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.
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.
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.
Here's how the UK is building a "world-leading" framework of brute force content moderation through arrests and show trials.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's more than one company on the internet.
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.
The enemy of my enemy is neither my friend nor a regulatory role model.
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.