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  1. “Everything the right – and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act” | George Billinge | The Guardian | …let’s ignore the article and just look at George’s LinkedIn profile

    Here is the article:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/everything-right-left-politics-getting-wrong-online-safety-act

    Here is George’s LinkedIn profile:

    It’s interesting that he argues about “right and left” – I am neither, but I have nearly 40 years of experience of tech and security and safety and privacy.

    #ageVerification #censorship #circularReasoning #conflictOfInterest #ofcom #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance

  2. Creators: "Audiences are stupid. We have no choice but to go to whichever platform people are on."
    Audiences: "Creators are stupid. We have no choice but to go to whichever platform people are on".

    Two halves of a #circularreasoning fallacy is a circular reasoning fallacy.
    #logic #socialmedia #decentralization #federation

  3. Greenwashing regenerative farmers claim they need livestock for poo to improve soils.

    So, let's start asking them whether they'll remove the animals when that job is done, or whether they're making the land dependent on fake animals, and people dependent on cancer-causing meat (refs available).

    #greenwashing #CircularReasoning #RegAg #Farming #Agriculture #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #Extinction #Carbon #Pollution #Disease #SoilHealth