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Former UK internet minister bemoans that illiberal & poorly conceived approach to online safety and security is not being “built upon”

Won’t somebody please think of the children?

Quote:

This is not about censorship or anti-tech scaremongering – this is about children. Real children – perhaps someone you know, or worse, your own – facing serious harm every single day. We protect them in the real world with seatbelts, safeguarding laws and age limits; yet online, we are still playing catch-up.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/10/labour-has-given-up-the-fight-to-protect-children-online/

Archived at: https://archive.ph/MOpDs

Via:

https://twitter.com/Cyberleagle/status/1933053139629781126

#dsit #MichelleDonelan #onlineSafetyAct

UK AI safety institute ventures across the pond with new US location - The UK expands its AI Safety Institute to San Francisco, aiming to lever... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/uk-ai-safety-institute-san-francisco-expansion #u.k.aisafetyinstitute #sanfranciscoaihub #techtalentbayarea #airiskassessment #michelledonelan #aipartnerships #globalaisafety #aisafety

Join chief petty bastard farage now …… 

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #water #TorySewageParty #MichelleDonelan #angelarayner #ReformUK #reform #nigelfarage

This is the nation we live in, to put this into context we just paid the legal fees of a cabinet minister found guilty of libel, we paid Johnson’s and priti Patel’s also. I might be an idealist but we need to do better 

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #water #TorySewageParty #MichelleDonelan #angelarayner #Carers

So I said if you think i’m not making 50 grand on this house you must be joking, remember if anyone asks luv, I was living here all the time - cheers pet 

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #water #TorySewageParty #MichelleDonelan #angelarayner

Breaking: Delusional Troll refuses to accept apology no one offered, and I will not accept any apologies not offered by everyone on the planet said author of important works of literature about a flying car

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #water #MichelleDonelan #jkrowling #trans #transrightsarehumanrights

I know, I know, I totally get it you’re thinking that boring little woke,lefty who’s always banging on about the right is definitely making this one up … there is no way anyone could be this stupid… now your searching for it ….. now you’re saying …FFS


#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #MichelleDonelan #reform #ReformUK

'#MichelleDonelan used £34,000 of #TaxpayerFunds to cover #libel costs

Exclusive: #ScienceSecretary’s legal fees of £19,000 more than doubled sum previously admitted by government'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/11/michelle-donelan-used-34000-of-taxpayer-funds-to-cover-libel-costs
#ToryPoliciesInAction #ToryIllegality #ToryBehaviour #ToryLibel #ToryWaste

Typical woke,leftist remainers being clever and using facts. They’re only saying this because it’s true, you can prove anything with facts. I didn’t vote Brexit to have facts thrown at me. We didn’t have facts when we won the war did we !!! Facts don’t get ya blue passport

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #water #MichelleDonelan

Look no one’s saying Britain should consider this, it’s just that ……..

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #rishisunak #Labour #immigration #keirstarmer #Starmer #BrexitBenefits #water #TorySewageParty #MichelleDonelan

Not only did this Tory cabinet minister accuse two people of having extremist views for - checks notes, not supporting wholesale slaughter in the Middle East- she accused one of those people of supporting Hamas. All of which is disgraceful for a cabinet minister, but to have us foot her legal bill is just taking the piss, so normal Tory business really

#brexit #ToryLies #tory #tories #ToriesOut #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #costofliving #EU #inflation #Sunak #nhs #MichelleDonelan

‘Just abhorrent’: Keir Starmer urges Tories to return £10m it received from donor who was abusive about Diane Abbott – UK politics live https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/mar/12/minister-calls-tory-donor-frank-hesters-diane-abbott-comments-completely-unacceptable-but-refuses-to-go-further-uk-politics-live #MichelleDonelan #Conservatives #DianeAbbott #KeirStarmer #RishiSunak #Politics #Science #UKnews #Labour #Race

Here are @davidallengreen further thoughts on the Donelan libel settlement (in addition to the Prospect piece earlier reposted).

As always DAG is clear on the legal issues & insightful on the likely political background.

Worth 5mins of your time today!

#ruleoflaw #politics #MichelleDonelan

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-close-look-at-the-donelan-libel?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

I wish I did find it odd, but I expect a Science Minister to be sneering towards Science, an Education Minister to be sneering towards universal education, etc, etc

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65188/why-did-the-government-have-to-settle-the-libel-claim-against-michelle-donelan

#UKPOL #UKpolitics #MichelleDonelan

'#Taxpayers foot the bill after academic’s #libel action against #UK minister

#MichelleDonelan had urged #ResearchEngland to cut ties with a member of its advisory group over alleged #Hamas support'

'#UKRI announced that its investigation found no evidence to back Donelan’s complaints against the academics, or any grounds to remove them from the advisory group.'
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/06/taypayers-foot-the-bill-after-academics-libel-action-against-minister
#ToryBehaviour

Now we have it in legal record that the Tories are using the term "Extremist" to mean "Anybody we don't like"
Fucking clowns.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/05/uk-science-minister-michelle-donelan-apologises-and-pays-damages-after-academics-libel-action

#UKPOL #UKPolitics #Tories #MichelleDonelan #Libel

Linked with this story in #TheGuardian : "#UK #research funding body in row with ministers over #freeSpeech and #Gaza"

"Science minister #MichelleDonelan requests #UKRI cuts links with two members of panel she accuses of promoting extremist views"

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/03/uk-research-funding-body-in-row-with-ministers-over-free-speech-and-gaza

#thei : "#British Government prepared secret dossier on academic's #BLM, ‘militant leftism’ and #IsraelWar posts"

"i has seen an 11-page internal Government dossier cataloguing three years’ worth of one academic’s posts on X, formerly Twitter … #MichelleDonelan ’s advisers have gathered material on the social media profiles of at least four #academics"

@academicchatter

cc @juliengossa

https://inews.co.uk/news/government-prepared-secret-dossier-academics-blm-2730858

#UK research funding body in row with ministers over #FreeSpeech and #Gaza

Science minister #MichelleDonelan requests #UKRI cuts links with two members of panel she accuses of promoting extremist views
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/03/uk-research-funding-body-in-row-with-ministers-over-free-speech-and-gaza
#ToryPoliciesInAction

“Donelan’s demands that tech companies cut off access to their tools for under-13s are the equivalent of the misguided practice of abstinence-only teaching in sex education classes at school: you can pretend kids aren’t doing it, but they will anyway.”

#SocialMedia #Children #OnlineSafetyBill #MichelleDonelan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/09/internet-ban-children-tiktok-tory-social-media

#r4today You couldn't make it up. #MichelleDonelan, a member of this #Brexit Govt, outlines how stupid the #BrexitDisaster really is. Yes, m'ship of #Horizon is indeed fantastic, we had that on a plate until brexiteers ripped it from us. #RejoinEU #ToryBrokenBritain #ToryLiars

The #UK will spend £100 million to develop its own 'sovereign' #AI

"The UK government doesn't want to sit idle while foundational AI models like ChatGPT flourish. Prime Minister #RishiSunak and Technology Secretary #MichelleDonelan have pledged an initial £100 million (about $124.5 million) to establish a #FoundationModelTaskforce. The team will develop AI that ideally makes the country globally competitive, and will work with the industry to make these systems safer and more reliable."

https://www.engadget.com/the-uk-is-creating-a-100-million-ai-taskforce-143507868.html

Here's Culture Secretary #MichelleDonelan on the #OnlineSafetyBill on Conservative Home yesterday, and also Michelle Donelan as reported in the Guardian, er, also yesterday.

It's never been clearer that the UK government's supposed interest in #freespeech is limited to right wing speech.