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@moo
"Friendly fraud", or consumer-initiated fraudulent chargebacks, is £3.5bn in the UK for the last year.
This is much higher than any investment fraud, crypto fraud, or even globally. This is just one country.
Still, nobody cares about this. It's "the cost of doing business."
The cost that is paid indirectly by honest consumers.
This is what "protect the vulnerable" laws and regulations give you. A dysfunctional socialist system where the shared wealth is slowly leeched to those who are willing to exploit the system.
We will soon see a similar surge in the UK regarding banking fraud, because now banks need to cover their customers' losses.
https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/109698/35bn-claimed-by-friendly-fraudsters-over-12-months
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@moo
Imram Ahmed, one of the architects of the current UK's censorship regime, has been kicked out from the US.
The White House is poised to revoke the visa of the boss of a campaign group founded by Sir Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), is facing deportation from the United States, after his charity pushed for restrictions on what can be published online.
The CCDH has campaigned for the deplatforming of Trump administration officials and tighter policing of offensive content posted online. Mr McSweeney helped found the organisation before he quit to work for Sir Keir.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/11/09/trump-to-expel-boss-of-labour-linked-ngo/
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@moo
The UK became the 8th largest VPN user in absolute numbers. 10M VPNs for 70M citizens. As the Online Safety Act came into effect, citizens are disagreeing with the government about what constitutes the protection of children and what constitutes a surveillance state.
An excellent post from Monica J. White of TechRadar https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-usage-is-exploding-in-the-uk-heres-how-it-compares-to-europe-and-the-us
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@moo
Imgur, known for its GIFs in Facebook and Twitter, pulls out from the UK.
The UK regulator finds GIFs too dangerous for children.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2115228/image-site-imgur-pulls-out
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@juuso
Someone's van failed in the tunnel leading to Heathrow terminal 2 and 3. The tunnel is the only route by car to the terminals. All traffic got redirected to trains from terminal 5 and 4. The queue moved 1 meter a minute until police came after 2,5 hours to direct the traffic at the terminal junction.
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@moo
In the UK, the voting age was lowered to 16 but it is illegal for 16 years olds to view political content on social media.
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@moo
Who benefits from the Online Safety Act?
Follow the money.
Thanks to the transparency of the UK's Companies House registry, we can find out.
A thread.
https://x.com/moo9000/status/1950866445186818209
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@moo
The UK's free speech regulator, OFCOM, sends letters to American companies that they may face prison for up to two years unless they start to conduct illegal content risk assessments.
As reported by Preston Byrne, British-born lawyer and Politico.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2025/07/29/the-uks-new-tech-law-triggers-upheaval-00481803
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@moo
After passing the Online Safety Act to protect kids from the accidental harms of the Internet, the Labour Party moves to ban VPNs.
Not just making the VPNs to store logs, but ban them altogether.
> She said: "My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill's passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom's ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112. If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems."
The Online Safety Act was passed in the name of protecting kids from accidental Internet harm. I am pretty sure none of those kids will install a VPN and then get harmed by an accident.
https://www.gbnews.com/politics/labour-ban-vpn-online-safety-act
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