I'm pretty sure that somebody in Kier Starmer's social media team doesn't know the difference between "Money for Nothing" and "Song 2"
06.03.2026 15:44
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I'm pretty sure that somebody in Kier Starmer's social media team doesn't know the difference between "Money for Nothing" and "Song 2"
Web access must NOT be held hostage to ID checks ⚠️
We can't nod through a law giving Ministers free rein to block or time-limit whatever they want online.
All of us will be forced to hand over our sensitive data repeatedly to any given provider for everyday Internet use.
Tell your MP to say NO ⬇️
Digital ID checkpoints could erupt across the Internet 🆔
The government is seeking a power grab. And it's not just social media.
Every adult will have to do ID checks to access whatever online services the government – any government – decides to restrict or curfew.
ORG's James Baker explains ⬇️
This social-media campaign from UK Counter-Terrorism Police is misconceived, othering, and outright *harmful*
@terrorwatchdog.bsky.social
@zsk.bsky.social
@joetidy.bsky.social
@jamesrball.com
Ofcom’s [attempted] browbeating of Canada-based online depression forum into compliance with Online Safety Act “Age Verification”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/148347
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #depression #ofcom
Much worse than that.
Jesus wept. This is the most horribly ill-conceived UK government public awareness campaign I've ever seen. And that's saying a *lot*. It could easily lead a teen to self-harm, or worse.
It should be urgently and immediately pulled. What are they thinking?!
This social-media campaign from UK Counter-Terrorism Police is misconceived, othering, and outright *harmful*
@terrorwatchdog.bsky.social
@zsk.bsky.social
@joetidy.bsky.social
@jamesrball.com
“JUST A LINK CAN LEAVE A TRACE” | UK Counter-Terrorism Police are feeding teenagers with horrific, emotional anti-social-media fearmongering that may end in multiple *tragedy*
https://alecmuffett.com/article/148288
I do wonder how long it is before people realise that the main problem with politics today is that we could entirely reasonably remove the word "this" from Paul's skeet:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Given the examples of what happened with covid tracking, especially with the British, French, Swedish and other governments, I would much rather that Apple and Google have my data because they are motivated by risk of regulatory punishment to treat it like to treat it like radioactive waste.
If there's only a single provider and it is not within the power of users to choose a provider, it is a single point of failure and a point of tracking.
#Privacy Wonks will hate it, but Mark #Zuckerberg is correct that the proper place for prescriptive #AgeVerification is in the App Store of a mobile device […because it…] is a degenerate form of what we should have been doing all along: age attestation, not age verification.
#AgeVerification is literally a gatekeeping solution. If it is to be effective at all, it must be deployed in situations where gatekeeping makes sense — and general purpose operating systems are not those places.
How many providers are signed up?
My point, exactly. 🧐
Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source
https://alecmuffett.com/article/148084
#AgeAttestation #AgeVerification #MarkZuckerberg #OpenSource #apple #google #ubuntu
TikTok incapable of delivering both user privacy *and* user safety, retains capability to surveil user communications
https://alecmuffett.com/article/148043
#EndToEndEncryption #censorship #china #surveillance #tiktok
It's really hard to regulate open source software and code. I'm sure they will try.
Yep. How many teenagers do you know on Facebook? New technologies are going to arise and will be adopted because they are more compelling or more open. Teenagers will get better at faking shit or just circumventing it entirely. "Finsta" was years ago. The wheel will turn.
The problem there is that you, like the government, believe that VPNs are special.
They are not. Anybody can set them up.
Also: see Tor.
alecmuffett.com/article/113969
ps: Go look up the history of the satanic cult moral panic surrounding dungeons and dragons
I'm not expecting the stupidity to start to unwind *properly* for about 5 years. It will take at least that long for the damage to rack up and people to start suffering and have their reputations harmed by having been associated with it.
Yes I am absolutely certain that they will fail. They will certainly try and they will probably kill a few people in the process, but they will fail.
“Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/147820
#AgeVerification #censorship #surveillance
"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"
#WeAreSwindon
The proliferation of nut sensitivity is the regrettable consequence of a bunch of bad regulation to keep the mass of kids away from nuts as a precautionary measure to "keep them safe".
Hence the metaphor.
