The solution to problems with the internet is not a fucking surveillance state.

Set aside the complete obliteration of any online privacy, and the fact that these bans are completely ineffective (piracy streaming websites are already illegal in basically every western country. Still watched a movie on one yesterday), the internet is also a valuable and important resource for many things, including studying and finding support encouragement, nformation and safe spaces on issues particularly for children and teens growing up queer.

You’re throwing out the baby entire god damn family with the bathwater.

All these bans do is push teens and children into LESS safe spaces on the deep web that don’t care about enforcing UK regulations, and banning those sites is literally just playing an infinite game of whack a mole.

Banning children and teens from everyday life activities has never worked and never been a solution, just how “abstinence only” doesn’t work to prevent teen pregnancy. The solution is to teach children early and comprehensively how to engage with these systems safely and responsibly, how to recognise warning signs of unsafe situations or fake information, and how to react appropriately to those.

This one of the the dumbest fucking ideas I’ve ever heard.

What next, ban children from reading books and magazines, in case they get a porno one ?

Yeah, it’s totally true, everyone knows the only member of the allied forces was actually the USSR. No other country fought against the Nazis, they did completely single handedly, and totally wouldn’t have just sat there and let it happen, if Hitler hadn’t violated their non aggression pact first.

He realised it was a system glitch, because it only detected a singular US nuclear missile.

He realised the US would never ever (intentionally) launch a nuclear attack on russia that was just a single missile. MAD meant they would either launch an all out devastating attack to eradicate everything, or launch no nukes at all. Anything in between those two made no tactical sense whatsoever, and, at least back then, the US millitary wasn’t run by complete morons.

(Also, in this case the risk of not responding is relatively low. A single missile, even if real, is relatively easy to intercept, and even when aimed at the capital, is not got going to take out the entire command structure and launch capabilities, so even if it turns out the attack was real, Russia would still be able to retaliate after it’s conclusion, which would not be the case with an all out attack)

Nothing, Merz is just a massive piece of shit and seemingly fully immune to any level of shame.