Is it working now test one test two check check? I think I can be heard
Not sure but I think
It's a possibility could be wrong
What a pain in the ass
No, I'm I'm sure some minds will let me know here in a minute if he cannot hear me talking
Yeah, I hope it's working
Because I'm gonna talk
Yeah, I like listening to music and all but
You know, this is a show about
Being free and all that you can listen to music all day long you want
Granted it's not as good as probably as you know stuff I come up with
At least in my own opinion
Shit
Yeah
Anyways, here we go. We're just gonna get right into this because we're like
40 minutes into the show and all you've heard is a bunch of music
And I've got more music. I want to play some brand-new chrome crucifix
And I got two more by rebel songs that I want to play
So
Yeah
The original songs that I wanted to play on the show today
not just you know
Screwed around trying to
Cover being live
Yeah, here we go from 404 media Trump terrorists caused chaos on eBay as every hobby becomes a logistical
Mindfield buying cameras retro games board game skincare flashlights
Sex toys watches and anything else from overseas just got he just became far more complicated slow and
expensive
Imagine that
The Trump administration is throwing various hobbies enjoyed by Americans into chaos and is harming small businesses
Domestically in a broad with his ever-changing tariff structure that is turning the United States into a hermit kingdom
It has made buying and selling things on eBay particularly annoying and is making it harder and more expensive to for example
by vintage film cameras retro video games or vintage clothes from Japan
Where many of the top eBay sellers?
Huh our based
Trying to figure out what the future of this hobby is going to look like for those of us in the USA
other than insanely expensive
opposed on our analog community the most popular film photography subreddit reads
All of my lenses and all of my camera body came from Japan. They would have been
prohibitively expensive
now
Paying an extra $80 per item. I feel like entry-level to the slot hobby is going to get hit especially hard
Another meme posted to the community under the title shopping on eBay like this now
Reads the age of the cannon meant plus plus is over the time of the Argus C3 has come
Referring to a common way the Japanese eBay sellers list Japanese made cannon cameras the Argus C3 was a budget mass produced
American made camera that was not popular in Japan
And so most of the people selling them are in the United States
Some people like them, but it has been nicknamed the brick because it could serve as a deadly weapon in a street light
It remains very inexpensive to this day
The photography hobby is a microcosm of what anyone who wants to buy anything from another country is currently
experiencing the D. Mimmy's D. Mimmy's
Excuse me, and why do I always start yawning when I start talking the D. Minimies exempt exemption
Which allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if the items cost less than $800
Made it very easy and less expensive to get into hobbies like film photography
Retro video games and vintage fashion to name a few the Trump administration is ending that exemption Friday
well that was yesterday and
It will quickly become a financial and or a logistical mess for anyone who wants to buy or sell anything
from another country
communities and companies focused on electronics board games action figure skin care flashlights sex stories watches and
General commerce general e-commerce are also freaking out stopping service to the United States or telling US customers to expect higher prices
Higher fees longer shipping times more paperwork more headache and unpredictable delays
So
You know I want to know what happened, you know just speaking as a
Yes citizen here a member of the United States
Not one that is
from the I
Don't know what you want to say
Trump camp, you know I
Trump done a he's gone stupid
His first term I want the I want the 2016 Trump back
Because the Trump from 2025 is just fucking stupid
he's gone full retard and
Yeah, it's not getting any better
Yeah, it's
It's one thing to say, okay, we're gonna
Bring up, you know the what's Macaulay
We're gonna increase the of tariffs, which is his tax
And that's get that gets passed on to the consumers
which is the United States and
The
You were supposed to he said he was gonna cut taxes here
So he was gonna so it would balance out, but he didn't do that
And then there it's he's not going to do that because he brought in he re-hired all the 80,000
IRS agents
That are going to be carrying guns and badges
When they come to audit
Billy Joe Jim Bob
Down this you know down on Woodbury Lane
in the down in the holler because he didn't pay his taxes or
Did his taxes wrong?
They're young
Y'all got played I admit I got played
Because you know this this we vote in our way out of this best people we ain't it ain't happenin
Mississippi's digital ID law hits a wall with mastodon a state digital ID law is now meeting the way
Meeting the very structure of decentralized internet
Mrs. Dismarie claim the net that word
Mississippi's privacy ruining
Online digital ID law is putting pressure on decentralized platform
Excuse me is putting on pressure on decentralized platforms
And mastodon says it simply cannot comply
The organization behind the software states that it lacks the technical ability to verify users ages and
refuses
To implement IP based restrictions, which it argues would wrongly affect travelers and those impaired
temporarily located in the state
The law known as the Walker Montgomery Protection Children
Online Act say that three times as fast has already led to blue sky with drawing a service from Miss
Mississippi
Mastodon is not following that path instead it points to the design of its platform
Where individual server administrators are responsible for their own compliance with local laws
Mastodon itself neither collects user data nor maintains centralized control over the network
Although mastodon's nonprofit arm initially declined to comment it later provided a statement to TechCrunch
The organization explained that while its own servers require users to be at least 16
It does not have the means to apply age verification
And that the software does not retain any data collected during sign-up a feature added in the July
2025 release of mastodon 4.4
Allow server administrators to set age minimums and manage legal terms
But does not support storing verification data each server in the network operates independently
It is up to those server owners to decide whether to integrate third-party systems to check user ages
Mastodon confirmed it cannot offer direct or operational
Assistance to these operators and instead points them to resources such as the I FDA's S library
Which provides guidance on trust and safety practices for better rated platforms
The nonprofit reiterated that it does not track user behavior or enforce policy across the wider ecosystem
Responsibility for legal clients. It says belongs to those who host and manage the servers in their own jurisdictions
So
You see this is going to be where decentralized wins
And that's what they're trying to get away from is you know
Decentralization not I want to join your free newsletter
Okay, this is another one from 404 media
Almost every state has its own deep fakes law now
Michigan just became the 48th straight state to enact a law addressing deep fakes
Imposing jail time and penalties up to the felon felony level for people who make AI generated
non-consensual abuse
imagery of a real person
It's now illegal in Michigan to make AI generated sexual imagery of someone without their written consent
Michigan joins 47 other states in the u.s. That have very enacted their own deep fake flaws
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bipartisan sponsored house bills
4047 and its companion bill 4048 on August 26th in a press release
Whitmer's best specifically called out the sexual uses for
For deep fakes these videos can ruin someone's reputation career and personal life as such these bills prohibit the creation of deep fakes
They deep depict individuals and sexual situations and create sentencing guidelines for the crime the press release states
That's something we've seen time and time again with the victims of deep fake harassment
Who've told us over the course of the six years since consumer level deep fakes first hit the internet?
That the most popular application of this technology has been carelessness and
Vendictiveness against the women its users target and that sexual harassment using AI has always been its most popular use
Making a deep fake or of someone is now a misdemeanor in Michigan
punishable by imprisonment of up to a year and finds up to
$3,000 if they knew or reasonably should have known that the creation distribution
dissemination or reproduction of the deep fake would cause physical emotional
reputational or economic economic harm to an individual falsely depicted and if the deep fake depicts the target
engaging in a sexual act and is
Identifiable by a reasonable individual viewing or listening to the deep fake the law states
This is all before the deep fakes creator posts it online
It escalates to a felony if the person is depicted suffers a financial loss the person making the deep fake
Intended to profit from it
if or if the person maintains a website or app for the purposes of creating deep fakes or
If they posted it to any website at all if they intended to harass extort threaten or cause physical emotional
Reputational or economic harm to the depicted individual or if they have a previous conviction
The law specifically says that it this isn't to be construed to make platforms liable
But the person making the deep fakes, but we already have federal law in place that makes potential liable or platforms liable
the tools to address known
exploitation
Oh
Sorry, sorry tired
But we already have federal law is in place that makes platforms liable the tools to address known exploitation by immobilizing
Technological deep fakes on websites and networks or take it down act
introduced by Ted Cruz in June 24
that's
Probably no one Ted Cruz that was mainly towards protecting Israel
in June 2024 and
Signing the law in May this year made platforms liable for not moderating deep fakes and imposes
Extremely short timelines for acting on AI generated abuse imagery reports from users
Oh
That was drawn out a drawing a lot of criticism from civil liberties and online speech activists for being too overbred as
The Verge pointed out before it became law because the Trump administration's FTC is in charge of
Enforcing it it could easily become a weapon against all sorts of speech
Including constitutionally protected free speech
Platforms that feel confident that they are unlikely to be targeted by the FTC
For example platforms that are closely aligned with the current administration
May feel emboldened to simply ignore reports of NC to
The cyber civil rights initiative told the Verge in April
platforms attempting to identify
Authentic out complaints may encounter a sea of false reports that could overwhelm their efforts and jeopardize their ability to operate at all
If you do not have the perfect technology to identify whatever it is. We're calling a deep fake
You're going to get a lot of guessing
Wow you're going to get a lot of guessing be done by the social media companies and you're going to get
Disapportion amounts of censorship especially for marginalized groups Kate ruin an
Attorney and director of the Center for Democracy and Technologies free experts
Expression project told me in June 2024
My god, would you guys stop?
with these long-ass names for bills or laws or even
some
Obviously, it's got to be getting money from the government somewhere
That fucking
That name dude the Center for Democracy and Technologies free expression project
You couldn't come up with something shorter than that
God damn
Anyways for a social media company is it's not rational for them to open themselves up to that risk, right?
It's simply not and so my concern is that any video with an amount of editing
Which is like every single tick-tock video is then banned for distribution on those social media sites
Anyways on top of the take it down act at the state level deep fakes laws are either pending or enacted in every state except
New Mexico and Missouri and some states like Wisconsin the law only protects minors from deep fakes by expanding the child sexual abuse imagery laws
Even as deep fakes legislation deep seems to finally catch up to the nation or to the notion that AI generated
Sexual abuse imagery is abusive
Reporting this kind of harassment is off to authorities or pursuing civil action against one's own abuser. It's still difficult
Expensive and retar traumatizing in most cases. So, yeah
Dude, this is the problem
This is the problem where we live in a fake world
There's like nothing
Real
Anymore there's I mean, yeah, you can get out go outside touch grass
Do things, you know see people in real life, but then you know
They're not that way online because you see them in the you know
You're yeah, it's fake
You know, we've got all these freaking fake ass
New stories there's
everything is
So damn
fake
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Yeah, last week I played a a new song
from a new new quote-unquote band
Chrome Crucian fix
I'm gonna play the rest of that album in this hour
It's
That but if the song I played last week was iron fist lullaby. I played again today
But that was just one of the songs and it was kind of pretty and creepy all at the same time
I'll tell you a little bit about that song
Real quick
Wow originally wrote it the song is about the
the
Singing a lullaby to a little little girl and originally the the lyrics was that
The robots basically euthanizing the little girl
I know it's dark and creepy but
The the idea behind the story was that
The road, you know, it's like the matrix the movie the matrix the you know humans are basically batteries and
This is when while the
Matrix is taking over
you know
and you know is
Slowly plugging everybody in to their you know virtual reality to be their battery for the machines and
That's what the song was about that process and it's almost
Ironically
Maybe unironically ironically whatever it's almost the same thing that we have
Going on in the real world today
At least we think it's a real world
but anyways, I ran the lyrics through
grok and
Grok even suggested that it was a little too dark
So I lightened it up a little bit had had grok lightened it up and
I
Yeah, I should probably run
The lyrics I wrote a song back years ago back when I was still driving truck and
Me and my buddy John wrote this song called SF you and that stood for skull fuck you
It wasn't a sexual song it was a a
it was about a dude that
was friends with a
lifelong friends with a girl and
She continued to be beat by her
Significant other not so significant other I guess and
Her friend
Got tired of watching her being beat and went after goes after the other guy and
Basically, you know skull fucks him into oblivion, but I should probably run those lyrics through grok. See if that one's a little dark
Anyways back to iron pistol all of my
I what I did was I took the lyrics and went to Gemini and had Gemini
You know lighten it up a little bit and
At first Jim and I refused to do it
This said it was against its guidelines and and I was did I
Basically asked Jim and I to write it within its guidelines and that's what it came it lightened it up quite a bit, but
It doesn't so good I had it do
The the artwork too for you know the image
If first it argued with me that I couldn't give me the the artwork I wanted
That's until I changed the little girl into a robot
On the on the artwork and then it you know then it would did it then when I tried it to
Get it to do with some editing of it and it said it couldn't do it because
The artwork was too graphic and it was wasn't it but then it's guidelines
And I'm like you're the one that created the artwork
And it says I did not
But anyways that was funny, but I thought that was hilarious, but yeah, so anyways
Screw it. Let's start with crew grown chrome crucifix
The first song is blood lines of solace
Yeah, that was a chrome crucifix blood lines of solace
The artwork for that is is a family of vampires
cyberpunk bad buyers
Which has really nothing to do
The song is about but I thought it was kind of cool
This the song is about
You know family first thing no matter what your political differences are in your family
It's hard to
All be together on the same page when it comes to things but it is what it is and
You have to make your choices everybody makes their own choices
So that's what the song is about protect your family family first fuck the government
Families where it's at Microsoft Word to save new files to the cloud by default
Yes, I
Always wanted an operating system that just kind of does my shit for me
Makes my choices for me
Local saves become legacy as Microsoft nudges word users into the cloud with every new document
Microsoft is preparing to change how documents are saved in Word for Windows
Shifting new file storage to the cloud by default instead of asking users to activate autosave or select a cloud location
Manually word will now say restore all newly created documents directly in one drive or another designated cloud service automatically
Raul Manus Manas a product manager at Microsoft's office shared services and experiences team
That's you goddamn much too for a title
Described the change by saying we are modernizing the way files are created and stored in Word for Windows
Now you don't have to work. You're modernizing bullshit
You're forcing people
hoping that they will
Buy and you know give you money for your stupid subscription to your online backup
Or online storage because you sat and you watched
Google and
Apple make shit tons of money over the last
15 20 years
By offering this as a service and now you're nobody wants to buy your stupid fucking one drive
Because it's just another stupid service that's all you're going to do is
Go through and read people's shit
Because that's what you do and
Nobody wants to buy it. So you're forcing people to buy it now
Anyways, now you don't have to worry about saving your documents
Yeah, there's this whole thing and pretty much every software
That that you know programmers put in there. It's called autosave
And it autosaved it locally. It doesn't autosave it to some yeah anyways
Anything you knew anything new you create will be saved automatically to one drive or your preferred cloud destination
Currently being rolled out to microsoft 365
Insiders this new setup is presented as a way to prevent lost work and provide immediate access to files across mobile platforms and browsers
However for anyone working outside microsoft's cloud ecosystem, this change introduces additional steps to avoid online storage
The update also comes with adjustments on to how documents are named
Rather than appending sequential sequential
Sequential numbers to new files
Word will now assign file names based on the date of creation. Thank you for not only
Forcing us to use your stupid
bullshit one drive
But you know now you're just going ahead and changing the way we
Name our files
Fucking microsoft
Users will have the option to set a preferred default save location or opt out of an automatic cloud saves entirely
Though during doing so
Requires manual reconfiguration
Microsoft has been steadily nudging its user base toward cloud reliance
Autosave already defaults to cloud storage and persistent persistent prompts and windows have encouraged to or pressured
Users to turn on one drive backups
These reminders have drawn complaints especially from these those who feel microsoft is eroding straightforward local file access
Yes, they are
This latest move by microsoft reflects a broader trend among tech giants
To steer users toward cloud based ecosystems often at the cost of individual choice and control
It's all part of the
The end game
You will own nothing and be happy
If if it if it's not on your local computer, you don't do you really own it
If you only if you only have access to it when they allow you to have access
Do you really own anything
While the company already offers a fully online version of word
tailored tailored for those who want cloud integration
Many who rely on the desktop application do so precisely to avoid having their documents stored online
By turning local storage into a secondary option that requires extra effort
Microsoft is making it harder for users to keep their files on their own machines
Cloud storage may promise convenience, but it also introduces new risks
When documents are saved by default to servers
Controlled by corporations users give up a measure of privacy and autonomy
Data stored in the cloud is subject to surveillance data mining and potential breaches
realities that are far less of a concern with locally stored files
See, there's there's a lots of reasons why they want it
online
They want you to keep your data online
Not only is it just you and because they can scan it
And that will check there ain't nothing bad or illegal
They can you know, they they control you they control your your data. They control
You yourself your choices
Um
After that
They could also scan it and use it to train their AI for free on your data
Do you are are you guys getting it yet?
I keep that keep asking that are you are you getting it?
AI generated
Boring history videos are flooding youtube and drowning out real history
These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet
So you end up with a very simple line version of the past
As I do most nights I was listening to youtube videos to fall asleep
The other night sometime around 3 a.m. I woke up because the video youtube was autoplaying starting going started going
fee
The video was called boring history for sleep
How medieval peasants survived the coldest nights and more
It's two hours long has two two point three million views
And an hour and 15 minutes into the video the AI generated voice girl glitched
In the end and boy Boyleon won a kind of immortality not through her survival
But through her indelible indelible impact on history
Phee the narrator says in a fake british accent
By the early 1770s the american colonies
Simmered like a pot left too long over a roaring fire it continued
The video was from a channel I hadn't seen before
Called sleepless historian
I took my headphones out didn't think much of it at the time
rolled over and fell back asleep
The next time or the next night when I went to pick up pick a new video to fall asleep to
My youtube homepage was full of videos from sleepless historian and several similar sounding channels like boring history bites
history before sleep this news
Newsatorian
historian sleepy and dreamoria
Lots of these videos nominally check boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to
Almost all of them are are more than three hours long and they are about things. I don't know much about
some video titles included
unusual medieval cures for common illnesses
the
The entire history of the american frontier
What it was like to visit a brothel in pompe
And what getting wasted was like in medieval times one of the channels has even been live streaming this history
24 seven four weeks
In the daytime when I was not
groggy and half asleep
It quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are ai generated and that they are part of a
Sophisticated and growing ai slop content ecosystem that is flooding youtube
Is drowning out human made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching
Backchecking scripting recording and editing their videos and are quite literally rewriting history with service level
Automated direct that the youtube youtube algorithm delivers to people
YouTube has said it will demonetize or otherwise crack down on these produced videos
But it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation
Of ai generated videos on the platform and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change
It's completely shocking to me
Pete kelly who runs the popular history time youtube channel told me in a phone interview
It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching
Writing and narrating editing doing all of these things to make a video
But now someone can come along and and they can do the same thing
In a day instead of it taking six months and the videos are not accurate
The visuals they use are completely inaccurate often
And i'm fearful because this is everywhere
I
I've I've kind of
talked about this before about the
youtube
They I was a year or two ago
maybe
Maybe two or three by now, but they did come out and say that they were going to
Enable this
So that you know because
They wanted the ai
Slop videos
Because they wanted content
They want people to constantly
Create content
And it's all for the almighty advertising dollar
And now
You know they they want to get
This stuff so that they can create
Their own content
They can have their ai's create their own
content
And they don't have to
They can drown out real
People making real videos
And
They don't have to do revenue shares with them
So you so you get that right?
They want youtube to be
Creating your entertainment
Your how-to videos
Whatever
Because they don't want to share
The advertising revenue
with
Real people they want it for themselves
So they they encouraged the use of
the
ai generated slop and then they're giving lip service
to people that
Create a forum
So
There you have it
There's that one
Hackers threaten to submit artist data to ai models if art site doesn't pay up
Artists and clients a website for connecting artists with gigs is down
After a group called lunalock
Threaten to feed their data to ai data sets
Oh fuck it's not a free one damn it i can't read that one
So let's do another
Chrome crucian fix this one
Yeah
It's a instrumental and it's basically a part two
Of uh bloodlines of solace. This is solace of solitude
Well, no, I guess I gotta put it in the player don't I?
I
Here we go
Graham linem
Arrested by arm police over expo as uk free speech crisis deepens
A comedian once celebrated by absurdity is now caught in britain's most absurd reality
There are many ways to return to britain after a long haul flight
Maybe you get a cup of tea a mildly annoyed customs agent and a taxi driver who tells you london's gone to hell
Or if you're am linem
linhan
You're you you're mad at he throw by five armed officers officers
Who then take you into custody or things you wrote on the internet
The man who created father ted and the it crowd shows that helped define british humor
Was arrested detained and taken to a hospital
All because of three tweets
He wrote later
I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist locked in a cell like a criminal
Taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me and banned from speaking online
The metropolitan police confirmed that linem was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence
Related to posts he made on x
Armed officers from the Mets aviation unit escorted linem off of flight from arizona and into custody
Okay, the tweets in question included one joke suggesting that a trans identified male
Is found in a women's only space people should make a scene call the cops and if all else fails punch him in the balls
Another tweet featured a photo of a transgender rally with the caption
A photo you can smell a third red. I hate them misogynists and oboe folks
Mr. Buckham
Linem says he was taken to a holding cell stripped of his bloggings and interrogated in detail about the tweets
This isn't satire. This is modern britain at some point linem's blood pressure
Despite the high enough that he had to be taken to a to the hospital
Not exactly how most comedy writers picture the fallout of posting online
I
Yon a lot
At some point linem's or he suspects the arrest wasn't spur of the moment
It was planned before he even left the us something odd happened
At the gate in arizona. He says airline staff told him his seat was
Suddenly unavailable and he needed to be rebooked
At the time he talked it up to airline chaos, but later reflecting on the timing he wrote at the time
I thought it was just the sort of an innocent snap move that makes air travel such a joy
But in hindsight it was clear I'd been flagged
As for bail it became it came only one condition
He's not allowed to use x
Linehan has also become a public enemy in some progressive circle circles and a hero in others
For years he's spoken out against what he sees as the ideological overreach of gender activism
In the process. He's lost work colleagues and mainstream support
linem's
Arrest has unsurprisingly drawn criticism from those concerned about britain's increasingly twitchy attitude
Towards online speech
conservative mp neil
O'brien called the incident laughable if it wasn't so serious
Adding britain is now a total laughing stock a country where we arrest the authors of light comedies
And interrogate them about their tweets
linem
expressed disbelief at the force mobilized
Against him, especially when contrasted with the uk's handling of serious crime
In a country where pedophiles escape sentencing where knife crime is out of control where women are assaulted
And harassed every time they gather to speak
The state has mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet
And no i promise you i am not making this up
linehan
Said he initially laughed at the absurdity of the situation. I couldn't help myself. Don't tell me
You've been sent by the trans activists
While officers were professional. He noted that they seemed confused by the political nature of the arrest
entirely professional
And even kind but most had a absolutely no idea what any of this was about
Though during questioning linem said officers took his posts literally ignoring the satirical context
I explained that the punch tweet was a serious point made with a joke
Certainly not a call to violence
When the officer referred to trans people linem
challenged the phrasing assigned at birth
Our sex isn't assigned. He called it semantics. I told him he was using activist language
The stress of the arrest
triggered a medical emergency
Eventually a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200
Stroke territory the stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life
support for linehan
A port and almost immediately
J.K. Rowling who has herself faced relentless backlash for her gender
Critical positions reacted to the news by writing what the fuck has the uk become?
this is to total
Toleral as totalion
Yeah, you know the word
utterly deplorable
Other echoed others echoed her alarm elan must describe bretton as a police state pierce morgan poston
What's happened to linem today?
Is absolutely ridiculous five five armed cops arresting him at athro for tweets mocking the scandal
Of biological men invading women's spaces when it becomes to free
When it comes to free speech britain's turning into north korea
robert genrich the shadow of justice secretary
Also condemned the operations stating this is ridiculous and a complete waste of police time
The police only respond to one in five reported shoplifting different offenses
But deployed five armed officers to arrest a comedian over three tweets
We desperately need to end this nonsense and go after criminals
After actual criminals the free speech union has stepped in vowing to provide financial support for linem's legal defense
Which is described as a response to
preposterous allegations and a disproportionate
response from the police
The uk is currently experiencing a free speech crisis and this is only the latest example
One of the starkest recent examples is lucy connelly
She was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a single social media post about the southport killings
Her case didn't surprise anyone paying attention
What happened to her is now part of standard enforcement british police units are actively
Integrated with online monitoring tools these systems flag content without the need for a complaint
Though linem suspects this his arrest was prompted by a complaint
Once flagged police now follow-up in person
visits arrests and digital bans
The state has built a process for regulating speech without having to say so directly
You know that article we had earlier where the guy was talking about
Listening to youtube videos when he falls asleep. Why are many people listening to my show to fall asleep?
I know uh jen does over there in london
But uh, yeah
This is the legal and operational environment created by the online safety act
The law was passed in 2023
Came into force in 2024. It was announced as a proactive measure focused on child safety
The framing has not
Oh
That framing was has not held
Oh
The act gives regulators authority over any online content deemed harmful even when it's not illegal
The language of the law is broad enough to allow intervention based on
Tone or framing linem's arrest is not difficult to explain the in the current legal context
Linan is facing police interviews a court case and a ban from using x
Connelly served a prison
Served a prison sentence foreign websites are entering litigation with british regulators. The pattern is already visible
This used to be the kind of thing that happened elsewhere
It was a sort of legal system that british commentators once condemned on human rights grounds
But for britness, it's not a foreign problem anymore
It's happening
It's happening at Heathrow with five armed officers
And a man who once wrote some of the best modern british sitcoms
Is now being interrogated like a criminal for online posts
Yep
In a follow-up story
Graham linem desu metropolitan police over Heathrow arrest had online speech dispute
A surreal airport takedown over public tweets now threatens to put them at itself on trial
Graham linem the creator father ted in the it crowd is planning to sue the london metropolitan police
After his arrest on Heathrow airport
Over comments. He made on social media his detention which involves the yeah, yeah, yeah, we said that already
Yadda yadda yadda the arrest stemmed from several posts linem made
Yeah, he's he's suing them
As as he should
As he should
Nigel Farage warns us congress uk censorship law threatens american free speech encryption and tech innovation
Farage turned a a congressional hearing into a warning shot against britain's digital author
Author authoritarianism man, I cannot pronounce words today. They're hard
appearing before the house judiciary many
committee
british
mp nigel farage issued a stark warning about britain's trajectory and speech regulation arguing that uk law
Now poses a direct threat not only to free expression at home
But also to core american liberties abroad
The testimony submitted to the u.s. Congress during a hearing titled europe's threat to american speech and innovation
the reform party leader detailed how the udk
online safety act
Past in 2023 is already being used to pressure american platforms in adopting
restrictive uk speech codes many of which would be flatly unconstitutional under the first amendment
Farage said the osa and terragates integrates the uk's
Abroad or abroad speech related criminal offenses with sweeping duties imposed on online platforms
That authority he warned now includes the right to demand self-incriminating data from platform operators
Punished non-compliance with up to two years imprisonment and seek court orders to block access to non-compliance services
Off-com has already threatened them for american companies with exactly those penalties
I repeat regulatory bodies in the uk are actively threatening to imprison american citizens
For exercising their protected constitutional rights
This is not a hypothetical scenario just last week two u.s. based platforms
filed suit in washington d.c. seeking protection against uk enforcement attempts
Their case shows the growing tension between the uk's now
New speech suppression regime and america's long-standing protections for political and controversial speech
Under the osa the uk can extend its rules to any platform with links to the uk
A a vague standard that includes merely having british users
Even if a platform has no physical or legal presence
In the country this creates what farage calls powerful and unconstitutional
extraterritorial
pressures
Off-com spines which can can reach 10 percent of a company's global revenue
Effectively fortune term international platforms to choose either conform to uk censorship demands or face financial ruin
And bands within the uk market. Okay. I've got one question for you
Not you listening, but anybody that's listening
If I say fuck off uk and you try to
sue me or real liberty media or liberty tunes
And you don't try to sue me, but you try to find me
What are you going to do if I don't pay that fucking fine?
You can say
That you're you know, I owe you 10 million dollars
But I ain't paying you ever 10 million dollars
Fuck you uk
Your your laws don't
Come across this border
You know if if if
It's up to you
You don't have a right to shut me up
You have a right to not listen
But you don't have a right to shut anybody up
So there's last week I said it
Couple of times fuck you uk
And I'm going to continue to say fuck you uk
Not not the uk people. I love the uk people you guys are awesome
You
You got some of the funniest shit. I've ever seen on tv. Um, you're
You got some great great shows great writers
um
Your your people are great
but um
Yeah, your government when I when I say fuck any government or any country I'm saying fuck fuck do
Fuck the government
So just keep that keep that in mind when you're listening
You know like like you know a couple I got a couple of listeners
A couple three or four listeners in the uk will probably more than that because I
You know sub stack does track your ass
Just so you know
I can see where people are at that are accessing my content well at least where the vpn comes out at
But it uh, yeah, I can
I love my listeners. I love my my viewers or whatever your whatever platform you're on
But I hate your fucking government
And your government's you know my government's he's a hear a bit better
Not much not much at all better. Um, they let us get away with more shit
but uh
Yeah, fuck fuck the uk government
Yeah, just just fuck the okay, you know
I've got another story I was going to read
It was about the you know judge
young
His their decision on the the google thing
I'll just give it to you in a
short condensed version
Google gets away with
They get away with everything do you mean you there's no fucking fine?
They don't have to sell chrome. They don't have to sell andre
They can just keep doing
the same shit they've always been doing
and
Nothing nothing changed
So yeah, there was you know, there was took them 230 fucking pages
To to say
Yeah, google
Yeah
We know you we know what you're doing, but we're okay with that
That's exactly what the fucking judge says
And it took they wasted 230 pages of paper
saying that so
Don't worry crumb's going to stealth say
Uh andre it's going to keep continuing to
You know vacuum up your data
And yeah, that's
Nothing's going to change. So
With that this song
It's it's a good rockin song
um
this is
It
When it comes to your kids and your family you got to pay attention to them and and
Protect them
You're you're the ones that's responsible for your kids
Don't let the government do it. Don't let you get let the government
Use your kids as an excuse to take everybody's freedoms away
It's the sentinels hemp