UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

KidTDragon

Now with hi-res avatar!

Citizen

• Jul 27, 2025

• #741

Now sounds like a good time to buy stock in VPN providers.

 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person

Citizen

• Jul 27, 2025

• #742

Yes, because why solve the problem when you can just profit off workarounds.

 

Anonymous X

Well-known member

Citizen

• Jul 28, 2025

• #743

VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kick in

Experts say free versions of such apps or services may carry potential security and privacy risks.

www.bbc.co.uk

Who could’ve predicted this?!

 

Dekafox

Fabulously Foxy Dragon

Citizen

• Jul 28, 2025

• #744

UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets

Labour could ban the use of Virtual Private Networks after use skyrocketed in recent days.

www.birminghammail.co.uk

Also love how both these articles use the same thumbnail.

 

Anonymous X

Well-known member

Citizen

• Aug 7, 2025

• #745

Locals in seaside town set up 'vigilante' force after beach brawl and murder

Frustrated by a string of crimes in their seaside town, locals in Bournemouth have taken matters into their own hands, setting up a volunteer 'force' - but critics call it a 'vigilante' group

www.mirror.co.uk

Some local news for a change… My town now has a vigilante version of ICE. Great.

 

Anonymous X

Well-known member

Citizen

• Aug 11, 2025

• #746

ABC News Bot (unofficial) (@abcnewsbot.bsky.social)

Wikipedia's operator has lost a legal challenge to British legislation which it says will drastically reduce the number of users who can access the site. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-11/wikipedia-uses-uk-online-safety-act/105639808

bsky.app

Great job Labour, so we’re counting down to Wikipedia being blocked in the UK. At least there’s VPNs, well, until Starmer bans them.

 

Pocket

jumbled pile of person

Citizen

• Aug 11, 2025

• #747

Honestly at this point every website should just blanket block access from the UK. Either they repeal the law or they just don't have an internet anymore.

 

Anonymous X

Well-known member

Citizen

• Aug 12, 2025

• #748

Pocket said:

Honestly at this point every website should just blanket block access from the UK. Either they repeal the law or they just don't have an internet anymore.

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I’d agree, if I thought it’d make the government capitulate for the sake of the economy! If anything it’d make them double down on their stupid law, given how isolationist and authoritarian they are.

 

Anonymous X

Well-known member

Citizen

• Aug 12, 2025

• #749

The Verge (@theverge.com)

UK government suggests deleting files to save water https://buff.ly/zSSuglR

bsky.app

In other news, the British government doesn’t know how the internet works. (Isn’t that a surprise?)

 

Anonymous X

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Citizen

• Friday at 4:08 AM

• #750

Simon McGarr (@tupped.bsky.social)

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

bsky.app

So we’ve got a law requiring Spotify and Xbox online services to do an ID check, and is likely to lose us access to Wikipedia, to curtail “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

 

wonko the sane?

You may test that assumption at your convinience.

Citizen

• Friday at 7:37 AM

• #751

Of course, can't have anything other than their propaganda influencing public discourse.

 

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Anonymous X

Well-known member

Citizen

• Yesterday at 7:12 AM

• #752

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) (@sundersays.bsky.social)

I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising

bsky.app

Racism and xenophobia are out of control at the moment. Not just stuff in the media, but what I’ve seen first hand too. I’ve never known it this bad during my adult life.