The world needs social sovereignty | Mastodon Blog | Fediverse’s 800g Gorilla calls for local platforms, for local people…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134458
#DigitalSovereignty #fediverse #jingoism #mastodon

@ReggieHere @Mastodon summary blog post from 2023:
https://alecmuffett.com/article/108481

@ReggieHere @Mastodon there were multiple reasons why Usenet died and if prompted and provided with enough beer, I will happily expound on the topic for an hour in front of an audience.

@ReggieHere @Mastodon They can dream.

@ReggieHere maybe they can base it around Pudding mit Gabel 

Speculation: “Reddit enlists lawyers to take on teen social media ban”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134370
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMediaBan #australia #reddit

@ReggieHere if you were correct about any of this, most notably the privacy and social reasons, then everybody in the world would be already on Mastodon and Signal

@ReggieHere that's a cute idea; so what are you going to do to stop people talking to people around the world in a global context using global tools with global reach?

Or will some putative French social network simply be innately superior due to some kind of terroir?

What the world might look like if we get a federal GRANITE Act | Preston Byrne | …the joy of this is that it might even be bipartisan
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134347
#4chan #DigitalServicesAct #FreeSpeech #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance

A US psychologist prescribed a social media ban for kids. How did Australia become the test subject? | Social media ban | The Guardian
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134221
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship #surveillance #vpns

“India’s request for satellite-aided iPhone location data is a privacy nightmare” | AppleInsider
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134185
#SancharSaathi #apple #india #surveillance

Sometimes even politicians agree that it is necessary for social media to carry videos of people literally and really being blown to pieces…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134173
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #StatesanctionedMurder #censorship #surveillance

Lord Carlile believes that “[websites can] lose their right to appear on any screen in the United Kingdom” – rather than “citizens will suffer censorship by the British state”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134028
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns

Baroness Floella Benjamin of BBC PlaySchool fame proposes Australia-like YouTube age-ban impacting Sesame Street, Ms Rachel, Cosmic Kids, Danny Go! …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133984
#AgeVerification #DannyGo #MsRachel #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct

I hate that this man has a point
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133713
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #bbc #censorship #surveillance

Ofcom writes to 4chan: “We are a UK-based regulator, but that does not mean the rules do not apply to sites based abroad” — true, but irrelevant…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133644
#AgeVerification #DigitalColonialism #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #StarshipTroopers #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpns

EU’s Top Court Just Made It Literally Impossible To Run A User-Generated Content Platform Legally | Techdirt
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133605
#IntermediaryLiability #Section230 #censorship #gdpr #surveillance

Ofcom: “I can levy vasty £1m fines upon Porn!” Internet: “So can I, so can any regulator; but will they pay when you levy them?”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/133522
#AvsGroup #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom #porn #shakespeare

ReclaimTheNet: “ChatControl was meant to be temporary, the promotion of mass scanning of private messages until data proved it worked. The data never came.”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/132603
#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #privacy #surveillance

Age Verification: Teaching the world how to evade censorship
https://alecmuffett.com/article/132609
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #TheVpnEffect #censorship #missouri #surveillance