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Excellent thread by @rcolvile (unrolled from Twitter) re: Westminster-native appeals to let the OSA “bed-in” because “early days”
We at @CPSThinkTank wrote multiple reports on what a looming disaster it was, and lobbied furiously (and succesfully) to ameliorate ‘legal but harmful’. But also @asi, @89up, @StartupCltn and many others. We all ran into invincible status of ‘won’t someone think of the children‘. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1953030333454057633.html
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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks | Open Rights Group
You can submit your own reports; some bizarre victims here: Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks
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Today in “…just wait until the UK Ofcom censors find out that you can talk to AI Chatbots over DNS…”
ch.at: a chatbot which you can query over DNS and open-access SSH: https://ch.at https://github.com/Deep-ai-inc/ch.at Bonus: iodine: IPv4 VPN over DNS: https://github.com/yarrick/iodine Via:
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Age Verification Providers’ Association now imagines it’s incumbent for platforms (i.e. everybody) to treat TCP connections which may be inbound from a VPN as “potential children”
Not all VPN connections are enumerated or known or knowable. Also: this is a step up from imagining that all items of content – globally – must now be individually classified & age-gated according to the UK’s Online Safety Act. Via:
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How to outsmart an AI scammer bot | TikTok
It appears that you can also verbally command an AI to give you a cookie recipe?
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Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So | EFF
No one—no matter their age—should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. As we’ve been saying for many years now, the approach that UK politicians have taken with the Online Safety Act is reckless, short-sighted, and will introduce more harm to the children that it
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Americans, Be Warned: Lessons From Reddit’s Chaotic UK Age Verification Rollout | EFF
The EFF — properly — paints platforms as victims of the Online Safety Act age-verification provisions. The Online Safety Act incorrectly presumes that all content is classified or classifiable, that all users can be meaningfully KYC’ed as minors, and that a matrix permitting the latter to access the former is implementable, let alone enforceable: But even
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Signal boss: ‘disturbing’ laws show the UK doesn’t understand tech | Times
Meredith Whittaker: Whittaker thinks these two pieces of legislation are “deeply incoherent” with the UK’s stated desire to become an “AI champion”. “You get real boosterism on that side, which I think is in many cases ill-conceived.” She adds: “There seem to be two wolves fighting under a blanket. One wants as much tech investment
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Jimmy Wales on Newsnight: “[the online safety act] is a human rights violation”
Nice commentary, watch the whole thing if you can. Starts at 22:45/ish.
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The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz | The Guardian
In order to determine who is a child, all users, no matter who they are, will be forced to turn over vast troves of valuable biometric data and for ever link their offline identity to their online behaviour. The data collected could then be weaponised by the government or bad actors, and put internet users
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