The website of a gender critical group, Sex Matters, was blocked on a Great Western Railway train’s WiFi, with AI scanners flagging it for “terrorism and hate”. The Mail more.
Sex Matters, a self-described “human-rights organisation that campaigns for clarity on sex in law and policy”, campaigns for “easy and safe” conversations about what it calls “ordinary truth” biology.
But the group’s website was blocked on a Great Western Railway train “because it’s associated with the terrorism and hate category”, a page blocker said.
GWR said that the page was blocked because AI scanners had deemed it ‘adult’ content, likely due to the repetition of the word ‘sex’.
It was not clear why the page was flagged for “terrorism and hate”.
A GWR spokesperson told the Telegraph they have “asked [their] supplier to review the tagging of the site to ensure it has been correctly categorised”.
GWR has not confirmed whether the technology they use is set up to filter out gender-critical content.
Sex Matters is a group “informing public debate by undertaking research and analysis”.
According to their website, their vision is for an “easy and safe” way to speak about biological differences [between men and women] while respecting “belief in gender ideology”.
They argue “it has become dangerous to speak the truth” about biological sex and laws thereof are “unclear and misinterpreted”.
They also claim that “replacing” sex with “gender identity” in various institutions “undermines everyone’s human rights”.
But not all agree with the group’s aims. The People’s History Museum faced backlash and apologised after allowing the group to hold a board meeting on its premises in July.
Internet users called the group “hateful” and trans-exclusive, prompting the museum to say sorry.
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Monbiot and Packham would certainly qualify using current terminology as “useless eaters.”
I used to have some respect for Packham, I emphasize USED to, but he’s become too politicised & jumped on the woke bandwagon, moanybot has always been a lying deceitful twat.
Yes COP 26 was all snake oil and nonsense, but cleverly framed to distract from the real business going on there in Glasgow…
Whitney Webb is good at explaining what Mark Carney and his mates were up to…
https://www.mintpressnews.com/using-the-climate-crisis-whitney-webb-discusses-global-elites-takeover-of-nature/278984/
That’s hard work given that the starting point is that we are heating up the planet.
Starting from BS does not encourage me to go further although the argument is one I have read elsewhere.
It’s a shame these PITA protesters and their agents provocateurs like Monbiot and Packham can’t stop awhile and consider what else is going on, like the complete loss of freedoms and democracy, on the way to a totalitarian dystopia.
Socialisms goal is totalitarian dystopia. Equality where everyone is equally miserable, except the narcissistic “elite” psychopathic leaders who decide what’s good for everyone else.
The ultimate aims of the Covid agenda and of eco-lunacy are identical. Climate-hysteria will be with us for some time to come.
If COP26 upset Packham it must go down as a success.
Bring on COP27 …
That’s a beaut. Thanks.
Of course not a single one of the doom mongers is willing to lead the way and change their lifestyle something you’d surely do if you truly believed that we’re killing the planet.
Exactly, after expressing my disgust at COP to my MP, he replied telling me it’s our duty to show the way to the likes of China, I said great, when you are disposing of your wealth to fight the cause and moving into one of those eco-friendly houses you can’t swing a cat in to show us the way?
No reply yet.
It’s a bit like Gates, Stanley Johnson, Schwab et al claiming the planet is overpopulated – It’s not – but none of them want to do the decent thing and lead the way by topping themselves.
Funny that.
Time to fight back, tell your kids and grandkids that their teachers are lying. The longer we allow it to carry on the harder it will be to defeat. Nobody is going to die, we’ll adapt to the small changes. I had to laugh at the photo, another group of islands due to disappear. The Maldives have just opened 5 new airports, they were supposed to be up to their waists in water by now.
According to opinion polls, the main electoral beneficiaries of COP26 have been the Green Party. The Tories hysterical virtue signalling has lent a veneer of credibility to idiotic Green alarmists and their anti-human policies. Meanwhile voters are rightly pissed-off by the chaos caused by other Tory policies: from supply chain disruption caused by unnecessary lockdowns, skyrocketing energy bills caused by a failure to invest in reliable generating capacity and the ongoing cross-channel invasion by scroungers in search of a 4-star hotel and a lifetime on benefits.
Yes I’m sure sea levels are rising. That’s why the likes of Obama et al have been buying beach side mansions and as mikec says they’ve built five new airports in the Maldives and it was meant to be submerged by now.. bullshit..
Sea Level Alarmism Unravels As Earth’s Coastlines Are Observed Expanding Since 1984 – Watts Up With That?
This garbage is no different to covid, idiotic groupthink. The same zealots won’t let anybody else get a word in edgeways with calling them lunatics or deniers. The same governments willing to destroy wealth and lifestyle of its citizens to signal its virtue over something that is completely false.
I’ve had enough of this, it’s time we starting having a bash a woke campaign. Don’t argue with them, as they are too stupid to reason. Just smash the sneering arseholes right in the face.
The longer people spend any time and effort talking about Pacific Islands to Monbiot in the Guardian, the less time they have for considering and understanding what this is really all about.
Its not about what they say its about.
Its about using covid and climate change to disrupt society and the current finacial/economic paradigm. Its about furthering resource constrained capitalism controlled by a loose alliance of governments, corporations, investors and organised through Central Banks under the auspices of the BIS. Its reinforcing a global fascism. With everything, all natural assets as well as human bodies , financialised.
The current financial system is broken has been since 2008. This is the new enlarged commodity system valued at over $4000 trillion.
It is designed to lead to a world where 90% are colder, poorer and die earlier, whist the 0.5-1% become all powerful and even richer.
The only speech at COP26 worth the airtime was the one by Sunak, where he talked about the baked in ‘environmental’ targets which now have to be met by every financial investment made on anything everywhere. And those targets are not under the control of any individual government, they have been globalised under the stewardship of the BIS.
Elections, wherever, will not change this system now. This new feudal, fascism has been outsourced under the control of the very elites who benefit from it.
So when you see idiots on bridges over the thames or police armed in Rotterdam, remember they are inadvertently working for exactly the same people for their ends and no-one elses.
China and Russia for instance are part of the same nexus, the squabbles you read about are some of the fascists trying to get bigger slices of the cake. But they are all in the same trough.
Its not about what they say it about.
“Was COP26 peak snake oil?”.
Sadly I think the answer is a resounding NO.
Given that the green blob “know” that they are right, the more that ordinary, sensible, people ignore them the louder they’ll shout, and the scarier their predictions will become to try and get the ignorant plebs to agree with them. Given that Bojo, Biden, the E.U. etc. are now fully signed up members of the neo-marxist environmental brigade the madness will go on for a long time to come. My prediction is that once it becomes obvious that the Paris target of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees is obviously unachievable it will simply be replaced by a target of less than 2 degrees.
Personally I think that nature, not human emissions, is the main driver of climate and we’re likely to see several decades of cooling due to lower solar activity. However I’m pessimistic that the eco-zealots will pay any attention, as there is already enough evidence to show that the climate models are wrong, and yet the calls for action just seem to grow stronger. Climate change has become a dogma, and as such is immune to real world evidence since true believers can always relay on highly dubious models. At this point the similarities to Covid become striking, and both can be used to justify removing our freedoms “for the common good”.
The UN is amazing, Tuvalu with a population a little over 10,000 people (the size of a large village in the UK) has the same voting power at the UN as India or China, both with 1 Billion plus people!
13 UN Member States have less than 50,000 people and a further 15 less than 500,000 people. In total, out of the 193 Member States, 105 of them have less than 10 million population.
Small wonder they are so keen on promoting ‘climate change’ and seeking £Billions in “reparations” from the developed nations.- numerically they have the numbers to set UN policy …..
There have been doom mongerers since 1870 telling us the earth has only got ten years before we lose everything. First it was land, then the sun, then land and sun, then humans would die, and let’s not forget the asteroids that are meant to crash into us and the mother of all earthquakes to split the world. The only difference in this Century is control of social media where the prophecies of doom are able to make so much profit out of ignorant Governments and scare the young witless.
It would be good to think we had come to what Rod Liddle calls “peak wank”, but sadly I don’t think we are there yet, and I suspect that we few countries which have swallowed it hook, line and sinker have a lot of suffering to do yet.
Covidians, certain Socialists, Climate Zealots, Remainers, anyone noticed how often the same person is all four? It’s like some weird form of groupthink where the qualification to join the club is to be able to tell appallingly bad lies with a straight face and call anyone who isn’t in the club names.
Packham typifies this Club with his ridiculous “Angry, scared and betrayed. We have been failed and scorned by the stupid, the greedy and the evil. Life is now in mortal danger. But it’s not over, it’s just down to us to do what needs to be done and we need to go to it now.”.
As with Covidians, Remainers, Socialists he doesn’t recognise the fact that most of the world, the sensible ones, can see there is simply no evidence for their nonsensical assertions.
Quite some years back the Labour party introduced 24 hour opening for hospitality. The reasoning went “It is a fact that by 2010 the climate will have changed so much that people will not be going out until 10 at night because it will simply be too hot”.
According to Al Gore, around the same time and on his way to making millions out of lies, we were all consumed in a fireball of climate change and drowned at the same time by 2010. That must have slipped by me.
I am pretty sure mountain tops are measured from sea level, so why isn’t there a massive outcry of the mountains are sinking?