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The UK Online Safety Act returns to Parliament.
It's enabled iffy age-assurance providers, wrongly censored content and shuttered small sites while doing nothing to tackle the dominance of major platforms.
Tell your MP to attend the debate on 15 December ⬇️
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#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
The #UK faces strategic crisis. After decades of neglect of crucial #infrastructure, it now even lacks capacity to monitor the decline.
In this case, dangerous deterioration of a major road bridge was unnoticed for 15 years. #Austerity since the 2008 crash has left local authorities short of skilled technical staff to evaluate infrastructure.
#UKpol has given itself a form of institutional #DunningKruger Syndrome: it has destroyed its own awareness of its failings.
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Bridge deterioration unnoticed for 15 years raises alarm on lack of technical expertise | New Civil Engineer
The concern was raised anonymously in a report to Cross Safety. The reporter said the unspecified bridge, vital as a diversion route for a principalRob Hakimian (New Civil Engineer)
The Palestine Action hunger strike is not being televised
"Six political prisoners – held unlawfully for a year or more on remand, & retroactively deemed to be 'terrorists' for trying to stop the Gaza genocide – have been on hunger strike for many weeks in prison. At least one is already seriously ill."
"There has been blanket silence from the media... & barely any coverage of the appalling conditions".
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#Palestine #press #palestineAction #USPol #UKPol @palestine .
The hunger strike is not being televised – nor will the last gasps of our dying freedoms
Six political prisoners who targeted factories arming Israel's genocide are weeks into a hunger strike. But in contrast to the IRA's 1980s hunger strike, this one is being blanked by the mediaJonathan Cook
In fact the pundits in the UK will call you 'Anti-Semitic' for boycotting Eurovision, and they will get the platform while opposing voices do not.
#Eurovision #EBU #BoycottEurovision #EBU #Colonialism #Politics #Genocide #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
Don’t hold out much hope that #britain would boycott, unless the puppetmaster across the “pond” gives them permission.
#ukpol #ukgovernment are too embedded
in the trump condoned, putin instigated #genocide in #gaza
to #boycott #eurovision
Eventually, like when hell freezes over,
#starmer might get a #conscience
No bark. No bite.
The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) has shied away from enforcing data laws one too many times.
Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.
Evidence shows that enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.
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#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights
70+ organisations and experts demand action over failing ICO
Over 70 civil society organisations, academics and data protection experts have urged the Chair of the Select Committee for Science Information and Technology to open an inquiry into the collapse in enforcement activity by the Information Commissione…Open Rights Group
—> #MaryTrumpMedia ⦁ Mary L Trump #MTM 🅴 <— #Trump's #Epstein Coverup Explodes Today as #House #Votes ⏱️10:54 #MaryTrump #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinEmails#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpolyoutu.be/2hv-LEqq4jA
This is good news:
The Young Greens of England and Wales is now officially the largest youth and student wing of any British political party.
