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They’re coming for camming.
I understand from an official source that the @BBFC are anticipated to be designated as the official auditor to monitor live adult webcam streams in real-time to detect the commission of priority offences.
Censorship requires surveillance for enforcement.
This has incalculable implications for freedom of expression, privacy, surveillance, sex-workers’s rights, platforms, and consumers.
Criminal penalties:
Individual members of senior management of platforms can face 2 years imprisonment for failure to comply.
Sex workers can face 5 years imprisonment for some of the ill-defined “extreme pornography” offences.
Consumers could face 5 years imprisonment for encouraging those offences.
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Clare McGlynn acknowledges that Ofcom are unlikely to provide guidance for services' obligations on, for example, the recently commenced offences under the Crime and Policing Act 2026 for at least another 18 months.
18 months.
This uncertainty has already led to legitimate tax-paying business publishing legal content to close down, often returning creators to poverty, or putting them at risk of in-person male violence.
Meanwhile, these offences are still enforceable by police, and any future guidance would not be binding on a court deciding such content's legality.
Furthermore, extraterritorial publication could still be prosecuted under Perrin.
Link to Clare McGlynn's oral evidence here:
parliamentlive.tv/event/inde…
Link to the decision in Perrin here:
bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Cri…
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People seem to be surprised that Mr Winter KC had the temerity to do any cross-examining at all on behalf of Russell Brand. I mean, how very dare he? One commentator on X said, “Ian Winter, Brand’s defence barrister’s reputation will surely be in the gutter after this trial” for arguing a perfectly reasonable point on the question of victim’s vulnerability in mitigation. This is a disgusting attack on the right of a convicted defendant to have proper legal representation at sentence.
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The current UK r@pe conviction rate is 63%.
Institutions have bent over backwards & spent millions to accommodate feminist demands. Feminists however still refuse to do the ONE thing they were asked to do 16 years ago in the Stern Report on rape: stop lying about rape conviction rates.
The prime minister says rape trials should “not leave the woman feeling like she is on trial in court”.
He tells Times Radio’s Anna Mikhailova he will look at changing the law.
“We need to get the conviction rate up. It has improved, but not enough.”
@AVMikhailova @AndyBurnham
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I’m quoted in this Sunday’s @thetimes interview with justice minister @AlexDaviesJones regarding her, @Jess4Lowestoft, and others’ regrettable comments about the implications of the S104 offences in the Crime and Policing Act.
For reference, my full quotes were:
“It is tragic to see MPs pronouncing contradictory interpretations of the legislation they voted for, with no binding effect on courts considering these broadly drawn and ill-defined offences. It is disgusting to see them resort to victim-blaming reminiscent the AIDS crisis when challenged for their inability to recognise those unintended consequences.
The new publication offences are likely to create a deluge of reports to the police, similar to Section 127 offences for social media posts, inundating our overstretched courts with ambiguous alleged offences.
Sex workers who have had their taxed and legal businesses destroyed by overly cautious platforms are being put at greater risk of male violence or returned to poverty, and dependency on the welfare budget.”
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The assurance that victims of false accusations will always be taken seriously is difficult to reconcile with the 2015 correspondence, which indicated that such allegations would only be recorded as a crime once the requirements to prove them had already been met.
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BRANDED: Russell’s trial so far, and how tabloids undermine the presumption of innocence
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"Those found to be in possession of images depicting strangulation, suffocation or penetrative sexual activity between certain relatives could face up to two years' imprisonment."
Let me get this straight.
Britain's prisons are so full that we're systematically releasing hundreds of violent criminals early, many of which go on to immediately re-offend.
And the government is now planning to lock people up (for 2 years!) for watching videos that are widely available in the US/EU and consumed by a large share of the population (including many women).
You really don't hate politicians enough.
Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November, government says bbc.in/3TF2Ijx
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By 2015, affirmative consent had gone mainstream, establishing a new standard that sexual health organizations would expand even further.
Read my new article, "The Concept Creep of Nonconsent," at @CityJournal: city-journal.org/article/sex…
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This is a good opportunity to remind everyone that the UK's National Security Act, which MI5 just invoked here 👇 in relation to a Chinese research institute, goes WAY further than Hong Kong's National Security Law that the UK have spent years criticizing as "dystopian".
This case is very illustrative of this: MI5 just has to state with zero proof whatsoever - and they didn't provide any in this case - that an organisation is linked to a foreign intelligence service and, from that moment on, as per section 17 of the UK Act, accepting anything from them, money or even mere information, exposes you to up to 14 years in prison.
More dystopian still, according to the act, you can be prosecuted even if you never received a penny or never actually did a single thing for the organization: merely agreeing to accept something from them is enough.
And there is no minimum threshold for what counts: anything with "money's worth" qualifies.
So in this instance, say that you meet someone from this Chinese research institute at a conference and they offer you a coffee: under the UK's National Security Act merely saying "yes, sure" could, on paper, land you up to 10 years in prison, even if it turns out that the conference center doesn't serve coffee, and even if you had no idea about MI5's warning on this institute (according to the act, you "ought reasonably to know" since MI5's warning exists)!
But there's even worse: the act was significantly expanded this summer to also include restrictions on speech.
Which means that now, merely expressing an opinion supportive of an organisation the Home Secretary has "designated" can get you up to 14 years in prison, if done for a purpose you "ought reasonably to know" was prejudicial to the UK's safety or interests.
So say that Shabana Mahmood, the current Home Secretary, following up on MI5's warning, gets this Chinese institute added to the list of designated bodies. From then on, an academic who tweets to defend this institute - for instance saying that they contributed positively to UK research - could, on paper, be prosecuted for "expressing an opinion or belief that is supportive" of it, with up to 14 years in prison - on the theory that they "ought reasonably to know" that defending them was prejudicial to UK interests.
And the worst part is that, once an organisation is designated, the accusation behind it never has to be proven in your trial: the designation alone does the work. The designation itself only requires the Home Secretary to "reasonably believe" the MI5 accusation and Parliament to vote it through, and no court is ever asked to decide whether it's true. Which means that the intelligence behind it - or lack thereof - never has to be proven or even shown to you, the court or the public.
This all goes way beyond Hong Kong's National Security Law: for instance we just had the trial of Jimmy Lai where the prosecution had to prove beyond reasonable doubt, through witnesses and years of evidence, that he had lobbied foreign governments to act against China.
Under the UK's new regime, the foreign-power link just has to be asserted by the government and parliament, and in court this assertion is all that's required without a shred of evidence about it needed before the court.
By the way, I'm not making any of this up, you can read the National Security Act yourself here and see that everything I wrote is rigorously accurate: legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/202…
Breaking: MI5 has just issued an “espionage alert” accusing a Chinese institute of using British academics to spy on British AI research
The China General Technology Research Institute has “very strong ties” to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, its civilian intelligence and security service, MI5 says in the alert
“MI5 has identified that the primary purpose of CGTRI is to fund academic research that directly improves MSS technical capability for espionage,” the alert said
It added that security officials have identified more than 100 UK-linked academics who have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects, on topics including AI, cybersecurity, covert communications systems and steganography, the concealment of secret messages
“This activity supports MSS espionage, which poses a threat to UK national security,” the security service said
MI5 warns British academic institutions that they should review any collaboration with CGTRI and said that academics and university staff should be aware that following the alert, any future work with the institute could breach UK espionage laws
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🚨 An urgent message to the States Parties of the Rome Statute ahead of the vote on 24 July from the Prosecutor’s legal team.
We act for Karim A. A. Khan KC, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
On Friday, at a Special Session of the Assembly of States Parties, your delegations will vote in person and by secret ballot on whether the Prosecutor should be removed from office under Article 46 of the Rome Statute, in respect of allegations he has consistently denied.
Before that vote is cast, you are entitled to know how this process has been conducted.
The President of the Assembly has closed every formal channel through which Mr Khan’s legal team might make representations to you and has written to all States Parties suggesting that you should not meet with us.
Mr Khan KC and his legal representatives were refused accreditation to attend the session on 24 July. The right under the rules to address you on the substantive decision of misconduct has been flatly denied to us.
Consider what that means.
You are the decision-makers. You alone will determine whether the Prosecutor is removed. Yet the man whose removal you are considering has been told that his representatives may not address you, may not answer before you the case put against him, and may not correct errors, of which there are many, in the material placed in front of you. We know of no court or tribunal in any proper and fair legal system that bars a person facing the gravest professional sanction from being heard.
So we write openly, though restricted by confidentiality obligations, because no other route has been left to us.
These are the facts. 🧵👇
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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…
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Programmers were asked to make the worst volume control for a contest
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The High Court has held that the decision to proscribe Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act 2000 was unlawful. This post explains the court's reasoning and discusses some potential weaknesses in it; the government has said it will appeal.
publiclawforeveryone.com/202…
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My message to everyone is this. It does not matter whether you agree with @hussedogru or not, whether you like or not his journalism. What matters is that what the EU did to him they can easily do to you. Friends, beware. Your right to personhood has just been rescinded!
URGENT: As of now, I have ZERO access to any money.
I can’t provide food for my family, incl. 2 newborns, due to EU sanctions.
Previously, I was granted access to €506 to survive which is now also inaccessible. My bank blocked it.
The EU de facto sanctioned my children too.
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An extraordinary story in the latest edition of @PrivateEyeNews.
This only reinforces my view that there absolutely MUST be a retrial in Lucy Letby's case.
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NEW: Court documents released in Nexperia case.
Show the US clearly pushing the Dutch government to replace the Chinese leadership if the company wanted to stay off the entity list
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This is absolutely wild. The Dutch government has just seized control of a major Chinese semiconductor company — and I’m not talking metaphorically. They’ve literally suspended the Chinese CEO, handed voting power to a non-Chinese director, and placed the company’s shares under the control of a third-party trustee. All justified under a wartime emergency law meant for things like bread and fuel rationing. Last I checked, the Netherlands wasn’t being invaded.
And this didn’t happen in a vacuum — it coincides perfectly with Trump’s new “50% rule,” which drags every subsidiary of a Chinese parent company onto America’s Entity List. It looks a lot like Europe is just following Washington’s lead yet again.
This move is disastrous on so many levels: it wrecks investor confidence in Europe (who’d risk billions knowing their assets could be seized overnight?), invites retaliation from China, and destabilizes one of Europe’s few successful chipmakers — Nexperia — a Dutch-based company with 14,000 employees.
Instead of standing up and saying “European companies operate under European law,” Europe folded. Once again proving it lacks strategic autonomy. A smarter move would’ve been to protect its own industries and show that Europe can make decisions for Europe.
But no — the message they’ve sent the world is crystal clear:
If Washington doesn’t like your nationality, your business in Europe is fair game.
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"Gang rape" in Banbury churchyard that "shocked the nation" did not happen, say police, although something else may possibly have happened somewhere else. bicesteradvertiser.net/news/…
