Greatest hits, b-sides, and unfinished demo tracks: or, all my blogging on the Online Safety Bill
All my public-facing writing on the Online Safety Bill, 2019-2023, in one place.
All posts filed under: UK policy
Recent UK government policies, consultations, and controversies related to digital and tech.
The age-appropriate rubber dinghies of the sunlit uplands
An amendment to the Online Safety Bill uses its age verification requirements to censor subjective legal content determined by government policy. Just like we warned you years ago.
The disinformation about the disinformation
If you want to tackle a problem, first you have to overcome the social taboos around talking about the problem. And that's hard when politics constrain the inquiry.
You wise up.
Two prominent think tanks have walked away from the UK's Online Safety Bill. There's no shame in that. Because the shame would have been in staying.
The sky is falling
Twenty years ago today, seven souls fell to earth. The management culture that caused it is alive and well.
A quick hypothetical situation, or, your crash introduction to the real world
Here's just one example of how the Online Safety Bill, in practice, will impact your Mastodon server.
Online harms are hard. Meet a woman who is harder.
Meet my friend Mika, whose four-year ordeal at the hands of a deranged and unaccountable stalker has influenced some of my thinking on policy. It should influence yours too.
Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 1: we need answers.
These unanswered questions need to be cleared out of the way before the Bill can progress, regardless of who takes over that work next month.
Fixing the UK’s Online Safety Bill, part 0: no, it’s not fixable.
Ahead of its return in September, I want to offer some constructive thoughts on how the Online Safety Bill's weaknesses should be improved. That's an academic exercise, though, because this Bill is not fixable.
The week the open web won
No, I didn't destroy the Online Safety Bill with this blog. I did something even better.
Here’s why your project is in scope of the Online Safety Bill
An anecdote from the road about the somewhat muddled thinking that has gone into defining the Bill's sweeping compliance requirements.
Your compliance obligations under the UK’s Online Safety Bill; or, welcome to hell
Last month's post about the UK's upcoming age-gating system covered only one aspect of your compliance obligations under the upcoming Online Safety Bill. In this post, I'm going to tell you about the rest.