• Lawyer mocks Ofcom’s big fine with bigger hamster | RollOnFriday

  2026/03/20

• Ofcom accused of posting misinformation

  2026/03/20

• Ofcom persist in pretending that 4chan are trading in the UK, rather than accepting that Britons are visiting a foreign website

  2026/03/19

• I suspect that Ofcom only ever accept that it is “highly effective age assurance” if somebody gets paid, ideally repeatedly | Apple permit “account age” as a means of age verification

  2026/03/19

• Ofcom’s [attempted] browbeating of Canada-based online depression forum into compliance with Online Safety Act “Age Verification”

  2026/03/06

• Social Media Bans are like the “Peanut Allergy” Bans of the 1990s/2000s: they will unnecessarily create a generation who cannot cope with the digital environment

  2026/03/02

• The Wyoming GRANITE Act, America’s first-ever foreign censorship shield bill, has PASSED the Wyoming House of Representatives, 46-12! | Preston Byrne

  2026/02/24

• UK Govt to demand AgeVerification of “ALL regulated user-to-user” services, and VPNs for anyone under 18; well that would end online anonymity in the UK…

  2026/02/23

• OFCOM update: so apparently the embargoed press-release email was circulated to one (more?) of their general discussion maillists, which I feel symbolic of their approach towards security

  2026/02/18

• HEADSUP: Ofcom *tonight* to announce demand for apps, websites to deploy “hash matching” (i.e. client-side scanning, fuzzy matching) of uploaded images “to protect children”

  2026/02/18

• Thought for the day: if there is a UK under-16 social media ban, the party which most appeals to 16-year-olds “out of the starting gate” will win the next election

  2026/02/16

• UK Government Press Release: “the same people who demanded & shaped the online safety act now want to do it all over again”

  2026/02/16