The solution being presented to protect women's spaces, sports, toilets and rights is to move the issue to men by removing their spaces, sports, toilets and rights. The "common sense" commentators celebrating this and who virtue signal about "women's rights" don't realise the last two words of the term TERF.
If Barclay is genuine about dealing with everyone regarding their biological sex rather than purely protecting women, he will get pushback. There ain't a hope that feminists will welcome biological women back who have made the greatest betrayal of transitioning to become a member of "patriarchy" and join the ranks of their "oppressors".
Or more likely, a push toward having single men fund single parents as well as co-habiting and married ones. Remember, these single mothers do not want to date single men deemed "beneath them". The days of "beta bux" are starting to end in the era of "strong, independent woman who don't need no man" where the state, family and her female peer group take the place of the man in the household.
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The allegation made against him is that he is involved in the ULEZ camera vandalism that has been happening since the introduction of the deeply unpopular ULEZ. No evidence shown of him involved so far, it could also be a way to get him silenced and "Branded".
Update: He and Calvin Robinson who sent a message of support to him for what he said on Dan Wootton's programme have been sacked.
You're right, the law hasn't been given Royal Assent yet so it's not enforceable yet. This would be an illegal arrest and Thornton needs to instruct his lawyer to take action against the police force.
But it will be used this way once it does become law.
One problem - the Online Safety Act hasn't been given Royal Assent yet so if they've been arrested under that, it's an illegal arrest and Thornton should have his lawyer take action against the police force who arrested him.
But yes, once it becomes law, this will become a regular occurrence in the UK for anyone who dissents or criticises the Government.
People who engage in niche thing get denigrated by mainstream people. Niche thing becomes popular and a billion dollar industry. Mainstream people notice profitable niche thing and seize it for their own. People who like niche thing get denigrated as bad people and demands are made to change the niche thing. Niche thing gets watered down beyond all recognition and is ruined.
This is why we can't have nic(h)e things.
There was a video from Bearing last night that detailed $1,100 fines if you leave a note that hurts someone's feelings on a car.
Of course, they got inspiration from the UK where it was already illegal since 2014 under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act of 2014. And yesterday two brothers face a Police probe for holding up a picture of a child who passed away from cancer and laughing at a football match.
There is a push to make offending someone a criminal offence. The problem is, everything you say and do will offend someone. We've only just had the gym creep trend on TikTok where unattractive men in the presence of a woman offended them and they complained via social media about said presence.
In terms of Imp being right, correct but I always go down the road of ideas, not people.
I suspect the vast majority of people will be happy as long as they can still access the likes of Google, YouTube, Reddit, Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, eBay, Facebook/WhatsApp (even without encryption), TikTok and X/Twitter. Which could still happen in a UK intranet with UK based services on UK based servers and restricted Internet access via large corporations as a middle man (not VPN's) if anyone wants anything from overseas. You'll only see backlash if any of those disappear.
She used to be the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding - one of their remits is "tackling violence against women and girls" of which pornography is included. It is also a conservative thing to promote safety and purity to the public, something Labour has also aligned with.
I think it will be a election issue that the Tories will use to get one up on Labour to convince the public that they are the party of safeguarding women and children. We are now entering our own electioneering period for a potential election in 2024. They're doing the same thing with the "war on the motorist".
Like I say, it will only deal with the symptoms and not the cause. And then what will happen if it's successful and men have no outlet and no chance of success in the dating market? Now you have men with nothing to lose. And that is a grim prospect for society that will bite everyone in the backside.
I can imagine a lot of entrepreneurial car boot sellers selling USB sticks from overseas full of content, no questions asked, should VPN's be completely blocked or banned.
I don't know if you saw a debate recently on the Minister for Men being suggested by an MP who then got mocked by feminists. A male contributor on BBC Politics Live was defending the MP and was talking about male suicide as a serious social issue that needs to be tackled by Government. What did the other panellists do? Immediately change the subject to "what about the wage gap", "what about sexual harassment" and "what about women". In less than two minutes the issue of male suicide was completely derailed and the original male contributor was left to just agree to everything that was being said by everyone else.
I do wonder what will happen to all the women who make money from OnlyFans if this does go ahead? Maybe they'll adapt to a purely "girlfriend experience" sans anything sexual/nudity to adhere to any potential future law.
I'm not sure it is. I suspect most people in society think pornography = bad, relationship = good. And they would believe that doing this will straighten "misogynists", "weirdos" and "perverts" - the outgroup of the current moral panic - out into dating, marriage, protect women and that will get them votes away from Labour who will try to out-do them as we're now entering into an election campaign season.
As a video I am currently watching says, pornography is a symptom of a societal problem that we're not acknowledging at best, at worst, we're diverting attention away to others.
I think they're more envious and inspired by the Kwangmyong internal network in North Korea. However, cutting off the UK from the Internet completely would be overplaying their hand massively to the point they would collapse a good proportion of their economy.
But they are currently using pornography as a central pivot and an easy target for a moral panic around misogyny in society.
We've now got the potential for a MP who presents on the news facing possible sanctions which could lead to him losing his seat and a by-election in a red wall seat called because he didn't show his support for Ava.
Ava is particularly vexed that while many at GB News did reach out to her privately to express their horror, Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party and host of a show on the channel, was not one of them.
And Ava has confirmed she is reporting the matter of what Fox said and the consequences of that fallout to the Police.
'I am going to get the police involved, because I do actually fear for my safety. I was at a work event last night but coming back to my home, I found myself thinking: "Do people know where I live? Am I in danger?" My mum, who has always been of the "ignore it, let it wash over you" frame of mind, said to me last night: "I wish you did not do this job." It's made me question whether I can even continue doing it.'
https://archive.ph/9MgpS (original link as Archive Today seems to be having issues loading the archives)
This is now starting to seep beyond GB News and will likely influence politicians sympathetic to her politics and have the privilege of creating new laws under the cry to protect women's safety.
If the comments I've seen on social media are representative of their viewership, GB News are toast. They've gone woke in order to appease the mob and the advertisers and will now subsequently go broke.
Talk TV, take note. You're the next target the mob has in mind.
Meanwhile men get denigrated, shamed and called cowards by evolutionary psychologists and commentators in the last few days including The Quartering for being hesitant, cautious or even opting out altogether.
This, Jeremy and the rest, is one reason why men are checking out of asking women out.
It's interesting to note the complaints from the detractors of GB News that Ofcom isn't working fast enough to shut down GB News. The same people who will have a Ukrainian flag in the bio and oppose Russia. Meanwhile, they demand the very same swift and brutal shutdown of dissenting media organisations that Russia does! If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
And Talk TV going all in against their main competitor in the hope that will prevent them being targeted next makes me laugh.
We've already seen a clampdown of republican beliefs at the coronation. Even though protests are still ongoing against the king, you can bet they will be one of the casualties of the Online Safety Act.