Jan 16, 2026 02:46 AM
(This post was last modified: Jan 16, 2026 03:05 AM by C C.)
An irony here is that a Middle Eastern country like the UAE has cut funds for citizens keen to study in the UK, due to its view that the British state is lax in allowing the Muslim Brotherhood to indoctrinate and recruit on UK campuses (excerpt): "The exclusion of British universities is linked to anxiety in the UAE over what it sees as the risk of Islamist radicalisation on UK campuses, according to three people familiar with the matter."
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MODERNITY
https://youtu.be/5nTUKX0ihsw
VIDEO INTRO: Keir Starmer's odious government has been forced to back down on digital ID. They're still greasing the skids for banning X. But if anything, this one is even more terrifying.
Under the terms of the Online Safety Act, the UK government within just a few months will be able to access every single private message you've sent on your smartphone and then potentially initiate criminal proceedings against you if you're deemed to have flouted the country's draconian hate speech laws. Potentially leading to arrest and prison time.
Let me spell it out clearly. This isn't about you posting a spicy meme on X or writing stop the boats on Facebook. They'll already arrest you for that. This is about spying on personal messages you share with friends and family on WhatsApp or iMessage, monitoring them for potential subversive intent or offensive language, and then locking you up in a cage for it.
Section 121 of this Orwellian act grants Ofcom the power to compel messaging platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage to deploy accredited technology for scanning messages sent with end-to-end encryption. Of course, as with just about anything related to the online safety act, it's going to be sold on the premise of stopping child exploitation, criminal networks, and terrorism.
But make no mistake, this is clientside scanning. Messages will be analyzed on your device before encryption, meaning true end-to-end privacy evaporates. Every text, photo, or voice note you send could be inspected in real time, not just flagged ones, but all of them.
The government has instructed Ofcom to begin using these powers by April this year. These are the people who run Ofcom. By the way, the legislation makes clear the spy system will only be used to monitor CEA and terrorist content. Okay, fair enough. You might think, but wait a second.
What do UK authorities consider to be terrorist content? Believing that mass migration is making Britain demographically less white British? You think I'm joking? Well, you must not have played the government's new anti-terror pathways video game, which is being used in schools to supposedly stop the radicalization of teenagers, where kids are at risk of being referred to the government's anti-terror prevent program...
This is terrifying .... https://youtu.be/5nTUKX0ihsw
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5nTUKX0ihsw
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MODERNITY
https://youtu.be/5nTUKX0ihsw
VIDEO INTRO: Keir Starmer's odious government has been forced to back down on digital ID. They're still greasing the skids for banning X. But if anything, this one is even more terrifying.
Under the terms of the Online Safety Act, the UK government within just a few months will be able to access every single private message you've sent on your smartphone and then potentially initiate criminal proceedings against you if you're deemed to have flouted the country's draconian hate speech laws. Potentially leading to arrest and prison time.
Let me spell it out clearly. This isn't about you posting a spicy meme on X or writing stop the boats on Facebook. They'll already arrest you for that. This is about spying on personal messages you share with friends and family on WhatsApp or iMessage, monitoring them for potential subversive intent or offensive language, and then locking you up in a cage for it.
Section 121 of this Orwellian act grants Ofcom the power to compel messaging platforms like WhatsApp and iMessage to deploy accredited technology for scanning messages sent with end-to-end encryption. Of course, as with just about anything related to the online safety act, it's going to be sold on the premise of stopping child exploitation, criminal networks, and terrorism.
But make no mistake, this is clientside scanning. Messages will be analyzed on your device before encryption, meaning true end-to-end privacy evaporates. Every text, photo, or voice note you send could be inspected in real time, not just flagged ones, but all of them.
The government has instructed Ofcom to begin using these powers by April this year. These are the people who run Ofcom. By the way, the legislation makes clear the spy system will only be used to monitor CEA and terrorist content. Okay, fair enough. You might think, but wait a second.
What do UK authorities consider to be terrorist content? Believing that mass migration is making Britain demographically less white British? You think I'm joking? Well, you must not have played the government's new anti-terror pathways video game, which is being used in schools to supposedly stop the radicalization of teenagers, where kids are at risk of being referred to the government's anti-terror prevent program...
This is terrifying .... https://youtu.be/5nTUKX0ihsw
RELATED (scivillage): Radicals welcomed into UK, but Starmer just banned "polite" Dutch woman?