Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: online safety

“The original illegal harms consultation drew flak for its sheer bulk: a tad over 1,700 pages. The final round of illegal harms documents is even weightier: over 2,400 pages in all”

2025/02/12
Graham Smith (thread on Bluesky) re: judgement on Australian eSafety Commissioner’s office shortcutting of formal process to demand content takedowns from Twitter/X

2025/02/08
I hope one day that our Online Digital Rights, Civil Society, Safety & Privacy advocates will remember that “online harms” fall into *three* categories:

2025/02/07
Democrats Should Be Stopping A Lawless President, Not Helping Censor The Internet, Honestly WTF Are They Thinking | Techdirt

2025/02/06
Reminder: merely a few months ago we were all worried about audio & video “deep fakes” and now even the Guardian is extolling their positive uses

2025/02/05
Remember Kids! Censorship is terrible and must be avoided at all costs — however, we also can’t allow people to say bad or rude things about our friends…

2025/01/08
The Pornhub Bans Are Not About Keeping Kids Safe | …frankly this goes for most online safety regulation…

2025/01/04
I wish I could believe that this good news was the result of HMG walking-back from the precipice of “if it moves, regulate it”, but instead…

2025/01/02
Ofcom apologises for ‘ill-judged’ porn joke job ad | BBC News

2024/12/19
US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency strongly endorses use of robust, unsurveilled End-to-End Encrypted Messenger software; it would be bizarre for #Ofcom to oppose this

2024/12/18
Presumably Lorna Woods & @WillPerrin are delighted at saving British children from the “harms” of lycra-clad cyclists

2024/12/18
Ofcom publishes “illegal harms” codes and guidance; follow @cyberleagle for analysis of how Ofcom imagines that privacy & technology work, how people can have “too much” privacy

2024/12/16