MEGA-THREAD: Hysterical Lawmaking and Online overreach

[Jim Burton]

Another "enquiry" or "commission" whose purpose is entirely to service the power-insecurity of a failing government.

French children under 15 should be banned from social media and there should be an overnight "digital curfew" for 15-18 year olds, a parliamentary commission has recommended.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkjep23403o

[Jim Burton]

Underage and on the register: Thousands of teens committing peer-on-peer porn offences

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/thousands ... 5HjdCgy_2/

[BLueRibbon]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/c ... 00062.html

This article was utter garbage.

Repackaged arguments preceded by multiple paragraphs on how child abuse is so awful to prove that the author is not hellbent on fucking kids.

Nobody has an original thought these days. They just write paragraph after paragraph of rehashed arguments that they know won't get them canceled or fired.

What a pathetic world humans have created.

[Jim Burton]

New Texas law aimed at AI imagery leaves anime fans worried

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/new-t ... d-3250885/

A new Texas law meant to crack down on AI-generated content is already causing confusion among anime fans, with some fearing it could lead to certain series being restricted or even banned.

Senate Bill 20, authored by Sen. Pete Flores, was signed into law earlier this year and officially took effect on September 1. The bill makes it a felony to possess or promote “obscene visual material” that appears to depict minors, whether through real photos, AI-generated images, or animated works like cartoons and anime.

[Jim Burton]

12-year-old facing new charges after sharing video of minor girlfriend performing sexual acts

https://nypost.com/2025/09/09/us-news/b ... sex-abuse/

[Jim Burton]

Trio of stories in which India and Turkey are becoming highly involved in "Obscenity" and "Indecency" policing, with Karens talking about porn and cleaning up Theatre.

https://ifex.org/turkey-girl-band-under ... ravel-ban/

https://www.brecorder.com/news/40382757 ... completely

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cit ... 873861.cms

[Jim Burton]

Reality fails to come to terms with the fact that porn is post truth.

https://www.chosun.com/english/national ... TYVRSOZSE/

New strict laws in Malaysia.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/categ ... -predators

[notetaker]

More on Chat Control, including a commentary:

"It's just smoke and mirrors" – Over 500 cryptography scientists and researchers slam the EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats

https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyb ... sapp-chats

Proposed EU Chat Control regulation could create surveillance state

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/c ... 00062.html

If people let this go through it won't be us that gets the major share of the pie, it'll come back to bite everybody in the rear.
It's an interesting report and I recommend everybody peruse through it https://csa-scientist-open-letter.org/Sep2025

[Jim Burton]

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterpr ... rveillance

https://cybernews.com/security/chat-con ... -messages/

https://www.nst.com.my/news/crime-court ... ital-world

[Jim Burton]

Illinois cracks down on AI-generated child porn: 'Obscene is obscene'

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illin ... child-porn

llinois law now makes AI-created child porn as illegal as real images, giving police clearer tools to prosecute.

Reports of AI-generated child exploitation have skyrocketed, with hundreds of thousands flagged nationwide and cases already tied to Illinois victims.