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Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy â›”
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
Why #Putin keeps making the same #Ukraine mistakes https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/why-putin-keeps-making-same-ukraine-mistakes #strategy
The #State Dept began firing >1,350 #US based employees Friday as the #Trump admin goes ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its #DiplomaticCorps, undermining US ability to defend & promote interests abroad.
The #layoffs, which affect 1,107 #CivilService & 246 #ForeignService officers in the US, come as the US faces multiple global #crises: #Russia's war in #Ukraine, the #Gaza conflict, & the #MiddleEast on edge due to tensions between #Israel & #Iran.
#SoftPower
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/state-department-says-it-will-fire-more-than-1350-workers-trumps-shake-up-2025-07-11/
"#Russia seizes $50 billion in assets as #economy shifts during war in #Ukraine, research shows"
Russia's economy is in trouble
#Putin cannot reassess. He is stuck
#SunkCostFallacy has him staring into the abyss of economic destitution and the political fallout
The profound mistake of Russia's #ethnofascist #imperialism compounds daily with extraordinarily debilitating implications for the future of Russia
A wish:
That Putin lives long enough to reap what he sows