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Grab lots of popcorn: What’s just happened in Ofcom-vs-4Chan will be fun to watch…
Various UK pro-censorship interests of the past 10+ years have painted the Web as a “Wild West” that must be tamed for civility’s sake… and arguably “4Chan” is and always has been top of their hitlist for sanitisation. But it doesn’t look like it’s going to work out that way, and attempts to do so
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If Ofcom issue a fine but there is no-one in the UK jurisdiction to impose it upon, is it really a fine or just an empty message?
The “wild-west internet comity showdown” approaches at speed. It’s incredible how much money, effort, & reputation Ofcom is expending to prevent people who don’t want to use a service from being able to access it, whilst remaining practically incapable of stopping those who do. It’s almost as if they were just virtue signalling.
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Nano Banana “AI Generated Image” digital watermark easily visible (removable?) with basic image manipulation
From Reddit, people using contrast stretch and even contrast boost of an AI generated pure white image, to show the “digital watermark” which is supposed to denote evil AI content. Research opportunity: show us what it looks like when one is tweeted and then the tweet is screencapped and reshared. Some examples in posts: …and…
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EU ministers united: Minors must be protected better online | …setting the stage for the next round of Chat Control discussions, with added Age Verification
“Bouncers?” – the Internet is a Nightclub? “Our children have been left alone on the internet for far too long. We need “digital bouncers” to ensure that the internet is a safe place to be and that children are not granted access when they are not old enough. It is crucial that we stand strong
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Florida student asks ChatGPT how to kill his friend, ends up in jail: deputies | WFLA
Someday this will overlap with D&D again: Law enforcement immediately responded to the school and confronted the teenager. The boy said he was “just trolling” a friend who annoyed him, deputies said. “Another ‘joke’ that created an emergency on campus,” the sheriff’s office said. “Parents, please talk to your kids so they don’t make the
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The EU Is Forcing Backdoor Access to Your Phone | [He] Followed the Money
Interesting video reflecting information that I would not describe as causative, but certainly influential. Chat control is not dead, it will be back soon.
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Stuff that you don’t see on Reddit in the UK because you aren’t age verified, Part 2
From groups which are not normally NSFW:
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Not your average cybersecurity book
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The bad news is: the fact that the vote was cancelled signals that they want to have yet another go. We still have to fight Chat Control.
If it had gone to a vote and lost then they would be in a bad place for another attempt, so they cancelled the vote in order to keep the idea warm for next time. Keep this link handy, we will need it again within a year: Fight Chat Control | Protect Digital Privacy in
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1996: “Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace” | David R. Johnson & David G. Post | …we’ve seen this comity problem coming for ~30+ years
By asserting a right to regulate whatever its citizens may access on the Net, these local authorities are laying the predicate for an argument that Singapore or Iraq or any other sovereign can regulate the activities of U.S. companies operating in Cyberspace from a location physically within the United States. Full Quote: First, the determined
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Ofcom, the Government, the Online Safety Act and the Leather Shoes
Once upon a time, in a bright and busy kingdom, there was a kind young princess who loved her people very much. One summer, the roads grew hot and rough, and everyone’s feet were getting scratched and sore. The princess worried, “How can my people walk and play if the ground hurts them?” So she
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Two teenagers arrested over cyber-attack on nursery chain | BBC News
Something something two kids in a basement something indistinguishable from cyber war something: Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested by police investigating a cyber-attack on a chain of nurseries in London. The Metropolitan Police say the pair were arrested at residential addresses in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, on suspi https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpvlgzk0xvpo
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