Safety for them, not for you or children.
Comment on Age Verification: What’s sold as “online safety” means surveillance via ids checks or face scans.
Zombie@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Such online safety that when a website almost every politician and journalist is on has publicly visible CSAM, fuck all is done about it.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
FishFace@piefed.social 3 days ago
The act is what the government are threatening Twitter with…
Zombie@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Oooh, big scary threats! What have they done though?
Do you think piefed.social or Feddit.UK would be up long if they were doing the same thing? They would be immediately blocked and the admins arrested. No such thing has happened to Twitter.
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
We are ruled by Red Conservatives.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 days ago
I don’t think that’s true. The act is enforced through ofcom which takes its sweet time.
That quote about conservativism is pithy bollocks. Conservativism is about protecting the status quo, nothing else. If you believe the quote then you’ll look very cool in front of your cynical friends, but also misattribute motives every which way.
There are tons of small sites available in the UK which violate the OSA but fly under the radar due to their small size, so this kind of conspiracy brain thinking just doesn’t hold water.
Zombie@feddit.uk 3 days ago
But Twitter doesn’t and didn’t fly under the radar. Every politician and journalist and average Joe knows about it. It’s been headline news for days.
They’re taking their sweet time because Musk has power. He has vast amounts of money (richest man in the world, rivaling some countries), he has very close ties with Trump and the American government, and controls other services which the UK has contracts with (e.g. Starlink). Not because that’s how Ofcom works. Ofcom can and has responded quickly to laws in the past. What sort of bullshit paedo apoligism is that argument?
You’re making excuses for CSAM distributed by the richest man in the world, why?
The rule of law is not being applied the same to Twitter as it would any other website. My quote stands.
Flying under the radar is not the same as being known and ignored. Flying under the radar explicitly means it’s unknown. If the state were made aware of these sites they would act.
mjr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
It’s almost like this law is more about shutting down small online forums that might organise and agitate against governments than it is about safety online, isn’t it?