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We have a duty of care to speak out against the Online Safety Act | LibDem Voice
Liberal Reform is therefore calling on our party to: -Vocally oppose the rollout of this legislation and campaign for its repeal and call for its suspension whilst a comprehensive review is undertaken. -Work to safeguard the legality of VPNs. -Hold the previous Conservative and current Labour Governments accountable for this gross violation of our civil
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Could some journalist please ask PornHub on the record *why* they block access due to age verification in nearly half of the USA, however they embrace it in the UK?
Quote: “Over the past year, Pornhub had to make the difficult decision to block access to users in the following American states due to Age Verification laws:• Alabama• Arkansas• Florida• Georgia• Idaho• Indiana• Kansas• Kentucky• Mississippi• Montana• Nebraska• North Carolina• North Dakota• Oklahoma• South Carolina• South Dakota• Tennessee• Texas• Utah• Virginia• Wyoming”
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The Online Safety Act risks making everyone less safe | Index on Censorship
To be clear: I empathise with concerns around child safety. We all want an internet that is safer for children. But from every conversation I’ve had, and every piece of research I’ve seen, it won’t make much of a difference to the online experience of our children. There are too many loopholes and the only
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The Online Safety Act censors dissent, while letting paedophiles roam free | Telegraph | …for once someone speaks the quiet part out loud in a right-wing forum
It will fail to protect children because it misdirects attention and focus away from the real problem […the] actual failures to investigate, charge, prosecute and convict those involved in creating, selling, and sharing child sex abuse material where the supposed big, bad guys in the room – the tech companies – have actually alerted the
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Wow: subreddit r/osawars — discussion of pros and cons of the UK Online Safety Act — has been banned from Reddit
I have no idea why, possibly just a editorial burp or maybe something more strategic about not wanting to potentially risk being seen as hosting circumvention discussions:
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I’m sorry, but the solution to Online Safety Act Age-Verification age-gating & censorship blocks is *not* to call on platforms to “ban the UK”; here I shall respectfully explain why…
Some folk, including Thomas Pearson with 115k followers on TikTok, are calling for big global platforms to shun the UK in order to “…make the UK Government lose money, and fast”. In this instance this is the wrong approach, it will cause harm, it won’t work, and here I shall explain why: Who am I?
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Online Safety Act was botched from the start | The Times
[the…] secretary of state … expressed “concern” that the legislation might whack sites such as Amazon instead of Pornhub. In response, officials explained that the regulation in question was “not primarily aimed at … the protection of children”, but was about regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse”, a phrase that rather
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James Baker of @OpenRightsGroup: son is using East Anglia fishing videos to circumvent Google’s AI age verification profiling
The kids are alright, it’s the politicians who are a mess: Chatting to son: “…so do you think your youtube account will pass AI age verification?” His reply: “I think I’m safe with all the Hearts of Iron 4 guides, but I’m going to watch a six hour video of the best fishing spots in
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I’m amazed that this proposal got past both the Home Office & DSIT who presumably would first and foremost see it as potential destruction of evidence…
…on the grounds that everyone is a potential predator. Tom’s Hardware: The UK government has instructed citizens to delete old emails and pictures to help conserve water, following the announcement of a “nationally significant” water shortage. However, the advice isn’t up to snuff, as deleting emails and pictures should have no significant effect on water
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Westminster is hoping that all the fuss about the OSA is going to die down, because it’s just a bunch of nerds; in the meantime American senators are starting to say shit like this:
The UK now requires ID to read about Middle East politics, visit r/stopsmoking and listen to almost any hip hop music online. After this ruling, using Wikipedia could be next. Once sites require age verification for the UK, there’s little stopping them doing the same in the US.
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What does the government think an algorithm is? | tommorris.org
It’s perfectly reasonable to want to prevent the harms of The Algorithm. Whether we can do so in a practical and effective way is the really tough question. We can all provide a putative definition of The Algorithm by pointing to bad stuff on popular online platforms. But writing laws is quite a lot tougher.
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How long do you reckon before advanced fee fraud scammers start to include “age verification” requests?
It’s very much of the moment, so I’m expecting within a month…
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