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  • Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit

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  • Yeah why does USA not want international law? The U.S. has never ratified the ICC because why would they give up the freedom to do what they want… USA does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICC. The 2002 American Service-Members’ Protection Act (ASPA) literally states that the U.S. will attempt to protect U.S. military personnel and other citizens from ICC persecution, even with military action if necessary. That bill was nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act” because in theory it authorizes the president to use force to free Americans from ICC prison. They even go as far as using big tech to blackmail members of the ICC that investigate war crimes of the US military (or Israel). crazy.

    Neither USA nor Israel is among the 125 signatories of the Rome Statute, which established the ICC in 1998. However, the treaty sets out that nationals of non-member states can be tried for crimes that take place on the territory of states that are signatories. But if mamdami arrests netanyahu and delivers him to The Hague that would be a dream for everyone who wants global peace and justice, probably followed by sanctions from crybaby trump tho lmao

  • Trump Blurts Out Vile Scheme to Rig Midterms as Polls Take Brutal Turn

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    • "Donald Trump approved just 23 percent of disaster funding requests from states with Democratic governors and Democratic senators, while at the same time, over roughly the same period, states with Republican governors and Republican senators had their [requests approved] 89 percent of the time."

    • "The people of Michigan are in good hands with Trump-endorsed Mike Rogers, who is running for U.S. Senate, and John James for governor." "I just spoke with Congressman Tom Tiffany, who has my complete and total endorsement for governor, and informed him that the great state of Wisconsin has been approved to be given $22.6 million in its disaster declaration request."

    Trump is openly framing disaster aid as a political favor tied to his endorsed candidates. he's holding disaster aid hostage untill the state does what trump wants so he can make the senator look like the hero... Instead of creating a system where everyone gets equal protection, he's saying if you don't vote for me, you get less protection... This also creates a dangerous new quid pro quo for how states or voters act, supporting his candidates means they'll get the help they need and suffer less, opposing them means they'll have to pay the price... They also mislead voters saying that candidates (like Tiffany or Rogers) directly secured the aid, because in reality, the decision rests with the federal government, Trump himself...

    • "We should be expecting an all-of-government approach in the coming weeks and months. [...] What we can expect in the coming weeks is a federal government that is focused exclusively on helping Republicans win elections. Period, full stop."

    So federal agencies (FEMA, ICE, HHS, etc.) will be put to work to influence elections. So we can expect more aid approved to swing states with competitive races (Michigan, Wisconsin) while denying and withholding it to blue states. They will try potential deployment to manufacture crises (immigration "surges") to rally Republican voters, and strategically deploying health resources and programs, announcing new funding, grants and initiatives to boost the image of republican GOP candidates in swing districts (RFK Jr. campaigning in those same key districts). Even if the programs were already planned or not uniquely tied to Republican efforts, it’s about manufacturing the image of the GOP as the party that "delivers".They literally use all government resources to punish democratic states, and reward republican states. Sounds authoritarian. I thought power was a tool to make lives better for everyone, instead of power being the endgoal and making sure none can challenge him lol

  • Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison

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  • Protesting ICE gets you sentenced 30-100 years in prison … meanwhile people have the right to ask asylum, and the right on a just procedure, thats a human right for all of us… So ICE is against human rights and it’s also against European law … Thats crazy bro, america has become ruzzia and china 2.0

    How many warnings have they ignored? How many promises have they broken?They ignore us because business continues as usual.Stand together, its time tor strikes.Stop production. Stop profit. Stop business as usual.

  • Trump claims without proof Democrats are ‘trying to steal’ California primaries

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  • Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9

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  • From free speech advocates to critics: The Trump administration’s new rhetoric promotes support for censorship among Trump voters survey experiments shows

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  • protecting minorities and not drowning you in fake news is censorship now?

  • From free speech advocates to critics: The Trump administration’s new rhetoric promotes support for censorship among Trump voters survey experiments shows

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  • Its in the document? You can click it and read it?

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    From free speech advocates to critics: The Trump administration’s new rhetoric promotes support for censorship among Trump voters survey experiments shows

    www.pnas.org /doi/10.1073/pnas.2532084123

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • OMG wtfff

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • You are your own god tho ;) ^^

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • LMAO I love you and I love this lol

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • HAHAHAHA I also read this and was like wot, maybe its british slang LMAO idk

  • White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

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  • The people in power spontaneously turned blind to their own history

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    White House to host mass prayer event to promote Christian origins of the US, wants everyone to pray tomorrow

    uk.news.yahoo.com /white-house-host-mass-prayer-124417096.html
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  • For starters you did not answer my main question: How exactly does any of this stop the authorities from just making the app close source and changing it to do whatever the fuck they want?

    Yeah good concerns, same for the chat control thing.

    Further: Who gives you the “white card without any private data”? How do you for sure it doesn’t have some kind of ID and it’s not in some database right linked with your personal info?

    I mean if its open source we can check it ourselves lol

    Sources for ZKP: https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specification/docs/annexes/annex-B/annex-B-zkp/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signature_AlgorithmVulnerabilities: https://www.encryptionconsulting.com/education-center/what-is-ecdsa/[Api2025] Rutchathon Chairattana-Apirom, Franklin Harding, Anna Lysyanskaya, and Stefano Tessaro, "Server-Aided Anonymous Credentials," available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/513, 2025

    Next “recognized child safety organizations” just moves the problem of “who choses what gets blocked” around. Who “recognizes” an organisation as genuinelly for child safety? Who authorizes them to add photo-hashes to the blockchain? What is the official process for all of that? Where is the Judicial oversight? Where is the fucking Judicial oversight? You know, the way by which for example an artist can get their tasteful drawing which is not adult but “had too much skin” for some moralistic type in one of those organisations taken of the blockchain.

    Yeah true ... But Bitcoin and Estonia also uses blockchain to ensure the identity of people, because it's transparant and it's immutable, and you have a digital identity without one central database, governments don't know how to regulate this. So at least for immutable and transparency we have the option blockchain but then the organizations themselves, I mean what about existing organizations? How do we know they are not corrupt

    Further, you can hardly reconstruct the picture for validation from the hashes in blockchain, so it’s not really public, now is it?! The hashes are public but the content represented by them is not, so de facto the list of what’s being blocked is not public, so how would the public know that it’s actually correct and not, say, some moralist blocking sex-education images?

    The list wont be made public anyway cause then people can avoid it and bypass it etc, almost all servers from google and microsoft are already doing this actually, scanning on hashes etc

    I mean a very common trick by politicians in areas prone to Corruption, such as public contracts or public-private initiatives is to set some shit up with potential to abuse and then a toothless or captured “independent” overseer - it provides the appearence of honesty whilst in practice being the very opposite.

    You're so right tho fr. Didn't China's social credit system start the same way as this European age verification app started?

    Further, your answer is again superficial. “Child safety organisations”? Meaningless without a detailed definition of what’s considered child safety

    Jup exactly thats why I said with clear criteria but if does are not in place then its meaningless like almost everything i say lmao xd thanks for replying anyway, I didn't know about that ISP thing for example

    it’s a process problem and a regulatory problem - if this is not done properly whatever technical appearence of anynomity you have can be defeated by the process side of things

    You're totally right and I totally agree, maybe in that case blockchain is a good technical process which can't be abused, now the human system behind it, in Estonia only government recognized organizations get access to add to the blockchain, so if your country has a stable democracy, cemented in law, with laws preventing it from ever becoming non-democratic, but you can never guarantee that a country will remain a stable democracy in the future. So then this human, and thus blockchain, system, and thus age verification, can't be fault-proof indeed

    ISP's with parental control modes and teaching parents and kids which you suggested is a way better approach I fully agree and thanks for explaining also 🙏🙏

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  • I meant the blockchain for the chatcontrol app, not for the age verification app btw, and you make good points for sure.

    Is there a group of independent experts analysing each and every version of the protocol and the app to make sure it’s not just directly anonymous but also resilient to de-anonimization?

    I mean it's open-source and we have privacy watch-dogs so yes? and maybe they will create a group for it, like Germany

    Next, even assuming the whole thing is perfect and has been checked and confirmed by independent experts, how do you guarantee that once the infrastructure is in place the whole age-gating software isn’t just made closed source and covertly of changed to turn it into a full-blown civil society surveillance system?

    For chat control app: blockchain where only recognized child safety organizations can add photo-hashes For age verification app: it's zero knowledge proof, so you get a white card without any private data? so how can that turn into full blown surveillance system? The only thing I don't like is uploading my ID online to the app, let me get verified by showing my ID to municipal services without uploading it, would be good ig

    Also, who gets to chose which sites are locked behind age-gates and which are not. Is the list open? Can it be appealed? How easy it is the appeals process? Is there Court supervision of the whole process or is it some people in a closed room with no Judicial oversight choosing what gets put behind that lock and what doesn’t.

    Child safety organizations? Independent organizations with clear criteria or something? But yeah good questions idk

    Beyond that, it’s the responsibility of parents to watch over and control what their children are doing, not everybody else. The whole focus should be on giving parents the tools for that (for example, with a standard protocol for sites to inform browsers and home firewalls that they’re serving adult content, thus allowing parents to block it internally without the information of who is watching what ever leaving their home network), not mandated government software supposedly controlling the access of the whole fucking civil society to arbitrary web-sites and who knows what else.

    Then you must make sure the parents aren't tech-illiterate and invest in educating parents for parental controls etc but truth, good point... Child-safe should be the standard in new devices and browsers if those parents stay being tech illiterates.

    easiest to achieve option to have the websites push out standard markers for “adult content” to browsers and home firewalls so that parents can restrict their children’s access

    Yeah agreed that this is the best solution but how do you make sure those websites apply for such a marker? Use AI to scan them lol And its still the best solution, together with focussing on education parents as well as children and to educate parents on parental control and screen time, and let them sort it out locally, instead of enforcing age verification deffo agreed on that

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  • 😂😂 Care to explain why?

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  • Estonia has this system for a decade already btw and uses block chain to make it transparant and for integrity, and the verification app will be zero-knowledge proof, and is open-source. Literally the best two specs you want for privacy... The only thing I would want is a decentralized system where you can get verified by showing your ID to your local municipal services, not uploading it.

    But the chat control has to go away asap frmaybe a compromis for chat control would be a decentralized database of photo hashes that are scanned by the chat control app where only trusted organizations for childrens safety can add hashes to, supported by block chain so we have full transparency of who adds what... wdyt of this?

    This way there is no single point of control. Blockchain provides full transparency because every addition of a hash is recorded as a transaction that anyone can verify, showing who added it and when, and since the blockchain is immutable, hashes can't be secretly altered or deleted. Digital signatures prove which trusted org added each hash.

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    Meta blocks dozens of Queer and pro-choice accounts on Instagram for second time in six months

    nltimes.nl /2026/04/23/meta-suspends-dozens-dutch-lgbtqia-accounts-second-time-six-months
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    Trump Gets Daily Video War Briefings of ‘Stuff Blowing Up’ — Say Trump Insiders to NBC

    www.mediaite.com /media/news/trump-gets-daily-video-war-briefings-of-stuff-blowing-up-say-trump-insiders-to-nbc/
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    EU Parliament eyes US trade deal approval with Trump-proof safeguards

    www.politico.eu /article/eu-parliament-us-trade-deal-approval-us-donald-trump-proof-safeguards/
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    'Totally Illegal,' Says Senate Dem as Trump Pledges $10 Billion in US Funds for His Board of Peace

    www.commondreams.org /news/trump-10-billion-board-of-peace
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    Mark Zuckerberg will testify today in California in an unprecedented social media trial that questions whether Meta’s platforms deliberately addict and harm children

    apnews.com /article/mark-zuckerberg-trial-testimony-instagram-c8cbaa32ccbf4933ec3a7beebd6cf34b
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    U.S. ambassador Bill White was summoned by Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot after calling a Belgian court investigation into three Jewish men performing illegal circumcisions antisemitic.

    www.vrt.be /vrtnws/nl/liveblog/vsambassadeur-eist-sancties-tegen-vooruitvoorzitter-rousseau-~1771325690894/
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    UK threatened with sanctions if Starmer bans X/Twitter

    www.telegraph.co.uk /business/2026/01/09/uk-threatened-with-sanctions-if-starmer-bans-x/
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    TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin'

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    'Trump demanded screaming and swearing that Zelensky give up territory'

    nos.nl /artikel/2587115-trump-eiste-schreeuwend-en-vloekend-dat-zelensky-gebied-opgeeft
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    US Vice President J.D. Vance: Russia is not working against a possible peace with Ukraine

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/jd-vance/vance-optimism-energetic-diplomacy-will-end-war-ukraine-rcna226606
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    NATO chief Mark Rutte in Kyiv to discuss Ukraine's security with Zelensky

    kyivindependent.com /nato-secretary-general-rutte-arrives-in-kyiv-as-ukraine-seeks-to-receive-security-guarantees/
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    The US far right and Trumps allies are actively working to replace Europe’s head leaders with anti-EU anti democratic far right nationalistic leaders with the help of european allies

    www.ft.com /content/6ef9d415-5096-49c3-9069-4070e43d0f74
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    Dutch intelligence provides proof of Russia’s use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and its ambition to escalate to even more lethal chemical gases, including deadly nerve gas.

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/russian-use-chemical-weapons-against-ukraine-widespread-dutch-defence-minister-2025-07-04/
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    Apparently Trump didn’t know Pentagon paused Ukraine aid back in February. Reuters: U.S. military aid to Ukraine was paused in early Feb — not by Trump, but by Defense Secretary Hegseth.

    www.reuters.com /world/us/order-by-hegseth-cancel-ukraine-weapons-caught-white-house-off-guard-2025-05-06/