@woodsmoke I’m not his biggest fan, but he has enough decent takes to have a listen now and again.

His biggest problem in my eyes is ultimately something he is powerless to change (to an extent). He is diagnosable as having the CivNat milquetoast post-war consensus, an inheritance most Gen X men took on. He still occupies the space in which we can vote our way out of the myriad declines solely from the centrist world view.

As an example, he is at the moment trying to figure out how to reinvigorate his home of Swindon, both economically and demographically. I’ve yet to see any ideas, but I wouldn’t be surprised when he comes out with things like investing in the high streets and giving the youth things to do. He isn’t of the mind to reach for radical options, or to think beyond the failing infrastructure he has inherited.

Now that all sounds very harsh, and I do him a disservice. He remains a subversive voice to the globalist world view, introducing and discussing plenty of angles in which globalist policy and agendas can be countered and challenged. The expectation for me is that the audience develops their own thinking by interacting with him, and further their understanding of the cultural malaise and solutions they think could work.

He’s good for breaking out of the box, but he’s rooted to a country that existed 40 years ago, and even then, wasn’t all that.

@redpillschool Regulation of the internet has been a very long time coming. Frankly, I'm surprised it had not happened sooner. You're right to identify that ID checks were rolled out in lockstep with globalist message of "protect the children". That is the excuse that keeps on excusing. When polled (with a leading question) the British population supported the OSA. Of course, the question was the wrong one. Today, the government celebrated figures that UK internet traffic to the top porn sites had fallen by almost 1m views (or some such statistic) - which just goes to show the regular ineptitude of those ones enacting the policies, as the traffic is just masked by VPNs. That that should be a revelation to a minister for technology is deeply concerning, but not at all surprising.

So on the one hand we have abject retards pushing failed policy for a poor ideological goal, but then as you say, this rolled out almost globally. I say almost globally because as far as I can tell from my VPN usage, any eastern country does not appear to demand ID verification (yet!). Where do globalist policies get birthed? No, not from the depths of the earth around the base of Isengard, though you would be forgiven for thinking so. Why, Davos of course! And other globalist meet and greets, wine and dines and other lobby groups very much interested in this area of data collection.

We're once again, as we've had many since and probably before 2020, a litmus test for not only the population but our prospective options. Should you take the vaccine upload your ID? Should you vote for the guy saying he'll retract the policy? Can he be trusted or is it another rug pull vying for office. Well, should you fail the litmus test on a personal lesson, you'll be judged accordingly in the not too distant future. Tea, anybody?

So they've come for our internet, as we knew they would - if the UK government line of being predators if you're against it is anything to go by, we're not going back. I would be remiss not to mention the stacking amount of rules on the well-meaning citizen, and the loosening consequences for those not inclined to follow the rules. At some occasion I imagine the scales will tip entirely in incentivising radical disobedience... unless of course you still want to listen to spotify on your commute and watch netflix in your downtime, ah, the allure of comfort and luxuries. While you pay for your shopping, your ID tied to the facial recognition system making sure you don't steal, that shoplifter who just ran out with everything and more is neither recognised nor punished.

It hardly seems fair, right?