Keir Starmer’s under-16 social media ban can only work if everyone proves who they are, so it’s a natural move for a government selling surveillance as safety
By tech policy expert and digital rights advocate @heatherburnstech.bsky.social
www.thenerve.news/p/under-16-s...
Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done
bubbles.town ("hacker news but independent blogs") is an interesting sample of TLD diversity on the indie web
among the 30 front page links today: .dev, .xyz, .art, .me, .space, .eu, .day, .lol, .co.uk, .studio
If you want to actively do something which has a chance of improving trans human rights, be in Westminster on Thursday 25th June. Sign up here 👇
Interesting approach by the @ec.europa.eu to just ignore their own scientific service (JRC), which only 8w ago explicitly recommended to support @eurosky.social in this paper:
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144603