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  • Unverified report: 14yo loses access, banned from Google/YouTube because Google Photos includes video of self as baby in bathtub

    2025/07/08 06:53:10 BST

    “I’m shaking right now that all my work on my youtube for Three years has disintegrated to dust” I’m ignoring that he’s supposed not to have a Google account until he’s 13, because given how he presents himself it appears not to be germane; or else his parents will be banned as well. From Reddit:

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  • “National security” only ever means what the government wants it to mean, without limiting principle – Ari Cohn

    2025/07/07 18:33:12 BST

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  • The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 | TechRadar

    2025/07/06 15:49:40 BST

    LOL the European Union has discovered FBI plans from 1999 regarding key escrow: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030

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  • Interstellar asteroid inbound

    2025/07/02 11:40:58 BST

    Prepare yourself for the inevitable “it’s a spacecraft” nonsense from the media. https://bsky.app/hashtag/A11pl3Z

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  • Civil Society: Cloudflare’s latest change {blocks, unblocks} network use by {people, software} that we {hate, love} – {yay, boo} this is {great, terrible}!

    2025/07/02 00:58:25 BST

    Details don’t matter – pick your own headline. I doubt we have heard the last of this, but this, too, shall pass: With Cloudflare’s new setting, websites can block – by default – online bots that scrape their data https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html 2022: cloudflare blocks kiwifarms, but in 2025 it still exists: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/04/cloudflare-reverses-decision-and-drops-trans-trolling-website-kiwi-farms Quote: In a blog

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  • Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling | The New Republic

    2025/06/27 20:42:17 BST

    This. https://newrepublic.com/post/197369/supreme-court-elena-kagan-free-speech-logic-porn-ruling

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  • The Conservatives On The Supreme Court Are So Scared Of Nudity, They’ll Throw Out The First Amendment | Techdirt

    2025/06/27 18:40:16 BST

    This. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/the-conservatives-on-the-supreme-court-are-so-scared-of-nudity-theyll-throw-out-the-first-amendment/

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  • Prof. Goldman’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Demolition of the Internet in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton – Technology & Marketing Law Blog

    2025/06/27 18:34:50 BST

    The United States Supreme Court has done something ill-advised, misinformed and foolish. https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/prof-goldmans-statement-on-the-supreme-courts-demolition-of-the-internet-in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm

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  • Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …

    2025/06/25 14:39:52 BST

    I can only think that because it’s such a small community on Mastodon it decided to go with spamming a list and it chose poorly.

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  • IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: aren’t you glad that we don’t (yet) live in a world where on-device client side surveillance triggers report you to the police for using words like “bomb” or “uranium” in Signal & WhatsApp chats?

    2025/06/24 21:30:48 BST

    If such things did exist they would currently be swamped by people discussing global news: Exclusive: Early US intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites, sources say https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/intel-assessment-us-strikes-iran-nuclear-sites

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  • Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”

    2025/06/24 17:27:26 BST

    Who would have guessed? Will Oremus: “Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of “changes in the FTC and other government leadership”

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  • Britain: Police may grab your {phone, laptop} and legally use on-device credentials to go trawl Facebook, GMail, iCloud, Dropbox (etc) — WITHOUT WARRANT

    2025/06/24 12:49:55 BST

    I can’t say that I am entirely surprised, and it’s a bit more proportionate than “Backdooring Signal” however it really should have judicial oversight. Police to gain powers to grab online data when they seize phones and laptops | Computer Weekly https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366626070/Police-to-gain-powers-to-grab-online-data-when-they-seize-phones-and-laptops

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