect: "...Australian authorities reported that close to 70% of under-16 accts were still active... And teenagers... are good at the workaround... The bans could, perversely, strip away the protections that came w/ having a proper acct in the 1st place." 🛟😷🧭 policy

Governments Are Banning Teens from Social Media Without Any Evidence It Will Help

Australia switched it on in December. Anyone under 16, locked out of their social media accounts, by law. France, Spain, Denmark, Norway, India, Egypt and

scienceblog.com

The Australian under-16 social media ban would garner more hatred from Australians if it wasn't mostly-empty political theater. However, it is having some success teaching children they should lie to get what they want www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Four in five under-16s in Australia using social media despite ban, study shows

Experts say law not enough to stop children accessing harmful content online and more ‘convincing strategy is required’

theguardian.com

What these people are actually supporting is total and complete removal of anonymity from the web, and cutting off millions of vulnerable kids lifelines and ability to get news and information abt the world, all for zero benefit and lots of harm

Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16

Across major demographic and partisan groups, more Americans support than oppose banning those under 16 from using social media.

pewresearch.org

See Age Verification for ‘safety’

joannes@playthroughline.com · last mo.

🇿🇦 This is not like id'ing offline, this is not like showing ID for liquor this is a drag net of massive information collection Stop age verification today📴🚫 This is not protection Call and say no to Age verification in south Africa 📞📨 noageverifiactionsa.substack.com/p/list-of-co...

No age gate South Africa@noverifactionsa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sabc(national broadcaster) once again manufacturing consent for Age verification by only having advocates for it and inviting 0 privacy orgs or experts. "Some people are against it" it's disingenuous to believe they found 0 orgs against this including Childrens rights groups. youtu.be/GZh2imhadqs

Call your Reps, even if they're not there right now you can leave a message, trust me, they do see those. You don't have to be eloquent, you don't have to make a good argument, this isn't debate club, just say "Vote No on this bill," and that's all you need.

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · last mo.

‼️ Bad Internet Bills, disguised as “kids safety” bills, are moving through Congress again ‼️ It's time to get those phones in Congress ringing off the hooks again w/ one simple message: we refuse any bill that age restricts, censors & surveils the Internet. : www.politico.com/live-updates...

The govt’s effort to remove anonymity from social media/the internet is not remotely about “protecting children”, it’s about enabling stuff like this

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · last mo.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 Absolute performance, Congratulations to the boys Bafana Bafana go to the next round of the FIFA world cup ⚽

Sabc(national broadcaster) once again manufacturing consent for Age verification by only having advocates for it and inviting 0 privacy orgs or experts. "Some people are against it" it's disingenuous to believe they found 0 orgs against this including Childrens rights groups. youtu.be/GZh2imhadqs

Discussion | UK joins social media ban for children under 16, does SA need a similar law?

YouTube video by SABC News

youtu.be

Banning kids under 16 from social media is a terrible idea. First of all, it doesn’t work. Second of all, the idea is that you’re going to introduce all of social media to someone at age 16 and expect that to go well

The UK government choosing the foot shooting policy of banning youth from social media should be seen as what it is communication and Information access denial. Social media is where most public statement's and commication happens between leaders, government offices and company statement's 🧵1

Tens of millions of Canadians will be required to age verify to use social media when the ban launches. My post on how the government plans to implement it without standards, privacy review, or an enforcement mechanism, with potential exemptions years away. www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/the-...

The Exemption Illusion: Why the Government’s Plan to Fast Track Bill C-34’s Kids' Social Media Ban Means No Standards, No Privacy Review, and No Enforcement - Michael Geist

One of the most heavily promoted features of Bill C-34, the government’s Safe Social Media Act, is that its social media ban for those under 16 comes with a potential exemption for platforms that sati...

michaelgeist.ca

Alot of the anti migrant retorhic has accelerated alot of the call for survialance systems and Digital ID which are linked to many of The better privacy Projects campaigns. In this swell of hate alot of infrastructure is being proposed,fast tracked and launched. We are doing our best but its hard.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2mo ago

Thousands of migrants shelter in Durban park after being driven from their homes ahead of a June 30 expulsion ultimatum.

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

🚨Final day tomorrow to submit public comments on amendments to the identification act of 1997. It also outlines Digital ID policy in south Africa We are submitting ours which touches aspects of survialance creep and lack of public input on the whole scheme. Final day to submit is tomorrow 6 June.

No age gate South Africa@noverifactionsa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨🚨Policy relating to South Africa's draft Digital ID paper 🆔Amendments to Identity regulation and outline of operation,biometric capture for digital identity 0 coverage Name:54610 4-5 Home Affairs Published:4 May 2026 Submit comment by:6 June 2026 Comment📄 www.gpwonline.co.za/government-g...

#savespeech If you want to disable auto tagging on bluesky, follow this guide

Dominic Tarason@dominictarason.com · 2mo ago

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

Reposting, because I'm not seeing a lot of non-NSFW artists talking about this and I'm starting to see the accounts go down If you want to see NSFW Art specifically-- remember to set your "Sexually Suggestive (cartoon)" setting to warn/show It's a totally different setting to the other NSFW labels

This is the future of the net, systems,automations deciding what you can view. Dont scoff it as just porn hides how wide reaching this could be. -LGBTQIA groups -Reproductive images/info -War/news footage -Eyewitness accounts The ability to hide someone in their entirety should scare us all

𖤐 💀 demon smut 𖤐@teethgrip.bsky.social · 2mo ago

dear god just saw how an it looks when someone's hit with the account wide adult content warning and it's fucking MISERABLE blurred icon, blurred banner, every single post is hidden, even text posts, and posts that have images require you to hit unhide TWICE for the text and image, fucking nightmare

We take research approach with how we cover things. The recent xenophobic attacks in south Africa has resulted in increase calls for biometric survialance on borders and We suspect soon the interior. (1/3)🧵 ...

Twitter/X continues to degrade in terms of campaigning options. Glad we use it manly as a platform to just to monitor and communicate with Mps,the continued feature locking,bots,hostile users makes it a secondary priority while unfortunately being the primary place statements and gov coms are made