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The BBC has no choice but to teach Trump a lesson about free speech | …fascinated to wonder if @arusbridger supports @4chan conversely doing similar to @ofcom
“How pleasingly ironic it would be for the British Broadcasting Corporation to remind Americans what the First Amendment is all about.” https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/bbc-news/71919/the-bbc-must-teach-trump-lesson-about-free-speech Via:
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The Data Center Water Crisis Isn’t Real
For many people, AI (which is scary and bad) using water (which we need to live) is deeply “offensive,” Andy said — especially when they don’t realize that digital goods (like the internet) have long had a physical (and water) cost, Andy said. But people who care about the environment — Andy himself identifies as
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BREAKING: filings in both the US House & Senate to resolve towards disapproving/opposing (e.g.) Ofcom’s demands to differentiate 4Chan’s user base & implement age-walling for Britons/everyone
Écoutez et répétez: it is not an obligation for websites wholly based in other countries to implement censorship on behalf of the British Government. The UK Government may one-sidedly impose ‘obligations’ as it likes, but that’s mere hot air: “any attempt by foreign entities to censor or penalize constitutionally protected speech of United States persons
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The coming war against local LLMs will be wrapped, as ever, in a choice between Child Protection and Anti-Terrorism
“The Internet is for Porn” – not exactly, but free & easy exchange of Porn was a driving force behind the growth of: FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, web hosting, load balancers, application switches, streaming video, bulk file transfer sites, BitTorrent, CDNs, life blogging, micropayments… and so it will go with local LLMs. No wonder so many
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Mullvad: “The [EU] lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle […in] 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services”
https://x.com/mullvadnet/status/2001690546163593308?s=20 Quote; it’s essentially an adverb but it’s still informative: The European Commission lost the Chat Control 2.0 battle over access to end-to-end encrypted data. By the summer 2026, they will be back with their next attempt: Going Dark. This time some EU member states want to include VPN services. The Going Dark initiative, or
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Whistleblowers raise ‘extreme’ concern about security of government’s Digital ID | ITV News
My understanding from friends is One Login is a glorified bastion host that reliant services & parties are obligated to blindly trust, making it a giant SPOF; that alone would be terrifying at national scale, but then: this: “Whistleblowers have told ITV News that One Login is failing to meet the mandatory, minimum government cybersecurity
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In a move that will surprise nobody except British “safety” activists who are unused to the concept of “positive rights”, Age Verification has been declared unconstitutional in Louisiana
For various reasons today has been a pretty shit day, but this offers a spark of hope: “…the law, which conditioned Louisianans’ ability to access protected speech online on their willingness to hand over sensitive government ID, violates the First Amendment” Obligatory Babylon 5: The avalanche has already started, it’s too late for the pebbles
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Moral Panic, Regulation, and the Challenge of Undoing Regulation: the Tonka Bean | Watch this if you want to understand the importance of fighting or fixing the Online Safety Act
One of the biggest problems with regulation is that a lot of little people lose out and then eventually you grow a generation who don’t know what they’re missing, so it never gets undone:
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Danish government proposes to ban streaming over VPNs due to risk of circumvention of content controls
Presumably this will soon be in the House of Lords: The Danish government has introduced a controversial bill that would make it illegal to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) to bypass geo-blocking on streaming services like Netflix. The proposal, which is currently under review during the holiday season, aims to criminalize VPN usage when
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