Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
A reasonable 8 minutes of time, allowing for advertising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZB8XIHpHs
#ageVerification #censorship #cyberFlashing #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #ukLabour #vawg #vpns
“Women with disabilities who are exposed to intimate partner violence are doubly affected—both by abuse and by the inadequacy of society's support system. This is shown in a new thesis at Umeå University with recommendations for structural changes.”
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-intimate-partner-violence-fall-short.html
Women with disabilities who are exposed to intimate partner violence are doubly affected—both by abuse and by the inadequacy of society's support system. This is shown in a new thesis at Umeå University with recommendations for structural changes.
Gender-based violence orgs: how much do you know about encryption?
At Chayn, we believe encryption is a feminist issue and a matter of gender justice. Most importantly, it’s vital to protecting survivors of gender based violence. From safeguarding private messages and access to medical information, to shielding activists from state surveillance, strong encryption isn’t just tech, it can be a lifeline.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chayn_gbv-encryption-feminism-activity-7366061863610032128-J_It
#chayn #encryption #endToEndEncryption #gender #privacy #vawg
📣 Gender-based violence orgs: how much do you know about encryption? At Chayn, we believe encryption is a feminist issue and a matter of gender justice. Most importantly, it's vital to protecting survivors of gender based violence. From safeguarding private messages and access to medical information, to shielding activists from state surveillance, strong encryption isn’t just tech, it can be a lifeline. As governments around the world push back against encryption, we’re inviting GBV orgs to learn more about why it matters for your work… because survivor’ safety truly depends on it. 📙 Read our full policy brief where we discuss encryption's impact on the privacy and security of women and gender minorities around the world: https://lnkd.in/gAVcXjQV #GBV #Encryption #Feminism
"We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division”
#VAWG #SexualViolence #UKPolitics #FarRight
Prominent UK women tell rightwingers: stop linking immigration to sexual abuse | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/02/women-stop-linking-asylum-seekers-sexual-abuse
~14 years ago a friend – a highly respected & credentialed security consultant – shared that he’d set up all manner of content filtering & parental blocks on his home netw…
A short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure
~14 years ago a friend – a highly respected & credentialed security consultant – shared that he’d set up all manner of content filtering & parental blocks on his home network, for the safety of his then ~14yo son.
So the kid went to the local High Street and spent ~£20 of pocket money on a secondhand Android phone.
He said: “I have strongly mixed feelings about this. I don’t know whether to be angry or impressed.”
That’s it. Things have not changed in the time which has passed, if anything the supply of competent inexpensive second- and thirdhand hardware has become even more abundant.
To achieve what the minister suggests below will require regulation of the sales of all phones, laptops, and tablets, not to mention games consoles and IoT, including in the second hand market and on the likes of eBay and so forth.
The likely rebuttal will be “we must not let perfect be the enemy of good” and “if we can save one child it will be worth it” – but this is nonsense, because we also have to forbid software freedoms. You would have to ban installations of Linux – including under virtualisation and with Raspberry Pi – and other alternative operating systems like Tails. And you would also have to stop kids learning how to code using cloud environments which would allow them to circumvent all of this control.
Waiting for “child friendly” software to somehow trickle down into the second hand market is not going to make the child’s safety activists happy, and it is not going to prevent systems being reinstalled with operating systems that do not implement the controls.
Jess Philips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls in the Home Office, in the FT today (archived here) says:
The minister charged with tackling violence against girls has called on smartphone makers to do more to embed child protection technology into their devices, as she defended the UK’s new requirements for online age verification.
Jess Phillips said it is “absolutely imperative” that device manufacturers and the developers of their operating systems take greater responsibility for blocking pornographic imagery from children’s phones.
“I want to see tech companies putting as much resource and capability into this as they do into addictive algorithms,” Philips, the minister for safeguarding, told the Financial Times in an interview.
And:
Phillips said: “If there are very easy means of getting around [the rules], then obviously government has to look at that.”
Regulating the second hand market is where you will have to begin.
#ageVerification #censorship #homeOffice #JessPhillips #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #vawg
Lilith is often depicted as Adam's first wife, who refused to be subservient. Trigger warning: sexual manipulation.
"The piecemeal stories – “here is this one bad man we need to do something about” – don’t address the reality that the problem is systemic and the solution isn’t police and prison. It’s social change, and societies will have changed enough when violence against women ceases to be a pandemic that stretches across continents and centuries"
Excellent from Rebecca Solnit
#Misogyny #VAWG #Epstein
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/03/jeffrey-epstein-violence-women
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