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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The debate over client-side scanning is never far from the surface. (New reqs nearly re-appeared in UK's Child Wellbeing & Schools Bill, but the amendment was not moved.) This is a long read, but a great summation of where we are in the murky history of EU Chatcontrol: mullvad.net/en/why-priva...

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Chat Control & Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU.

After Snowden’s whistleblowing in 2013, large parts of the internet became encrypted, enabling private and secure communication. Not everyone has welcomed this change. Most notably, the FBI and other ...

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Astonishing how many MPs are repeating the call for fines by Ofcom, but are unaware how much trouble Ofcom has walked into in the US courts.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Given the recent judgement in the Hamit Coskun case, is it not appropriate for 'religion' to be removed from the list of protected characteristics in non crime hate incidents?

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Baroness Kidron, noting that Ofcom's research indicates only one in 10 VPN users are children, asks the Government to provide a written response on how many services have been refered by Ofcom to ICO for failing to uphold user privacy rights when performing age checks.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Australian Gov has confirmed YouTube will be included in the banned list of U16 platforms. Ban applies only to a logged in account. Facebook et al expected to terminate accounts of those it knows are U16. The details of how platforms are expected to check and confirm users are U16 is not yet clear.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Someone remind me please about where UK's Online Safety Act states that platforms must not host, share or permit content encouraging the use of VPNs.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Reddit's UK age verification kicked in today, and is a political score draw. Ofcom has near to what it wanted, and Reddit's more ingenious users, as a point of pride, have got round the system in a few seconds. Both sides have issued dutiful self-congratulatory platitudes. #ageverification

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

10 Feb: UK Minister Peter Kyle warns over China's AI role, saying the AI race must be led by 'western, liberal, democratic' countries. 11 Feb: UK and US refuse to sign international summit AI declaration, but China signs. Something doesn't add up, does it?

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Deceitful nonsense from the Home Secretary. Thousands of people saw that video and didn't start murdering little girls. Cooper (and Starmer) are merely trying to deflect attention away from the systemic failure of the Prevent programme and all the Agencies involved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Remove videos seen by Southport killer, Cooper tells tech firms

Social media platforms have a 'moral responsibility' to remove violent content, home secretary says.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

How will Ofcom persuade the world's porn sites to accept its preferred age assurance measures? I suspect Ofcom might not even try, but will focus its efforts on a small number of large non-porn platforms. #AgeVerification

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The benefit of the inevitable failure of the Australian SM rules for u16s (hinging on "some form of age assurance") is that it will undermine the efforts for age verification being sought by other administrations.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

On non-crime hate incidents, I'm of the Inspector Grim school of thought - "Arty-farty, namby-pamby, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, lardy-dardy, sun-dried tomato eating, diddums half-cock up-yer social worker, wokey tight-nosed toffee-arsed semi-skimmed creeping-crawling decaffeinated fannying about!"

Inspector Grim was a character in Ben Elton's comedy 'The Thin Blue Line'

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

There is a danger that revising S230 could inadvertently demolish its current benefits, e.g. if a platform is to keep its S230 immunity, who is going to verify it meets "high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and non-discrimination"? www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/pre...

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President Donald J. Trump — Free Speech Policy Initiative | Donald J. Trump For President 2024

President Donald J. Trump announced a new policy initiative aimed to dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech.

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Scotland's new Hate Crime Law, just one day old, has been torpedoed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scot...

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russ-e.bsky.social @russ-e.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

UK's #OnlineSafetyAct has claimed its first scalp. Some UK ISPs are now blocking a suicide forum (US-based, I understand) and, after 'contact' by Ofcom, the forum has removed access to new UK users. It's a grubby compromise deal, but the Secretary of State has her political victory soundbite.

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