Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

Excellent thread by @rcolvile (unrolled from Twitter) re: Westminster-native appeals to let the OSA “bed-in” because “early days”

2025/08/10
Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks | Open Rights Group

2025/08/10
Today in “…just wait until the UK Ofcom censors find out that you can talk to AI Chatbots over DNS…”

2025/08/10
Age Verification Providers’ Association now imagines it’s incumbent for platforms (i.e. everybody) to treat TCP connections which may be inbound from a VPN as “potential children”

2025/08/10
How to outsmart an AI scammer bot | TikTok

2025/08/10
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So | EFF

2025/08/10
Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout | EFF

2025/08/10
There are many reasons to criticise the OnlineSafetyAct but the bizarre Ofcom approach to AgeVerification demanding vast proliferation of personal information rather than obligatory acceptance of a validated credential, defies belief & exceeds all other failures

2025/08/10
Signal boss: ‘disturbing’ laws show the UK doesn’t understand tech | Times

2025/08/10
Jimmy Wales on Newsnight: “[the online safety act] is a human rights violation”

2025/08/09
The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz | The Guardian

2025/08/09
Ofcom apparently don’t understand “false-positive rates” nor “base rate”

2025/08/08