Meta pulls Facebook ads recruiting for social media addiction lawsuits
Mr. Zuckerberg is quaking in his boots.
Big news… you fucked shit up for a lot of people and now must repair the damage by paying what you owe.
#FuckMeta
#FuckBook
#UK
#OnlineSafetyAct
The public will be better protected from vile online pornography under new Government amendments tabled to the Crime and Policing Bill today (Friday, April 10). Building on the Government's work to tackle violence against women and girls, pornography depicting illegal sexual conduct between family members and adults roleplaying as children will be criminalised. The first of these vital measures will ban anyone from possessing or publishing harmful pornography that shows incest between family members, and sex between step or foster relations where one person is pretending to be under 18. A further amendment will criminalise the publication and possession of pornography where an adult is roleplaying as a child.
New laws to crackdown on harmful pornography www.gov.uk/government/n...
The UK's Crime and Policing Bill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3938/p...
#OnlineSafetyAct -adjacent #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
So the UK has signed up to:
"42. State authorities should not directly or indirectly impose a general obligation on intermediaries to monitor content which they merely give access to or which they transmit or store, be it by automated means or not."
Has anyone told DSIT or Ofcom? #OnlineSafetyAct
"City grandee" Ian Cheshire has been announced as the next chair of Ofcom www.gov.uk/government/n...
In fairness, probably the safest choice given that the other short-listed candidates were a Tory MP and Margaret Hodge
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
So @steampowered.com @valvesoftware.com have begun to require a Credit Card for UK Adults to access games on the storefront. Less than 50% of UK Adults have a Credit Card. No alternative options are provided. #onlinesafetyact
A survivor of such intimate image abuse, referred to as Jane (not her real name), and The End Violence Against Women Coalition ("EVAW") have instructed solicitors Leigh Day and sent a Pre-Action Protocol letter to Ofcom threatening to bring a judicial review, accusing it of turning a blind eye to the abuse that Jane and countless other women and girls have suffered at the hands of such "collector culture" image-sharing forums. Intimate images of women and girls are posted to these forums and categorised by area as specific as their town, village or university halls of residence, putting victims at serious risk of physical harm offline in the real world, such as stalking, as well as online.
Ofcom faces judicial review over alleged failure to act on intimate image abuse www.mishcon.com/news/ofcom-f...
Just a pre-action protocol letter at this point
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
Can we protect kids online without nudging the whole UK toward wider age checks?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTyB...
#Privacy #DigitalRights #OnlineSafetyAct
Taken together, Ofcom and the Online Safety Act provide a rare example of how the UK could be genuinely inspirational. The existential question for liberal democracies now is whether they can tame tech giants. We know it can be done by authoritarian regimes – as China demonstrates. Democracies, though, are struggling. Any move to challenge tech monopolies involves wading through legal treacle for years, with no guarantee of success.
Tech columnist John Naughton says the position of new Ofcom chair "appears to have gone to" businessman Ian Cheshire (rather than Margaret Hodge, the lulz candidate)
Naughton's usual bad take, in the Tortoise Observer observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
Greetings, Xyphen-ers! We are officially dropping a Xyphen file sharing solution. Recently, 0x0 shut down with no prior warning, due to AI abuse. We hope to revive it, with a 5GB limit and file retention for up to half a year!
Check us out: xyphen.org
#Xyphen #OnlineSafetyAct #DataPrivacy
Which party has earned trust in digital privacy?
Tories built the Online Safety Act. Labour is enforcing age checks. Digital ID is still moving.
That is why so many people distrust the lot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sbs...
Who do you trust least?
#DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafetyAct #DigitalID
Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone
https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #irony #surveillance
@ofcom.bsky.social Chair job spec: a particular focus is #onlinesafety
Successful candidate (according to @financialtimes.com): no relevant experience.
Hard to see the logic, esp when #DSIT SofS has spent months berating the regulator over #onlinesafetyact enforcement
www.ft.com/content/bdcc...
The #OnlineSafetyAct shifts responsibility onto victims. Trying to 'protect' them means increased surveillance on us all.
Where's the focus on perpetrators? Bit inconvenient for the Epstein class?!?! 😡
The problem is predatory men. #EpsteinFiles
Where's the legislation for that?
If I can, I'll skip it.
Problem is I've had an Apple account for a long time. I think I started with iTunes. Apple probably already know more about me than I realise.
#Privacy #OnlineSafetyAct #iPhone #iOS26 #AgeVerification #FreeSpeech
www.waynedenner.com/apple-age-ve...
Active social media use in the UK has fallen sharply, according to media watchdog Ofcom, with people posting less often and becoming more cautious over how they approach online content. Ofcom research published on Thursday showed the number of people who think the benefits of being online outweigh the risks had also dropped — to 59 per cent, down from 72 per cent last year — with many feeling they spend too long on devices.
Active social media use drops as Britons become more cautious online www.ft.com/content/0e7f... (£)
New Ofcom research findings www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #socialmediaban #censorship #openweb #techpolicy
#OnlineSafetyAct
#StuffStarmer
#NazisInAllButName
#ReformUK
#LabourParty
#ConservativeParty
#SNP
#Labour
#greenparty
#LibDems
#PlaidCymru
youtu.be/3UkSia3EU6c?...
The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151916
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMediaBan #censorship
‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151775
#EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #meta #surveillance
This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151611
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #dsit #gchq #ncsc #surveillance
Well yes, but Parliamentarians were not interested in hearing that the design of the legislation was foundationally defective. In the result, it is working exactly as designed. #OnlineSafetyAct 2/2
#AVS is as much about getting your personal data as protecting anyone (if not more)
#OSA #OnlineSafetyAct
UK Regulator Clarifies What 'Highly Effective' Age Checks Really Mean
#OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #Ofcom #DigitalRegulation #ChildSafety #AusNews
thedailyperspective.org/article/2026-03-25-uk-re...
#Fascism
#Censorship
#DemocracyDebate
#Democracy
#OnlineSafetyAct
UN:
EARTH BEING PUSHED BEYOND LIMITS
#ClimateEMERGENCY
#ReformUK
#LabourParty
#ConservativeParty
#SNP
#Labour
#greenparty
#LibDems
#PlaidCymru
youtu.be/BlVhBeLO5DQ?...
youtu.be/p5K3-PvcI_c?...
Human rights chief warns against banning social media for kids | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151370
#HumanRights #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMediaBanned #censorship
Spain: football-match-induced online censorship regularly prevents installation of Postgres on Docker for fear of illicit streaming
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151241
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #spain
PseudoDNA: Identifying Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s PhotoDNA
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151219
#OnlineSafetyAct #PhotoDna #censorship
“Natural collisions in Apple’s NeuralHash & Microsoft’s PhotoDNA show worrying false positives/negatives in widely deployed perceptual hashing”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151208
#NeuralHash #OnlineSafetyAct #PhotoDna #censorship
Investigation: UK spends millions on VPNs as government weighs ban for children | TechRadar
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151079
#OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns
This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House
https://alecmuffett.com/article/150554
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OpenSource #censorship #kosa #systemd #ubuntu
