Peter Kyle threatened to shut down X on Newsnight last night. This is where it has go to…
Ofcom rules requiring age verification for explicit content – with the onus on platforms – came into force at midnight. A gift to scammers and a massive threat to privacy which can be avoided by anyone tech-savvy enough to download a VPN…
In a bizarre conversation on Newsnight Paddy O’Connell offered to “go on X now, we can look on it together and I can find some porn” for Kyle and pressed the Science Secretary on whether he could shut down the platform if it didn’t comply with new requirements to withhold pornographic content from children:
“Britain has the power to shut down any platform.”
Onerous restrictions moving responsibility for content on platforms to the companies that run them are already threatening access to Wikipedia. If Ofcom and Labour keeps going the UK will end up a privacy-free digital desert…
Kyle promised to platforms who did not follow Ofcom strictures “we will go after you” and added “access to the British society and economy is a privilege and not a right.” To be controlled by Labour from now on…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”