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- UK Can’t Help Itself: Back To Demanding Apple Break Encryption After “Backing Down” Just Months Agowww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 1 comment
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- Comment on Anon learns about history 2 weeks ago:
This is even funnier when read aloud: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7ksx6D3dlE
- Comment on Apple demands EU repeal the Digital Markets Act 3 weeks ago:
I can think of plenty that is arguably wrong with at least the GDPR: the definition of “processing of personal data” is so broad that it can arguably cover way more than intended, and the extraterritorial effect sets a precedent that governments can regulate the Internet beyond their borders. But that is off-topic here and I’m not exactly in a mood to write essays about it…
- Comment on Apple demands EU repeal the Digital Markets Act 3 weeks ago:
The DMA is one of the very rare examples where it’s a good thing that governments are regulating technology. Most of the time it is a bad thing, but requiring interoperability and sideloading – it’s kind of sad that it’s necessary to solve that by regulation and market forces alone don’t work, yet here we are.
- Comment on REU general part - answer to question 1426 on whether the minister believes that it is also not a right to freedom to communicate via iMessage and WhatsApp, as the messages here are also encrypted 4 weeks ago:
The answer seems to be in this PDF: www.ft.dk/samling/20231/almdel/reu/…/2913128.pdf
Apparently Google Translate can’t translate PDFs, but when I copy and paste the text into Google Translate, I get this:
We know that social media and encrypted services are unfortunately largely used to facilitate many forms of crime. There are examples of how criminal gangs use encrypted platforms to recruit very young people to commit serious crimes, including crimes against humanity. This is an expression of cynicism that is almost completely incomprehensible.
We therefore need to look at how we can eliminate this problem.
Both in terms of what the services themselves do, but also what we, as authorities, can do. It must not be the case that criminals can hide behind encrypted services that the authorities cannot access.
Therefore, we, as a government, will also strengthen the police’s capabilities in the area of decryption, of course under appropriate legal guarantees,
as is also the case today. In addition, the Ministry of Justice’s Criminal Justice Committee has just begun a mandate to look at the challenges that technological developments pose to police investigations, including the use of encrypted messaging services. I also note that steps have been taken within the EU towards stronger regulation of, among other things, digital information services and social media platforms. For example, the European Commission has presented a proposal for a new regulation on rules to prevent and combat the sexual abuse of children. The proposed regulation contains rules on obligations for certain online services to minimize the risk that their services are misused for the sexual abuse of children online, and the services may, if necessary, be required to detect, report, remove and block access to material that depicts child sexual abuse.
The government has a strong focus on eliminating digital abuse – this is not least true when it comes to sexual abuse of children – and, unlike the opposition, supports the proposed regulation.so basically a complete failure to answer the question, containing only things we already knew or could guess, not very interesting
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 5 weeks ago:
I prefer to think in these terms:.https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-from-censorship
- Comment on Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk 5 weeks ago:
Without exception? No, I don’t think that’s true, it’s just the loudest ones, unfortunately.
For genuine free speech supporters like me, this is a problem because it makes the phrase “free speech” look bad and thereby contributes to a decline in it.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 5 weeks ago:
Switzerland has a comparable number of guns as we do, and the last mass shooting they had was 23 years ago
so does he believe that Swiss people do not play video games, or what
- 'Anonymity Online Is Going to Die': What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.www.rollingstone.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 5 comments
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- Comment on 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC 1 month ago:
mainly they are a lot less relevant nowadays than they used to be, it used to be (late 2000s, early 2010s) that a lot of Internet culture came originally from 4chan memes, no longer the case
- UK Backs Down On Apple Encryption Backdoor—But The Secret Deal Raises New Questionswww.techdirt.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
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- From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internetwww.eff.org ↗Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
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- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 1 month ago:
In the particular story that this thread is about, neither is happening: the UK is fining a site. I admit that it’s not exactly the same thing; the point is that it’s the same concept of national governments believing they have any business at all enforcing their laws on foreign websites.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 1 month ago:
~2006: haha can you believe it? China and Thailand and other such countries are blocking sites like Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. because there’s stuff on there that their governments don’t like, how awfully authoritarian of them to think that their laws apply to everyone in the world, we liberal democracies in the west are a lot better than that fortunately
2025:
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 month ago:
This is also the case in Austria according to orf.beitrag.at/faq/allgemein so whether to call that a “tax” or not is purely a terminological question. It used to be that this was only required for owning a TV, but this was hard to enforce because there was no automatic legal requirement to let inspectors into one’s home and companies started to produce TVs without a TV tuner (i.e. could only stream from the Internet) to get around this.
- Comment on Anon is Bri’ish 1 month ago:
This is/was a thing in many other European countries too.
In Austria it used to be (not long ago, a few years at most) that only people who owned a TV needed to pay it, not anymore, now every household has to pay it, so it is basically a household tax.
- Comment on Tech giants turning blind eye to child sex abuse, Australian watchdog says 2 months ago:
Yes, fighting crime (especially such uncommon crime) is a lot more important than privacy or non-censorship. That is definitely the right attitude for a free society. Nothing bad can come from it. /s
John Perry Barlow was right with his Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.