OpenMandriva has a strict anti woke stance. Arch is fine though the forums will shut down any discussion they deem political.

Wokeness has infected free and open source software just as it has proprietary software.

The country that deems single men not succeeding in the dating market as being on the incel to terrorism pipeline. And the same country whose former education secretary told women to demand more from men in order to make men "do better" and provide the bear minimum to women (hat tip to Joker from Better Bachelor). And if men don't they'll be expected to work for wealth redistribution.

Good luck getting publishers to revoke the licences of their physical games by entering peoples property to seize them or demand their surrender by owners.

Employers already have the power to dictate what employees can do in their private lives (or risk being fired). We have privatised Digital ID coming this month. And we also have an "obesity strategy" which will require everyone to get fit or lose their job, welfare or business. CCTV and facial recognition everywhere. The UK seems to be speedrunning toward a totalitarian state that would make the CCP think they've gone too far.

They're hoping everyone will self-censor. If you believe that you are known to everyone and that there will be consequences as a result, you'll keep quiet.

Of course, this also has consequences for whistleblowing, criticism and uncomfortable truth telling.

That's the point. To abolish internet anonymity.

Its also rather odd that every country is implementing ever expansive age/ID verification at the same time. The last time we saw this type of behaviour was the introduction of lockdown. Unlike lockdown, it's unlikely we will see an outlier such as Sweden.

A commentator for The Hill suggests as I warned, websites and services will have to verify the physical location of the user.

https://archive.ph/qwM4e

Ireland will require age verification for all video sharing sites from July 21st and dating apps will have to have age verification in the UK from July 25th.

This is the newest front of the ongoing culture war.

And if I realised how much harm my "fiscal rules" had done to the country and what's to come, I'd cry too.

Come Autumn, every "working person" is in for a very nasty shock and betrayal of a manifesto promise Labour voters voted for.

Just to demonstrate their incompetence, the supposed £5bn in savings from welfare "reform" has now had to be revised due to concessions made to allow the bill to pass. The so called savings will still put 150,000 into poverty but will now COST £100m extra. They would have been better off killing the bill! But no, now we get the worst of both worlds and economic analysts suggest the Chancellor will have no option but to reneign on their manifesto promise and put up the three big taxes (Income Tax, National Insurance and VAT) as well as other measures including not raising the thresholds for Income Tax and potentially cutting or even abolishing cash ISA's.

They'll have to in the UK as it's classed as a "user to user" service. As for Australia, probably a matter of when, not if.

One of the requirements for age verification in the UK specifically refers to "user to user" communication. That includes messaging devices, forums, comment sections, user generated content and so forth.

Which is why I get annoyed at people handwaving all of this away as "just porn sites". It is a back door to abolition of anonymity online in the same manner the Patriot Act and terror laws were sold and mission creep occurred.

This was inevitable when people outsourced parenting and safety to the state.

That's the ultimate goal. The UK system for age verification has all the services, including the Governments own ID check service, run by one company who also run the offline age/ID checks too. In effect, the UK already has digital ID but it's privately run.

Considering that parents have asked the state to take their role, should the state decide that be left to parents, no-one is going to teach it. Unless it's the dark web or someone with a VPN.

The old "this only affects pornography and I have nothing to hide, therefore I have nothing to fear and I'm alright Jack" argument. Twenty states if I recall correctly intend to demand ID to access social media. We're already a long way away from porn.

This is the danger of focusing on one thing, you miss the wider picture and the potential mission creep from those who want to abolish online anonymity and privacy in exchange for "safety".

In the same regard we defend the most egregious speech because if that gets banned, you start to see more acceptable speech being targeted and banned.

The ruling declares that the state enforcing safety of the populous trumps the commercial free speech rights of the populous.

And adult content/nudity is considered "obscene", therefore not protected under the First Amendment.

Archive: https://archive.ph/WPKnD

Their idea of the ideal man is the epitome of handsomeness, pays for everything, is an emotionless creature and is a servant to them who does everything without question or prompt.

Anything less is deemed misogyny. And you wonder why men just walk away.

I'm only stating what the celebrities want. The police state will form around their lobbying and subsequent law.

Article: https://archive.ph/RSy2S

Throw in the recent proposals of:

• Age/ID verification via Digital ID connect systems run by one private company - Yoti.

• Civil servants being given power to audit and freeze bank accounts.

• Mass facial recognition system being implemented.

And you can see where this is going.

In before the inevitable arrest for "inciting racial hatred" which gets him years in prison because he refused to keep in line.

Attractive men don't face actual oppression from the state and outcasting from society because of their inalienable characteristics.

That's probably what we will see. Welfare exemptions for (indigenous) single men, exempt from the Equality Act and additional expenditure for wealth transfer to women and families.

They'll be labelled "gender equality re-education centres" for the "de-radicalisation of males who need to be deprogrammed from heinous ideologies and behaviour before being given gender equality conversion therapy".

Or as it was more commonly known, being unattractive. Being unsuccessful in dating or unattached are aggravating factors.

We have reached the classification (Society vs Incels) and symbolisation (Andrew Tate and Adolescence) stages. Next up comes discrimination when the Government is lobbied to bring in new laws to segregate and criminalise "incels". Then follows dehumanisation.

Swap 4 and 5 around (their allowance of sewage into rivers and the sea shows their environmental pledges are all mouth and no action) and delete 6. That would be more accurate.