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“In the one case where a website voluntarily blocked the UK [to comply with the OSA] the UK now wants to get a blocking order to… block it again?”
1/ the Online Safety Act’s network regulations are not about protecting children, they are about attempting to control the internet 2/ the controls being sought are directed at the wrong entities & would never have been effective anyway, for multiple reasons 3/ for those reasons, we are now in a realm of kafka-esque comedy:
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“News: There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout”
Fascinating geek read for anybody who wants to monitor how nation states perhaps manipulate internet routing to their advantage: https://loworbitsecurity.com/radar/radar16/ And a more cautious take: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/
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BBC amplifying Ofcom’s toothless “£18m fine” regulatory bluff re: US-based suicide-discussion forum
The website is in the USA which has constitutional free speech protections that will render meaningless any attempt to impose a “fine”. As such, headlines like the attached make Ofcom appear to be attempting to save face via performative regulatory posturing. It’s kind of tragic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4l8q2rdxyo
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Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026 | Computer Weekly
Good summary of the challenges we face this year; disclosure: I am quoted regarding perceptual hashing / fuzzy matching: The UK and Europe are ramping up opposition to encryption and stepping up surveillance of private communications. Here is what to expect this year… https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366636751/Privacy-will-be-under-unprecedented-attack-in-2026
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Judge Demands OpenAI to Release 20 Million Anonymized ChatGPT Chats in AI Copyright Dispute
OMG, this is going to be a disaster: OpenAI invoked a Second Circuit securities case that blocked SEC wiretap disclosures, but [Judge] Stein sharply distinguished it: ChatGPT logs involve voluntary user inputs and undisputed company ownership, unlike surreptitious recordings. “Users’ privacy would be protected by the company’s exhaustive de-identification,” Wang had ruled earlier. https://cybersecuritynews.com/openai-20-million-chatgpt-chats/ Thoughts:
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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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