Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: censorship

The Online Safety Act: legislation so proportionate & effective that it requires paid propaganda to launder its reputation

2025/08/02
Online Safety: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be looking at something without having asked permission of someone like yourself

2025/08/02
It seems like those 16-year-old voters are not going to hear very much about Jeremy Corbyn

2025/08/01
“Everything the right – and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act” | George Billinge | The Guardian | …let’s ignore the article and just look at George’s LinkedIn profile

2025/08/01
Tech Secretary Peter Kyle under fire as Online Safety Act faces mounting backlash

2025/08/01
UK GOVERNMENT TO BAN ONLINE ADVERTISING OF VPNS?

2025/08/01
‘But Prof Livingstone noted that it was “possible that the companies are over-blocking to undermine the Act”‘ – no, @livingstone_s, Reddit simply does not editorialise user content

2025/08/01
vx-underground: “me when a website wants to see an id to use it then i remember tea app donated 75,000 valid driver licenses to the internet”

2025/08/01
UK Government Warns Promoting the Use of VPNs Could Attract Fines | ISPreview UK

2025/07/31
Reminder: Adults aged 18+ using a VPN to circumvent age verification is not strictly a child safety issue

2025/07/31
‘We’ll fight together’: Americans planning to sue Ofcom over the Online Safety Act | LBC

2025/07/31
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*

2025/07/31