Online Safety “Duty of Care” is failing to launch in the USA? Good. https://alecmuffett.com/article/119339 #DutyOfCare #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #kosa

Cuomo Makes 11th-Hour Pass At Female New Yorkers

The Anxious Boomers

There are a large number of Democratic politicians who insist that Jonathan Haidt is a reliable narrator and one who they should take their legislative cues from. They should be asked why they're supporting someone the Heritage Foundation is cheering on in their efforts to censor the internet.

No, I didn't giggle. honest.

“[Ofcom] threatens tech giants with algorithm audits to protect children” | …this is genuinely hilarious https://alecmuffett.com/article/119282 #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #algorithms #ofcom

Analysis: The Online Safety Act is still on a faltering upswing, it will take 5…10 years to mitigate (and 10…30 to undo) the damage being caused https://alecmuffett.com/article/119268 #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns

Heading to MozFest 2025 in Barcelona? See “Encryption and Feminism: Reimagining Child Safety Without Surveillance” https://alecmuffett.com/article/119258 #EndToEndEncryption #encryption #feminism #mozfest

There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Pickleball Courts | jaz-michael king https://alecmuffett.com/article/119163 #SocialNetworking #decentralization #fediverse #mastodon

Pen testers ruin everything

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.

NOW DO IT IN SQL

Back in the 1980s the UK tabloid media referred to #PrinceAndrew as "Randy Andy" from which I infer that they knew what was going on. Perhaps someone should run a sentiment analysis over tabloid media archives to find similar suspects? www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", "Doctor Who", or "Transformers".

David Davis nails the issue regarding Digital ID & state power https://alecmuffett.com/article/119123 #DigitalId #IdCards

Stuff that you don’t see on Reddit in the UK because you aren’t age verified, Part 3 https://alecmuffett.com/article/119105 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #reddit #surveillance #vpns

Possible lunar meteor impact reported? https://alecmuffett.com/article/119102 #astronomy #space

“Age-Restricted Internet is Hurting Trans Kids” | …interesting to see constructive criticism of Esther Ghey’s campaigning coming direct from the trans community https://alecmuffett.com/article/119088

Denmark surprisingly abandons plans for chat control | heise online https://alecmuffett.com/article/119070 #ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #surveillance

French lawmakers progress tax on American Big Tech amid huge pushback | POLITICO https://alecmuffett.com/article/119022 #TechLash #france

Maybe sometimes it’s the “people who matter” who should “nerd harder”? https://alecmuffett.com/article/119017 #CivilSociety #politics #regulation #technology

“We will not be age-gating Wikipedia under any circumstances … what are they going to do? They could block Wikipedia. Good luck with that” | PoliticsHome https://alecmuffett.com/article/119011 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns #wikipedia

Remember, kids, social media is full of falsehoods but *real* journalism from respectable outlets can be trusted. Elsewhere: former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio was wholesale misrepresented in the Times https://alecmuffett.com/article/118957 #FakeNews #SocialMedia #journalism

Australia’s eSafety Chief Pressures Big Tech and AI Firms on Verification, Age Checks https://alecmuffett.com/article/118859 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #australia #censorship #surveillance #vpn

Websites in Non-UK Countries should not take action to block UK citizens https://alecmuffett.com/article/118431 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpn

Joint Statement on the UN Cybercrime Convention: EFF and Global Partners Urge Governments Not to Sign | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://alecmuffett.com/article/118517 #CybercrimeConvention #cybercrime

Is HMRC doing okay?

In these tumultuous days it is reassuring to know that the British alternative / hard left remain as resolutely unelectable as ever, saving us from our ever having to deal with the scourge of choice.

Ben Schroeter at EurActive: “It’s not that Europe regulates. It’s how it regulates” | Um, I’m not convinced… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118558 #eu #privacy #regulation

Could the Online Safety Act threaten the safety of Wikipedia editors? | Pod Save The UK | Jimmy Wales Interview… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118809 #AgeVerification #JimmyWales #censorship #surveillance #wikipedia

Is age verification killing porn site traffic? Aylo says yes, AVPA says no | BiometricUpdate https://alecmuffett.com/article/118820 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #avpa #censorship #surveillance #vpn

UK traffic to porn sites falls by a third after new age verification rules | FT | …but actually they’re using either VPN or far more dodgy websites https://alecmuffett.com/article/118811 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #pornhub #surveillance #vpn

Age verification could soon land in Russia – putting already precarious internet freedoms on the line | TechRadar https://alecmuffett.com/article/118812 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #russia #surveillance #vpns

The House | Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Warns Of “Political Showdown” With UK Government Over Online Safety Act https://alecmuffett.com/article/118746 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns #wikipedia

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Soooooooo... Walz/Pritzker, or Pritzker/Walz?

Visiting Wetherspoons in Fleet it's and there is an elderly male bigot opining to an equally elderly female bigot that "the only reason people get diagnosed autistic is to have a licence to be an asshole" and similar charms.

“UK Expands Online Safety Act, Forcing Preemptive Censorship” | I’ve not heard Wikipedia complaining about this, but they will be impacted https://alecmuffett.com/article/118587 #4chan #FreeSpeech #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns

This post has been suspended for breaking Pochin's law - the over representation of the letter 'e' has driven out the letter 'c', which negatively effects the people of Runcorn.

I hate it when 4chan is in the right.

Messageboard 4chan refuses to pay fine over ‘free speech’ https://alecmuffett.com/article/118694 #4chan #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ofcom #surveillance

I feel one of the impediments which many people suffer about challenging statements like: "There are too many X in Y!" …is that they fear justifying (possibly their own) statements that: "There are not enough X in Y!" Perhaps the problem is the belief that we should have representational quotas?

UK Expands Online Safety Act, Forcing Preemptive Censorship https://alecmuffett.com/article/118629 #AgeVerification #ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns

I feel one of the impediments which many people suffer about challenging statements like: "There are too many X in Y!" …is that they fear justifying (possibly their own) statements that: "There are not enough X in Y!" Perhaps the problem is the belief that we should have representational quotas?

“Let’s be clear, since a lot of people seem to be finding that difficult: most people who get upset if they see black or brown faces in adverts are racists. There are few other reasons for seeing diversity in advertising to bother anyone.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-s...

UK MPs demand Home Secretary call on Apple to make iPhone more resistant to data exfiltration, backdoors, hacking, and third-party repair… https://alecmuffett.com/article/118602 #HomeOffice #PhoneTheft #RightToRepair #backdoor #censorship #encryption #surveillance

<reads> <thinks back over all of those internet stories he's read, covered by human mainstream journalists> <considers how many of those were massively misrepresented in the media> <e.g. cambridge analytica> <not quite a majority, but perhaps almost?> "AI he's doing okay."

<reads> <thinks back over all of those internet stories he's read, covered by human mainstream journalists> <considers how many of those were massively misrepresented in the media> <e.g. cambridge analytica> <not quite a majority, but perhaps almost?> "AI he's doing okay."

when people get stabbed at a synagogue just for being jewish then antisemitism is a stain on society that must be eradicated, but when a trans girl is stabbed just for being trans then it’s because phones are bad