Wednesday 13th August 2025

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

It's amazing how many levels of useless this government is capable of

[Frog222]

It's amazing how many levels of useless this government is capable of

Suspect Device ‪@sootyjared.bsky.social‬
The best part is that it’s probably not even going to work, for example, I managed to bypass this with a bit of trial and error within about 10 minutes.

This was the hardest one to bypass but even then, with a bit of patience, it won’t take long to bypass. A horny teenager will win…

Age-checking, if it worked, would be one filter for porn sites, but it doesn't touch the say 20% of Americans who are QAnon 'believers' or that other percentage of brits who like to believe that that certain groups are all violent crims and child rapists ?

" They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" .

[Frog222]

"It's hard to imagine a world where kids can enter a store to buy alcohol, to go to a nightclub by simply stating that they are old enough, no bouncers, no ID checks, just a simple 'Yes, I am over the age of 18,'" Danish Digital Minister Caroline Stage Olsen said. "That has been the case online for many years," she added, speaking alongside Virkkunen, saying the new app would help ensure there were "no more nightclubs without bouncers."

14/7 France and four other EU states will test an app to protect children online
The EU Commission announced that Denmark, France, Greece, Italy and Spain are set to test an app aimed at preventing children from accessing harmful content online by checking users' ages.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/articl ... 5_143.html

So it looks as though the EU is in testing mode ....

[Frog222]

HCR is very good value !

Last night MSNBC had a live fact-checking sidebar to go with a Trump clip . The night before that BBC R4 News at Ten had an immediate fact-check on the Washington DC crime figures .

I'm now waiting for Farage Yvette Cooper and that pudgy Tory nazi bloke Jenrick to get the same treatment .

[Frog222]

One of the few laughs so far, I give you the Philpster --

[Frog222]

Very like Putin !

And it's not so long ago that Putin was quite friendly with Bibi , as well as Orban .

[Frog222]

[refitman]

Jesus, the shit Michael Rosen has put up with.

[Frog222]

NN !

[Frog222]