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Laws are introduced globally to reduce ‘psychological harm’ online – but there’s no clear definition of what it is
#OnlineSafety #DigitalRights #MentalHealth #Cyberbullying #OnlineHarms #SocialMedia #DigitalWellbeing #Law #PsychologicalHarm #InternetSafety
https://the-14.com/laws-are-introduced-globally-to-reduce-psychological-harm-online-but-theres-no-clear-definition-of-what-it-is/

Laws are introduced globally to reduce ‘psychological harm’ online – but there’s no clear definition of what it is | The-14

Where we are now In reviewing the 80 years’ worth of work in clinical, forensic and cognitive psychology, here is what I see as the major issues concerning psychological harm. There is no agreement as to where to draw the boundary between psychological harm or related concepts and mental disorders outlined in the diagnostic manual

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New #Blog: Feedback on The Online Safety Act (an email to my MP)
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/the-internet/feedback-on-the-online-safety-act.html?utm_source=rss

#internet #onlineharms #onlinesafetyact #safety #theinternet #thoughts #unitedkingom #web

Feedback on The Online Safety Act (an email to my MP)

Today I wrote an email to my MP to ask some questions about how the government intends to unpick the mess that has been made with the online safety act. This post starts with a short analysis of a com

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disconnectcollective May 31

6/6 💡 "Campaigning enables survivors to regain control where it's been taken from them."
Supporting organizations working for digital accountability. Technology isn't neutral - it's designed. We can demand better design.
Transforming digital noise into meaningful dialogue
#OnlineHarms #DigitalRights #DisconnectCollective

Alec Muffett May 21

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113388
#JonathanHaidt #MoralPanic #OnlineHarms #ScreenTime

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms

The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing t…

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alecm May 21

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms

https://bsky.app/profile/jayvanbavel.bsky.social/post/3lpaaktc6bc2x

Via:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480657-attempt-to-reach-expert-consensus-on-teens-and-phones-ends-in-argument/

#jonathanHaidt #moralPanic #onlineHarms #screenTime

Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel.bsky.social)

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. See our paper: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/b94dy_v1

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Alec Muffett Mar 12

“I need you to roll a 20 to prove that using social media generally causes harm to teens…”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112733
#OnlineHarms #dnd

“I need you to roll a 20 to prove that using social media generally causes harm to teens…”

THE COURT: It was well known when I was growing up that I was going to become a Satanist because I played Dungeons & Dragons. Is that — I don’t know what really that means. You can say that the…

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alecm Mar 12

“I need you to roll a 20 to prove that using social media generally causes harm to teens…”

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/judge-uses-dds-failure-to-make-him-worship-satan-to-school-florida-on-social-media-moral-panics/

#dnd #onlineHarms

Judge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral Panics

When Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably weren&#82…

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New #Blog: Performing an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.uk
Author: Ben Tasker

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html?utm_source=rss

#analysis #law #ofcom #onlineharms #onlinesafetyact #porn #safety #theinternet #web

Performing an Online Safety Act Assessment For mastodon.bentasker.co.u

Today, I did an assessment of my mastodon service for the online safety act. This blog post talks about the experience and my take-aways from the process.

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