Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety

Age Verification Providers’ Association (AVPA) desperately seeks ways to minimise UK VPN adoption numbers

2025/09/09
GOVERNMENT DECLARES BRITISH POPULATION AT RISK OF SUICIDE DUE TO RECENT GOVERNMENT POLICY, DECLARES CENSORSHIP REGIME TO COMPENSATE

2025/09/08
Hey, wow, fake Mastodon moderators attempting to steal accounts, badly

2025/09/05
Section 230 is one of the only things preventing foreign countries from censoring Americans online … Proposing to repeal it, now, is completely insane

2025/09/05
“CAUTION: THIS CONTENT MAY CONTAIN NUTS” — Age Verification, Threat Models, Content Labelling, use of “NSFW” labels & Overblocking

2025/09/04
The OSA has created a market for information about circumventing state safety controls, just like in Iran, China, etc… except that we have free speech. The result will be a government war on information:

2025/09/04
An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting pornographic websites

2025/09/03
Say these things sequentially: 1/ we want to protect users 2/ we want to force user data to proliferate amongst more companies

2025/09/03
Age verification legislation is tanking traffic to sites that comply, and rewarding those that don’t | PC Gamer

2025/09/02
House of Lords Business, 15 September @ 1430h : “WHY WON’T THE BRITISH PEOPLE LET US KEEP THEM SAFE FROM BAD THINGS ONLINE?” | @TimClementJone1

2025/09/02
“This is all a secret plan to make UK citizens the most tech literate in the world” | …this is basically the entire UK war on general purpose computing, in a nutshell

2025/09/02
Taylor Lorenz & Eric Goldman: age verification will kill free speech online | …from June 2025, so it’s not like any of this was a surprise

2025/09/02