Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

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.

🆕 blog! “How much decentralisation is too much?”

Twitter's over, my dudes! And now everyone is on Mastodon! But Mastodon isn't a site, it is a federated network running an interoperable protocol! Yay for ActivityPub1! Anyway, that means there isn't one Mastodon website. There are many. There is only one Twitter. There is only one Facebook. There is only one In…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/how-much-decentralisation-is-too-much/
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#fediverse #mastodon #ReDeCentralize

The right to repair is crucial for a free future, this is illustrated in our animated video "Fight to Repair." Join our campaign and inform others on the state of #RightToRepair in your country. #FightToRepair https://fsf.org/ftr

Mastodon is amazing! @dangillmor makes a post about how he now sees Twitter’s failure under Musk as essential for democracy and three comments later people are talking about Gopher licensing.

TIP OF THE DAY

Use and Follow #hashtags !!!

Mastodon has no ads, 500 chars, 5 pins, and edits, but the best thing is NO ALGORITHM. On the birdsite you are force-fed by an algorithm. A mishmash of your history, likes, follows and whatever Twitter wants to cram into you. With NO ALGORITHM, you are in control. Your feeds are just who and what you follow, and you can follow #hashtags .

Include #hashtags liberally so others can follow your ideas.

#mastodonmigration #twittermigration #hashtags

Someone just mentioned the differences between #Twitter and #Google regarding user data. Yes, indeed.

I've worked inside #Google twice. Their explicit rules, approvals, logging and "need to know" requirements for access to user data are most impressive. Anyone even attempting to access user data inappropriately is fired and marched out the door by security. This is part of why I have a great deal of trust in Google, and consider Elon's #Twitter to be utterly untrustworthy and totally beneath contempt.

@micahflee That's exactly what I did. Twitter became a habit, a deep one. Mastodon isn't a habit yet. I really, REALLY love the vibe here. I don't want to support fascism and bigotry. I want to quit Twitter, but it's a deep connection / habit / likely addiction. I have work to do to sort it out, honestly.

The fact that we all came to #mastadon looking for an app just lke Twitter and 2 days later we are all happy that Mastodon is in fact NOT like Twitter, says a lot about that little birdie.

Republicans now expanding the reactionary War on Porn into the War on Sex Toys.
(She said this IN NEW YORK btw)

that's because
1. fascists hate any effort to limit or reduce abuse or violence, and
2. speaking against abuse means you're going to be speaking about difficult and stigmatized issues, which makes you a target.