Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/ctrl-alt-speech-writing-some-wrongs/

As a new documentary tells the story of the teenager, who took her own life in 2017, her father, her friends and the film’s director talk about the unchecked power and threat of social media
A turf war between people who want to ban social media for teenagers vs: those who want it regulated to the point of Orwellian surveillance — there can be only one!
Pardon the Highlander reference, but I never thought I’d encounter a drama* of child safety activists, so mutually exclusive in their approaches that each cannot allow the other to exist.
On one side the Ghey followers, seeking outright bans on phone & social media access, so post-Brexit children can enjoy the 1970s all over again.
On the other side the Russell team, who’d have nothing to regulate if the Ghey followers win; it’s interesting to see them minimising the Ghey proposals as-if they were intended to apply to schools only.
And of course in the meantime a socially aware and & technically informed government policy should be doing something like the Dutch are doing.
[*] new collective noun?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109219
#briannaGhey #childSafety #darkWeb #mollyRussell #onlineAbuse
Pardon the Highlander reference, but I never thought I’d encounter a drama* of child safety activists, so mutually exclusive in their approaches that each cannot allow the other to exist. On …
The social media giant Instagram has submitted thousands of pages of “pretty awful” material from the account of Molly Russell to the pre-inquest hearing of her suicide, according to the BBC. Russell was just 14 years old at the time she took her own life in 2017 after viewing graphic images of self-harm and suicide […]