Hacker News: joe463369

New comment by joe463369 in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

joe463369 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:32:10 +0000

Who are the 'pedos' in government?

New comment by joe463369 in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

joe463369 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:28:26 +0000

Is there any evidence of this? I hear it time and again with very little justification.

New comment by joe463369 in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

joe463369 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:03:46 +0000

There is nothing in this article that suggests the UK government are planning to ban VPNs.

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:06:14 +0000

Someone using their phone while driving in the UK will almost certainly be charged £200. They'll only receive the maximum £1000 charge in extreme circumstances.

Please don't lie.

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:07:15 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBUUx0jUKxc

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:01:41 +0000

> OI mate, you got a loicense for that operating system?

please don't

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:58:20 +0000

Yes, they were both written by British people.

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:48:05 +0000

The UK has a constitution.

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:41:35 +0000

There is zero evidence of any UK police action.

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:20:02 +0000

It's not denial. Nothing's happened.

New comment by joe463369 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

joe463369 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:07:31 +0000

Some 'people on HN' might have some slight sympathy for people aren't wealthy tech workers. Maybe even the sort of people who live in Alabama.

New comment by joe463369 in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

joe463369 — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:18:54 +0000

> TEMO will more than likely just pass the cost of this onto EU consumers.

Good. I want to know my AIEONUS phone charger isn't going to burn my house down and I'm more than happy pay a premium for that knowledge.

New comment by joe463369 in "UK to permanently ban future generations from buying cigarettes"

joe463369 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:23:20 +0000

Do you live in the United Kingdom?

New comment by joe463369 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

joe463369 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:00:05 +0000

Democracy is having the laws Americans approve of, because God wrote their Constitution.

New comment by joe463369 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

joe463369 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:29:16 +0000

It is undemocratic that European countries insist on making laws that Americans don't like.

New comment by joe463369 in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

joe463369 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:28:33 +0000

> This has led to outrageous examples such as this man who is facing a longer sentence for burning a Quran than the man who stabbed him (for burning said Quran): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xr12yx5l4o

This is a more than a bit misleading. The Quran-burner received a £240 fine, his assailant got 20 weeks suspended. Also, though he went for him with a knife, he wasn't successful - nobody was stabbed.

New comment by joe463369 in "ChatGPT wrote "Goodnight Moon" suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself"

joe463369 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:47:51 +0000

Where are the Grok acolytes to tell us "He could have written a poem encouraging himself to commit suicide in Vim."

New comment by joe463369 in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

joe463369 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:23:52 +0000

You've backtracked from your 'blank sign' position. I'm pointing out that your "People were just arrested for holding up signs like 'abolish monarchy'" might be on similarly shaky ground.

If it's not clear, I'm also heavily implying that you should be questioning the veracity of whatever source you're getting this easily-debunked tripe from.

New comment by joe463369 in "X 'acting to comply with UK law' after outcry over sexualised images"

joe463369 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:14:30 +0000

> These stories never make clear if the change is bounded by the location of the users.

IANAL but my understanding is that people outside the UK won't have their free speech affected and will still be able to ask Grok to create pornographic images of children for them. As the founding fathers intended.

New comment by joe463369 in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

joe463369 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:43:43 +0000

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/abolish-the-mona...

> Police Scotland said the 22-year-old woman arrested outside St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Sunday had been arrested for “breach of the peace”.

> The woman was holding a sign reading “f** imperialism, abolish monarchy”, but the sign is not understood to be the reason for her arrest