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#Minns & the #NSW #Police saying people will feel #safer with police carrying #machineguns & #assaultrifles during #NewYearsEve sounds like echoes of #NRA reasoning.
"If the #Bondi #terrorists had seen heavily armed police, they wouldn't have gone ahead with their attack".
RaymondPierreL3[Edited for typos : EFF]
The EFF is, thankfully, taking umbrage at Australia’s #AgeVerification legislation which came into force yesterday, and rightly so. However, with statements such as:
“If legislators want to meaningfully improve online safety, they should pass a strong, comprehensive federal privacy law instead of building new systems of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion.“
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It’s missing the mark, not really providing a solution to the targeted problem, and may just cloud the issue (confusing parents/guardians mainly) while giving our polies a free pass. That’s just my opinion of course. But if you really wanted to tackle on-line bullying and curtail the hate, the racism, the disinformation, misinformation, and general toxicity that is prevalent on #TechBros platforms, you’d need to do more than just reform and strengthen #PrivacyLaws. Digital media is just like radio/TV/paper media with more functionality and reach which are #regulated worldwide (more or less depending on country of publication/broadcast). Hence, to hit the mark, this new govt legislation ought to have been a set of #Regulations imposed on digital media (of every kind) with penalties for failure to comply to have any meaningful benefits to society and its younger people.
Of course, more regulations is not what the EFF stands for, so no surprises there. Saying that, I do believe that the EFF does important work and is to be commended for that.
There are alternatives to BigTech platforms which are #safer more #inclusive already deployed on the #internet. And if our govt was truly looking after the health of our kids, then govt departments who have the #DutyOfCare to keep our kids safe could #Fund #instances of #Mastodon on the #Fediverse for #kids run by kids with oversight by health professionals as #Moderators — a glaringly obvious solution that no one is talking about (outside the fediverse that is).
/end_rant/
#AusPol #InternetAccess #SocialMedia #OnLineBullying #Doxing #Grooming #EatTheRich #Antifa #Radicalisation
Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back.
Age verification laws are proliferating fast across the United States and around the world, creating a dangerous and confusing tangle of rules about what we’re all allowed to see and do online. That's why today, we're launching EFF.org/Age, a one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what these laws actually do, what’s at stake, why EFF opposes all forms of age verification, how to protect yourself, and how to join the fight for a free, open, private, and yes—safe—internet.
Rupert ReadNEW: No national mobilisation ever happened by underplaying the threat at hand. Current mainstream #climate rhetoric is equivalent to patting the public on the back at the beginning of WWII and saying: “Don’t worry, beating Hitler will be a piece of cake, we have the tech to do it.”
This is why Guy Ducker, a CMP friend and award-winning film-maker, has put this short film together, exploring the parallel between Britain during the war and our climate response today.
It is time for us to prepare to be #SAFER.
Britain Speaks! | Climate Majority Project
Konstantin MacherDie Details:
Daten zur Nutzung der freiwilligen #Chatkontrolle hat die EU-Kommission von Google, LinkedIn, Meta, Microsoft und Yubo. Die meisten Fälle werden von Meta gemeldet.
Das Scannen gliedert sich nach drei Bereichen: bekannte Missbrauchsdarstellungen, bisher unbekannte ("neue") Darstellungen und Grooming (Anbahnungsversuche).
Bei den verwendeten Systemen taucht auch ein alter Bekannter wieder auf: #Safer von #Thorn. Ihr erinnert euch?
Verschlüsselung: Thorn brachte Chatkontrolle auch für andere Themen ins Spiel
Ashton Kutchers Organisation Thorn war von Anfang an der Entstehung der Chatkontrolle-Verordnung beteiligt. Neue Dokumente zeigen, mit welchen Aussagen Thorn die EU-Kommission lobbyiert hat - unter anderem verwies die Organisation auch auf die Möglichkeiten der Chatkontrolle abseits des Kampfes gegen Kindesmissbrauchs.
Steve Dustcircle 🌹
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉⚠️#PSA: Please #edit your #message to #remove the #tracking code (after the "?" check link for examples). This helps keep us all #safer: https://activistchecklist.org/links
If you're using the browsers #Mullvad, #Tor, #Librewolf, #Firefox or #Brave, you can right-click and select "Copy clean link / Copy without site tracking..." which will automatically remove these tracking codes.
#Privacy #Security Thank you 💚 🙏
For Firefox there is also #ClearURLs: https://mastodon.online/@blueghost/114776691851917622
Edited due 2 recommendations.
#Quick #reminder: Please #edit your #message to #remove the #tracking code (everything after the "?"). This helps keep us all #safer. https://activistchecklist.org/links #privacy #security
Why we need to remove everything after the '?' in links | Digital Security Checklists for Activists
Plain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides.
Proactive Behaviour AnalystsI am very excited that this paper is finally published! A huge thank you to Peter Gerhardt and Jessica Cauchi Ph.D., BCBA-D, CPBA-AP, R.B.A. (Ont)! The paper would not have made it without them. If you use the SAFER Tool, please reach out and let me know how you found it!
