The approach to online safety is flawed.

We need a rights-based approach that challenges the dominance of Big Tech, not one that embeds permanent monitoring by requiring ID to access information and services.

Tell your MP to fix the UK Online Safety Act ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

The UK government is fattening the power of Big Tech, giving them greater control over our data.

With Palantir's Peter Thiel involved in age verification, we can't ignore how surveillance tech moves between military, intelligence and commercial markets.

Read more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit-and-discord-users-compelled-to-use-biometric-id-system-backed-by-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel/

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #palantir

The approach to online safety is flawed.

We need a rights-based approach that challenges the dominance of Big Tech, not one that embeds permanent monitoring by requiring ID to access information and services.

Tell your MP to fix the UK Online Safety Act ⬇️

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-online-safety-act-isn%E2%80%99t-working

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Age verification makes people create profiles on platforms.

For porn sites, this means tying a specific user to algorithmic profiles. It enables customised porn feeds that are designed to keep them on the platform for longer.

It also exposes people more to data breaches and advertising networks.

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Design interventions alone can't significantly improve safety if the market rewards behaviours and outcomes that generate harm.

Large companies can absorb the cost of new rules. Smaller services often can't.

This reduces competition and locks users into dominant platforms that feed off its users.

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Proposals to expand age checks to VPNs and features like infinite-scrolling for UK users makes things worse.

The result is more personal data swilling around in tech firms and a permanent expansion of tracking infrastructure.

For VPNs, we're told to discard privacy for supposed 'safety'.

It makes no sense.

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol. #vpn

Lob off one head, two more appear.

This is because online harms are an emergent property of the domination of Big Tech.

Attention capture revs the engine of targeted advertising that powers the beast.

New rules from age gating to content scanning are directed at the user, not the business model.

#onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #bigtech #ageverification #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol

Don’t forget to donate - Ewok Powell needs our help. ……….

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Don’t forget to donate - Ewok Powell needs our help. ……….

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RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/116080697736931333

Erasing the Palestinians from history sounds VERY genocide-y

The Epstein Class getting another victory there....

#Genocide #BritishMuseum #Israel #EpsteinClass #Fascism #Colonialism #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #FreePalestine

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/116080697736931333

Erasing the Palestinians from history sounds VERY genocide-y

The Epstein Class getting another victory there....

#Genocide #BritishMuseum #Israel #EpsteinClass #Fascism #Colonialism #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #FreePalestine

Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?

Then there's no way you can vote for this.

Spread the word.

#reform #ukpolitics #womensrights

Are you a woman? Is your mother a woman? Is your wife a woman? Sister? Daughter? Do you have a Granny? Aunts? Female cousins. Is your neighbour a woman? Do you have female friends? Are you a decent, respectable human being?

Then there's no way you can vote for this.

Spread the word.

#reform #ukpolitics #womensrights

"I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman"

Meet the Reform Team in Gorton and Denton.

"Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First, baselessly suggested that 60-70% of transgender people are paedophiles or posted online that Muslims are only in the UK because they wish to “conquer” it."

#UKPolitics
#GortonAndDenton

https://manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gang-meet-the-reform-team-in-gorton-and-denton/

"I wouldn't touch a Jewish woman"

Meet the Reform Team in Gorton and Denton.

"Goodwin’s campaigners have expressed clear support for the far-right group Britain First, baselessly suggested that 60-70% of transgender people are paedophiles or posted online that Muslims are only in the UK because they wish to “conquer” it."

#UKPolitics
#GortonAndDenton

https://manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gang-meet-the-reform-team-in-gorton-and-denton/

The bottom figure doesn’t include Sir Jim who lives in Monaco to avoid tax or Nadhim Zahawi who as you know is a notorious tax dodger ……….

#brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor

One of the journalists was Gabriel Pogrund, who wrote in his book about Starmer's takeover of Labour:

“He had always understood, as viscerally as intellectually, that the Jewish state had lived its own 9/11. He resolved not to waver in his loyalty to Israel or the United States … His commitment was single-minded and masochistic.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/get-review-plot-put-keir-starmer-power

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e5efccd6-cc25-4e86-8900-f33c304f7188?shareToken=4b9bb56884515ab4506e000457ed883c

#UKPolitics

One of the journalists was Gabriel Pogrund, who wrote in his book about Starmer's takeover of Labour:

“He had always understood, as viscerally as intellectually, that the Jewish state had lived its own 9/11. He resolved not to waver in his loyalty to Israel or the United States … His commitment was single-minded and masochistic.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/get-review-plot-put-keir-starmer-power

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e5efccd6-cc25-4e86-8900-f33c304f7188?shareToken=4b9bb56884515ab4506e000457ed883c

#UKPolitics