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Wednesday, February 09, 2022

Surprise! UK Porn Check is Back

Whose online safety?

These days it's easier to smuggle booze into 10 Downing Street than it is watching porn unnoticed.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in trouble. While most of Britain was in lockdown it was party all the time at 10 Downing Street. There even was a party the night before prince Philip was buried. On the day of his funeral the queen sat alone, while aides [probably] were recovering from their hangovers. Or sore muscles because the rule was to bring your own booze. All of that went undetected in the most secure location in Britain. One can only wonder what else they brought in without the police noticing.

Last week the queen detected something else: the opportunity to make her son happy. No, the other one, Andrew is beyond redemption. In 2005 Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. Princess Diana still being very popular, 'when the duchess married the Prince of Wales in 2005, it was made clear by Clarence House that she would carry the title of HRH The Princess Consort.'

"Charles is understood to have long harboured a firm desire his wife should carry the title of Queen Consort, and be thus crowned and anointed, when he becomes king.' With Britain clearly feeling sympathetic for the queen, she saw an opening and in early February the queen expressed her “sincere wish” that the Duchess of Cornwall becomes Queen Consort when Charles becomes king. That's how you play the game.

Don't worry Boris Johnson knows a thing or two about playing games. Jimmy Savile was a TV personality and notorious sex offender who never got caught. Only after his death in 2011, hundreds of complaints were made against him. Johnson is in deep trouble, so he said the current leader of the opposition, as director of public prosecutions should have “spent more time prosecuting journalists and failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile”. A couple of days later Keir Starmer is surrounded by an angry mob.

And today, today I read that porn sites and sites like Twitter and Reddit in the UK will have to check age in a planned update to the online safety bill. Not a coincidence you say? Wrote about those porn filters in 2014 and 2015. My question remains the same: how do we protect the innocent from the dangers of the real world?

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