Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety act

How I believe Terry Pratchett would likely view those activists who promote Age Verification to support the Online Safety Act

2025/08/11
Oh this is glorious: Journalist @zoecrowther.bsky.social using Bluesky seeks DMs from people impacted by the Online Safety Act… but impacted people cannot use DM on Bluesky

2025/08/11
“If Ofcom decides that Wikipedia is not a Category 1 service, then no further issue will arise” | …Wikipedia OSA Judgement kicked into the long grass

2025/08/11
Chris Stokel-Walker at the Guardian on issues with the Online Safety Act

2025/08/11
Five Themes Discussed at Princeton’s Workshop on Decentralized Social Media – Freedom to Tinker – THIS NEEDS A PROPER ANALYSIS

2025/08/10
Bristol LibDems: “Following the lead of @liberal_reform, we are submitting an emergency motion to the Young Liberals conference, aiming to make the **repeal** of the Online Safety Act official policy”

2025/08/10
“Does requiring a law abiding internet user to dox themselves … prevent [badness]?”

2025/08/10
Excellent thread by @rcolvile (unrolled from Twitter) re: Westminster-native appeals to let the OSA “bed-in” because “early days”

2025/08/10
Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks | Open Rights Group

2025/08/10
Today in “…just wait until the UK Ofcom censors find out that you can talk to AI Chatbots over DNS…”

2025/08/10
Age Verification Providers’ Association now imagines it’s incumbent for platforms (i.e. everybody) to treat TCP connections which may be inbound from a VPN as “potential children”

2025/08/10
Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So | EFF

2025/08/10