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by Alec Muffett

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  • Censorial, pro-age-verification pro-surveillance child safety charity *suddenly* against Government attempting to render them irrelevant via age verification to ban children from social media

    2026/06/13 11:50:56 BST

    “Wait, no, not like that…” — Andy Burrows, probably. Molly Russell: Head of online safety charity warns against social media ban – BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdy9vg9jmo

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  • UK Gov *rejects* “privacy by design” architecture, GDPR-mandated data minimisation now supposedly “makes children unsafe”

    UK Gov *rejects* “privacy by design” architecture, GDPR-mandated data minimisation now supposedly “makes children unsafe”

    2026/06/13 07:34:46 BST

    Disappearing messages exist in order to empower people to take control of their digital exhaust trail and to minimise the opportunities for third parties to abuse older information. The government is now against this key precept of information security, because children:

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  • Observation: The UK & EU now must deregulate & promote globally competitive AI/LLM provision on grounds of Digital Sovereignty

    2026/06/13 06:21:19 BST

    “Mistral” is not adequate. Anthropic: “Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5” https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

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  • UK set to ban under-16s from social media, livestreaming, disappearing messages – POLITICO

    2026/06/12 16:27:36 BST

    Kids are not allowed to have privacy in Keir Starmer’s Labour Britain. The “othering” of teens is complete: https://www.politico.eu/article/ministers-to-ban-under-16s-from-social-media-livestreaming-disappearing-messages/

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  • The End of the Open Internet | Foreign Affairs

    2026/06/11 06:59:43 BST

    Europe is following where China and Iran lead, America dithers: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/end-open-internet

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  • “Signal President Meredith Whittaker threatens again to pull the encrypted messaging app out of the UK”

    2026/06/11 05:28:55 BST

    Signal will not compromise user privacy in order to satisfy the UK Government. They could withdraw from UK app-stores, but further: they could block any account with an associated “+44” phone number – me included. Such a “nuclear option” would beneficially put the burden of responsibility on the UK Gov’t without background narrative nitpicking about

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  • Some day Civil Society must grapple with whether platforms can differentiate markets on the basis of delivering Privacy & Security features

    2026/06/10 09:31:58 BST

    I blame DRM: the artificial market segmentation of DVDs being “region locked” led to much “free market” backlash from civil society; but now we have: …yet somehow the latter is “bad” and the former two are “good”? Can we please have some consistency?

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  • I designed a hat for the Age Verification community. We should ship a bunch of them to Westminster.

    I designed a hat for the Age Verification community. We should ship a bunch of them to Westminster.

    2026/06/09 08:31:44 BST

    HT: a7ndrew

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  • Australia: “the reason that age verification is not working / that kids keep circumventing it, is a lack of good faith on the part of the platforms”

    2026/06/08 22:57:44 BST

    “Age checks can keep kids away from addictive design elements and online harms, but only if platforms implement them in good faith.” No. The reason that it is not working is because it is a deranged obligation that does not reflect the underlying truth of either (a) online communication, or (b) teenage motivation. Australia builds

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  • This: Clippy The Magic Nonce Detector

    2026/06/08 11:52:31 BST

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  • “A social media ban should be extended to those aged 16 and 17, the @ChildrensComm (@Rachel_deSouza) has proposed”

    2026/06/08 03:07:10 BST

    …able to vote but not to talk about voting. Yes, this is how you create a nation of children, by manufacturing ignorance, removing trust, and destroying credibility of authority.

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  • TFW when the younglings discover “defence in depth” | ht: @SwiftOnSecurity

    TFW when the younglings discover “defence in depth” | ht: @SwiftOnSecurity

    2026/06/06 07:42:23 BST

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