Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety act

The “Repeal the Online Safety Act” – petition is now (Sunday) at 268,000 votes. Regrettably it will go nowhere because it was drafted by…

2025/07/27
Age verification has set up “child online safety” as a challenge to be broken, a problem to be evaded, rather than a goal to be pursued by all. Tone deaf approach by Govt, Industry, & safety activists has set back the cause by a generation

2025/07/27
Former UK internet minister bemoans that illiberal & poorly conceived approach to online safety and security is not being “built upon”

2025/06/13
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
California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Is Completely Unconstitutional (Multiple Ways) | NetChoice v. Bonta | Technology & Marketing Law Blog

2025/03/18
The Online Safety Deadline has passed | @Cyberleagle / Graham Smith

2025/03/16
Playing Around With Deepseek (NSFW) | www.bentasker.co.uk

2025/01/27
404media: “Pornhub Exec Discusses Pulling Out of the South, Trad Wives, and Feet Pics” | …I look forward to Pornhub’s announcement of pulling out of the UK…

2025/01/27
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