Mastodawn

The road to hell...

The government is chasing its tail with the social media ban.

It's another 'online safety' policy heaped upon a bedrock of failures. It too will fail to remove harms. More authoritarian measures will follow.

The UK government must think again with a systems approach.

ORG's @jim explains ⬇️

From Internet filters to the UK Online Safety Act, our privacy and free expression rights have been hollowed out.

Digital ID age checks have expanded from porn to new areas of the Internet.

Future measures will include automated takedowns and breaking encryption to scan content on people's devices.

We must shift measures from costs on users to user empowerment.

That means directly tackling the market power of social media platforms that generate online harms.

We should take on the attention economy, prioritisation algorithms and targeted advertising rather than restricting content or access.

@openrightsgroup
They wont shift it to user empowerment, that would mean they are actually working for people, instead of their big business mates