Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh in STS. Criminologist and author of Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy. Chair of the Foundation for Information Policy Research. Researching power and harm in digital infrastructure. Pfp Jamie Buchan
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The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...
🚨 Parliament is back today.
Join us in asking your MP to reject the EHRC’s harmful Code of Practice:
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice
"We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights."
Full statement👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...
We used to talk about the University as an "anxiety machine", producing intolerable working conditions (slowness, for example, was a response), but it's really become a "grief machine" and I'm not sure we know what to do with the pain and loss yet.
Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️
Just to really hammer this home - many proposed AV designs would result in minoritised groups having in practice a higher age limit to use social media than the rest of the population. And these groups that are the most likely to lack other accepted methods of proof of age.
