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47 votes
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Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans
23 votes -
European Union orders X to hand over algorithm documents
51 votes -
TikTok is coming back online after US President-elect Donald Trump pledged to restore it
27 votes -
Donald Trump says he'll 'likely' give TikTok a ninety-day extension to avoid US ban
19 votes -
US President Joe Biden won't enforce TikTok ban
31 votes -
New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
51 votes -
Supreme Court seems ready to back Texas law limiting access to pornography (gifted link)
20 votes -
US introduces additional export restrictions on AI-chips
14 votes -
US based The Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
81 votes -
New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny insurance claims
51 votes -
Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South
53 votes -
Sweden's government considering imposing age limits on social media platforms if tech companies find themselves unable to prevent gangs from recruiting young people online
20 votes -
Australia’s social media ban and why it's not cut and dry
Australia’s proposed social media ban is deeply concerning and authoritarian. It's disturbing to see how much of the general public supports this measure. Prominent organizations, including...
Australia’s proposed social media ban is deeply concerning and authoritarian. It's disturbing to see how much of the general public supports this measure.
Prominent organizations, including Amnesty International, the Australian Human Rights Commission, and Electronic Frontiers Australia, have voiced significant concerns about this legislation:
Amnesty International's Explanation of the Social Media Ban
Australian Human Rights Commission on the Proposed Social Media Ban for Under-16s
EFA's Critique of the Social Media Age BanAustralia has a troubling history with internet legislation. Noteworthy examples include the Australian Internet Firewall under Stephen Conroy and Malcolm Turnbull's infamous statement, "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia," regarding encryption backdoors.
While I recognize the issues with social media, "don't feed the trolls," along with maintaining online anonymity and implementing parental controls ( no phones with unfettered internet access ), should work. This law indiscriminately punishes all Australians for the missteps of a few, potentially leading to increased identity theft through phone and email scams and causing older family who are not tech literate to lose connections with their families due to the complexities of government-issued tokens.
Adults will be the ones who are going to be most impacted by this legislation.
The scope of this law is extensive. The Online Safety website suggests that this is merely the beginning, with plans to cover the entire web, including games, adult content, and more. The consequences are profound: the erosion of true anonymity and increased risk to government whistle-blowers and journalistic sources.
Requiring individuals to provide their identity to a third party to access the internet, which many have used freely for decades, is alarming. It threatens to sanitize search results and revoke access to purchased games if users refuse additional identity verification measures. There are no grandfathered exceptions, highlighting the law's intent to de-anonymize the internet.
Although Australia lacks a constitutionally protected right to free speech, this law poses significant risks to whistleblowers and marginalized youth in remote communities. Instead of banning access and creating allure through prohibition, we should address the root causes of why younger people are drawn to such content.
Once entrenched in law, any opposition will be met with accusations of perversion or indifference to child safety, compounded by the spread of misinformation. We must critically assess and address these laws to protect our freedoms and privacy.
There wouldn't be speculation if they defined how they intend the law to work. Instead of a "don't worry about it we will work it out", give people something to say that's not so bad and I can live with it
15 votes -
Australian Parliament bans social media for under-16s with world-first law
61 votes -
Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service
30 votes -
Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains”
32 votes -
The attempt to reform Intel
8 votes -
The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
58 votes -
Google to charge new fee on ads in response to Canada’s digital services tax
12 votes -
Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum
30 votes -
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
51 votes -
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
22 votes -
Net neutrality is back as Federal Communications Commission votes to regulate US internet providers
65 votes -
US Federal Communications Commission to vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them
82 votes -
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice
56 votes -
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms
22 votes -
America's first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
40 votes -
Tell US Congress: Stop the TikTok ban
32 votes -
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats
24 votes -
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate
45 votes -
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology
26 votes -
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware
38 votes -
"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth."
33 votes -
India targets Apple over its phone hacking notifications
19 votes -
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned
34 votes -
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence
24 votes -
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed
27 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
49 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron
12 votes -
Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone app payments to competition
8 votes -
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants
27 votes -
Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence
3 votes -
Brazilian supreme court Minister to take legal action against Telegram
3 votes -
Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI
4 votes -
What the Securing Open Source Software Act does and what it misses
6 votes -
US Congress' push to regulate Big Tech is fizzling out
11 votes -
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
18 votes -
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying
11 votes