Oh, that’s an interesting observation. I think it might also be linked to the content consumed on commutes, and in public spaces while on the phone.

Pepfar funding, which had been providing about a fifth of South Africa’s total spending on HIV programmes, got a reprieve last October with what was called a “bridge plan”.

But a US State Department official has confirmed that a “phased drawdown” of Pepfar funding would now start.

This was because of “South Africa’s failure to make demonstrable progress on policy requests by the administration”, the official said.

So bizarre.

Making that decision based on disinformation is par for the course for this administration.

That, yes. They had to arrest Durov before he started doing anything about Telegram.

I have no notes on the rest of your points, it will likely be a gigantic shitshow.

I’m thinking they might be using the definition from Digital Services Tax policies, which state that:

The social media definition focuses on two key aspects of user participation. An online service will meet the definition when both of the following conditions are met:

• The main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the service is to promote interaction between users (including interaction between users and user-generated content).
• Making content generated by users available to other users is a significant feature of the service.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/digital-services-tax/dst14200

If that’s the case, then Rumble et al would be banned too. It might just be, that the press release just mentions the most popular ones.

That they don’t intend to target messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Signal (and potentially Telegram) is a bit of a greyzone. Telegram is more social network than messaging app these days, where channels are a huge part of the platform. In fact, it’s such an important part, that WhatsApp copied the Channel feature to their platform.

I see no mention of Rumble or Telegram. Are they left out on purpose, or because they have no idea what they are doing?

A company with a name like that would never meddle with democratic votes in other countries, that’s a preposterous suspicion.

And how should this switch be operated, and by who?

It’s hard to imagine a kill switch for a communications device meant to be used for rendering a stolen device inaccessible or useless being misused by anyone with power anywhere in the world. At all.

Ever.

It’s a weird moment in time.

Now would be the right time for all protesters to start carrying. Like the Mulford Act, nothing gets 2a supporters more concerned, than when people they don’t like, start doing the things they believe they themselves have every right to do.

Uh-oh, does that mean Kyle Rittenhouse needs to go to jail now?

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Now that is a useful site. Thanks for that.

True. giffgaff blocks it, I’ve a VPN on my phone for the same reason.

Is that on both your phone data plan and broadband connection? It’s beginning to look like it might be provider dependent.

That’s a good shout. I’ll see if they have anything like that.

That’s also odd. I’m on Hyperoptic, I should probably give them a call to ask what’s up.

Thanks for your reply!

Thanks for your reply.

It’s weird, maybe It’s my provider who blocked them then. Will try with another DNS provider and see if that solves it.

Det er min svigerfar. Men kører på vejen, skilte informerer om, at der er en midlertidig omkørsel pga vejarbejde. Svigerfar kigger kun på satnav, alle siger til ham, at skiltene sagde noget andet, men GPS er gud.

Suk, så mange skænderier i bilen pga det.

Har selskabet generelt et problem med stumme bogstaver?

Griner udenpå, græder indeni

While I agree that the chant might be a bit crass, I think it’s his right to say it. He’s saying the army and what it does is shit, and should suffer. I find it very discouraging that such a statement is called antisemitic. The way you frame it is exactly how I see it, it’s death to the abusers, to the killers, the soldiers. It’s about the violence committed by the army.

It would be as if The Andrew Sisters at a gig in 1943 shouted “Death to the wehrmacht”, and people reacted with “well that’s quite anti-german innit?”. No it’s not, it’s anti Wehrmacht, just like his chant has something specifically to do with the IDF, not with Israelis.