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48 votes
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US documents say Project 2025’s creators The Heritage Foundation want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors of pages related to Palestine conflict using powerful tools
33 votes -
How did racist mass texts bypass some anti-spam guardrails after the US election?
13 votes -
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 -
TikTok makes app unavailable for US users ahead of ban
54 votes -
Donald Trump says he'll 'likely' give TikTok a ninety-day extension to avoid US ban
19 votes -
US Supreme Court unanimously backs law banning TikTok if it’s not sold by its Chinese parent company
48 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 -
TikTok says it plans to shut down site for US unless Supreme Court strikes down law forcing it to sell
38 votes -
Russia carves out commercial surveillance success
5 votes -
US based The Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
81 votes -
UK users: Lobsters needs your help with the Online Safety Act
24 votes -
New California law prohibits using AI as basis to deny insurance claims
51 votes -
Sweden's green industry hopes hit by Northvolt woes – growing calls for increased state support to help Sweden maintain its position in future technologies
12 votes -
Pornhub is now blocked in almost all of the US South
53 votes -
More US telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
20 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 -
Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy, in $1 billion Sony v. Cox case
38 votes -
‘Do not pet’: A robotic dog named “Spot” made by Boston Dynamics is the latest tool in the arsenal of the US Secret Service
20 votes -
The latest in North Korea’s fake IT worker scheme: Extorting the employers
17 votes -
Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court
78 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 -
What Facebook has done to us
20 votes -
Open source is neither a community nor a democracy
27 votes -
More people than ever are trying to hack the US government--and they love it
11 votes -
The attempt to reform Intel
8 votes -
Chinese government hackers penetrate US internet providers to spy
17 votes -
Sweden and Denmark will summon tech companies over ads on their platforms that are posted by gangs to recruit young Swedes to commit violent crimes in the Nordics
17 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 -
How the news broke on X. The epistemology of an assassination attempt.
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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 -
Elon Musk says he’s moving SpaceX and X from California to Texas, blames new trans privacy law
28 votes -
Microsoft laid off a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team, and its lead wrote an internal email blasting how DEI is 'no longer business critical'
37 votes -
What's up with solid state batteries? A conversation with Siyu Huang of Factorial Energy
12 votes -
US bans sales of Kaspersky anti-virus software, citing ties to Russia
22 votes -
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled
15 votes -
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
51 votes -
In a first, OpenAI removes influence operations tied to Russia, China and Israel
15 votes -
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
22 votes -
Taiwan, on China’s doorstep, is dealing with TikTok its own way
11 votes -
Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI
33 votes