• Perhaps someone can ask #Ofcom about children not “stumbling” but bodily throwing themselves into adult material online?

  2025/07/24

• The most pernicious misinformation story to be found on the Internet is the presumption that government is somehow in control of defining what people can say on it, or use it for…

  2025/07/14

• 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