Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety

[Meta] Introducing New Built-In Restrictions for Instagram Teen Accounts, and Expanding to Facebook and Messenger

2025/04/08
Study: Kids with smartphones are less depressed, anxious, bullied than peers without them

2025/04/08
“Academic accused of bias for opposing smartphone ban in schools” | Times | …that most feared by fearmongers is popular rejection of simplistic narrative

2025/04/04
Nice little video explainer from @etymologynerd re: latest attacks on Section 230 & whether you want your internet experience to look like A) DisneyWorld or B) 4Chan

2025/03/24
The Online Safety Deadline has passed | @Cyberleagle / Graham Smith

2025/03/16
It is time to make the Online Safety Act 2023 fit for purpose | Neil Brown, a good read…

2025/03/06
Powerful comment from Jen Persson of @DefendDigitalMe re: the trajectory of under-18 online safety vs: that of under-18 assisted suicide

2025/03/06
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: do banking transactions count as “user to user” communication services & social media under the UK & AU Online Safety Acts?

2025/03/03
UK watchdog probes TikTok (and Reddit, Imgur) over children’s data | POLITICO

2025/03/03
Spot the speculative circumvention of text censorship & blocking, and consider how this will enable online harms as well as online helps

2025/02/21
Mastodon will add quote posts, even though some users don’t want them | The Verge

2025/02/14
“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