Right now I'm all in on #vdash but that will mature before long so today I wondered what next.
I wondered, how can we stop small businesses and self hosters shutting down services like #Mastodon, unable to meet unrealistic moderation requirements of UK law.
I think we can do this with #SafeNetwork or another #p2p platform.
My ideas are very raw and won't fit in a few toots, so not for now.
As warned, the UK #OnlineSafetyAct is forcing communities to shut down services such as Mastodon for UK users.
The draconian bill was deliberately targeted at individuals, communities and small businesses, none of which can afford moderation costs or legal risks.
How long before the UK has nothing but corporate services that exploit rather than serve users?
This terrible act hits anything self or community hosted: social media, blogs, git services like #Codeberg and of course #Mastodon.
"The early, motivating animus of the #Tories’ #OnlineSafetyAct was envious rage at Nick Clegg’s escape to become a tanned and wealthy #Facebook lobbyist."
The Act could give the UK government the power to access, collect, and read anyone’s private conversations at any time. The UK Government has previously admitted that the proposals are "technically unfeasible," and we hope @Ofcom
keeps this front of mind during the implementation process. (1/3)
As someone who practically grew up on the internet and only started to truly make an effort on maintaining my #onlineprivacy recently the #OnlineSafetyAct is really starting to bother me, and im happy that @protonmail is making an effort go fight it.
It's been over two weeks since the Hamas attacks and the start of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
We condemn the targeting of civilians by all parties, both through indiscriminate terror attacks on Israelis, and what the UN has called the collective punishment of Palestinians.
As a UK digital rights organisation, we also condemn how these events are being used to infringe civil liberties of people in the UK.
We’ve seen how easy it is for errors in algorithms to erroneously label people as terrorists, which exacerbates racism and discrimination.
This forewarns the problems with false-positives that will arise under laws like the Online Safety Act.
The #OnlineSafetyAct can be used to order companies to remove illegal content before it's been posted, including content related to terrorism – the scope of which can be easily extended.
The UK Home Secretary's letter to the police saying that waving a Palestinian flag could be a public order offence also applies to online content.
Posts containing a Palestinian flag or slogans could be used to identify ‘illegal content’ and suppress debate on social platforms under the #OnlineSafetyAct.
Enabling back doors (because there would be more than one) in cryptographic systems is not the thin end of the wedge it is the destruction of that method of Cryptography.
This grab bag of half-baked fantasy solutions to misunderstood (or misrepresented) problems has received Royal Assent, including powers to break #encryption in messaging apps and censor content before it's even posted.
Scrutiny over how Ofcom implements the law and how the government exercises its powers is critical now that the threats to #privacy and #freedomofexpression have become law.
"Were the UK government facing serious and widespread civil unrest, and the prospect of a popular uprising, would its "secret" technologies be anything to worry about? How would it be possible to organise effective resistance against a close-to-omniscient state adversary?"