you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Honestly that would seem like the most common sense idea that anyone would/could draw up from this, and for the most part I think this is what the gov is trying to do.

I think there's an unstated side effect from the Online Safety Act which nobody seems to be talking about - using the new powers to effectively censor Palestinian protests online.

You can read about it some more: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/human-rights-defenders-raise-concerns-that-online-safety-act-will-lead-to-censorship-of-palestine-protest/

I've genuinely never felt so depressed about voting in this government in my entire life. Actual gross dystopian bullshit.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Yeah, I voted for Jezza but I saw this coming. While I wanted the Tories out, I couldn't bring myself to vote for red Tories to replace them.

    This is exactly the same shit they were pulling back in the Blair days.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    You stop at the R and change if to a Z. Barry = Baz, Darren = Daz, Carol = Caz etc etc. Because British English is non rhotic, it doesn't work if we stop at the R (like USAians can say "Gar" for Gary) so the z sound gets used instead, because it's pretty close.
    Then the A gets added if you're being extra friendly or cute, a bit like Michael > Mike > Mikey. Gareth becomes Gary becomes Gaz becomes Gazza.
    Make sense?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments