Censorship

2025-07-31

The Online Safety Act has been a long time coming (since at least 2021 since you ask).

In fact it was originally passed into law in 2023, but has now been subject to additional amendments:

"As of 17 March 2025, platforms have a legal duty to protect their users from illegal content online. Ofcom are actively enforcing these duties and have opened several enforcement programmes to monitor compliance"

"As of 25 July 2025, platforms have a legal duty to protect children online. Platforms are now required to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing pornography, or content which encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorder content..." and much else besides.

So obviously, it's for the safety

2025-07-30

We are now protected more than ever...

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(NB: Whilst I also use NordVPN for mobile internet access, I take the view that the CIA etc must have back-doors into all VPN products, otherwise they wouldn't be on the market. If you need to keep your messages out of their hands, use snail mail and pray, or learn remote viewing and telepathy)

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2025-07-29

A more relaxed discussion than may be usual for both of these gentlemen, so it makes a pleasant change from their more highly-charged episodes.

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2025-07-27

"The time has come" the walrus said... "to speak of many things... "

(Readers are advised to read my other 'Down the Rabbit Hole' titles (use top left Search box), in particular Down the Rabbit Hole 1, before continuing)

Antarctica has been mired in controversy for many years, ever since Amundsen beat Captain Scott to the South Pole... and more recently, since Admiral Byrd's ill-fated post-WW2 expedition with a significant naval force. As far as I know, nobody is suggesting

2025-07-25

The signs are all around us, visible by everyone on the outside who cares to look, but invisible to those on the inside who do not care to look at stuff of which they disapprove.

It has become steadily apparent through the sterling efforts of those who do dare to look and don't like what they see, and are prepared to do what they can about it, that the whole edifice of our national institutions, and especially of our "national treasures", are rotting from the inside, are no longer fit for purpose, and will, failing some sort of magical reformation, shortly collapse with "consequences that no man may foresee".

Of course the world has seen these sorts of collapse before, but this time is different - its global scale dwarfs the precedents of recent centuries (according to "approved history" anyway, although Ukraine may disagree). 

Dominic Cummings has had the opportunity

2025-07-25

Since Reiner is still imprisoned, I am assuming that this was recorded over the telephone.

He hasn't lost his touch.

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2025-07-13

Is a collapse equivalent to the end of the Soviet Union now in train?

Is it unstoppable?

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2025-06-19

Eugippius is a German commentator, but all of Europe including the UK suffers from the same stultifying political blight, all caused by certain topics being off-limits for discussion.

We all know what they are because if our political classes continue to pursue them in the same way as now, we will all be in the dustbin of civilisation when the lights go out - and trying to claw our way out of that bin will be between impossible and impracticable, because those who lead us are burning the bridges back to sanity, ie: the power-stations that can be proven to power the grid effectively are being shuttered.

No amount of wishful thinking will ever enable the intermittent renewables to reliably do the job. Nuclear is a good power source that can power a grid - but then renewables would be unnecessary! Nuclear as a back-up for intermittent renewables simply turns the economics on its head, since we would be paying the whole cost of nuclear for marginal benefit.

FDA? ForgeDAboutit

2025-06-16

"Westminster Must Fall"

The Spectator reports on the Dominic's presentation of a Pharos lecture at Oxford.

"And the Cabinet Office says we’ve got to pay them out. And it sends over these millions, and then it classifies it all in such a high level that no MPs know about it"

This is a full-frontal exposé of the way in which we are run by an unholy conspiracy between the Cabinet Office, the legal profession, the media/press, and seemingly innumerable "public" bodies that all now boast corporate identities on Dun and Bradstreet.

"For 20 years, there’s been a disastrous procurement process costing tens of billions, which, again, is kept super secret so that it’s not the subject of discussion in parliament, nor the subject of discussion in the media"

If you

2025-06-16

In what is widely seen as welcome U-Turn, there is to be a much-demanded national enquiry into grooming gangs.

Could there possibly be a better way of taking the heat off the government on this topic?

And given the extraordinary success of the UK Covid Enquiry in ignoring all the uncomfortable questions and sweeping the whole operation into the long grass of life-threatening tedium, who better to lead this new exercise in self-exculpation than Baroness Hallett?

The Daily Sceptic reports.

2025-06-14

In our topsy-turvy world where governments effectively blackmail social media platforms into censoring content that displeases the government, by the simple expedient of threatening business-terminating fines for permitting ill-defined and infinitely flexible "offences" such as "hate speech" "racism" and "offending" certain favoured sections of society defined as possessing "protected characteristics", it is unsurprising that some platforms respond by disconnecting users based within the territories of such governments.

They cannot risk the court costs or the fines. It's an unequal high-stakes game of chicken played against the social media companies by the infinitely-funded state.

Sadly, Bitchute pulled the plug on its UK customers a while ago, and now Gab has thrown in the towel. YouTube survives by actively censoring, defunding, and (allegedly) pulling devious tricks such as

2025-06-11

"... good speech testifies to something; it testifies to something in the human being and in life that is more beautiful and pure than mere flesh and bones and biochemical simmering in a braincase"

"...this materialist society, which reduces consciousness and speech to a negligible side effect, is in the first place scared of…speech and consciousness"

Quite so.

Brownstone nails it.

2025-06-11

The Donald and Elon were once famous for mooting their plan to audit the gold at Fort Knox.

Is it there?

If not, where is it?

Or is there in substance but not in spirit ..?

And when is this visit of the doughty duo scheduled? It's all gone very quiet recently...

Jim Rickards explains for Investors Daily. (This is not financial advice)

2025-06-06

As distractions go they don't come much bigger...  but distraction from what exactly?

What seems pretty certain is that bust-ups at this level don't happen by accident, so either they are trying to put something front and centre for the public, or they are trying to keep something else out of front and centre.

ZeroHedge reports.

Mark Attwood puts it into context...

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2025-05-31

I suppose it was the BCS that started it all off with their GDPR recommendations, too long ago now to remember!

This was taken up by the EU, becoming an EU directive, and effectively still in force today.

But today we have the much overused NCHIs (any use of such widely drawn terms is an overuse in my book, especially since the alleged perpetrator has no effective control over the reactions of others), and much additional regulation whose sole objective is to scare social media companies to police their customers to suppress content that would otherwise be legal under free speech rules.

Censorship by the back door in effect.

So #together have decided that we need a new digital bill of rights to simplify the situation (although we would have to repeal a fair bit of the existing rulebook in order to make a real impact, and I can't see that happening any time

2025-05-23

We have noted this conundrum before, but some think that China's population is now far lower than the claim of 1.4 billion.

This is a rather more detailed look at the possibilities, but I suspect that the truth may be that those who know the answers are not telling...

... but there again, this YT channel has been posting some very unconventional views (even by my standards) so maybe we should remain cautious of taking it at face value. Nevertheless, it would seem that something is up, just not the population numbers.

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2025-05-13

Roger Watson, who we must assume from his opening words is a Catholic, takes a hard look at the global problem of immigration, and what the official Catholic response under the leadership the newly minted Pope Leo might be.

It's a vital question, and not adequately answered by the simplistic assumption that all should be automatically welcome regardless of culture, proclivity, religion, or even of sheer numbers.

Still, at least he has a specific leader to assess, whose actions may or may not speak louder than his words.

Unlike us C of E (Church of England / Church of Everybody) protestants, who have a leadership divided between King Charles III (who by convention is restrained from openly engaging in UK politics) and the Archbishop of Canterbury (who sits in the Lords by virtue of his leadership of the Lords Spiritual) and is not constrained by convention. Who can say how the relationship between the King and his servant the Archbishop may affect UK

2025-05-08

Martin Geddes offers his AI's take on 5th generation warfare (all very peculiar).

We are well into Orwellian territory now. It is the war against mind-control, the war against unthinking compliance, against habitual deference to those who assert authority, and against the worldview within which we grew up (and into which we were indoctrinated).

Everyone is on this battlefield whether or not we realise it. 

Only those of us prepared to think the unthinkable will survive it.

Everything we have been told is up for challenge and rethinking, individual by individual.

Nobody can rethink everything, but understanding the necessity, and making a start, will likely be enough.

Make of it what you will

2025-05-07

As something of a relic from my ever receding past as an "IT professional", I still get communications from my erstwhile professional body, since I haven't found a good reason for cutting off my membership subscription.

It's communications can be educational, given that it has "transformed" itself in some ways since I was permitted membership, and not all to the good in my jaundiced curmudgeonly view.

Sometimes transformation can be for the good, and sometimes for the modish but ephemeral fashion of the day (Good Lord, give me the wisdom to differentiate them!). In my old-fashioned viewpoint (which I still see few reasonable grounds to modify), a leading professional body should primarily devote itself to the well-being of the profession, the advancement of its technical and scientific knowledge base, and the education of its practitioners, of the public in general (and of the government in particular) with regard to the contribution that the profession can

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