Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: censorship

“CAUTION: THIS CONTENT MAY CONTAIN NUTS” — Age Verification, Threat Models, Content Labelling, use of “NSFW” labels & Overblocking

2025/09/04
The OSA has created a market for information about circumventing state safety controls, just like in Iran, China, etc… except that we have free speech. The result will be a government war on information:

2025/09/04
An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting pornographic websites

2025/09/03
Say these things sequentially: 1/ we want to protect users 2/ we want to force user data to proliferate amongst more companies

2025/09/03
Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don’t | PC Gamer

2025/09/02
House of Lords Business, 15 September @ 1430h : “WHY WON’T THE BRITISH PEOPLE LET US KEEP THEM SAFE FROM BAD THINGS ONLINE?” | @TimClementJone1

2025/09/02
“This is all a secret plan to make UK citizens the most tech literate in the world” | …this is basically the entire UK war on general purpose computing, in a nutshell

2025/09/02
Taylor Lorenz & Eric Goldman: age verification will kill free speech online | …from June 2025, so it’s not like any of this was a surprise

2025/09/02
TikTok video: Thomas Pearson summarises 1 month of the online safety act

2025/09/02
Preston Byrne: “Protip: the Online Safety Act and the Digital Services Act are both censorship laws”

2025/09/01
Amazing: somehow school attendance & bad behaviour of school children are within the gift of parents to fix, but not matters of appropriate internet use, adult content & consent

2025/09/01
“Congress shall have particular regard to the importance of freedom of speech within the law when making laws abridging the freedom of speech.”

2025/09/01