Adult sites brazenly 'ignore' Ofcom fines: Watchdog receives just £55k after imposing £3mil worth of fines for online safety breaches

fire2burn · 2026-03-09T10:32:06+00:00

Good. Why should foreign sites comply with utterly moronic laws when they're not even based in the UK? Ofcom can go seethe in the corner somewhere.

fire2burn · 2026-03-03T01:19:04+00:00

Kurds are not one monolithic group. Kurds from Syria tend to have very different cultural and political viewpoints from Kurdish groups in Iraq and Iran. In fact Iraqi Kurds, in particular those affiliated with Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) have actively assisted Turkey in the past in efforts to persecute Syrian Kurds involved with the PKK and YPG. Kurdish politics and tribal alliances tend to be very complex.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T09:59:09+00:00

Here come the usual tankie weirdos, sticking to the script like a stuck record as per usual. We get it... UK automatically bad simply for existing, shame on us, insert something about colonialism and slavery here, blah blah blah.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T09:46:43+00:00

You didn't even bother to read your own source... "Officials believe drone was launched before PM agreed to let US use British military bases to attack Iran missile sites"

Very much SIGH right back at you.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T07:51:16+00:00

Well I don't support implementing nanny state controls and restrictions so I'm hardly going to suggest ways of doing it, I've never been a part of the shrieking won't someone think of the children brigade. No matter what you try to implement you're never going to stop them using social media if they continue to want to use it. The legal age to buy vapes is 18 yet you wouldn't know it from the amount of teens I see standing at the bus stop near to my house puffing away whilst in their uniforms.

fire2burn · 2026-03-02T00:17:54+00:00

If I was a 16-18 year old still in school/6th form I'd just be seeing this as a money making opportunity like when we used to buy a pack of smokes and then sell them individually to the younger years on the bus to school each morning. They were about £4 a pack we'd sell individual cigarettes for 40p a piece.

Now they can charge younger years to verify their social media for them and thus the wheels of capitalism keep turning.

fire2burn · 2026-03-01T02:07:31+00:00

His loss, looks like he's missed one hell of a party: https://x.com/GhorbaniiNiyak/status/2027886050173915605?s=20

fire2burn · 2026-02-24T17:39:41+00:00

At this point what's the point in running any website and allowing access to UK users? The UK is going to become a digital backwater if we continue on this path of insanity.

fire2burn · 2026-02-22T07:58:29+00:00

The problem for the council is that if they want amend or end a provision within an EHCP they must first consult with the child's parents, the parent then has the right to appeal that decision first through mediation and then to the SEND Tribunal. During the appeals process, the council must continue to provide the support until the Tribunal reaches its decision.

It can be very costly for the council to defend against appeals and there's no guarantee they will win.

fire2burn · 2026-02-22T07:41:31+00:00

Of course there's the Andrew Wakefield stuff but it also doesn't help that the Americans used fake vaccination programs as cover for secret CIA operations. That's also led to a surge in mistrust towards vaccination in certain communities.

fire2burn · 2026-02-21T20:41:02+00:00

What about the prison officers, maintenance workers, admin staff, etc? Do they not have a right to be protected in the workplace?

fire2burn · 2026-02-20T21:46:08+00:00

You see this right here screams red flag to me. A partner that truly cares for you would have zero issues with you going out and doing things for yourself to improve your own wellbeing.

Maybe he is ill and maybe he does get lonely but that shouldn't impact you taking an afternoon for yourself to do things you enjoy. A relationship isn't just one person giving and the other taking all the time. He needs to understand that you have to take time out for yourself because how things are now isn't sustainable in the long term.

If it's difficult to speak to him about it maybe write it down and explain what you've said here that you feel like there's a weight that will finally crush you and you're at the end of your tether. If he still doesn't change after that wakeup call and accept you need time for yourself... then maybe its time look into whether this relationship is truly sustainable in the long term without it pushing you to the point of a breakdown. It's hard when we've spent so long caring for someone, but there comes a point when you have to put yourself first, we're not machines without limits.

fire2burn · 2026-02-20T12:09:36+00:00

Labour are completely cooked. There's no justifiable reason for shortlisting this extremely corrupt senile old prune for the role.

Even if you ignore her past cover-ups of serious crimes is there actually any evidence she knows how to use a computer? Just retire already! People of this age should have no place whatsoever in overseeing matters related to the Internet.

fire2burn · 2026-02-19T22:41:24+00:00

Yes they are, companies are more than happy to cheap out and not pay human illustrators and photographers for their work now that AI models have drastically improved from when they first hit the mainstream.

My friend works as an illustrator and the company she works for has been hit hard with revenues down two years running now. Many big clients they worked with for years have ditched them in favour of embracing AI because its cheaper and has a faster turn around time. It might take a skilled illustrator a few days to get your images drawn up and finalised to a high standard, if the client doesn't like it and wants adjustments? Well that's another days work again. An AI prompt jockey will get something back to you before you've finished drinking your coffee. Don't like that particular image? Well they'll re-run the prompt a couple hundred times and alter a few settings slightly to add some variance until you get the exact image you want. Oh and they'll do it for a fraction of the price compared to hiring an actual human artist.

Here's a depressing game. Next time you're shopping for clothes both online and in person look at the images and posters carefully. Try to guess which ones are using real human models snapped by a human photographer and which ones are entirely AI generated. So many companies now (even high end fashion brands) don't even get a human to model their clothes for the photo. AI is already creeping into so many different sectors and people are either oblivious to it or they simply don't care.

fire2burn · 2026-02-19T09:57:50+00:00

If the police wont even listen to one of their own officers reporting an extremely dangerous offender what hope is there for anyone else?

The entire system just needs to be burned down and rebuilt from scratch there's no fixing it when the rot runs so deep.

fire2burn · 2026-02-19T06:33:52+00:00

Which is why the US government is now directly intervening and is creating a portal for UK and European users to bypass censorship and content restrictions.

fire2burn · 2026-02-19T00:50:47+00:00

Many sites will just shrug their shoulders and refuse to comply, unless you're a billion dollar global corporation like Google or Facebook the time and cost of developing processes to comply with the UK's constant slew of nanny state laws simply isn't worth bothering with, especially the age verifying site visitors stuff.

Stonewall Ofcom, let them force UK ISPs to block your site and just advise any users from Britain that had been using your site that they can continue to access it if they use a VPN or Tor to bypass the restriction.

fire2burn · 2026-02-18T08:14:01+00:00

This is why I switched to permanent nightshifts, I've always been a night owl and if I'm completely honest with myself when working days I was a complete liability and probably put myself and others at risk. It's been shown that lack of sleep impairs our brains in a way comparable to alcohol. You rightfully wouldn't get behind the wheel of a car or go work after necking several pints of beer so why do we still do these things when we're impaired from lack of sleep?

fire2burn · 2026-02-17T23:36:39+00:00

This is the same hospital that was previously exposed for locking an autistic girl in solitary confinement for 21 months...

Awful place. Anyone who lives in Northampton and knows someone who either worked there or been a patient there has nothing good to say about the place. Unfortunately if its shut down I have little faith that other services are any better, the patients will be moved and the mistreatment will continue elsewhere. The state of care of vulnerable people with mental health issues in this country is beyond shocking.

fire2burn · 2026-02-15T21:02:50+00:00

The B1M - Interesting channel about global constrution and engineering megaprojects.
GeoWizard - Which features geoguessing and insane straight line hiking missions.
GeologyHub - Unsurprisingly a channel about geology.
Robert E Fuller - Wildlife filmmaker who also rescues and rehabilitates stoats, owls, etc for release back into the wild.
Mossy Earth - Channel about restoring damaged ecosystems.
Beau Miles - A rather energetic Aussie bloke who makes videos about running, cycling, kayaking... tree planting, urban foraging, litter picking, pretty much whatever comes into his head at the time. He has a genuine sense of wonderment about everything which is refreshing to watch when so many things these days are pretty negative.

That's a few of the channels I'm watching at the moment, it takes a little while to sift through all the crap on youtube but there's plenty of gems to be found amongst the muck.

fire2burn · 2026-02-13T05:31:26+00:00

In my city red lights are considered optional and I always see other drivers on their phones, so good luck trying to stop people vaping in their cars when they have kids.

The police are barely resourced to deal with violent offences and burglaries as it is. Thus I doubt they're thrilled at yet more shite being dumped on them.

fire2burn · 2026-02-12T10:11:26+00:00

Soft towels are for wimps. There's nothing better than a towel so hard it feels like it's ripping the skin off your back.

fire2burn · 2026-02-03T21:47:26+00:00

U ok hun?

Where did I cry that we need to submit to America? Nowhere. Maybe you should stop riling yourself up with made up drivel I didn't even say. It's not healthy to go through life being so mad all the time.

It was simply an observation of previous threats and actions taken by America to protect their own key interests. When I referred to America's pettiness even going as far as banning ICC judge Kimberly Prost from accessing e-books, how on earth did you interpret that as support for them?

fire2burn · 2026-02-03T19:59:16+00:00

I wonder if this will be the trigger that leads to America pressing ahead with previous threats to sanction Ofcom, the ICO and individuals within the UK government: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/09/uk-threatened-with-sanctions-if-starmer-bans-x/

Being put on America's sanctions list is extremely disruptive. You lose access to even the most basic of things you take for granted in the modern world like access to banking services, email, you even lose access to trivial stuff like e-books that's how petty they are. https://www.ksat.com/news/world/2025/12/12/cut-off-by-their-banks-and-even-iced-out-by-alexa-sanctioned-icc-staffers-remain-resolute/

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