I’ve posted a long FAQ with everything you need to know about a kids’ social media ban. Key takeaway: it is an ineffective and harmful policy that raises privacy concerns for tens of millions of Canadians through mandated age verification requirements.
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The government is expected to table the Digital Safety Act on Wednesday with reports that it will include a ban on social media for those under 16, framed as a “temporary” measure that platforms can…
Elon Musk bears next to no meaningful influence on the local organising of this.
Groups pushing it are overwhelming promoting Advance UK, TUV and Restore Britain.
They follow influencers like Richard Donaldson and Tommy Robinsion and use Tiktok and Facebook far more than Twitter.
It does. But the wilful blindness of the UK's political establishment to the scale of the danger scares me even more.
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Brendan Harkin
"They cannot ignore this". Sorry, no, actually, they can. Thanks to years of dedicated, sustained practice, they are *fantastic* at ignoring this. Olympic levels of obliviousness.
Northern Ireland is the Eric Trump of the United Kingdom.
... and the automation software that allows them do that is widely available, costs mere $ hundreds, and is now in the hands of millions.
The key isn't content moderation. It's holding platforms accountable for the business partnerships they engage in.
British and Irish politicians weren't willing to get off X/Twitter when it became a Child Sexual Abuse Material factory in January; so they're certainly not going to get off it because of some racist pogroms in Belfast.
“Data centres must provide their own power but only 80% of that must come from renewables and that only comes into effect after 6 years”
Are the companies building these data centres going to chip in when our emissions fines from the EU arrive in the post?
No? They’re not? Ok. Well. Just checking.
A brutal and gruesome video of a violent assault in Belfast last night has gone viral on social media and is already being used in calls to incite violence.
But sure, British government, allowing 15-year-olds to see boobies, that's the real threat social media poses.
Look at this chart from @whattofix.tech. On Meta alone, it's gone from 1m to 15m monetised accounts worldwide. Absolutely quantifies the way the internet has changed, and how quickly.
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Victoire Rio
Sam Jeffers
I not to sound like a conspiracy theorist but, recent changes by the Irish government, which will make it harder to challenge planning decisions on environmental grounds, make it very very *very* hard for me.
