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That guy is a pathetic laughing stock right now, total clown. Farage is owning him. I'm so fucking glad to see the narrative of wrapping up authoritarianism in "protecting the children" is finally falling apart. Majority of the public can see right through it now. It's about time.

I'm glad I don't know who he is, just another stooge for the state.

He's a fucking nobody. No one knew who he was until he said this. Now he's getting obliterated. The MSM is trying to push the narrative this regulation is good but then you look up those news reports on YouTube and the dislike ratio is huge. Reform keeps rising in the polls and they want to repeal the act. I personally believe they will because they want deregulation in general and they're cozy with Elon so it's a matter of aligned interests. I don't for a second trust any politician but if their interests align with my own that's all I need to know.

I wish I was able to maintain that position. I suspect farage will fuck us just like everyone else. Promise everything, deliver for private interests only.

Just two weeks to flatten the curve... #optout

I absolutely agree with you. But if the private interests are in favour of deregulation then we have an alignment and that's where my hope comes from. X, Meta, Apple, Google, etc all have to spend more money and use more resources to comply with this shit. It's in their best interests to lobby against it. Elon in particular is not shy about using his resources to advance his interests. Which repealing the OSA would do, as it hinders X's reputation as a free speech platform and means he needs to waste money complying with bullshit. Elon and Farage are already buddies. They had a public spat but Elon does that all the time. Their alignment is obvious. Serves both their interests. Reform has been gassing up Elon calling him a "free speech hero" during all of this. They're obviously signalling to him that they're aligned. And the end result is good for the people so I call that a win. I don't care what their reasons are, I care about results. Elon makes more billions if it's repealed? Good, that means there's an incentive to actually repeal it. That's how I'm viewing this.

That "you are keeping a child safe" line is Covid-level doublespeak. Call these people out every time they use this technique.

Always the case

Yup. And just imagine how this law would have been used if it existed during Covid...