Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: censorship

Australian safety-types trying to work out how to force platforms to implement their will when lacking (not collecting) nationality or other information about their users

2024/04/26
Here’s a fun idea: TikTok implements ActivityPub for US-based client IP addresses

2024/04/26
Some really good insight about the TikTok ban and how (e.g.) extant anti-monopolistic AppStore draft regulation actively undermines enforcement

2024/04/24
European Police Chiefs call for industry and governments to take action against end-to-end encryption roll-out | Europol

2024/04/21
BREAKING: <PLATFORM> ordered to remove <APPS> from App Store in <COUNTRY> for National Security Reasons

2024/04/19
#Fedipact – The [mastodon] instances blocking Zuckerberg’s Threads.net

2024/04/09
Porn panic imperils privacy online, with Alec Muffett (re-air): Lock and Code S05E08 | @Malwarebytes

2024/04/08
Every so often a Meta/Facebook “Classifier” burps and blocks some website and people scream CENSORSHIP — but it’s much more complex than that

2024/04/07
“There Is No General First Amendment Right to Distribute Machine-Learning Model Weights” | Lawfare | Poppycock…

2024/04/04
“To Govern AI, We Must Govern Compute” | Lawfare | “…and to protect humanity we must ban big, fast computers”

2024/03/28
7 years ago, Alec Muffett on Twitter: “…the Home Secretary is literally calling for certain hashtags or words to elicit censorship/blocking on social media”

2024/03/27
Shoshana Weissmann on Twitter: “…a new [US] age verification [proposal] would force platforms to maintain databases of parents’ / children’s government IDs, face scans etc… until the child turns 18. ENORMOUS cyber risk. Age verification forces cyber risk already and this makes it worse”

2024/03/27