• Let’s all take a moment to consider that if — as demanded by Ofcom — encrypted messenger systems WERE actually monitoring conversations for words like: drone, bomb, explosive… all reports would currently be swamped

  2025/06/02

• US Gov’t Signal-clone with backdoor for message retention, hacked, messages leaked | …I really hope #Ofcom are watching re: the impact of proposed client side scanning

  2025/05/05

• US Troll site Kiwi Farms receives Ofcom demand for Online Safety Act “Risk Assessment”, rejects it on 1A/Jurisdiction grounds, demands MLAT

  2025/03/31

• “I’ve just closed the forum of a small classic car club because we don’t have the time or capacity to ensure compliance with only volunteers. Meta will benefit, because we will, reluctantly, move to using a Facebook page”

  2025/03/18

• “There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus & endorsed by Britain’s most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners”

  2025/03/18

• The Online Safety Deadline has passed | @Cyberleagle / Graham Smith

  2025/03/16

• UK watchdog probes TikTok (and Reddit, Imgur) over children’s data | POLITICO

  2025/03/03

• “The ICO […] say they don’t expect you to implement age assurance measures which […] pose a significant & disproportionate economic impact on businesses” | @pwaring@fosstodon.org

  2025/02/14

• “The original illegal harms consultation drew flak for its sheer bulk: a tad over 1,700 pages. The final round of illegal harms documents is even weightier: over 2,400 pages in all”

  2025/02/12

• DeepSeek vs: Winnie-The-Pooh: the winner is Chinese Censorship — unless you know how to circumvent it

  2025/01/24

• Ofcom Session for Small, Low-Risk Community Sites | Wednesday 12 February
  12:30 – 14:00 GMT

  2025/01/23

• All porn sites must ‘robustly’ verify UK user ages by July | BBC News

  2025/01/16