How to sum up 1700 pages in four words
On throwing compliance obligations crafted around Big Tech at small enterprises: again.
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Recent UK government policies, consultations, and controversies related to digital and tech.
Online Safety enforcement consultation, round one, yay
Why deal with one massive piece of digital regulation in one week when you can deal with two?
Are we doing this again? Yes, we’re doing this again.
Welcome to the Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill of 2023-2024. Oh joy.
The call was coming from inside the house
In which "something bad happened in real life and that is why we need the Online Safety Bill!" rhetoric hits absolute rock bottom. Content warning
That’s no moonshot.
In which a bad (very bad) analogy about tech regulation becomes a teachable moment on hard work, leadership, and integrity.
To fight bad law, talk to its targets, not about them.
When it comes to empathetic communications, UK digital rights organisations have a bit of a PEBCAC.
The cavalry have arrived. But not for long.
UK civil society is currently so brittle that the weight for our digital rights battles has to be carried by organisations in the US.
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.
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.