Comment on Online safety laws have failed to protect children in UK, Ofcom admits
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 day agoIt was first proposed by tories when they were in power.
I cant tell who is actually behind it, but youd expect some mix of the civil service, paid advisors/cobsultants and the big tech lobby groups.
AnticitizenOne@leminal.space 1 day ago
Interesting, I didn’t know that. I must have missed it at the time. It is certainly disturbing how it seems that increasingly authoritarian control of technology and the internet seems to be favoured by almost every political party.
FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 1 day ago
In many countries too
AnticitizenOne@leminal.space 1 day ago
Agreed - very disturbing how common it has become. That’s actually why I joined Lemmy and I’m getting more and more into open source and distributed systems. I’m not going to be giving my ID to random tech companies just to use the internet. If there is nobody to threaten, there’s not a lot they can do to restrict these services, short of outright banning them. But I don’t think that would be possible to enforce.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Even then, if you set up your own private instance which is just you and probably some verified friends that you know, you wouldn’t even be falling foul of the law as there’s no way for children to access harmful content. Do suppose your IP address being traceable easier though would be an issue in that circumstance.
mjr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
It’s not a core issue to most of them, so they probably listen to advisors, and the loudest ones are probably paid by Trump or Putin interests, so heavily authoritarian.
It absolutely should be a core issue as it’s scary how many eyes are glued to tiktube reelz and similar, but it looks like the non-authoritarians may well lose before they even realise what the problem is, let alone the scale or how to tackle it better.
AnticitizenOne@leminal.space 1 day ago
Yeah, most people don’t even seem to realise this is happening. I sometimes think people treat me like I’m wearing a tin foil hat for even talking about this kind of stuff. I’ve written to my MP and she basically just gave me the party line and didn’t reply to my arguments against it.