Angela Rayner has claimed Nigel Farage would open the floodgates to revenge porn and “fail a generation of young women” by scrapping online safety laws.
In a direct attack on the Reform leader, the Deputy Prime Minister warned that removing protections would enable “a vile, misogynistic culture on social media”.
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Ms Rayner said the move would lead to a rise in instances of “intimate image abuse” online, which is more commonly referred to as revenge porn and can include uploading images online, as well as sharing them by text and email or even showing another person an image.“Intimate image abuse is a devastating crime and contributes to a vile misogynistic culture on social media that we know translates into physical spaces too,” Ms Rayner said.
“Nigel Farage risks failing a generation of young women with his dangerous and irresponsible plans to scrap online safety laws.
“Scrapping safeguards and having no viable alternative plan in place to halt the floodgates of abuse that could open is an appalling dereliction of duty.
How does age verification stop revenge porn? Also, have we seen some massive fall in revenge pron thi psat two weeks as the “protections” kick in? If not, why would the absence of the protections mean a rise?
Lordy it’s desperate stuff.
It just makes Kyle and Ange look even ficker, if possible.
What idiot at No10 thought this line of attack was a good idea ?
reminds me of the law passed a while back that allows the previously young and naive to remove their younger selves from search returns (i.e. forces companies to remove on request)? Don’t hear much about it these days and don’t even see the legalese a nobbled search returned.
James Heale at The Spectator thinks this is about labour trying out lines before the election which is four years away? I think it mostly desperation, but I’m not as plugged in to the Westminster bubble as him.
It’s also worth noting that polls show that women are moving towards Reform, especially in the age range that are likely to have teenage daughters. The only age ranges not moving toward them are young women who are on the left and old women who are sticking with the Conservatives, so it’s easy to see why Ange has been used for this attack line.
As an aside, is Ange becoming our “Hilary”? She’s doing her best to make herself unpopular with most demographics.
She’s right – huge numbers of women have been protected by the shutting down of the internet’s most prominent forum about hamsters.
My God – she’s not only horrendous ideologically but has to be one of the single most stupid people ever to hold high office. Surely Reform has to make women only shortlists illegal, on top of scrapping the Online Safety Act?
What idiot at No10 thought this line of attack was a good idea ?
I think you answered your own question; they are desperate. They will also be digging up every bit of dirt on every Reform MP, councillor, candidate and staffer. Where they can’t find anything real, they will puff it up or make it up.
They aren’t interested in appealing to demographics who can’t vote for another 4 years.
Everything is aimed at feeding their media flying monkeys as an end in itself and buffing the egos of the small bubble of true believers.
Labour’s next attack line – linking Farage with Andrew Tate
https://x.com/fox_claire/status/1956835328209134015?s=61&t=VX5cJ0-osgn_JSz7j-uowQ
The main problem with being governed by extremly stupid people is that they can only think thatt everyone is as stupid and gullible as they are. We’ve seen it many times in the last year, ranging from “I took an HIV test only because it’s so quick and easy” to “the small boats are mostly women and children”. Even other world leaders must look at our mob and wonder what is so unique to the UK that it produces, Starmer, Lammy. Reeves and Rayner…
Grist: do we stand out particularly in that respect? Plenty of duffers and idealogical idiots in other governments. On that last point you forgot to mention Mad Ed.
We remember Thatcher and Reagan but they were pretty exceptional in recent historical terms.
TG, Mad Ed may be mad but it’s not just down to stupidity. He genuinely is an institution with straitjackets case…
what is so unique to the UK that it produces (list of imbeciles)
Biden, Harris, Walz, Rear-Admiral Levine, Newsom, Bootyjudge and shortly Mamdani.
For now at least the US has moved on (apart from Mamdani).
’Intimate image abuse is a devastating crime…’
How lucky, then, that it can be avoided so very easily. If only all crime in the UK was so easy to avoid.
The World Wide Web has been established for over 25 years prior to the “On-line Safety Act” so what suddenly has happened that makes children exposed to “horrors” on the Internet that didn’t happen before?
Like all propaganda to support draconian legislation it is heavy on conclusions but light on evidence.
Just how many children are viewing these “horrors” and with what effect? What is the extent and scale of the problem? Impossible to know but we do know that for more than 25 years children have had access to the Internet and thus “horrors” but we see no tangible evidence of its effect.
And, no children cannot just stumble onto porn sites, they actively have to seek them out. Browsers and router/modems have parental controls, so the supposed problem can easily be dealt with at parental level, to block access the porn sites.
A good example :
Horror comics of the 1950s and the moral panic they caused.
That’s what I was thinking, JuliaM.
Doesn’t this law ENCOURAGE intimate pictures? “Go ahead, we’ve got your back.”
Hey girls, how about refusing to pose naked for your boyfriend? Or, even, be a bit selective about who you fuck?
ps. Is Readers’ Wives still a thing in the skin mags?
If Farage hasn’t or doesn’t come straight out and say, every time the cunts try this line, that the Online Safety Act is designed to stop people talking about the Labour government allowing hordes of foreign men in to drug and gang rape our little girls, then he’s a useless twat unworthy of national leadership.
The vile enemy are incredibly vulnerable to this brutal attack with the truth of their vileness. So smash them with it every time they open their foul gobshite mouths.
Does you wife like photography ?
Holiday snaps ?
Could be, could be taken on holiday
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink,. Say no more squire
Rayner makes you realise that Labour has worse alternatives than Starmer, most probably makes some MP’s wary of ousting him
Has the baggage got an angling licence?
Does your wife like gladiator movies?
The Left only became “concerned” about kids and smut when they realized they could wipe out internet anonymity “for the children.”
John B,
“Just how many children are viewing these “horrors” and with what effect? What is the extent and scale of the problem? Impossible to know but we do know that for more than 25 years children have had access to the Internet and thus “horrors” but we see no tangible evidence of its effect.
And, no children cannot just stumble onto porn sites, they actively have to seek them out. Browsers and router/modems have parental controls, so the supposed problem can easily be dealt with at parental level, to block access the porn sites.”
The ID law exists because mothers don’t like the thought of their sweet little boy wanking off over a big titted woman giving a blowjob. Husbands know to go along with it, not worth the argument, and then tell the kid where to hide it better so mum doesn’t catch them. And everyone else basically doesn’t care. Doesn’t want to seem to be defending something that makes them sound like a paedophile.
But no-one seriously believes this is actually going to work. Teenage boys want porn like The Terminator wants to kill Sarah Connor. They’ve already discovered ways around it, like the obvious one of VPNs but also using the photo mode in the game Death Stranding.
I agree with PJF 100%. I do think the public’s mood is… evolving… much faster than Nigel Farage is.
But look at what’s going on out there.
A man called Robert Jenrick, an MP for the fourth most popular political party in Britain, joined the Epping rapefugee hotel protest today. That’s huge. Huge I say!
It wasn’t long ago (months?) that would have ended his career as a Tory MP and probably sparked a by-election. It would have been a massive, media-ginned scandal and he’d have got the Nick Griffin treatment. NOW, the snakes are slithering *towards* patriotic protests, in the hopes of enhancing their careers. And it’s not just rapefugees – everywhere you look, you see the preference cascade in action. Precisely a year ago, the homo-pedo-negro flag was everywhere as if we were an occupied country (we are) and the Tranny menace seemed inevitable. This year, you could blink and miss “pride” and troons are being chased out of the women’s toilets. The atmosphere of fear and censorship is evaporating, people no longer have any fucks to give despite the government trying to make speech illegal. British people are talking to each other, and discovering nobody actually wanted any of the “woke” shit.
The Saxon is awakening, and dear God is he righteously pissed off. It’s glorious. The panic of the establishment and the lying press reminds me of that scene in Cabaret, when the perverts first realise they’re in deep shit because some handsome youths start singing.
The sun on the meadow is summery warm…
“ Teenage boys want porn like The Terminator wants to kill Sarah Connor. ”
You sir have won today’s internet.
@Ottokring
nod’s a good as a wink to a blind bat
Age verification does not directly stop revenge porn, but that was not the goal. The goal was to stop all porn. As seen in attitude displayed in this article in the Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/porn-hub-vpn-sex-bonnie-blue-online-safety-b2810947.html
The stated aims are no more than a flimsy rationalisation. The goal is to achieve effective censorship so that it can be gradually broadened.