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   Interpipes 💙 (interpipes@thx.gg)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 22:58:54 JST Interpipes 💙

   It is absolutely wild to me that at the same time the Online Safety Act is coming in to supposedly "save the children" and basically causing every UK-linked independent community to shut down that we simultaneously have meta at the other end of the scale saying it's perfectly fine, complete with specific examples, to call LGBTQ people "mentally ill" or use slurs against them.

   Both of these are at such extremes of the spectrum that the centre ground is no longer in the same universe as either.

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     mhoye (mhoye@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 22:59:02 JST mhoye

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     @interpipes They're both serving the same purpose, though.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 23:00:23 JST Rich Felker

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     • mhoye

     @mhoye @interpipes Yes. Both are ripping access to critical information away from LGBTQ+, questioning, non neurotypical, etc. children. One by deluding them with harassment and driving them towards suicide if they seek out community, and the other by simply deleting community.

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     Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 12:30:40 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • The Vampire Fish Queen
     • Rich Felker

     @TheVampireFishQueen @dalias @mhoye @interpipes for years I was a moderator on one of the worlds most popular rave, lifestyle and drugs harm reduction advice forums - but from 2010s onwards it was widely blocked to <18 users by all UK ISPs and mobile providers on "family friendly" settings - we lost about 80% of traffic from young people (and a whole new generation is getting the same health problems from ketamine use that Gen X/Y did, as they didn't see the harm reduction info)

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     The Vampire Fish Queen (thevampirefishqueen@socel.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 12:30:41 JST The Vampire Fish Queen

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     • mhoye
     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @mhoye @interpipes There need to be huge backlash to this.

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