Mojang should feel pretty proud of themselves reading this story https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63634982 it’s quite touching to read how minecraft is giving these kids these experiences.
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. Calderdale Councillor & Leader of Calderdale Lib Dems. (he/him) messaging in a personal capacity #civilliberties #privacy #environment #localgovernment
Dan SinkerThere's A LOT of discussion about content moderation right now and very little of it touches on the fact that we've all lived on the big social sites for the last decade-plus thanks to the massively exploitated labor of mostly-invisible moderation workers. The social web at scale wouldn't have happened without these laborers, who in addition to shit wages, have been exposed to literally every imaginable horror.
If we're remaking this world, let's do better on that front.
Oh Signal now has ‘stories’ a new way to annoy my contacts with cringey content!
Automatic censorship, age-gating the internet, algorithms scanning your encrypted messaging services. If you care about saving our free and open internet and live in the UK please write to your MP today about the Online Safety Bill - https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill @openrightsgroup #privacy #OSB #onlinesafetybill #UK
Write to your MP to help stop the Online Safety Bill
The Online Safety Bill is set to return to Parliament on 5th December. Time is running out to secure the privacy of your personal messages. ❌ Private chat platforms, such as WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger and Telegram, will also fall under the bill’s mandate. ❌ Under a recent amendment to the bill, they will have to scan for government-specified forms of illegal content using Home Office-approved systems. It is a deeply intrusive form of surveillance that will compromise the end-to-end encryption that currently keeps our chats confidential and secure.
Black Friday seems to go on forever. It’s also not nearly as gothic as the name tricks me into believing.
Been chatting with folk about the data discrimination bill today - explaining how watering down our data rights will cause more discrimination. Quite a few people worried about companies getting access to our NHS records. Others concerned about what will happen to their Twitter DMs if the site collapses. Check out our website for more information about how you can take action on the issue https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/stop-data-discrimination/ #NHS #data #Privacy #GDPR
Open Rights GroupA big welcome to our new followers!
If it is #riptwitter, what next? Our Executive Director @jim talked about Mastodon and the #fediverse on BylineTV last week.
Watch the interview here: https://youtu.be/6i4swAUTitY?t=2599
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Elon Musk Blows Up Twitter | Friday Night with Byline Times
Heading to a conference tomorrow and running an exhibition stall for @openrightsgroup . Love events like this and talking to people outside of the digital rights bubble. Always interesting to listen to people - it’s really essential to learn how to communicate these issues more effectively.
Anyone heading to the World Cup should have a read of this https://www.nrk.no/sport/everyone-going-to-the-world-cup-must-have-this-app---experts-are-now-sounding-the-alarm-1.16139267? - might well he worth considering a temporary device or moving your data off your device.
“There is an enormous popular movement to reclaim our digital rights from a purely commercial, ad-driven and extractive model.”
How can the #Fediverse protect our networks against digital monopolies?
Read our latest blog by our Executive Director @jim to find out what you can do. https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/twitter-crisis-what-we-need-to-do/
#TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #Mastodon
Twitter Crisis – What we need to do
The Twitter crisis threatens people in many diverse ways. We could lose access to audiences, networks, and communities valuable for socialising, business,campaigning and support. We may lose touch with friends and colleagues. Twitter may itself inflict terrible damage on itself. Whatever emerges from Twitter, we should not be passive. There is an enormous popular movement […]