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The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ

2026/03/28 07:02:58 GMT

Excellent piece: The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to human rights, and that the tools created for that purpose can easily become instruments of broader control over speech once governments acquire them.

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The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

2026/03/27 19:23:28 GMT

Read this: Declaring the target to be “design features” — such as infinite scroll or notifications — instead of speech doesn’t change things. The First Amendment isn’t fooled by synonyms, and what these lawsuits target is, inescapably, speech. Some allegations are aimed at content hosted by platforms that some perceive as harmful. And the ways

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‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’

2026/03/27 14:56:16 GMT

There are a bunch of “must read” Threads on Bluesky today, which to me indicate that people crowing about a “safer internet for children” due to the Meta lawsuits, are actually making things worse for everybody, including kids. I can’t embed entire threads so please click-through and read up & down + links: you should

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‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY

2026/03/27 09:06:11 GMT

…under the “design liability” theory, implementing encryption becomes evidence of negligence, because a small number of bad actors also use encrypted communications […] encryption itself harms no one. Like infinite scroll and autoplay, it is inert without the choices of bad actors — choices made by people, not by the platform’s design. “Everyone Cheering The

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[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion

2026/03/26 18:18:03 GMT

The European Parliament has thus formally concluded the legislative process . The Digital Society Association and many individuals had previously contacted the Members of Parliament, appealing to them to end this indiscriminate mass surveillance More: https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2026/03/pressemitteilung-chatkontrolle-1-0-endet/

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MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICO

2026/03/26 13:50:01 GMT

“perhaps there’s a different approach they could try taking, other than surveilling everybody’s messages?” https://www.politico.eu/article/european-parliament-rejects-child-sexual-abuse-bill-blocking-tech-firms-scanning-meta-google/

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I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terrible

2026/03/26 10:55:55 GMT

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Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.

2026/03/26 09:08:23 GMT

The Conservatives (EPP) are attempting to force a new vote TODAY (March 26) seeking to reverse the European Parliament’s NO on indiscriminate scanning of ALL your private messages, emails and photos … If you’re European contact your representatives now, with this handy form:

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This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting brigaded by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity

2026/03/26 04:09:20 GMT

Examples; remember to check both quotes & replies:

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Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids | POLITICO

2026/03/25 06:36:13 GMT

It turns out that kids are people too. Whoda thunk it? https://www.politico.eu/article/michael-oflaherty-human-rights-council-of-europe-children-social-media-ban/ Via

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