• Remember, kids: platform-specific AppStores are tools of monopoly which prevent free choice!

  2026/06/17

• Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source

  2026/03/04

• Thought for the evening: if someone is banned from Google and/or Apple by breaking their EULA or similar, they will be unable to work in the United Kingdom, @Kier_Starmer?

  2025/09/26

• James Baker of @OpenRightsGroup: son is using East Anglia fishing videos to circumvent Google’s AI age verification profiling

  2025/08/13

• Bluesky, Britain, Age-Verification, Age-Attestation, and Railway Trains | …what child-protection measures British Civil Society *ought* to be demanding

  2025/07/11

• Apple Will Fully Encrypt RCS Messages Between Androids and iPhones | Gizmodo

  2025/03/16

• Google won’t add fact-checks despite new EU law

  2025/01/16

• Speaking as a former Sun Microsystems employee, I look forward to Chrome being purchased by (e.g.) Oracle & taken closed-source, thereby killing an entire browser ecosystem

  2024/11/19

• Google dodging huge financial penalties imposed by regulator for excessive blocking of legitimate content

  2024/11/01

• Court backs Google’s challenge to the EU’s $1.7 billion antitrust fine

  2024/09/18

• “How Find My Device protects your data” | Google turns Android devices into Airtag equivalents, I’m waiting for screams from privacy & safety activists

  2024/08/19

• Gooception: Google have begun preemptively shutting down the services to which they are transitioning people whose service is being shut down

  2024/07/20