Because the businesses won’t let us work from home anymore.

Oh, that’s an interesting observation. I think it might also be linked to the content consumed on commutes, and in public spaces while on the phone.

That, yes. They had to arrest Durov before he started doing anything about Telegram.

I have no notes on the rest of your points, it will likely be a gigantic shitshow.

I’m thinking they might be using the definition from Digital Services Tax policies, which state that:

The social media definition focuses on two key aspects of user participation. An online service will meet the definition when both of the following conditions are met:

• The main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of the service is to promote interaction between users (including interaction between users and user-generated content).
• Making content generated by users available to other users is a significant feature of the service.

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/digital-services-tax/dst14200

If that’s the case, then Rumble et al would be banned too. It might just be, that the press release just mentions the most popular ones.

That they don’t intend to target messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Signal (and potentially Telegram) is a bit of a greyzone. Telegram is more social network than messaging app these days, where channels are a huge part of the platform. In fact, it’s such an important part, that WhatsApp copied the Channel feature to their platform.

I see no mention of Rumble or Telegram. Are they left out on purpose, or because they have no idea what they are doing?

Now that is a useful site. Thanks for that.

True. giffgaff blocks it, I’ve a VPN on my phone for the same reason.

Is that on both your phone data plan and broadband connection? It’s beginning to look like it might be provider dependent.

That’s a good shout. I’ll see if they have anything like that.

That’s also odd. I’m on Hyperoptic, I should probably give them a call to ask what’s up.

Thanks for your reply!

Thanks for your reply.

It’s weird, maybe It’s my provider who blocked them then. Will try with another DNS provider and see if that solves it.

While I agree that the chant might be a bit crass, I think it’s his right to say it. He’s saying the army and what it does is shit, and should suffer. I find it very discouraging that such a statement is called antisemitic. The way you frame it is exactly how I see it, it’s death to the abusers, to the killers, the soldiers. It’s about the violence committed by the army.

It would be as if The Andrew Sisters at a gig in 1943 shouted “Death to the wehrmacht”, and people reacted with “well that’s quite anti-german innit?”. No it’s not, it’s anti Wehrmacht, just like his chant has something specifically to do with the IDF, not with Israelis.

Would anyone know what the tyres are doing on top of those planes in the footage?