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Ray Vahey, founder of BitChute.com, joins us today to discuss the recently introduced UK Online Safety Act of 2023 and how it has forced BitChute to discontinue its video sharing service for UK residents. We discuss the history of the Online Safety Act, how it impacts all online platforms in the UK, and what concerned citizens can do to evade the censorship dragnet.
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BitChute notice re: Online Safety Act in the UK
Best VPNs for Privacy in 2025 (Cover Your Tracks)
Adolescence | Official Trailer
SPI-B: Sustaining behaviours to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission, 22 April 2021
SPI-B: “Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists”
Dear James, Speaking of censorship….please, please 1000 times please expose the terrible injustices being perpetrated against the political prisoner Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. Forgive my persistence but you could do so much good to help this great man. They seek not ONLY to censor/silence Reiner Fuellmich but to break him. Please help! Begging…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncK4tAb3luk
SHENANIGANS!
cont…and dear James, Here is a them-tube site which provides more detailed explanations of Germanys’ torturous treatment of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. You have been my Super Hero for 10 years now. Please don your cape and swoop in to expose this outrage. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD5d_RqtTli0QAFf9xxDErg/community I apologize if my persistence is obnoxious….but I cannot help but beg.
If you don’t have a VPN you can still probably avoid geo restrictions via TOR.
You can run it via Browser on your regular machine or via TailsOS (see below)
Tails OS wil boot up as the operating system and when you pull out the USB stick it lives on and restart your back to your regular computer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)
Guy putting it in USB stick.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gO9fTnMxwYw&pp=ygURSW5zdGFsbCB0YWlscyBvcyA%3D
This guide claims to show how to PICK which country your link comes out in – not done it myself but it looks about right.
https://www.wikihow.com/Set-a-Specific-Country-in-a-Tor-Browser
You COULD just use the TOR Browser, even in your Microsoft spyware machine.
FOR PHONES
You may want to use orbot – you can have it wrap all your traffic via proxies. It should be in the App Store of android and ios
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbot
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbot
DO NOT SIGN INTO BANKS OR IMPORTANT ACCOUNTs VIA TOR….ever
Also for people without a VPN you can use Proxy Chains.
I would advise AGAINST singing into anything you actually care about (banks emails social media accounts linked to you) via Proxies or TOR
Here is a very cheerful chap showing the process on Linux. You can look up tutorials on your on windows
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsA8zREbt6g&pp=ygUMUHJveHkgY2hhaW5z
how_would_you_like_this_wrapped.jpg
ofcom.com domain is available.
Should snatch it and have it redirect it to a page warning about ofcom and sharing ideas for fighting back.
Would be nice if Ray could confirm why exactly so many BitChute videos from the early days won’t play at all. Pretty unhappy about it. Switched to Odysee because of it. I wonder if it’s possible to get those videos playing again or if they’re dead forever.
As a Londoner I have anecdotal evidence that about 25% of the populace is awake and the rest in various states of denial or partial awakeness to the manipulation being foisted on us from MSM and government.
I do tai chi in a class and during the Scamdemic, four of us out of a class of about 12 – 15 were aware.In fact I would say that the most awake people are not UK born and educated and are usually blue collar workers. I would recommend Mullvad VPN as advocated originally by UK Column.
Thanks to a gamer turned political streamer I learned that India and Pakistan are exchanging blows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoCYB_AJAUA
India is bombing terrorists in Pakistan, of course.
BTW, I did watch the “Adolescence” mini series and, while I’m not certain what James was pointing to, the show depicts an adolescent that was recorded by security cameras while killing a girl from his class. The police use social media while looking for clues as to why he may have done it as motive is one of the staples of proving a murder. Much of the time they are trying to decode the information found online.
From the technical side, I would not say the show was terribly Orwellian. Especially in the UK, I believe it has been normalized decades ago that cameras are all over the place. The show doesn’t really go into what could have been built upon this infrastructure, any technology that may be used to track or anticipate what may happen next.
After the release, there was a racial controversy going on, due to a white young man being depicted as a murderer, while some of the internet denizens drew connections to a black young man who was blamed/convicted for a relatively similar murder recently. Following up further on these claims, it does appear they are not based in reality as the fella who played adolescent’s dad in the show was also its writer and he wrote the dad role for himself. Him being a white man makes it seems improbable that the adolescent should have been black with the protagonist’s race swapped later to better fit the “modern audiences”.
The thing I found most jarring in this show is the very excellent performance of the actor playing the adolescent, who goes through all the stages (denial, feigned incompetence, aggression) while getting caught up with the repercussions of his actions. The character does deliver a very convincing performance for the audience, making it looks like he didn’t do it. There is a certain underlying theme of abuse and ridicule endured by the adolescent, coming from the victim and her area of influence over, of course, social media.
Most touching was the dad’s role who believed (contrary to the evidence) up to the very end, at which point he goes through a bit of psychotic break of his own.
I have not watched the show but the lotus eaters guy did a thing in it (point of a system is what is does or something like that was the name)
From what I have heard others say about it it’s kinda good propaganda because while it looks like it’s for lefties (with manosphere references being brought up) it’s really to appeal to people who are more righties by reminding them how bad social media is (making restrictions look good)
I imagine the race swap controversy is from the vast disparity between whites and immigrants when it comes to stabbings and such. Whites so far less of them but had they picked a black family it would have “been racist” AND also the rughties they actually want to appeal to would have not seen themselves in the Dad….. it’s pretty interesting that a show can appeal to two sets of people at the same time- an educated friend of mine said there were three sets of jokes in Shakespeare (plebs/ middling/ educated)
For all their talk of saving the kids there is no way they will ever pull back and shut down internet porn access…it’s too useful to the ruling class
Caution, blabber ahead.
I was under the impression that the reason for the cabal starting to include the “social media is bad for kids” angle in their productions is likely to help accelerate the agenda to eliminate Internet anonymity.
Government-enforced age verification before being able to access certain sites/services means identity verification before being able to access those sites/services.
Which brings us to the the South Korean system where they commonly have to sign up for sites & services using their national ID (social security number).
And, of course, the next step will be some kind of real-time bio-identification to make sure a kid isn’t logging in with the parent’s ID (or the ID of some other adult family member).
What form that will take is up in the air.
Maybe requiring a thumb scan every 2 hours, then eventually a face scan plus felony charges for allowing a minor to use your ID, then, eventually, because the precious children just still aren’t safe enough – we get safe & effective sub dermal optic nerve signal decoders that detect a ‘privacy-respecting’ low-res QR code randomly flashed on the screen between frames. Which, of course, can also be used to conveniently unlock your car, pay for purchases, clock into work and vote for your favorite savior candidate.
Animals
I dont think they will lock everything down, they just need to keep normies from coming across ideas the ruling class does not want them to see.
on the other hand i seriously wonder if the internet will even exist in ten or twenty years what with how its built like a jenga tower of systems tossed ontop of each other and the people writing code are now as dumb as me and just slap bits of code together like lego blocks without understanding it properly.
Maybe they will have to build a new system that will be more like the MiniTel they had in France for so long- you needed to have a magazine publishing license to publish on that. The Internet only had to be good long enough to get everyone using it.
@Duck
safe-spaced normies
Definitely a primary part of it.
More specifically, the youth normies. TPTB appear to accomplish virtually everything via the youth while the over-30’s are kept distracted.
dumb jenga coding
100%
And now they’ve got ChatGPT writing their code for them.
wild west Internet bait
It’s increasingly looking like that may be the case, especially since we’ve seen that same tactic being deployed in various software & services since.
Firefox being one of the best examples.
Lure em all in with the appeal of freedom and empowerment, then, once they’re all in, start raising the walls.
10-20 years
Between the revelations of the past 5 years and witnessing the power of the AI made available to the taxcattle (just imagine what TPTB have), it is extremely difficult to predict what things will be like in 10-20 years. Virtually all signs point to something very, very bad though.
I haven’t seen the show but I’ve read about the fallout and political discussions. I thought it was simply because the show featured a young teen committing murder that the idiot politicians were using this as “evidence” of the impact of social media on young people, ignoring the fact that it was fiction. However I avoid the mainstream media as much as possible, so I may have got it wrong.
“…. However I avoid the mainstream media as much as possibl….”
Good call! I do the same
I live in the UK, and I find it frustrating when people in other countries say that people in the UK are just allowing these dystopian things to happen. There has been a lot of pushback, but the NWO pushes on regardless. Remember the millions of people who marched in the UK and Europe protesting against the Iraq war, holding banners that said “Not in my name”? It still went ahead.
Groups like Together and Big Brother Watch have been fighting this bill for years, and they have a lot of support. The SPI B scandal came to light in early 2020 when a businessman called Simon Dolan brought a court case against the “lockdowns”. He lost his case. The system is broken. “They” are trying to move us towards an AI government. People are fighting it – some of the battles have been won but it’s a difficult struggle, especially when many of the protestors have been conned into thinking that Donald Trump and Nigel Farage will save us!
I’m in the UK too Minnie and I understand what you’re saying. I think there are many many people awake to what’s going on but there’s little cohesion. I was walking my dog the other day and was chatting with another dog-walker who angrily told me she’d had the covid vaccine only because she worked in healthcare and was obliged to, and that she thought covid was nonsense. I didn’t even start the discussion on covid! It’s unlikely I happened to bump into the only other person in my town that thinks that way. A great example of how people are thinking is voter turnout. I won’t list all the details here but the collapse of Lab/Con support is striking. More people voted for Corbyn than Starmer and yet Starmer got a whopping majority on the back of a shitty turnout and in reality has a virtually non-existant mandate. This to me shows people have had enough of the bullshit, but of course the MSM simply talk about Starmer’s huge majority and how the people clearly wanted change etc. It fools many people but many more are wising up. I wouldn’t condone voting Reform but their success does suggest a pushback against the mainstream lies and I think this Reform support is down to an increasing distrust in ‘traditional govenment’ within the general public rather than Reform’s policies. I expect we’ll see more of this as time goes by. Undoubtedly they’ll get better at cooking the polling books though.
I didn’t have a clue about Adolescence until I read Kit Knightly’s posts on Off-Guardian – which are excellent. I’m in the UK and I never hear anyone in the general public raise concerns about the OSA. But then again, if you just watch the MSM, which most people do, why would you? It’s helping keep children safe innit?
Having been a ‘normie’ myself for most of my life it took access to alternative viewpoints to allow me to escape. Even You Tube back in the day was invaluable. Not having easy access to these alternatives will make a huge dent in the number of people who can be assisted to change their views. When a doubt crops up, where can they go to get these doubts to solidify into something they can grasp? If there’s nothing it may petre out. As mentioned, even forums and chatrooms will be policed into non-existence. Resistance will become like something from centuries past. People meeting in smoky back rooms, taking roundabout routes, wearing hooded cloaks to get there, constantly wary of government spies and infiltrators. Quite romantic in a way…
One post from Off-Guardian below.
https://off-guardian.org/2025/04/01/how-adolescence-offers-us-a-peek-inside-the-machine/
Chadders
“….Resistance will become like something from centuries past. People meeting in smoky back rooms, taking roundabout routes, wearing hooded cloaks to get there….”
🙂 sounds like fun.
The down side is that most Normies are only going to come to that kind of meeting if you promise them an Orgy afterwards.
The tiny window the internet gave between being a nerd zone and being Cable (or is that Cabal? lol) TV is closing. That window let regular people get exposed to ideas they wouldn’t come across normally- what worries me is that now people are in a Media Garden but have fewer and fewer real world interpersonal relations.
That means they are even easier then they used to be to keep in a media constructed illusion of reality….TBH we’d be better off in some ways if there was NO internet. No one used to actually believe the news or the papers when I was a kid, they all assumed urn was lies.
All too easy
“The down side is that most Normies are only going to come to that kind of meeting if you promise them an Orgy afterwards.”
Worth a try. Sometimes one has to take one for the team. 😉
Yes I agree with what you say about the internet. It wasn’t long ago of course that it provided this incredible freedown to share ideas, views, opinions with others around the world, or close to home too. It genuinely was liberating. Is it by design that many of us are now captured by this and will struggle to let go? A classic example is Facebook which even I struggled a little with binning 5 years ago as it really was the best way for contacting old friends and so on. But difficult as it was to lose touch with some people I certainly don’t miss it now. I could have made the effort to get contact info for some of the decent people on there but rashly I ditched it in a bit of a covid huff after falling out with a few ‘friends’. But I can understand how so many individuals and businesses now rely on Facebook for so much that they simply have to conform and accept the rules. That said, most of these people probably aren’t aware of the prison they’re in anyway. Was this by design? Lure us all in, make the platform invaluable and our major source of social interaction and ‘news’, and then censor all that we see? Does the same apply to the internet as a whole? Have we all been tricked by the offered boundless freedoms that we gave ourselves up to it with little chance of ever being able to back out? In the meantime very little of us is not out there somewhere. Was that the plan all along?
I’m sure James has a done a podcast on this at some point! 😀
It’s interesting that the Online Safety Act has “been in the works for 5 years now”, according to Ray.
The lockdowns began 5 years ago.
Maybe the Act is intended to censor posts like this :-
https://x.com/votejainism2/status/1835471311532876039
The post is entirely legal. It’s one of mine. I’m in the UK.
Thanks James, I have to have a VPN as we are in France and can’t use services like Rumble here which is banned. I managed to get Glen Medlar (a couple of years ago) who helps people online to do this it was well worth the 30 odd bucks I paid him! I will spread the news!!
When I heard about Starlink I instantly assumed it would free us from censorship. It’s it peer-peer worldwide, no middle man? The only way to stop it is to shoot down the satellites?
Voluntaryist
I guess it depends on who owns the satellites….its probably even easier to censor and block traffic on star link since they most likely pass thru servers under the company’s control to get on the regular internet- whatever you pass “peer to peer “ internally is just as easy to stop or slow to a crawl.
Not that I hate Elon Musk ,and he has done some good things, but when it suits his interests I don’t think he will hesitate to lock down the system and what you can do in it.
It’s not peer to peer unless you have your own satellites…. It’s a walled garden owned by Elon Musk
Banking/money supply, communication, whatever tech we use will always be subject to fraud, e.g., exploitation of the clients. Free banking resulted in issuing more receipts than the bank could redeem. Sometimes the bankers escaped town when “a run on the bank” occurred, but some had the sense to realize there was more money to be made honestly. They flourished more & more as their reputation grew. With the present system granting a monopoly on violence, it turns into “a license to steal”. Why? The “protectors” get an exemption on morality? Why? The populace are immature politically/psychologically. They want someone to run their lives, and are willing to pay for it, financially and at a personal cost that is different for each person. I consider this the worst of all political systems. But I have always been an outlier, unable to understand why others believe as they do, e.g., superstitions.
VPN’s might not be easy for Grandma.
I’ve been using a VPN for over a decade, mostly it is smooth but certain sites have difficulty with it. Sometimes if I want to watch youtube it insists that I sign in (the problem usually resolves if I switch to a different IP address). Some vendors won’t accept logins from a VPN (so I no longer patronize those), and some have suspended my account (presumably because I use a VPN but perhaps for other reasons, or no reason). Grandma, unless she already has awareness of the problem, won’t want the inconvenience.