#netwars — Public Fediverse posts

This week's net.wars, "In search of causality", finds new research looking for a connection between teens' social media use and harm: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/01/23/in-search-of-causality/ #NetWars #SocialMedia #OnlineHarm

This week's net.wars, "ID is football", sees the arrival of Australia's social media ban for under-16s and leads a panel on digital ID at #UKIGF: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/12/12/id-is-football/ #NetWars #privacy #digitalid #osa

This week's net.wars, "Second sight", recounts the results of four months comparing the difference a cataract makes: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/07/04/second-sight/ #NetWars #cataracts

This week's net.wars, "Dangerous corner", goes to CPDP and finds that privacy issues have expanded to include the electrical grid and farming. "Simplify!" says the EU. For whose benefit? https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/05/23/dangerous-corner/ #NetWars #privacy #HumanRights #CPDP

This week's net.wars, "Isolate", signs the Global Encryption Coalition's letter opposing Britain's demand that Apple backdoor encryption on its cloud service worldwide, and imagines the worst possible timeline where it's coupled it with Ofcom's rules under the Online Safety Act: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/02/14/isolate/. #NetWars #Ofcom #Encryption #Apple #UKPolice

This week's net.wars, "Digital distrust", goes to the #UKIGF and connects AI governance to digital exclusion: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/11/08/digital-distrust/ #NetWars #DigitalExclusion #AI

This week's net.wars, "A surveillance state of mind", tries to answer a friend's question - are computers fundamentally anti-democratic?: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/12/22/a-surveillance-state-of-mind/ #NetWars #surveillance #privacy #democracy #malveillance

This week's net.wars, "The one hundred", yawns at the AI Safety Summit, remembers the Internet worm of 1988, and notes the anniversary of the hostile takeover of Twitter: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/11/03/the-one-hundred/ #birdsite #NetWars #AI #SocialMedi adiversity

This week's net.wars, "The one hundred", yawns at the AI Safety Summit, remembers the Internet worm of 1988, and notes the anniversary of the hostile takeover of Twitter: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/11/03/the-one-hundred/ #birdsite #NetWars #AI #SocialMedi adiversity

This week's net.wars, "The one hundred", yawns at the AI Safety Summit, remembers the Internet worm of 1988, and notes the anniversary of the hostile takeover of Twitter: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/11/03/the-one-hundred/ #birdsite #NetWars #AI #SocialMedi adiversity

This week's net.wars, "The one hundred", yawns at the AI Safety Summit, remembers the Internet worm of 1988, and notes the anniversary of the hostile takeover of Twitter: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/11/03/the-one-hundred/ #birdsite #NetWars #AI #SocialMedi adiversity

This week's net.wars, "The one hundred", yawns at the AI Safety Summit, remembers the Internet worm of 1988, and notes the anniversary of the hostile takeover of Twitter: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/11/03/the-one-hundred/ #birdsite #NetWars #AI #SocialMedi adiversity

This week's net.wars, "The safe place", realizes that the UK's oncoming online safety bill will fragment the Internet: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/07/21/the-safe-place/ #NetWars #OnlineSafetyBill #FreedomOfExpression #Censorship #privacy #ukigf

This week's net.wars, "Cryptocurrency winter" finds the central banks' efforts to create retail central bank digital currencies failing to find mass adoption everywhere they're tried: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/05/19/cryptocurrency-winter/ #NetWars #cryptocurrencies #CBDCs #DigitalPound

This week's net.wars, "Lost for words", discovers that we are at risk of running out of words - that is, high-quality words to train language generators to write like college professors, only without understanding them: https://www.pelicancrossing.net/netwars/2022/12/lost_for_words.html #NetWars #AI #GANs #FutureOfText