Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: censorship

Content Moderation History: do we all remember 2013-19 when online sociology pundits were everywhere expounding the need to block streaming/sharing of video of people being murdered?

2026/01/25
Anarchist Calisthenics: teaching people to break misconceived little rules before they have to break the totalitarian big ones

2026/01/22
Britons, Parents: be aware: if they Age-Verify Social Media & VPNs, next up will be free supermarket & cafe Wi-Fi; no more “click one button & connect to the internet”

2026/01/22
Gammons, Boomers & Musk-fixated ideologues in Lords seek ban on online anonymity, pursue Age Verification for Social Media & VPNs

2026/01/21
“Keir Starmer is hell-bent on destroying your right to a private life” | …I absolutely detest that the mainstream parliamentary parties are sitting on their hands regarding this matter

2026/01/14
Britain’s bid to police the world’s internet | spiked | … I wish we could read this kind of analysis in The Guardian

2026/01/14
They may not like the label but Ofcom *are* a censor, because they are attempting to force platforms (including entirely foreign ones) to adopt the paraphernalia of censorship, so not only…

2026/01/13
Live-Event Blocking at Scale: Effectiveness vs. Collateral Damage in Italy’s Piracy Shield | RIPE Labs

2026/01/11
Reminder: Spain already blocks Cloudflare IP addresses when there is a football match on

2026/01/11
UK Orders Ofcom to Enforce Encryption Backdoors

2026/01/10
Wikimedia UK and the Online Safety Act: A deep dive into the story so far | Wikimedia UK

2026/01/10
BREAKING: Cloudflare once again finds enough spine to publicly combat calls for censorship & state control, although on from past experience we can only wonder how long it will last

2026/01/09