Chewie
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The UK Online Safety Act does nothing to challenge the dominance of Big Tech.
Government needs to use competition powers so we can choose moderation engines and switch social media provider without losing our networks.
Read our interoperability report ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #fediverse
ORG warned the UK Parliament that VPNs must not face the chop.
Banning or age-gating VPNs will shatter security and free expression in a self-defeating attempt to make the unworkable workable by playing into the hands predators online.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-briefing-warns-against-restricting-vpns/
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #vpn
The UK Online Safety Act does nothing to challenge the dominance of Big Tech.
Government needs to use competition powers so we can choose moderation engines and switch social media provider without losing our networks.
Read our interoperability report ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol #fediverse
The UK Online Safety Act is badly designed.
ORG published a report setting out a rights-based approach to fix it.
One that limits the scope of the Act to minimise threats to free expression, our privacy rights and small sites.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
Small sites have been hit with onerous duties under the UK Online Safety Act. Many have shut down or geo-blocked the UK.
ORG published a guide through the regulatory maze of duties placed on online service providers by the Act and Ofcom.
Read more ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
People have been forced to hand over personal data to unregulated age-verification companies to access content and app features way beyond porn.
The UK Online Safety Act put in place no regulatory standards for privacy or security.
We called for regulation ⬇️
#ORG2025 #digitalrights #OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
Em :official_verified:
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Don't post pictures and videos of kids on your public profile.
Especially if you don't have autodelete set up.
Did you ask them?
Will they mind later even if they say they don't now - are they capable of understanding what that privacy violation means?
You can be. You can just not do it.
#children #onlineSafety #Privacy #photos #christmas
Don't post pictures and videos of kids on your public profile.
Especially if you don't have autodelete set up.
Did you ask them?
Will they mind later even if they say they don't now - are they capable of understanding what that privacy violation means?
You can be. You can just not do it.
#children #onlineSafety #Privacy #photos #christmas
KawaiiPunk
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The UK Online Safety Act is a mess. MPs are debating the petition for its repeal now.
ORG calls for a rights-based approach:
Limit its scope to minimise threats to freedom of expression/small sites, and regulate age verification providers to protect privacy.
Read our briefing ⬇️
#onlinesafetyact #osa #onlinesafety #freedomofexpression #privacy #censorship #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
Strypey
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The UK Online Safety Act returns to Parliament.
It's enabled iffy age-assurance providers, wrongly censored content and shuttered small sites while doing nothing to tackle the dominance of major platforms.
Tell your MP to attend the debate on 15 December ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-attend-debate-online-safety-act
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
Charlie Stross
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📚 18th–19th c. – Novel reading panic
🗞️ Early 1900s – Dime novels & pulp fiction
🦸 1950s – Comic books & juvenile delinquency
🎸 1950s–60s – Rock ’n’ roll
📺 1960s–70s – Television addiction
🎲 1970s–80s – Dungeons & Dragons
🤘 1980s – Heavy metal & Satanic Panic
🎮 1990s – Video game violence and VHS nasties
🌐 2000s – Internet & online danger
📱 2010s–2020s – Social media & smartphone addiction
Chewie
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Over 550,000 people signed the petition against the UK Online Safety Act.
This is one of the largest public expressions of concern about a UK digital law in recent history.
We need you to tell your MP why they need to attend the debate on 15 December ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-attend-debate-online-safety-act
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
Chewie
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The UK Online Safety Act affects freedom of expression.
Its hefty requirements risk undermining the ability of small, non-profit and public-interest websites to operate.
Read the joint briefing from ORG, Big Brother Watch, @eff and Index on Censorship ⬇️
#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #osa #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
🫧 socialcoding..
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I'm against banning social media for under 16's. Just outright banning doesn't make something unavailable - just unregulated and not monitored. Alcohol and vapes are still common among under 16's - especial those that are vulnerable.
I am for under 16's not being allowed on corporate socials though - as they are toxic places which do provably screw with brain development in youth - because of that algorithmic nature.
I am considering pitching an idea to a local established non-profit that I sometimes work with, who run a number of local youth clubs across the region.
It is an idea of setting up a fediverse instance for 11-15 year olds. An account can only be made in person alongside being a member of a youth club -with parent / guardian consent.
It will not be federated to the general social web, and begin as a self-contained bubble - but with the idea of other regions creating the same thing and federating together.
It would be moderated by the same volunteers / employees that run the youth clubs and social services - who are fully vetted, and follow the protocols - which already also includes moderating each other.
Perhaps even somehow make it so the kids can't post on it during school hours, and after, perhaps, 10pm?
There would of course be a set of standards expectations, or community codes of conduct, like here in the Fedi. Perhaps also running regular fun things too, that get kids thinking creatively (like what happens at the clubs anyway).
There are of course many many issues with this idea, and I can't see it actually happening just like that.
Not only is there unlikely the right fedi project to accommodate needs, but things like the online safety act potentially blocking the ability to create safe community based social networks for youth. And I'm sure there are many other issues as to why this idea might not work either. Like, what happens when someone turns 16? Are they just kicked off?
However, I do know that corporate socials are bad - but not providing good safe alternatives when attempting to protect children, actually makes them more vulnerable and unsafe. We need a way to embrace them, not outcast them.
#socialban #socialmedia #fediverse #activitypub #youthwork #onlinesafety