• UK Government: “children deserve social isolation and pervasive surveillance to prepare them for their future lives”

  2026/02/16

• UK Government: “platforms must retain activity data pertinent to dead children, unless it’s not pertinent to their death” | …but how will they know beforehand?

  2026/02/16

• UK Government: “Infinite Scrolling leads to CSAM”

  2026/02/16

• Ofcom: “if you don’t respect our groundless extraterritorial authority then we will multiply the unenforceable fines that we shall demand you pay”

  2026/02/13

• Ofcom: “pay up, lest we provisionally decide again!”

  2026/02/11

• State Department confirms: federal censorship shield law incoming | Preston Byrne

  2026/01/28

• 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

• The Ofcom Files, Part V: Block Harder | Preston Byrne

  2026/01/08

• “In the one case where a website voluntarily blocked the UK [to comply with the OSA] the UK now wants to get a blocking order to… block it again?”

  2026/01/08

• BBC amplifying Ofcom’s toothless “£18m fine” regulatory bluff re: US-based suicide-discussion forum

  2026/01/07

• The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech | …fascinated to wonder if @arusbridger supports @4chan conversely doing similar to @ofcom

  2025/12/21