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.
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.
The UK government's new digital strategy has 23,800 words, but there's only one that matters.
I went on to the Internet of Humans podcast to discuss the UK's Online Safety Bill. I'm a former student of one host and an avid follower of the other, so suffice to say I really enjoyed this one.
This week 43% of the sites on the open web were briefly breached by Russian military propaganda, and that is not even the worst part of it.
You're not crazy: the UK is copying the same tactics it used for Brexit and is pasting them, wholesale, into internet regulation.
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.
In an alternate timeline, I've quit my policy work to pose for a photo shoot for a front page broadsheet story about my fictional victimhood.
An appeal to the better angels of your nature, wherever you've left them.
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.
The output of a system is its function.
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.