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Suggestion: Dutch Auction Salary Negotiation
On LinkedIn we see endless posts re: “how much should I ask for?” — if/when accepting an offer. Let me offer an alternative. Say: “You know what I’m worth to you. Make me an offer. You get one shot, the response will be yes-or-no.” This worked marvellously at my last big employment, where I added
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Making Britain “the safest place to be online” by putting all Britons in a cage… this is not a positive message about our country, and UK Civil Society is complicit
Civil society across the world has spent so much time on the techlash for the past 10 years — literally working to convince people that we are all powerless victims at the mercy of big technology companies — that we all appear to have forgotten we are individuals with agency and that circumventing censorship is
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It is bizarre to believe both: 1) 16-year-olds are mature enough to vote in general elections 2) 16-year-olds should be prohibited from content adults can legally view or create
Big Brother Watch’s Matthew Feeney on Twitter:
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Repeal the Online Safety Act | Petition | …the petition is now at 425,000 citizens, @peterkyle
Perhaps the government should be investing in child safety through greater social care, rather than censorship? https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
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I would just like to share how grateful I am that advertising-funded podcasts like @RestIsPolitics to have normalised the use of VPNs
Having Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell pitch for NordVPN in earnest and politically aware tones several times every week for the past couple of years, has made it very hard to demonise encrypted network communications. I applaud this. Speaking as an actual information security expert, I have always considered VPNs to be something of a
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Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nice to have corroboration: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/zero-knowledge-proofs-alone-are-not-digital-id-solution-protecting-user-privacy
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Nigel Farage urges minister to apologise for Jimmy Savile online safety claim | BBC News | …I can’t forgive Kyle for making me agree with Farage, but this legislation is not fit for purpose
Kyle refused to back down after Farage’s criticism, saying on social media: “If you want to overturn the Online Safety Act you are on the side of predators. It is as simple as that.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgery3eeqzxo
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UK Minister describes Age Verification as a collective action to keep children safe: the act of inconveniencing adults somehow, like magic, actively protects children
Minister Peter Kyle was on BBC Breakfast this morning, glossing over the VPN signup spike that accompanies the Online Safety Act; a key quote from the very end of the video: “Each time you use a verification service you are keeping children safe in our country and surely that is worth the hassle?” So we
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Use Their ID | …parody fake driver licences for your member of parliament
What does this site do?This gives you an AI-generated mock driving licence for your MP based on public data. This is useful given the recent Online Safety Act would otherwise require you to send your ID to a foreign identity checking service, or send your internet traffic a dodgy foreign VPN. Here’s a third option!
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A Redditor asks: “Can’t zero knowledge proof solve the privacy concerns about the UK online safety law?” – my response…
Hi. I love your question. For disclosure I have been working on digital civil liberties around encryption since 1991 and I have been working on age verification since 2016. The really short version of my answer is: it would only address the problematic issues from a technological perspective, but what we really have here is
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1995: Story Claims PGP Used to Cloak Net Pedophiles | CNET | banning VPNs would be like pissing against the wind…
Sound familiar? According to the story, pedophiles and child pornographers are using PGP to contact each other and transact business. At an Interpol conference on crime against children in London yesterday, Detective Chief Inspector Bryan Dres (sic) of the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) said use of PGP among pornographers has greatly increased over the
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Quelle Surprise 2: Reform UK vows to repeal ‘borderline dystopian’ Online Safety Act | The Guardian
What we don’t need is to have more stupidity thrown into the mix: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/28/reform-uk-vows-to-repeal-borderline-dystopian-online-safety-act
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