Although this is being portrayed as "social media", recall that the definition is *much* broader than that:
You could not message your children on Signal, or your own home XMPP service.
They could not lawfully contribute to, perhaps even read, a wiki.
No shared calendars with family.
And so on.
@neil Seems this is unlikely to be added to the bill but it's very worrying.
@neil Hi, my perfectly clear, unencrypted replay follows:
07164 82549 25195 07381 73849 36384
64946 68531 77540 11832 81449 17452
@neil “made my [sic] statutory instrument”. It’s not even been proofread.
@neil page 19 also has a proposed amendment applying OSA age-gating to suppliers of VPN services
@neil Page 20 😬
(2) The “CSAM requirement” is that any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.
@neil can't imagine being a queer kid after this. Being so alone in the world, parents won't talk about it, bullied at school for it, teachers see it as a "problem".
@neil sounds like the concerns about the slippery slope that is the OSA are coming true, then... /sigh
@neil Are parents' rights to their children not stronger than these regulations?
Although this is being portrayed as "social media", recall that the definition is *much* broader than that:
You could not message your children on Signal, or your own home XMPP service.
They could not lawfully contribute to, perhaps even read, a wiki.
No shared calendars with family.
And so on.
@neil in your view is this badly drafted legislation or is there real intent to impose blanket surveillance, or is it even possibly a sort of real-politic in which there is a belief that this will allow the security services to prevent crimes justifies the sacrifice we will all take. I'm asking because I simply don't know but tend away from more fruity conspiracy theories.
@neil writes "You could not message your children on Signal".
I am glad our youngest son will be 16 soon. We use Signal all the time to communicate with him, in particular to arrange pick-ups, but for other things too, for many years.
@neil This is why we need decentralised e2ee apps like Simplex Meshtastic Cwtch Briar Deltachat, become ungovernable
#FLOSS #E2EE #SimpleX #Meshtastic #Cwtch #Briar #Deltachat #Anarchism
@neil Don't even think about letting them use the smart fridge.
@neil are they going to mention games? Or carve that out separately. Roblox, Minecraft, etc have a lot of those features
@neil IMO Australia is turning into Australia Rouge: introducing a Khmer Rouge ideology like Pol Pot: "In order to enforce loyalty to the state, the Khmer Rouge broke peoples’ ties to religion and family" -- I believe that social media are the predominant way to live family and social ties nowadays.
Quote source: https://hmd.org.uk/learn-about-the-holocaust-and-genocides/cambodia/khmer-rouge-ideology/
Image CC0 by Karel 'Clock' K. (unedited AI output).
@neil hang on though - don't schools *require* their pupils to use much of this technology as part of their education these days?!
@neil I'm glad our two will be clear of that age group before these idiots make it illegal to educate them on how to use the Internet.
I mean, I'm resigned to several cycles of stupid regulation over a couple of decades as we bed the whole system in but …
