The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ
Excellent piece: The lesson from these examples isn’t that protecting children online is misguided or an unworthy goal. It is that the means proposed to achieve this end pose significant risks to h…
The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151865#FreeSpeech #OnlineSafety #meta
The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Read this: Declaring the target to be “design features” — such as infinite scroll or notifications — instead of speech doesn’t change things. The First Amendment isn’t fooled by synonyms, and what …
‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151818#OnlineSafety #Section230 #meta
‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’
There are a bunch of “must read” Threads on Bluesky today, which to me indicate that people crowing about a “safer internet for children” due to the Meta lawsuits, are actua…
‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151775#EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #meta #surveillance
‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY
…under the “design liability” theory, implementing encryption becomes evidence of negligence, because a small number of bad actors also use encrypted communications […] encryption itself harms no o…
I read of social media causing mental health crises & despair re: the meaningless & futility of life. Folk should study Astronomy instead. The Sun one day will bloat & consume the Earth, yet we fritter away our time with trivialities like "power" & "conquest". Do better.
[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151697#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #surveillance
[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion
The European Parliament has thus formally concluded the legislative process . The Digital Society Association and many individuals had previously contacted the Members of Parliament, appealing to t…
MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICO
“perhaps there’s a different approach they could try taking, other than surveilling everybody’s messages?”
I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terrible
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151652#AgeVerification #apple #censorship
I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terrible
AV itself is tantamount to Digital Identity, it is illiberal to deploy everywhere and it is misconceived to imagine that it solves social problems The least bad way of getting AV is for people to b…
Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151637#ChatControl #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #surveillance
Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.
The Conservatives (EPP) are attempting to force a new vote TODAY (March 26) seeking to reverse the European Parliament’s NO on indiscriminate scanning of ALL your private messages, emails and…
This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity
https://alecmuffett.com/article/151611#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #dsit #gchq #ncsc #surveillance
This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity
Examples; remember to check both quotes & replies:
