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iamacyborg commented on 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web   cybercultural.com/p/lastf... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
ndespres · 4 hours ago
Sep 23, 2004 here! 285k scrobbles. Always been a loyal user. My use goes back far enough that I would have scrobbles queued up for when my dialup connection came online to push the days’ missed scrobbles up.
iamacyborg · 3 hours ago
Jun 8th ‘07, 535,618k scrobbles.

My usage went way up once I was able to properly scrobble listens played via my hifi.

iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
> 12,000 arrests per year

Arrested is not the same thing as being charged. The latter is what would lead to a trial.

> So they are currently trying to get rid of juries, which they will do

Huh

> a leader that has styled himself as a more extreme Nigel Farage

I’m sorry, what?

> The UK is actually a scary place right now

It is?

iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
oytis · 3 days ago
People do get imprisoned for "terrorist speech" to my best knowledge. Up to 15 years prison time if I understand the law correctly
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
You do realise what terrorist speech entails though, right?
iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
4ndrewl · 3 days ago
In England and Wales there are 85k people serving custodial sentences and 250k community sentences. 12k seems significant, if true.
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
Arrests are not the same thing as imprisonment or community sentences.
iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
SpaceManNabs · 3 days ago
Interesting to see these kinds of comments more in this thread compared to the one from yesterday.

The one from yesterday was discussing how australia is banning social media for anyone under 16. Most comments were supportive because they hate social media.

A few comments were discussing how it is just a way to propagate more KYC.

iamacyborg · 3 days ago
Posts about the UK tend to draw quite a lot of weird astroturfing from the ultra free speech crowd.
iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
pjc50 · 3 days ago
That's exactly it. The proscription is ridiculous and delegitimises the whole concept of proscribed organization. It collapses into "mere support for Palestine is an arrestable offense". This didn't work against Sinn Fein and it will not work now.
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
> It collapses into "mere support for Palestine is an arrestable offense".

It explicitly doesn’t do that, folks are still very much free to protest in support of Palestine.

iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
StanislavPetrov · 3 days ago
Probably the media that shows the UK locking up old ladies and people in wheelchairs for speaking out publicly against ongoing UK support for genocide (among other "speech offenses").
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
You might be missing some important context, namely that they’re doing so under the guise of a proscribed organisation.
iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
gmac · 3 days ago
I wouldn’t dismiss this so easily, the Palestine Action stuff is pretty appalling.
iamacyborg · 3 days ago
You mean folks choosing to protest under the guise of a proscribed organisation?

Protesting in favour of Palestine remains legal, doing so under the name of a proscribed organisation is not.

Admittedly, the reason for them being proscribed is rather idiotic.

Dead Comment

iamacyborg commented on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16   alecmuffett.com/article/1... · Posted by u/nvarsj
ethanwillis · 3 days ago
Yes, let me just arrest you over some text and hold you for a couple of days.

Surely no problem! But being serious if anything this is worse than no imprisonment. Why are they arresting so many people they don't have any grounds to jail longer term?

iamacyborg · 3 days ago
Days?

> The police can hold you for up to 24 hours before they have to charge you with a crime or release you.

> They can apply to hold you for up to 36 or 96 hours if you’re suspected of a serious crime, such as murder.

> You can be held without charge for up to 14 days if you’re arrested under the Terrorism Act.

https://www.gov.uk/arrested-your-rights/how-long-you-can-be-...

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