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.
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Why the “Nick Clegg Law” is saying the quiet part out loud
An appeal to the better angels of your nature, wherever you've left them.
The #WildWestWeb fallacy isn’t about ending online harms. It’s about enabling populism.
The trope of the Internet as an "unregulated wild west" is a lie, and those who ply it know it; they need it as a means to a political end.
Yes, the Online Safety Bill is the most Conservative law yet. Here’s why.
The output of a system is its function.
Content about a thing is not enticement to do it.
The UK is not going to make itself "the safest place in the world to be online" by censoring encyclopaedias. CW: self-harm / suicidal ideation.
The UK’s Online Safety Bill is a “hostage-taking” law. That should terrify you.
Here's how the UK is building a "world-leading" framework of brute force content moderation through arrests and show trials.
Internet regulation debates need rules of engagement. Here’s a start.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's more than one company on the internet.
Why Labour just lost the tech sector’s vote
Senior management liability is a deal-breaker. It should be.
The greatest lesson the Conservatives learned from tech
Here's why the UK's politicians are leaning in so heavily to blaming the internet for last week's murder of one of their own.
World-leading internet diplomacy, or perhaps not
The enemy of my enemy is neither my friend nor a regulatory role model.
A natter on regulations, freedom of expression, and open source software
My friend Morten Rand-Hendriksen and I chatted about legislative threats to freedom of expression, and their potential impacts on open source software communities and projects.
Recent media quotes and talks
Links to media quotes, articles, and talks I've given in the past year, mostly in a professional capacity for my previous employer, on the Online Safety Bill as well as on various post-Brexit UK privacy issues.