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 tagged: Online Safety Bill
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.
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.
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.
Pop-ups are dead, long live pop-ups: or, the bait-and-switch hidden in today’s cookie announcement
Today DCMS announced they will legislate to get rid of European cookie pop-ups, ahead of their legislating to require you to implement British identity verification pop-ups.
A quick take on three pretty terrifying changes to the Online Safety Bill
I wanted to jot down some quick takes on three aspects of the Bill which you need to know, in the sense that you will not be able to sleep tonight once you know them.