On the marzipan dreadnought
Thoughts on recent UK policy events, through the looking glass.
All posts tagged: Online Safety Bill
So you’ve got to read a 1200 page consultation
How to read dense and complex regulatory consultation documents which, either accidentally or deliberately, break the internet.
How to sum up 1700 pages in four words
On throwing compliance obligations crafted around Big Tech at small enterprises: again.
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?
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.
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.