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Thomas Pearson: Video: Fight Chat Control EU
How you can take action:
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GOVERNMENT DECLARES BRITISH POPULATION AT RISK OF SUICIDE DUE TO RECENT GOVERNMENT POLICY, DECLARES CENSORSHIP REGIME TO COMPENSATE
Not joking, here’s the latest massive from DSIT — “let’s misrepresent mental health issues in order to pursue censorship & control of the internet” The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material that encourages
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“RCS messaging is now provided by your wireless carrier and governed by their terms and privacy notice. You can find the current version of these terms on your wireless carrier’s website”
I know it’s petty schadenfreude but I’ve been hanging out on the RCS subreddits where they spend vast amounts of time dissing “over the top” end to end encrypted “big tech” messenger software, awaiting their protocol Messiah that will liberate them from capitalism … only for the cracks beginning to show regarding local regulation and
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Fight Chat Control | Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
If you are in the European Union, click this and do something. https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
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Hey, wow, fake Mastodon moderators attempting to steal accounts, badly
I mean, it was kind of inevitable, but it’s also a mark of progress that there are scammers on Mastodon nowadays.
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Section 230 is one of the only things preventing foreign countries from censoring Americans online … Proposing to repeal it, now, is completely insane
It seems like the regulators of all major nations are intent on killing the things which created their success
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EU Court of Justice determines that data anonymisation “might work, but then again it might not”
It follows from the provisions of that regulation as interpreted in case-law that pseudonymisation may, depending on the circumstances of the case, effectively prevent persons other than the controller from identifying the data subject in such a way that, for them, the data subject is not or is no longer identifiable. In that context, the
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2023: Reminder: the FDA permits 9x as much rat faeces in food than there is likely abusive imagery in an AI image training set
A lesson in scale and what “one in a million” really means:
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“Somewhere only we know” plays on the car stereo, and for some reason I’m mentally dragged back…
…back to a green screen static Bourne shell running over a lashed-up null modem cable into an old Sun box serial port, trying to fsck enough of the filesystem to mount /usr so I can get the system to ping the network. Damn, I’m getting old. And this even predates the song.
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“CAUTION: THIS CONTENT MAY CONTAIN NUTS” — Age Verification, Threat Models, Content Labelling, use of “NSFW” labels & Overblocking
I’ve spent weeks if not months attempting to explain to civil society organisations why the Online Safety Act victimises platforms — even large commercial platforms — and how the OSA makes it hard if not impossible for them to adopt age verification without massive negative consequences for their user. I think I have finally nailed
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The OSA has created a market for information about circumventing state safety controls, just like in Iran, China, etc… except that we have free speech. The result will be a government war on information:
Age verification advocates in government warned they would be severely punishing any “platforms” that hinted using VPNs to circumvent age verification controls. They did not understand that third party publications would begin aggregating “Which”-style lists of “top 10 age verification circumvention-hassle tools”, advertising those lists everywhere as a resource/for clicks. So what are they going
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Update – We are in the process of restoring the matrix.org database from a backup | …REMEMBER, KIDS, JUST BECAUSE IT SAYS IT’S DECENTRALISED DOESN’T MEAN IT’S DISTRIBUTED
All forms of federated protocol are the worst bits of centralisation combined with the worst bits of distribution. https://status.matrix.org/
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