A peek behind a dark curtain
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.
All posts filed under: UK policy
Recent UK government policies, consultations, and controversies related to digital and tech.
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.
UK tech policy predictions for 2022: pennies dropping everywhere
Following on from this year's 100% accurate predictions (go me!), here's what I see ahead for UK internet regulation in 2022.
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.
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.
Game over for digital rights?
I'm entering my second month of job hunting and being generally bored out of my skull. There's a great article in Politico this morning that explains why.
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.