Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety

TikTok video: Thomas Pearson summarises 1 month of the online safety act

2025/09/02
Preston Byrne: “Protip: the Online Safety Act and the Digital Services Act are both censorship laws”

2025/09/01
Amazing: somehow school attendance & bad behaviour of school children are within the gift of parents to fix, but not matters of appropriate internet use, adult content & consent

2025/09/01
“Congress shall have particular regard to the importance of freedom of speech within the law when making laws abridging the freedom of speech.”

2025/09/01
“THE AMAZON LOVES ME AND THAT’S WHY HE BOUGHT THIS TRAIN FOR ME…” | …no amount of age verification is going to stop kids during stupid stuff online

2025/09/01
Canada: Alberta implements book ban to protect children from “adult content” but then has a “…WAIT, NO, NOT LIKE THAT” moment when it actually happens, then blames *librarians*

2025/09/01
Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch

2025/08/30
“Your UK Steam user account is considered age verified for as long as a valid credit card is stored on the account”

2025/08/29
Preston Byrne on Ofcom and government goals to turn age verification into a “KYC before Communication” obligation

2025/08/29
4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC | BBC News

2025/08/29
The perverse outcomes of the Online Safety Act | The Critic

2025/08/29
IF calls to scrap the OSA are about “enriching powerful platforms” THEN why are the first targets of Ofcom lawsuits “tiny sites” that don’t compete?

2025/08/29