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• On the post: Brendan Carr Launches Baseless ‘Investigation’ Into PBS, NPR, And BBC To Try And Silence Criticism Of His Weird, Unpopular Boss

  

  Valis ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2025 @ 12:50am

  "dropping"? It's always been The Torygraph, can't drop any lower than that😹

• On the post: Brendan Carr Launches Baseless ‘Investigation’ Into PBS, NPR, And BBC To Try And Silence Criticism Of His Weird, Unpopular Boss

  

  Valis ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2025 @ 12:49am

  Tories all the way

  FYI, the BBC directorate has been taken over by members of the far-right Conservative party.

• On the post: The TikTok ‘Ban’ Continues To Be One Of The Biggest Turds In Tech Policy History

  

  Valis ( profile ), 20 Nov, 2025 @ 08:05am

  Give them a taste of their own medicine.

  Bytedance should pull the app from the US and ban US IP addresses from logging in to TikTok at all. Then we'll see how quickly they change their tune.

• On the post: Courage Doesn’t Scale

  

  Valis ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2025 @ 11:44am

  Maybe it's time to stop supporting these companies.

• On the post: Trump Threatens BBC With Billion-Dollar Lawsuit For Correctly Pointing Out He Supported A Violent Insurrection

  

  Valis ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2025 @ 05:55am

  He's insane

  The South African government should be suing Turnip for libel, for accusing us of "human rights abuses". He's insane, accusing the most democratic country in the world of that, where human rights are entrenched in our Constitution. Thankfully our government is standing firm. We will not be bullied by some racist US American.

• On the post: Mamdani’s Win Shows That Believing In Something Beats Performative Hatred

  

  Valis ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2025 @ 06:39am

  White supremacy is not democracy

  The reason Mamdani is different to other politicians in the US is because he is not USAmerican. He used to live in democratic South Africa, so he has actual experience of living in a democracy, something that USAmericans have never experienced. I get it, if you have lived your whole life in a racist, white supremacist country with extreme white privilege, you think that is democracy, because you have no other experience to compare it to. White supremacy is not democracy, white privilege does not equate to human rights. You have no experience of democracy.

• On the post: Comcast, Netflix, And CBS Will All Now Kiss Trump’s Ass To Try And Acquire Warner Brothers And CNN

  

  Valis ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2025 @ 06:08am

  Honestly, from the perspective of the Global South, all Western media are, and have always been, right wing propaganda outlets. They're just going full blown fascist now.

• On the post: Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Chat Bot Your Tongue?

  

  Valis ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 05:29am

  China's new law

  This is brilliant! This is exactly the kind of thing Western governments need to do to combat misinformation and disinformation online. Instead of all these censorious "age verification" laws that the West keeps implementing in order to control the flow of information, make sure people putting out critical information actually know what they are talking about. This is democracy in action!

• On the post: As Social Media Restrictions Spread, Is The Internet Entering Its Victorian Era?

  

  Valis ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2025 @ 05:00am

  Hey, let's maintain our power and privilege

  All this is just an excuse for Western governments to censor and control the flow of information in order to maintain white supremacy, patriarchy and colonialism.

• On the post: DOJ Prosecutor Lindsey Halligan Berates Journalist Via Signal, Tries To Claim Whole Thing Is ‘Off The Record’

  

  Valis ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2025 @ 11:23am

  Video now out

  Anna Bower just made a video about this telling the whole story from her side. If anyone's interested it's on the Legal Eagle channel on YT.

• On the post: How Trump Is Building A Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

  

  Valis ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2025 @ 03:29pm

  Worse than apartheid South Africa.

  Having grown up under apartheid in the 70s I can tell you we never had anything remotely like this happen. Even during the darkest days of the State of Emergency did the apartheid government do this.

• On the post: Sequoia’s Choice

  

  Valis ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2025 @ 02:44pm

  FYI

  Roelof Botha is a white Afrikaner from South Africa. Another racist white man who benefited from apartheid. No wonder he's buddies with Musk.

• On the post: AI Slop Startup To Flood The Internet With Thousands Of AI Slop Podcasts, Calls Critics Of AI Slop ‘Luddites’

  

  Valis ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2025 @ 06:04am

  Luddites

  It's a common misconception that Luddites were anti-technology and anti-industrialisation. Not so. They were anti-capitalist. They were against the factory owners keeping all the profits while paying the workers starvation wages. They were painted as being against "progress" by the extraction class, much like what is happening today.

• On the post: The Trump FCC’s CBS ‘Truth Nanny’ Is Unsurprisingly A Trump Lackey Who Has No Idea How Journalism Works

  

  Valis ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2025 @ 08:30am

  Are you completely insane?

• On the post: The Trump FCC’s CBS ‘Truth Nanny’ Is Unsurprisingly A Trump Lackey Who Has No Idea How Journalism Works

  

  Valis ( profile ), 18 Sep, 2025 @ 08:28am

  So tell me again about how the USA is a democracy. I've been warning you people for years, decades, about how the USA is a fascist totalitarian dictatorship. You just kept shutting me down and silencing me. The crows have come home to roost.

• On the post: DOJ Is Now Investigating University Professors For Wrongthink

  

  Valis ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2025 @ 11:37am

  The USA is such a backwards and ignorant country.

• On the post: Trump Administration Now Murdering People In International Waters Just Because

  

  Valis ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2025 @ 02:39am

  But this actually never happened! Because "the USA doesn't kill civilians". /s

• On the post: House Republicans Want To Doxx Wikipedia Editors Over Bogus ‘Bias’ Complaints

  

  Valis ( profile ), 30 Aug, 2025 @ 03:01am

  Wikipedia is already racist and mysoginist enough. Why would they want to make it even more racist and mysoginist than it already is?

• On the post: Exercise Bike Company Yanks Features Away From Purchased Bikes Via Firmware Update

  

  Valis ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2025 @ 04:21am

  There's some hope

  Louis Rossman is offering a $20 000 bounty to anyone who cracks their firmware. He's doing good work 😁

• On the post: New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’

  

  Valis ( profile ), 25 Jul, 2025 @ 06:04am

  Pot. Kettle.

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