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2022 was a damaging year for standards in public debate.
The latest Full Fact Report is out today, and sets out how politicians, the media and others can improve trust and safeguard UK democracy ahead of the next election.
šRead the report š fullfact.org/about/policy/rā¦
The latest Full Fact Report is out today, and sets out how politicians, the media and others can improve trust and safeguard UK democracy ahead of the next election.
šRead the report š fullfact.org/about/policy/rā¦
In 2022:
š“As many as 50 MPs, including two Prime Ministers, Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Ministers, failed to correct false, unevidenced or misleading claims, despite our repeated calls for them to do so
š“As many as 50 MPs, including two Prime Ministers, Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet Ministers, failed to correct false, unevidenced or misleading claims, despite our repeated calls for them to do so
š“The statistics regulator had to write to the UK Government at least 10 times to challenge it on its use of statistics or other data
It would be remiss to share this without explaining more on the #ECHR and Raab's Bill of Rights
A barrister quoting an excellent article by another on Bill of Rights
My frequently reshared #ECHR thread
1/5 "There is no symbol, word or sentence that should be beneath the legislatorās attention when it comes to the law."
To the @Conservatives who have signed this amendment, are you able to define your terms when talking about 'LGBTQ+"? 'LGB' is easy to define, but 'T' according
To the @Conservatives who have signed this amendment, are you able to define your terms when talking about 'LGBTQ+"? 'LGB' is easy to define, but 'T' according
2/5 to Stonewall can include 'cross-dressers'; are we really legislating for cross-dressers? 'Q' can be 'queer', a word many gay men and lesbians find very offensive, or 'questioning'; questioning what exactly? As for '+', well anything goes there. In some corners of 'queer'
3/5 academic studies it includes 'furries', 'minor attracted persons' and heaven knows what else. Did you really put your names to this?
@aliciakearns @cj_dinenage @Tobias_Ellwood @William_Wragg @simonfell @ScottBentonMP @vickyford @JasonMcCartney @Mike_Fabricant @GarySambrook89
@aliciakearns @cj_dinenage @Tobias_Ellwood @William_Wragg @simonfell @ScottBentonMP @vickyford @JasonMcCartney @Mike_Fabricant @GarySambrook89
Quick question. Is video here playing ok for you? Skips back for me. But it is very much pertinent to the point
It happens via browser too. It cycles back at about the 10s mark and if I manually move forward no sound then
Always avoiding the tin foil hat ideas, but as far as I know folk didn't get to the bottom of governance for this lot
Ofc it could also be blunt tool ML redaction of any video about covid from the new fella in charge here
Any insight to offer @EinsteinsAttic?
Ofc it could also be blunt tool ML redaction of any video about covid from the new fella in charge here
Any insight to offer @EinsteinsAttic?
š§µ As reported by @PublicTech, the 'National Communications Data Service' will be able to filter out #UK citizens internet connection records (ICR) through a National Service by the end of 2022.
When the Home Office, NCA & 16 leading internet providers were questioned - silence.
When the Home Office, NCA & 16 leading internet providers were questioned - silence.
š“ According to @PublicTech, no official announcement was made by the Govt or other authorities about the expansion of these activities into a National Service, which would allow LEA's to access info on sites visited by #UK citizens.
š“ No correspondence was answered by the @IPCOffice, a statutory body whose role is to āoversee the use of covert investigatory powers by public authorities".
When telcos were approached to comment if they'd support this service & how they'd provide data - silence.
When telcos were approached to comment if they'd support this service & how they'd provide data - silence.
Weāve signed an open letter @RishiSunak on how the #OnlineSafetyBill threatens UK cybersecurity. The Bill introduces content scanning on our devices, compromising end-to-end encryption for individuals and business @encryption_day
Read in full here: openrightsgroup.org/blog/70-organiā¦
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Read in full here: openrightsgroup.org/blog/70-organiā¦
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We all rely on end-to-end encryption to protect our private data from cyber attacks, whether as an individual, a business or the country as a whole.
The #OnlineSafetyBill unlocks your data.
2/9
The #OnlineSafetyBill unlocks your data.
2/9
Installing content scanning software on our devices with access to our private messages and images is an open goal for the surveillance of an entire population.
The #OnlineSafetyBill puts a spy in your pocket.
3/9
The #OnlineSafetyBill puts a spy in your pocket.
3/9
One of the most common responses to critique of the #OnlineSafetyBill is 'we need something in place to protect children'. Here's brief look at some of the legislation & framework in place:
ā¶ļø The Communications Act (2003)
ā¶ļø The Malicious Communications Act (1988)
(contd.)
ā¶ļø The Communications Act (2003)
ā¶ļø The Malicious Communications Act (1988)
(contd.)
Legal responsibility for website hosts & social media:
ā¶ļø The Defamation Act (2013)
ā¶ļø Section 103 of the Digital Economy Act (2017)
ā¶ļø The ICO Children's Code (or Age Appropriate Design Code)
ā¶ļø Video-sharing Platform (VSP) regulation - to protect users from harmful content
ā¶ļø The Defamation Act (2013)
ā¶ļø Section 103 of the Digital Economy Act (2017)
ā¶ļø The ICO Children's Code (or Age Appropriate Design Code)
ā¶ļø Video-sharing Platform (VSP) regulation - to protect users from harmful content
Keeping children safe from online abuse:
ā¶ļø The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) framework supporting effective online protection measures.
ā¶ļø The UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) framework
ā¶ļø The ITU (International Telecommunication Union) framework supporting effective online protection measures.
ā¶ļø The UK Council for Internet Safety (UKCIS) framework
So the #OnlineSafetyBill has been delayed until the Autumn. Thatās a good thing. What is also good is that at least some of the āfree speechā people on the right of politics have realised what a disaster the bill is to free speech. Everyone should. A thread. 1/n
A lot of focus has been on the ālegal but harmfulā content and the āhurt feelingsā aspect that is covered by the #OnlineSafetyBill, but the real problems are much deeper. Iām just dealing with freedom of speech here, but there are other problems! 2/n
Firstly, donāt be under any illusions: the #OnlineSafetyBill is designed to restrict free speech. Thatās its whole raison dāetre. The speech that itās restricting is the speech deemed āharmfulā or speech making places āunsafeā in some way. We should not hide from that. 3/n
Adam Afriyie (@AdamAfriyie) in the
@HouseofCommons today, setting out the amendments to the #onlinesafetybill debate that the FSU helped to draft.
Amendments 48 and 49 seek to ensure online providers have the option of 'doing nothing' in response to "legal but harmful" content.
@HouseofCommons today, setting out the amendments to the #onlinesafetybill debate that the FSU helped to draft.
Amendments 48 and 49 seek to ensure online providers have the option of 'doing nothing' in response to "legal but harmful" content.
Amendment 50, which is that in online service providers' terms of service, "the presumption should be tipped more in favour of #freedomofexpression, more in favour of debate", by obliging providers to leave controversial content that doesn't cross the line into illegality online.
And Amendment 51, which seeks to ensure that, in the same way as journalists, politicians and the government, everyday citizens can also "seek compensation if their online content is taken down inaccurately, incorrectly or inappropriately".
A short thread on the #OnlineSafetyBill. I hope Iām wrong, but I get the impression that the bill is still getting effective support across most of the political spectrum: it really shouldnāt be. Opposition politicians all over have recognised many of the governmentās billsā¦ 1/n
ā¦as being authoritarian, incoherent, insular, badly written, inappropriate and capable of massive misuse. We see it over policing - Steve Bray and ānoisy protestā - over the NI Protocol bill, over things like voter ID - but we donāt see it enough over the #OnlineSafetyBill. 2/n
ā¦when in practice it has all those flaws, and all those *dangers* built in. It is incoherent. It is full of wishful thinking and full of misunderstandings of how the internet works. It will be counterproductive *making the internet less safe* - and it will be abused. 3/n
Could be the attached, but my suspicion is that this is going to be another CYBER! DARKWEB! CYB3R! SYBER! CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICAā¼ļøBRAIN CONTORL! YOU SAW AN ADVERT AND SO A RUSSIAN ARTIFISHIAL INTELLIGENCE APP MADE YOU VOTE FOR UKIP! ā¦ thing.
READING BETWEEN THE LINES:
Plucky spooks in Cheltenham but dressed for speed-dating in 2015-era Shoreditch, battle "Russian influence operations" that Nadine Dorries will soon cite as rationale for the #OnlineSafetyBill.
Token American subplots help sell the series to the US.
Plucky spooks in Cheltenham but dressed for speed-dating in 2015-era Shoreditch, battle "Russian influence operations" that Nadine Dorries will soon cite as rationale for the #OnlineSafetyBill.
Token American subplots help sell the series to the US.
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#OnlineSafetyBill
#OnlineSafetyBill
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š§µ Very disappointed not to get called to speak in the #OnlineSafetyBill debate this evening particularly as unsubstantiated allegations of transphobia were being bandied about. Hereās what I was planning to say
There is much to welcome in the Bill particularly in relation to tackling Child Sexual and Emotional Abuse online. As a former Specialist Sex Crimes prosecutor I am all too aware of how children are targeted online.
Sadly there are those in our society, often hiding in plain sight, who seek to exploit children and so child safeguarding should be a number one priority for any government. In so far as this bill seeks to do that I applaud it.
Our new @PolicyInternet study draws lessons from France on the regulation of Internet pornography. We show displacement effects, circumvention & legislative scope may limit the efficacy of French attempts to prevent <18s accessing online porn:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poā¦
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poā¦
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Franceās Article 23 puts it at the forefront of attempts by democratic states to restrict young people's access to legal online pornography. Unlike UK's #OnlineSafetyBill or @mivillej's @SenateCA bill, France's Article 23 has already been enacted.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poā¦
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poā¦
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French media regulator @Arcom_fr has, initially, been using the law to target 8 dedicated pornographic websites. So, how much are French adolescents exposed to pornography on those sites? And how much on other sites & media platforms?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poā¦
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/poā¦
3/12
#OnlineSafetyBill supporting documents: Factsheet, Revised Impact Assessment, ECHR Memo, Regulatory Policy Committee Opinion gov.uk/government/pubā¦
The hourly cost of a regulatory professional has reduced by 4p since last year, to Ā£20.62. New in this IA is acknowledgment of the need for legal advice on whether a small/medium business is in or out of scope.
Overall 10 year cost now estimated at Ā£2.5 billion (previously Ā£2.1 billion).
Here it is, as introduced in Parliament today. #OnlineSafetyBill bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/pubā¦
All 225 pages of it, plus 126 pages of Explanatory Notes.
Redrafted version of the 'legal content harmful to adults' duty.
"This reduces the risk that platforms are incentivised to over-remove legal material ... because they are put under pressure to do so by campaign groups or individuals who claim that controversial content causes them psychological harm." 1/2
She is talking about 'legal but harmful', but does she realise that applying the illegality safety duty to the proposed new 'harm-based offence' will have exactly that result? 2/2
As explained here. #OnlineSafetyBill cyberleagle.com/2021/11/licencā¦
Right, rant time! #Thread I rang the passport office, About my rejected photo, because my wheelchair handles are in the background. got through and the bloke on the other end said that I would need to POST a letter from my GP explaining my condition. 1
So I rang my GP surgery, to ask for this letter, only to be told that I had to ask for it online in writing. I was also told that there may be a charge for the letter. Having filled in the request form and submitted it, I have no idea when anybody will get back to me.... 2
Honestly, the hoops we have to jump through to get what most nondisabled people take for granted! I mean, why should we have to post evidence when we've applied online? Why can't we submit the file digitally. And also, why should disabled people have to...3
One āhighlightā of yesterdayās debate in parliament was Johnsonās use of a conspiracy theory about Starmer being responsible for Jimmy Savile not being prosecuted - and then Nadine Dorries failing to accept that this was āfake newsā, and that Johnson was lying (a thread) 1/n
This matters, and more perhaps than is obvious. It demonstrates a number of things about the problems we have with misinformation - and why we get the regulation so wrong. This is *not* a thread about how manifestly unsuitable for their roles either Dorries or Johnson areā¦ 2/n
ā¦but about why the #OnlineSafetyBill is so ill-conceived. Remember, it makes Nadine Dorries (and indirectly Boris Johnson) responsible for the regulation of amongst other things misinformation on social media - via their political appointee as head of Ofcom. 3/n
Report is out. First impression is that it is rather pleased with itself. Humility in public service isn't a thing these days.
First takes follow, from the freedom of speech / proportionality / govt overreach perspectives I've focused on for 2 1/2 years now...
First takes follow, from the freedom of speech / proportionality / govt overreach perspectives I've focused on for 2 1/2 years now...
1) Recommends that e2e should be identified as a specific risk factor in risk assessments - does not go hardline against it, as many have recommended, but it's not out of the woods yet;
2) Recommends that anonymity be preserved, but that platforms discuss it and any mitigations in their risk assessment, and wants ICO to come up with a code of practice on privacy protecting anonymity (there is a lot of job creation for the ICO and Ofcom in this report, folks);
š£ļøThe internet & social media platforms are the public squares of the modern-day. They've allowed us to communicate, organise, expose corruption & build new communities.
ā ļøBut our online public spheres are at risk.
š„Join our live discussion ā¤µļø
ā ļøBut our online public spheres are at risk.
š„Join our live discussion ā¤µļø
"Why would we want to give more power to Big Tech to decide what is misinformation and what's not?"
- @Fox_Claire
š“ Watch live ā¤µļø
- @Fox_Claire
š“ Watch live ā¤µļø
"The way the (Online Safety) Bill will be implemented is not yet fully explained. It's quite unclear what role Parliament will have in the drafting of the categories of harm, in holding Ofcom to account for decisions."
- @richardearley (Facebook)
- @richardearley (Facebook)
THREAD š§µ Our *final* #OnlineSafetyBill public evidence session has started ā¬ļø
š£ļø Secretary of State @NadineDorries
š£ļø Ministers @DamianHinds and @CPhilpOfficial
š£ļø Online Harms Director Sarah Connolly
šŗ Watch live now parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6cā¦
@DCMS @UKHomeOffice
š£ļø Secretary of State @NadineDorries
š£ļø Ministers @DamianHinds and @CPhilpOfficial
š£ļø Online Harms Director Sarah Connolly
šŗ Watch live now parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/6cā¦
@DCMS @UKHomeOffice
Chair @DamianCollins: How important is this legislation?
Secretary of State for @DCMS @NadineDorries: I think this is possibly the most important piece of legislation to pass Parliament, certainly in my 17 years here
Secretary of State for @DCMS @NadineDorries: I think this is possibly the most important piece of legislation to pass Parliament, certainly in my 17 years here
Chair @DamianCollins: So as far as the Government is concerned, the draft #OnlineSafetyBill Bill is not your final word?
Secretary of State @NadineDorries: This is certainly not our final word, especially with the work your Committee has been doing.gov.uk/government/pubā¦
Secretary of State @NadineDorries: This is certainly not our final word, especially with the work your Committee has been doing.gov.uk/government/pubā¦
It is going to be one busy week!
Join us here as we keep up with the latest revelations about #Facebook.
An ongoingš§µon all the latest news on whistleblower testimonies and the leaked Facebook Files. All in one place.
#OnlineSafetyBill
#FacebookFiles
Join us here as we keep up with the latest revelations about #Facebook.
An ongoingš§µon all the latest news on whistleblower testimonies and the leaked Facebook Files. All in one place.
#OnlineSafetyBill
#FacebookFiles
šØBREAKING
@CNN has now released some of the leaked Facebook documents
#TheFacebookPapers
edition.cnn.com/business/live-ā¦
@CNN has now released some of the leaked Facebook documents
#TheFacebookPapers
edition.cnn.com/business/live-ā¦
> My interview with @StevenLevy of Wired re: @FrancesHaugen leaking my Facebook Engineering āGoodbye Postā
I'm posting this with password-embargo until Steven's @WIRED article is posted; but I have a message for Frances Haugen in this screencap extract.
alecmuffett.com/article/14994
I'm posting this with password-embargo until Steven's @WIRED article is posted; but I have a message for Frances Haugen in this screencap extract.
alecmuffett.com/article/14994
Frances is talking to @CommonsDCMS tomorrow, so she should have opportunity to bring this message of privacy and safety to people who would benefit from it.
/cc @DanMilmo
theguardian.com/technology/202ā¦
/cc @DanMilmo
theguardian.com/technology/202ā¦
Oh dear, oh dear:
>Facebook whistleblower warns ādangerousā encryption will aid espionage by hostile nations
>Ex-employee has taken aim at Sir Nick Clegg and warns new encryption plans are an attempt to cover-up harmful online material
>Facebook whistleblower warns ādangerousā encryption will aid espionage by hostile nations
>Ex-employee has taken aim at Sir Nick Clegg and warns new encryption plans are an attempt to cover-up harmful online material
