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Etsy’s … head of its trust and safety team Alice Wu Paulus said the policy change was the company’s attempt “to continue to keep our users safe”
Because of course Etsy products will leap out upon people unawares: Sex product sellers are left scrambling after a sweeping Etsy ban https://www.modernretail.co/technology/its-going-to-be-catastrophic-sex-product-sellers-are-left-scrambling-after-a-sweeping-etsy-ban/
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I am not certain what this portends but it suggests that the separation of DCMS & DSIT a few months ago may have been considered problematic by Labour
Chris Bryant has picked up both departments and it’s like 2020 all over again?
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I would like to invite everyone to consider what would have happened in the Brexit referendum if there had been a second round runoff…?
The world today would be a very different place. Ian Dunt:
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Europol says Home Routing mobile encryption feature aids criminals
Oh dear. > Home Routing is a system in telecommunication services that allows customers to route traffic (calls, messages, internet data) through their home network even when traveling abroad. When privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) are enabled in Home Routing, data is encrypted at the service level and subscribers’ devices exchange session-based keys with the provider in…
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My venerable Miele W3444 starts flashing a flood warning and for a service technician — but it’s way out of warranty; the internet & 3D-printing provide a fix…
Sometimes I am doing up to 6 loads of laundry in a single day – hello parenthood – and last week our 15+ year old Miele started doing the serious flash two red lights and cease all operation until seen by a qualified service engineer diagnostic. But that’s not going to happen for a machine…
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Labour rejects Tony Blair’s plan to curb migration | …perhaps @jreynoldsMP could also do us the favour of also ruling out Digital ID and/or an “app”?
https://www.thetimes.com/article/keir-starmer-prime-minister-latest-news-labour-party-cabinet-sqbzrq9hb
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Entrepreneurial Spanish children open a “porn futures” market and hedge-fund based around new age verification porn credits
I mean, it’s the obvious next step isn’t it? > Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they’ll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits. https://x.com/castrotech/status/1808526479023603820
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It doesn’t matter which party is in power, the UK for the time being will remain hostile to the Internet; but at least there will be change elsewhere
The Labour government will expend at least one cycle attempting to crack the whip harder — to “bring American billionaire tech companies to heel” and to “make the internet safer for marginalised communities” via approved surveillance and censorship. Nothing will change in that space, in fact everything will be marginally worse for a while. But…
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Nick Cave, advice columnist and agony uncle
Highly recommended. Go read: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/
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Yes populism is on the rise around the globe, but freshly enabling it with the tools of totalitarian surveillance will be totally worth it if we save just one child – John Carr, child safety activist
Paraphrased; here is what he actually said, with which I disagree > The mistrust of state institutions and Big Tech is entirely understandable, not only but particularly in those countries in the EU which had very bad experiences in their not-too-distant totalitarian pasts. But we cannot let pre-internet history condemn children to a nightmarish internet…
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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks | Reuters
This speaks volumes about the nature of government bureaucracy everywhere: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-victory-effort-end-government-use-floppy-disks-2024-07-03/
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The more I read from them the more I believe that the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet was its discovery by Law Professors
I wonder what Henry V would have thought about airline regulation? The NetChoice Decision Shows the First Amendment Is Out of Control The reasoning in the decision in the NetChoice cases marks a new threat to a core function of the state. By presuming that free speech protections apply to a tech company’s “curation” of…