Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Emailed the UK government telling them that age verification is both the same as someone installing a spy camera, and forcing it on social media is no different to a creep following a woman at night. I won’t get a response but it’s nice to tell a politician they are evil freaks. 031
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nothing makes me “Nope” out of an adult website more than seeing a post mandating that I use “Yoti” - a company that profits from endangering women and girls - as they only way to even access the website. This is using a VPN based in a country where invasive age verification is not mandated. 000
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The approach Pornhub has taken is logical, effective and grounded in reality. But it also doesn’t make Ofcom or predatory age verification companies money so they are going to fight it tooth and nail. t.co/eh6G1rcl0jt.cohttps://www.xbiz.com/news/300966/ofcom-investigates-pornhubs-device-based-uk-age-checks 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026France's National Assembly is considering a bill that would criminalize adult content sales, equating online content creation with pimping. Consumers and platforms would face steep fines and prison. The bill is being championed by Céline Thiébault-Martinez, an MP on the supposed socialist left.avn.comAn Anti-Sexual Violence Bill Could Ban Adult Sites in France AVNA proposed national bill intended to combat gender-based and sexual violence in the French Republic could drastically expand pimping and procurement measures online to potentially cover direct-to-cons... 36525
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I don’t think I have ever seen a UN Special Rapporteur ever say anything that is logical or rational in my life. 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceEllory @thelocalmuffin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026#discord So Discord decided to announce this on X but not on bluesky. Cancel your nitros and KEEP IT CANCELED THIS TIME. That's why they're trying this shit again! fixupx.com/DiscordPrevi... fixupx.com/WumpusCentra...fixupx.comDiscord Previews (@DiscordPreviews)Discord is bringing back Global Age Verification under the codename 'Tiny Bronco', including these restrictions for teens: - No access to adult-only servers/channels - No speaking on Stage Channels ... 17993
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fine with racism, fascism, transphobia, homophobia, sex trafficking, but had enough with this generation’s “5G is causing cancer”..? Nobody knows what a datacentre is do they? 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is the UK in 2026: Filmmakers fearing arrest over queer film in which consenting adults used phrases like “daddy” or “mommy” in an erotic context. 10450173
Reposted by Suspect DeviceEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Setting aside all the civil liberties, privacy, and free expression concerns, online ID checks / “age verification” laws are just a massive massive security risk. Every time I read one of these bills I ask “did an identity thief write this?!” 4228115
Reposted by Suspect DeviceAnna Iovine @annaroseiovine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Porn filmmakers are censoring their work to get around nebulous laws because they fear going to prison. mashable.com/life/adult-f...mashable.comAdult film banned in the UK is back online"We don't want to go to jail." 14414
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Just normal things going on over at youtube, like an advert using an image of a child falling into a toliet. Nothing can be seen, but still… (the website is not CSAM, just hosting kids YouTube crap) 110
Reposted by Suspect DeviceDieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026While the SCREEN Act failed in the committee, KOSA did move forward. Contact your senators immediately demanding it be opposed, and keep the pressure up until it comes to a vote in the Senate 826892989
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Just complained to the BBC after it published a “lifestyle“ article that didn’t even mention that “porn addiction“ has not been recognised by any medical institution and has been linked to mass shootings and vile people like Andrew Tate. I will moan to Ofcom if needed. 010
Reposted by Suspect DeviceFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 05/08/2026To be clear, the Senate version of KOSA passed today is completely different than the House version that passed earlier this year, making it very unlikely to become law. The Senate knows this yet they are committing to the farce of acting on kids safety. 3171141
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 05/08/2026SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond! 10363194
Reposted by Suspect DeviceWoodhull Freedom Foundation @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Today, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation will once again consider a slew of bills that will limit free speech online and infringe on our privacy. 👎 We won't let our elected officials get away with bypassing our human rights in the name of "safety." 1105
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn. 2135713031
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 04/08/2026“Unlike KOSA and many of the other age verification laws that have spread across the country, the SCREEN Act does not have bipartisan support. It’s the latest in Lee’s repeated attempts to criminalize content he and his co-sponsors personally consider immoral.”404media.coThe SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist NightmareMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc... 4230154
Reposted by Suspect DeviceElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/08/2026KOSA doesn't just threaten free speech—it threatens privacy. It will push more online services to age verification, requiring people to hand over more personal information just to read the internet. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgThe Senate Should Reject KOSA's Privacy RisksThe Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the SCREEN Act, the CHATBOT Act, and 212886
Reposted by Suspect DeviceSam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 04/08/2026the organizations in support of the SCREEN Act say everything you need to know about Mike Lee's latest gambit: www.404media.co/what-is-the-...404media.coThe SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist NightmareMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc... 37028
Reposted by Suspect DevicePolypancake @polypancake.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We all agree children need to be protected from exposure to obscenity and predators. The problem comes in the definition of what "obscenity" and a "predator" is. They think it's anyone pro-LGBTQIA+. They want to "protect" children from exposure TO US. They want to classify our lives as "obscene". 07353
Reposted by Suspect DeviceBen Schwarz @benschwarz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...theconversation.comMore than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report findsThe report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan. 431754967
Reposted by Suspect DeviceElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/08/2026Showing your ID to a bartender isn’t the same as uploading your ID online and having it saved in a database. If the SCREEN Act passes, that’s what many adults will have to do to see lawful content online. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgThe SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult WebsitesThe Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online services to verify users’ ages before they can access any sexually 216199
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 03/08/2026🚨Senate Commerce will hear Mike Lee's invasive SCREEN ACT — age-verification scans for all adults, for ANY site with "harmful content" AND required VPN monitoring. They're attempting to push through before recess and it's absolutely essential you call your Senators now. Call early and often.defendonlineprivacy.comDefend Online Privacy: Stop the SCREEN Act!The Senate Commerce Committee will vote on the SCREEN Act on August 5. ACT NOW to stop it! 385102
Reposted by Suspect DeviceFight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 03/08/2026🚨 Markup of Bad Internet Bills is happening THIS WEDNESDAY. Call your reps today and again tomorrow 🚨‼️ Our call tool makes it easy: www.badinternetbills.combadinternetbills.comBad Internet BillsAll of the bad internet bills. One website. 0138170
Reposted by Suspect DeviceLewdNote Studio @flipnotespice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026KOSA IS A THREAT. KOSA IS A THREAT TO THE INTERNET. CALL YOUR REPS. DON'T IGNORE THIS. CALL THEM. YOUR PRIVACY AND FREEDOM MATTERS. www.badinternetbills.com 0110112
Reposted by Suspect DeviceElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 31/07/2026The new CHATBOT Act doesn’t just require parental permission for teens to use AI. It requires AI companies to build monitoring systems that store and analyze entire conversations, creating new privacy risks for entire families. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgThe CHATBOT Act Forces One Parenting Model On Every FamilyArtificial intelligence is rapidly changing education, and the way people search for information. Parents, teenagers, teachers, and schools are struggling with tough questions about when AI should, 7182104
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Masnick @masnick.com · 31/07/2026Read this thread on yet another very stupid bill in Congress that will do real damage... 48231
Reposted by Suspect DeviceAlison Boden @alisonboden.bsky.social · 30/07/2026🚨The SCREEN Act is on the markup agenda next week 🚨 This extreme bill is among the worst of the worst and we have to tell committee members to vote NO. 01314
Reposted by Suspect DeviceErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 30/07/2026what so fun (sarcastic) about this is how US states are now ramping up adoption of this "to protect children...it has enrolled millions of British adults in mandatory identity-check systems run by third-party vendors with documented histories of data breaches." NY just announced this exact thing 717172
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I will be replying to this, age verification is an online harm that has done nothing but put women and girls at risk, while also lining the profits of age verification providers. 100
Reposted by Suspect DeviceAlison Boden @alisonboden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."newyorker.comAndrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. 2028575
Reposted by Suspect DeviceBlake (Pandora Blake) @pandorablake.bsky.social · 28/07/2026My educational YouTube channel about kink, safety, consent and the law was deleted without appeal. That’s what happens when platforms decide talking about sex is inherently suspect: we lose vocabulary, resources and places to find each other. 512049
Reposted by Suspect DeviceElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/07/2026“The young people who could probably least afford to be cut off from their communities are the ones who tend to be suffering and getting harmed the most by these types of laws,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told the Journal of Medical Internet Research.jmir.org 07229
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Are they using models from 2024 to make this crap? 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceMike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/07/2026Many, many people insist that AI tools need to be more proactive in pointing people to crisis hotlines. There are scenarios where it's appropriate. But there are also scenarios where it's not. Unfortunately the focus on this means that tools will default to results like this, which are not helpful. 67010
Reposted by Suspect DeviceElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/07/2026“There is no technology available that is entirely privacy-protective, fully accurate, and that guarantees complete coverage of the population,” EFF’s Rin Alajaji told @inc.com, and “no one should have to sacrifice their privacy or anonymity in order to exercise their free speech rights online.”inc.comThe Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. These Startups Are Making Millions From ItAge-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too. 7236116
Reposted by Suspect DeviceEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy. They decided to do it anyway. 3719311025
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 22/07/2026In order to use social media in France, you have to be out at risk of intimate image abuse, extortion and webcam spying. There will almost certainly be no accountability for polticans or regulators who back this policy, despite the severe harm this policy will ultimately enable. 024
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 22/07/2026If you think drinking water is “woke”, you should prove how unwoke you are by not drinking for a month… 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceOpen Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 20/07/2026A new Prime Minister is a fresh opportunity to stand up to Big Tech. We must break the excessive power that a handful of US companies have over our lives. We've joined with partner organisations to end this dependency and unlock British innovation. Read ➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/... 0138
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Verified my age for an AI chatbot site purely because I know that abusive stuff is coming for fake people at some point, surprising good set up however with a platform that seemed decent enough, even though it cost $2 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Teenage boys show major declines in suicide across the globe as their social media use grew 83% of countries with reliable reporting show plunging suicide rates by teenage boys as social media proliferated.mikemales.substack.comTeenage boys show major declines in suicide across the globe as their social media use grew83% of countries with reliable reporting show plunging suicide rates by teenage boys as social media proliferated. Does social media actually prevent suicide? 011828
Reposted by Suspect DeviceOpen Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 08/07/2026NEW: 20 civil society organisations have called for an investigation into the ICO for failing to uphold data protection law in relation to eVisas. This scheme has been plagued with breaches and accessibility issues. And the ICO has done nothing to hold the Home Office to account. Find out more ⬇️openrightsgroup.orgCivil society organisations call for ICO to be investigated over eVisas20 immigration, data protection, and human rights organisations have asked the Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee to investigate the Information Commissioner’s Office’s… 1711
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Some AI news, after spending two months trying to get illustrious to work with a DMD2 Lora, I have decided to go back to SDXL for the being. I have tried countless models and can’t get them to work. 000
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This was my wedding song btw youtu.be/Vbb1Y8r0YUQ?...youtu.beSkinhead Girl (#2)YouTube video by The Oppressed - Topic 000
Reposted by Suspect DeviceJess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The MAGA Project 2025 called for precisely the same thing btw. The fight for online freedom is, and always has been, up versus down. thehill.com/policy/techn...thehill.comDemocratic Project 2029 calls for child social media ban, strict kids safety rules on techDemocrats working on a policy blueprint ahead of the 2028 presidential election released their kids online safety proposal Monday, calling for a ban on social media for kids under 16 and stronger p… 49422
Suspect Device @sootyjared.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I assume this was a film from the 1990s Croatian Film or something, apparently this was made in 2026… 010
Reposted by Suspect DeviceTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026None of this is about protecting childrentheintercept.comOnline Age Verification Law Could Kill WhistleblowingThe KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers. 3286109