Radiant Mobile says it will filter âharmfulâ material, including LGBTQ+ content, from phones on its service plans.
Jack Walker at The Advocate:
A new mobile phone network that launched this week claims to block LGBTQ+ content from subscribers to its phone plans.
Radiant Mobile is a Christian mobile phone network that will operate on the T-Mobile network, seeking to deliver âfaith-focused mobile service,â according to the companyâs website.
The company launched on Tuesday with support from the Israeli cybersecurity firm Allot, and is believed to be the first mobile plan aimed at blocking content it deems as harmful from users, British newspaper The Independent reported.
Paul Fisher, founder of Radiant Mobile, previously told MIT Technology Review that he wanted to create a service âvoid of LGBTâ and âvoid of trans.â
âWe are going to create, and we think we have every right to do so, an environment that is Jesus-centric,â he said.
The company says it aims to restrict access to what it describes as âharmful content,â including LGBTQ+ material, pornography, and explicit content. Even on more general websites, that includes blocking specific webpages that include LGBTQ+ content.
Radiant Mobile places particular emphasis on parental controls, echoing rhetoric commonly used by opponents of LGBTQ+ rights who argue that exposure to LGBTQ+ people or issues is harmful to children.
The companyâs website says parents will be able to customize security settings for each child, block entire social media platforms such as TikTok, and prevent children from using VPNs to bypass restrictions. Radiant Mobile did not immediately return The Advocateâs request for comment.
Radiant Mobile, a new Christian conservative mobile wireless network that uses T-Mobileâs towers, will block LGBTQ+-related content on its phones without a way to undo them.
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When your SPM brainrot comes to haunt you and then gives you the best ideas but youâre stuck in freakinâ wRITERS BLOCK- So instead, hereâs my take on all of the Countâs minions before they join him + headcannons and anything that comes to mine-
This is mostly just word vomit and itâs not proofread so sorry for all the spelling errors- started this at 3 am and now finishing 12 hours later- yIpPie- maybe some day Iâll have the energy to write all of these down into a story one shot thingy-
The first I want to start with is OâChunks because he needs some love (and by that I mean Iâm about to throw against the wall of ideas because OH BOI-).
OâChunks suffers from nightmares of the day that all of his men were killed, which also led to him having a really hard time trusting anyone other then The Count thinking they were going to betray him before get got close with Nastasia
I like to think that OâChunks have always had semi crushes on each other but have been very blind to it since Nastasia was mostly blinded by The Count
Before his life with The Count he lived somewhere near York Town in another town before he had gone to war and got he and his men sold out and murdered (did he watch? Yes. He had to as captain.)
He was then saved before he was killed by The Count but by then the damage had already been done and he was now blind in his left eye and his head had been slightly bashed in making him kinda forgetful about a majority of his life that didnât come to haunt him in his dreams
Before his life with Bleck, he did in fact have a family that he had to leave behind but now he canât remember what they look like or even how to get home (or an even worse option, his entire home was raided and ransacked so there was nothing to go back to anyway and he just couldnât remember what he was missing forever-)
As for his family? I like to think he may or may not have had a wife but he definitely had a daughter who acts a lot like Mimi making him grow very familiar with her quickly
He also really likes grapes for this-
Up next on the chopping block is Nastasia herself, and Iâll be honest I didnt have a lot at first before it hit me like a train wreck in my sleep-
I like to think she was a halfblood of The Tribe of Darkness, her father being of the Tribe and her mother being a kind of vampire/monster that many people feared (hence the similarities of skin tone with The Count)
She was raised by her mother for a long time but was chased for most of her life for not being âhumanâ or the Ancients just really wanted to get her because they didnât like halflings because it was a waste of their magic potential and dangerous- maybe they were just speciesest- idk
She was caught in a magical trap deep in the woods and left to starve there for awhile up until Count Bleck had found her and freed her (because this was weeks after the Timpani incident so he still had a heart to help others)
Being so grateful and having nowhere else to go, she tagged along with The Count where she was given her more human like bat from so she wouldnât run into any trouble anymore (that and at first she was sure he was going to kill her for just being alive
Now Dimentio is a really really tricky one because I have some ideas based off of different things I really liked (the idea of him being younger like Mimi is one of them but as for cannon wise I wouldnât be so sure-)
One things for sure though is I truly believe that he was The Magicianâs son and Shadoo was his older sister
His mother and father were the original leaders of The Ancients and The Magician was one of the writers of The Dark Prognostics (it was handed down to each of the original leaders of The Ancients/he or his wife originally wrote it because of vivid nightmares of the future-)
I fully believed that Dimentioâs mom would be like Master of Time or something- making Dimentio call himself the Master of Dimensions (yes I just gave him mamaâs boy syndrome- no I will not be taking it back-)
He and Shadoo were close as she was his older sister that took care of them and had very promising magical abilities leading his father to take her everywhere with him to try to make those powers stronger while Dimmy just mostly tried to help where he could seeing as his powers wouldnât kick in until later and wasnât as strong as hers at first
While The Magician and Shadoo were away, The Tribe of Ancients was attacked/a spell had gone wrong setting the entire tribe into a state of panic because no one could escape
As a last ditch effort, Dimentioâs mom (What her name would be? I have no clue-) sacrifices herself to save what she came of the tribe and kind of freeze Dimentio in time hidden away where no one could really find him and wake him back up
Now you can play with HCs and CC here and say that Count Bleck and his minions accidentally woke him back up or someone random did because they were looking around where they shouldnât have been (leading him to either be a child when the game rolls around or he escaped and trains before going to look for The Dark Prognostics because he had no idea what happened to him over 2,000 years)
For cannon I like to think that he escaped and went to go and train to get back his fatherâs book before ultimately going bonkers because everything he ever knew and loved was violently ripped away from him and he was left alone (making it a big reason why he both despises and adores The Count as having The Ancients blood in him).
So he wants to create perfect new worlds to bring back the world he was forced to leave behind and kill everyone in the process since itâs the worlds fault he was stuck like this anyway
For Fannon tho? I like to think that maybe Bleck had been the one to wake him up and witness his mental break when he realized his entire family and tribe died over 1,500 years ago leading The Count to take care of him forcefully because his bleeding heart over his wife screams âDONâT LEAVE BROKEN CHILD TO GO CRAZY-â
The ultimate reason he betrays The Count is because he doesnât want his new family to die twice and is willing to do anything to create a new perfect world where he can bring back his original family and bring his new one along even if that means manipulating them to do what he needs to do to âsave themâ and become the forced king of the new world
Mimiâs is one of the more darker ones IMO and was the main reason that I came up with any of these and decided to throw it onto the internet-
Mimi was raised by her mother and father in a kind of poor situation before being sold (or kidnapped- idk what to go with here) to a wannabe tribe of darkness who wanted to recreate the magic of the ancients no matter the cost
Fully 100% convinced Mimi is a minor (no sure exactly give or take 13-18)
So they started experimenting on her to turn her into a pixel and try to recreate the powers that they used a long time ago but they really messed it up and turned her into a kind of walking corpse
She still could use the powers of a shapeshifter pixel, she just didnât look the part because they replaced a lot of her âhumanâ parts with metal gears and wires turning her into a walking zombie pixel corpse as a child who only wanted to go home
this is also the reason she kind of has to snap her neck to change from her OG form to her preferred âhumanâ form because she isnât copying anyone so it hurts more to change into something she wants rather then copying someone elseâs while theyâre right there (or maybe it is a copy and she keeps a copy of every person sheâs copied and itâs just more painful to change into someone else based off of memory or from a long distance? Up to you really-)
The Count had found her because he had heard rumors of people trying to copy after his people and figured maybe it was Timpani trying to find him again but it turned out to be so much darker and killed the wannabes to save Mimiâs life
Since she had no where to go, The Count brought her along thinking that maybe Timpani would like her just as much as he did like a daughter they never could have
She is the silent favorite amongst the minions and everyone knows it minus The Count who says he doesnât play favorites (yes he does-)
Then we have Mr. L HC simply because he is part of the team and no one will let him think otherwise-
He kind of plays an older brother role to both Mimi and Dimentio (which is why they pick on each other so often and why Mr. L and Dimentio hit heads all the time)
He also gets along well with OâChunks and they fight/train a lot (I saw this on another personâs HC list and I loved it so I had to add it here-)
Stepping into Fannon territory- He sees Count Bleck and a mentor and boss figure since The Count treats him more like a human then his parents and friends ever did
Even after he isnât brainwashed anymore he can remember being treated with kindness by the other members and being brought along and invited to things more then his brother and his friends ever did
He doesnât fully forgive Dimentio for what happened but slowly warms up to the idea of coming to peace about it since no one really wanted to forgive him until they knew why he was so desperate for it
Heâs slightly frightened of Nastaisa even to this day because of what happened and that someday she might just snap and jump him again (even if he knows he could take her down perfectly well, he isnât going try because sheâs much faster then him)
Then the dear Old Count himself- picking up random people and children to fill in his broken heart no matter the cost-
Timpani and Blumiere knew each other for longer then the flashbacks gave us credit for (over the span of like 6 months to a year I would think-)
Sheâs also the reason he had so much light in his heart and hope for other people- to this day itâs her fault that he loves the stars so much and seems to have a child like curiosity about things he doesnât understand
His father was also highly abusive into making sure his son would follow the right path into taking up the tribe leaving The Count to have many scars on his body along with his heart since Timpani was the only person who ever listened to what he had to say about things (he couldnât have any friends since he was the chiefâs son either so it was like a breath of fresh air to him-)
When his father told him what had happened he believed that his father sent her away while she was dying and so, Blumiere left the tribe to go and look for her before he ever came back to read the Dark Prognostics
5 years passed before he ever returned and his dad tried to convince him to come back only for The Count to murder everyone that was left in his tribe/in the castle they all lived in before reading the Dark Prognostics
As Blumiere died, so did his love for everyone and everything making it so that he was living from a 3rd person POV making him mentally and emotionally detach from his minions who had grown onto him.
It isnât that he shows he doesnât care either because he stopped caring about everything they did, only wanting the end of all worlds to come so that he didnât have to live in the constant said of black and white that his father put him in all those years ago
As I sit here writing marvel fanfiction, I am reminded of this bitch ass spelling test I took in elementary school. Each âblankâ on the test was for one word, they said, so I am doing my shit and they go, ya know, whatever was on the test, asparagus or whatever and then they go âA lotâ and I think âHey, they wouldnât trick 7 year olds, right?â so I go âalotâ and I get my test back later and itâs wrong so I ask the teach and they say âOh yeah its 2 words, we wanted people to get it wrong so they rememberedâ and I, being the well-read shit that I am, go âisnât allot a single word anyways?â and the teach goes âyeah, but that has 2 lâs anyways, so youâre still wrong. And the words were âa lotâ and now every time I use, hear, or see the words âa lotâ I get stupidly angry and think about how trash school is most of the time
