Also this video is weirdly American for a British politician to have created. “What are u gonna wear to class tomorrow?” - probably a school uniform, because we’re in the UK. “I’ll pick you up in the parking lot.” - no u won’t, Chad, because this is Birmingham and we call it a car park

Submission by Information Commissioner to @ofcom.bsky.social's #OnlineSafetyAct additional safety measures consultation. 32 pages that should give Ofcom considerable food for thought. ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

Submission by Information Commissioner to @ofcom.bsky.social's #OnlineSafetyAct additional safety measures consultation. 32 pages that should give Ofcom considerable food for thought. ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...

18-year-old musician #DianaLoginova has been sentenced to 13 days in jail for her viral performances of anti-Kremlin songs. She faces a second charge of discrediting the army through her music. We condemn her arrest and call for her release: www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/29/s...

European Union's Digital Services Act requires online platforms to implement robust “content moderation” measures, which could curtail Americans' speech freedoms; role of "trusted flaggers" has drawn particular scrutiny.

Criminalise malicious AI deepfakes, says MP www.bbc.com/news/article... Good: Norfolk Police has reportedly confirmed that a "deep fake" video of Tory MP George Freeman announcing his defection to Reform UK was not a crime #OnlineSafetyAct #deepfakes #genAI #techpolicy

Commission launches work on a code of practice on marking and labelling AI-generated content | Shaping Europe’s digital future digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

I find a link to a helpful table in a Reddit post. I click the link to the table. The table is not available in the UK because Imgur now blocks the UK due to the Online "Safety" Act. We are a laughable nation.

This is a vital step in recognising the role violent porn plays in shaping attitudes and regulating an industry which promotes + profits from VAWG. The Online Safety Act must now be updated to ensure online platforms are made to remove this content.

A hint as to the ambition of the Recommendation? www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

The good: protecting individuals from arbitrary and unjustifiable state coercion. The bad: Strasbourg’s theories of positive obligations and horizontality, putting the court in the position of meta-legislator. The ugly: Art 17; the Art 10 ‘duties and responsibilities’ language.

An enjoyable thread about one of the worst pieces of crap I’ve ever read, and absolutely the worst I’ve ever reviewed. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

"Nature connectedness is a psychological concept that measures the closeness of an individual’s relationship with other species." So there. (Surprised to find that the research wasn't conducted from a healing crystal shop in Totnes.)

Not just in isolation: “More religious societies and cultures where there was a preference for faith over science showed high levels of nature connection.”

If you saw this chart in isolation it would be incredibly hard not to conclude that being connected to nature sucks www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This draft Council of Europe Recommendation would like to be sure that she is contributing to a "healthy, informed, and democratic public discourse, which is respectful of the rights of others". rm.coe.int/public-msi-e...

Additional Safety Measures consultation response from @demos-uk.bsky.social. #OnlineSafetyAct demos.co.uk/research/ofc...

#OnlineSafetyAct working out exactly as designed, shock. Parliamentarians who designed it blaming everyone but themselves, shock.

House of Lords committee urges UK regulator Ofcom to "go further and faster" on enforcement of the Online Safety Act committees.parliament.uk/publications... Lords Comms Com evidence session from last month committees.parliament.uk/event/24911/... #openweb #censorship #techpolicy

Of the 2025 British Bafta Winners ONLY, and this is before I got bored, you had winners from: Preston Shrewsbury Gateacres Epsom Ipswich

All that I ask is that the culture secretary not ask questions which reveal she couldn’t tell you who *this year*’s Bafta shortlistees and winners were.

I'm afraid I've got some bad news about the Online Safety Act www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee not happy. #OnlineSafetyAct publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

If either the Home Office or another department are designing punitive systems that rely on accurate entry and exit data then… they shouldn’t be! There’s an inherent systems problem with the data AND there’s a legacy of major human error with data entry.

Well done everyone who has pressed the Tories constantly on this - proof that if people just point out that an unpopular and insane policy is unpopular and insane repeatedly and consistently then you can get it changed. A relief to many in sure - now same pressure needed with Reform

Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.

New from Free Movement: Government launches consultation on the prevention of illegal working | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/government-l...

Home Office data accuracy latest. That other departments are relying on Home Office records and taking punitive action on the assumption the information is accurate is worrying. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My latest post analyses the potential criminal liability in the UK of AI companies in light of the August report from Anthropic that its generative AI tool Claude has been used by hackers to commit cybercrimes. TL;DR: s3A CMA is a problem. open.substack.com/pub/issuesin...

The currently unrestricted right of Irish citizens to work in the UK is a sticking point in proposals for compulsory digital ID, Times report www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

The Explanatory Memorandum to the revocation regulations say that it's down to the complexity of the IT project involved and "technical issues", i.e. a delay to the requirement coming into force rather than a change in policy. Bodes well for digital ID... www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/10...

"Meanwhile, the regulations to bring in a requirement on providers to report CSAM content to the National Crime Agency have been revoked; they were due to come into force on 3 November and, at the time of writing, there are no further details available as to why they have been reversed." > Curious.

"The lawyer's obligation...is crystal clear: read the law you cite. Read the Code. Read the statutes. Read the cases. Citation to fake or fabricated cases in pleadings is prima facie evidence that the attorney who signs the pleadings has failed her duty" 🤖😵 www.fifthcircuit.org/dmzdocs/OI/P...

To no-one's surprise at all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎂 The #onlinesafetyact is two years' old this weekend. 🎁 Here's a look at the highs, the lows, the missed opportunities and the homes for the future. www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/the...

Cabinet Office now taking over policy, legislative and strategic responsibility for Digital ID. DSIT just has to design, build and deliver it. #IAmNotANumber questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

Had a chance to hang out with some @cato.org colleagues last week and had forgotten that the Cato soccer team is called The Invisible Foot.

Quite a day. Not only did I give my new work, on Swift and the Enlightenment Constitution, its first public outing, but Helen Dale’s deeply thoughtful review of my last project, On the Law of Speaking Freely, has been published here: lawliberty.org/book-review/...

If the Committee had paid more attention to the obvious problems with its recommendations it might not have been swatted away quite so easily. As it is, the gov't and Ofcom responses make some serious points amidst the usual formulaic stuff. 1/2

Rejecting the Unitary Executive is out in the Utah Law Review! TY @blakeprof.bsky.social @thisyank.bsky.social @jgienapp.bsky.social @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social @jdmortenson.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social @narosenblum.bsky.social & many others not on here dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2025/...

If the Committee had paid more attention to the obvious problems with its recommendations it might not have been swatted away quite so easily. As it is, the gov't and Ofcom responses make some serious points amidst the usual formulaic stuff. 1/2

There's a reason Germany and others moved on from the gastarbeiter (guest worker) model. "We wanted workers", wrote Max Frisch in 1965, "but we got people instead."

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall has received an early retirement request from the word "could". "New blueprint for AI regulation could speed up planning approvals, slash NHS waiting times, and drive growth and public trust ." www.gov.uk/government/n...

The London Business School might want to rethink the name of this course. www.london.edu/executive-ed...

The Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offences) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. Statement made by Kanishka Narayan on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-10-21/HCWS974

The Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offences) (Amendment) Regulations 2025. Statement made by Lord Vallance of Balham on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2025-10-21/HLWS973

Read @mchangama.bsky.social's full review at @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/who-...

Is free speech dangerous to democracy? Has it been wielded as a “weaponized mantra” by those motivated by “greed, technological change, and political expediency?” @mchangama.bsky.social reviews Fara Dabhoiwala’s “What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea” at @foreignaffairs.com