Minister accuses Farage of being on side of ‘pornographers’ in online safety row

Sleazy party with lots of sleazy candidates.

Peter Kyle stick to your guns, do not apologise. Is this the point at which people will see that Farage and Reform are totally unfit to govern in any shape or form. What aren't we being told?

I see a Farage supporter has sneaked in and voted down your comments. Someone who doesn't want children protected on the Internet apparently. No wonder they're sneaking in but not leaving a comment!

Ultimately, Reform is a protest party. A party that uses people's grudges - like the 20 mph speed limit policy - to gain votes. It doesn't have answers to why these policies were brought about in the first place. It'll suck in all the discontented voters and once in power find itself in trouble. Some new local Reform councillors are already resigning - finding themselves out of their depth. We can not allow it to happen in Cymru - the party will make our country poorer before it falls on it's sword.

Anyone asked the LibDems what they think? They outnumber Farage in MP's.

Free speech only when he wants it.

I’m going to get downvoted to hell and back because people aren’t going to read this properly, or are going to deliberately misinterpret/misrepresent what I actually said. But I’m going to post it anyway. The Online Safety Act is a terrible piece of legislation. It does nothing to “protect” children. I grew up with computers and the internet; I work in a highly technical field and I’ve been in front of one kind of computer or another since I was 5 years old. I’m not even that “old”, I’m in my early 40s, but I can guarantee you that there are teenagers out there today who can absolutely run rings around me in terms of technical ability. The age verification checks have already been defeated by using screenshots of video game characters. In the space of less than a week, usage of and demand for VPN services has skyrocketed - VPN apps now top the charts on mobile app stores. Only recently the US-based Tea app suffered a data breach where hundreds of thousands of verification photos from users was leaked and made publicly available. The OSA might be well intentioned, but its practical implementation is beyond clumsy. This is the same government that has just jumped into bed with a financially unsustainable company whose business model relies on theft & copyright violation on a scale that is utterly incalculable. Nigel Farage is a loathsome individual and his various political efforts have attracted and enabled people who are worse than he is. But. He is right about the OSA, albeit right for the wrong reasons. The Technology Secretary should indeed retract his disgraceful comments, and instead perhaps take a look closer to home, such as the partnership with OpenAI.

The same party whose candidate for Banbury Hardwick in the Oxfordshire County Council local elections this year referred to Jimmy Savile as a "working class hero"? The same party that floated the idea of legalising the possession of indecent images of children on "libertarian grounds" in 2019? Next they'll be telling us safeguarding and child protection training is "woke Cultural Marxism".