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Reminder: anyone who says that “the fault with excessive Age Verification content blocks is due to blunt platform miscategorisation of content” – is arguing in favour of *private censorship*
Attached is an article re: the inability to read “important and not harmful or porn” (IANHOP?) content on Twitter, Reddit, etc. Critics should know that civil society generally doesn’t want platforms to be making fine-grained moral decisions re: the nature of content, and neither do the platforms want this role. It leads to badness. Apart…
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Perrin and Woods Duty of Care | ORG Wiki
Has anyone seen Lorna Woods & Will Perrin? You know, the minds behind the award-winning thinking which shaped a lot of the online safety act? Any recent commentary? https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Perrin_and_Woods_Duty_of_Care
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Chinese Cybersecurity Regulator demands answers from Nvidia regarding remote shutdown, tracking capability in hardware
Heaven forbid that an American company would ever cause supply chain trust issues; I wonder if these features are enabled in European AI compute farms?
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UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit’s r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage | 404media
Reddit told me in an email that it restricts certain mature content in the UK, and that it defines “mature content” for these purposes per the UK’s Online Safety Act, which includes violent ,graphic content, and porn. As free speech advocates have argued, and as the new age verification on certain Reddit communities now show,…
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I asked ChatGPT about the availability of VPN software in every instance of Linux, and about how the State might try to prevent its use, plus how much it costs to “roll your own” VPN
Discussion attached below; I agree with its conclusions 100% Hat-tip to Alan Cox for reminding me that every version of the Linux kernel has had VPN capability baked into it for nearly 30 years. The capability is so ubiquitous that it’s easily forgotten about, and anyone can learn to use it. Please explain for me,…
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Repeal the Online Safety Act | Petitions
Now at 447,000+ https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
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Top 12 UK iPhone Apps: VPN, ChatGPT, VPN, VPN, VPN, Temu, gov.uk, Threads, Yoti, Monzo, VPN, Google…
I am honestly wondering if people are downloading GOV.UK One Login in the hope of accessing Porn. It’s not tax season. https://apps.apple.com/gb/charts/iphone/top-free-apps/36
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I really really hate that division over the Online Safety Act is making technical commentary into political supposed debate, but worse: some of the most sane commentary is coming from Reform
…and then you watch the more traditional politicians (see Baroness Debbonaire) basically sneering at what are objective facts, because of who is stating them. This is “we have had enough of experts” territory. This is not good.
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The Online Safety Act is a Censor’s Charter | The Daily Sceptic
For some reason the alt-right appears focused on issues like this: It all sounds noble enough, until one realises that the impact of the Online Safety Act will not simply stop at child protection. Social media platforms are now liable for “false communications” that may cause “non-trivial psychological harm”, a crime that can result in…
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Suggestion: Dutch Auction Salary Negotiation
On LinkedIn we see endless posts re: “how much should I ask for?” — if/when accepting an offer. Let me offer an alternative. Say: “You know what I’m worth to you. Make me an offer. You get one shot, the response will be yes-or-no.” This worked marvellously at my last big employment, where I added…
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Making Britain “the safest place to be online” by putting all Britons in a cage… this is not a positive message about our country, and UK Civil Society is complicit
Civil society across the world has spent so much time on the techlash for the past 10 years — literally working to convince people that we are all powerless victims at the mercy of big technology companies — that we all appear to have forgotten we are individuals with agency and that circumventing censorship is…
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It is bizarre to believe both: 1) 16-year-olds are mature enough to vote in general elections 2) 16-year-olds should be prohibited from content adults can legally view or create
Big Brother Watch’s Matthew Feeney on Twitter: