There'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.
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.
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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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