Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online abuse

How to defang sextortion: the direct approach

2024/05/13
Inside the Premier League unit hunting online trolls who threaten players | BBC News

2024/03/17
A social media ban for children would actually solve nothing. Here’s why – BBC Science Focus Magazine

2024/03/01
A turf war between people who want to ban social media for teenagers vs: those who want it regulated to the point of Orwellian surveillance — there can be only one!

2024/02/20
Do we think the online safety community will ever recover momentum for the “Taylor Swift abuse is endgame for AI deepfake regulation” narrative?

2024/02/03
The World’s Most Popular Painter Sent His Followers After Me Because He Didn’t Like a Review of His Work. Here’s What I Learned

2023/10/22
More evidence of how the #DigitalMarketsAct demand for #Interoperability will turn #EndToEndEncryption Messenger Apps into festering pools of Spam

2022/10/19
Abuse Prevention is Tradecraft (Was: “Como is Infosec” by @doctorow) #ContentModeration Is Not #Infosec

2022/08/07
Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor?

2022/03/08
The Fallacy of “Privacy vs: [Children’s] Safety”: why Privacy always wins over any singular concern, and why deployment of #EndToEndEncryption is essentially a binary choice, explained for #NoPlaceToHide

2022/01/20
The @ukhomeoffice-funded #NoPlaceToHide campaign claims that “14 million reports” of child abuse may be “lost” if @Messenger implements #endtoendencryption. Here’s a horrible thought …

2022/01/18
Members of the UK Parliament could learn a few lessons from California Congressman Eric @RepSwalwell on how to deal with so-called “anonymous” abuse on social media; more of our politicians should have people skills like this:

2021/12/31