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The theme of #RefugeeWeek is Courage.
The UK hostile environment has gone digital. AI makes or influences decisions over who stays, who's detained and who's removed.
All with little transparency and limited rights of appeal.
Politicians need to show courage and stand up for refugees!
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Icymi: Very positive findings about solar on peatland. Co-benefits of renewables just keep piling up.
Perhaps we should start teaching the kids how to build their own websites and create #WebRings and how to connect to each other through #RSS and the #indieWeb
The social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms.
Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads.
Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.
Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’.
If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.
Researchers in Germany have found that solar panels on rewetted peatland provide a unique habitat for bird species along with generating green energy and potentially locking up carbon. Installing sola...
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This is disgusting and this person should never have been in charge of Ofcom to begin with.
You know who's looking forward to Starmer's ban on children being online?
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Open Rights Group
Open Rights Group
www.maptap.gg June 15
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re the day's debate - I get that I was pretty precocious but I did move to an entirely different country where I didn't know anyone, by myself, at 17 years old, and I'm yet to regret it for even one moment, and I hate that we're apparently building a world where 17yos as seen as babies instead?
Open Rights Group has responded to Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s announcement that the Government will ban social media, including gaming sites, for under 16s in the UK.
