Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

usually these campaigns escalate; they start with designated accounts on twitter and then get picked up by others in the network or get escalated to fox and carlson.

one frightening thing about Roth being forced to flee is how instantaneous it was, and how it's solely conceived of and implemented by Musk himself. 1

If you’re wondering about Mastodon’s impact, Twitter is now automatically marking links to mastodon as “sensitive” (aka dangerous) and forcing users who get them to “appeal” the claim. In case Elon didn’t seem desperate enough for you already…

With all the new mastodon instances, I'm wondering how many admins are prepared for law enforcement (or other) agencies to come asking for people's information. In many cases the law enforcement is not entitled to this information, nor needs it, but how many admins know what to do and how to be sure they only respond to legitimate requests? And even what their own rights are in these situations? (Which will vary according to local laws.)

Experimented with reach on Twitter vs Mastodon by sending the same “canary” post on both platforms. I saw about the same engagement on both, despite having 4% the followers here.

Feels like the value of Twitter’s network is overestimated. If you’ve been there 10+ years, I bet most of your followers are inactive, and it’s harder than ever to get your tweets viewed because of the algorithmic timeline. Mastodon might be at the point where it delivers the same value. At least in my circles.

4/6 The effect of these amendments is to shift the focus onto age-gating. Platforms will need to know the age of all users to prevent children from seeing ‘legal but harmful’ content. This is likely to be done by biometric surveillance. #OnlineSafetyBill #FreedomOfSpeech #privacy

3/6 The claim that the #OnlineSafetyBill protects #FreeSpeech doesn’t stack up. The underlying censorship framework remains in place through general monitoring and upload filters on content.

2/6 One amendment makes platforms give adult users a way to filter out harmful content for themselves. This is matched with an amendment that’ll enforce a platform’s terms and conditions over content that isn’t addressed by the #OnlineSafetyBill #FreedomOfSpeech #privacy

🧵1/6 As the #OnlineSafetyBill returns to Committee this week, our Policy Manager, Dr Monica Horten, looks at the amendments so far (and they keep coming).

Read how the Bill will lead to the over-removal of content and government-imposed, privatised surveillance. #privacy #freedomofexpression #surveillance

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-bill-triple-shield-or-triple-surveillance/

5/6 The last piece comes with the ‘spy clause’. An almost invisible and ill-defined amendment that introduces chat controls on private messaging services. Almost certainly this will be done by client-side scanning software. #OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #surveillance

6/6 We continue to fight against the trio of surveillance on public posts, private chats and children in the #OnlineSafetyBill

With new amendments coming out, we're actively reviewing their impact.

Act now to stop this disproportionate and unworkable piece of legislation https://action.openrightsgroup.org/write-your-mp-help-stop-online-safety-bill

My suggestion if you want the Fediverse to work, follow and favorite and boost the absolute hell out of people. It’s not about dopamine or clout chasing, it’s about letting people know they’re not just typing into a void.