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Alberta Senator @Paulatics delivered an excellent speech warning of the harms of online censorship, moral panic, book bans, and the problems with bans and age verifications as Senate Bill S-209 moves from the Senate to the House of Commons.

Thank you Senator! I could not agree more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsf_qQzvpg

#OnlineHarms #AgeVerification #CanPoli #CdnPoli #SoberFirstThought #Canada #Censorship #BookBan #Alberta #ABPoli #DanielleSmith

Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to Big Tech social media platforms
#SocialMedia #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #Teen #BigTech #DigitalAddiction #Dopamine #Youth #Depression #Anxiety #Psychology #TechRegulation #OnlineHarms #MediaCriticism
https://the-14.com/neuroscience-explains-why-teens-are-so-vulnerable-to-big-tech-social-media-platforms/

Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to Big Tech social media platforms
#SocialMedia #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #Teen #BigTech #DigitalAddiction #Dopamine #Youth #Depression #Anxiety #Psychology #TechRegulation #OnlineHarms #MediaCriticism
https://the-14.com/neuroscience-explains-why-teens-are-so-vulnerable-to-big-tech-social-media-platforms/

Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to Big Tech social media platforms
#SocialMedia #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #Teen #BigTech #DigitalAddiction #Dopamine #Youth #Depression #Anxiety #Psychology #TechRegulation #OnlineHarms #MediaCriticism
https://the-14.com/neuroscience-explains-why-teens-are-so-vulnerable-to-big-tech-social-media-platforms/

Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to Big Tech social media platforms
#SocialMedia #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #Teen #BigTech #DigitalAddiction #Dopamine #Youth #Depression #Anxiety #Psychology #TechRegulation #OnlineHarms #MediaCriticism
https://the-14.com/neuroscience-explains-why-teens-are-so-vulnerable-to-big-tech-social-media-platforms/

Neuroscience explains why teens are so vulnerable to Big Tech social media platforms
#SocialMedia #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #Teen #BigTech #DigitalAddiction #Dopamine #Youth #Depression #Anxiety #Psychology #TechRegulation #OnlineHarms #MediaCriticism
https://the-14.com/neuroscience-explains-why-teens-are-so-vulnerable-to-big-tech-social-media-platforms/

Non-consensual synthetic imagery is scaling faster than platform controls.

Recent reporting details how AI tools were used to fabricate explicit deepfakes of a public content creator - then monetize them via impersonation accounts.

Researchers documented millions of sexualized AI-generated images in a short timeframe, prompting regulatory investigations across jurisdictions.

From a security and governance standpoint:
• Identity verification failures
• Monetization platform abuse
• Content moderation lag
• Cross-platform amplification
• Enforcement complexity

This is not only a policy issue - it’s an abuse-of-technology issue.

How should AI providers implement friction without crippling innovation?

Soure: https://www.404media.co/grok-nudify-ai-images-impersonation-onlyfans/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Follow @technadu for threat-informed AI and cybersecurity reporting.

#Infosec #ThreatModeling #AIAbuse #PlatformSecurity #CyberPolicy #DigitalForensics #OnlineHarms #TechNadu

Mine was the first testimony in the inquiry on tackling online harms facing young people in New Zealand - you can watch it now here - play from the beginning: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/education-and-workforce/news-archive/watch-public-meetings-of-the-education-and-workforce-committee/

And don't forget you can read the written testimony here! https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/54SCEDUW_EVI_8611cb90-f850-4b63-6bf5-08dda3e61931_EDUW9294/5fd980b518f491b3423ec4ca2fba741aa1346393 #socialmedia #children #onlineharms #algorithms #bigtech #NewZealand

NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms

The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing the results as if causative:

https://bsky.app/profile/jayvanbavel.bsky.social/post/3lpaaktc6bc2x

Via:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480657-attempt-to-reach-expert-consensus-on-teens-and-phones-ends-in-argument/

#jonathanHaidt #moralPanic #onlineHarms #screenTime

“I need you to roll a 20 to prove that using social media generally causes harm to teens…”

THE COURT: It was well known when I was growing up that I was going to become a Satanist because I played Dungeons & Dragons. Is that — I don’t know what really that means. You can say that there’s studies, Judge, and you can’t ignore expert reports that say X.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/judge-uses-dds-failure-to-make-him-worship-satan-to-school-florida-on-social-media-moral-panics/

#dnd #onlineHarms

1/7 Last week @weforum.org um.org, @pedro-sanchez-archivo.braxuss.eu gave a vital speech about social media - urging leaders to tackle #onlineharms head on ⬇️ www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

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Cost of false positives | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

Kevin Marks (q.v.) introduced me to Kellan’s Paradox of False Positives in Social Media, which predates the themes I explored in Billion Grains of Rice by 5+ years:

Imagine you’ve got a near perfect model for detecting spammers on Twitter. Say [that] Joe is (presumably hyperbolically) claiming 99% accuracy for his model. And for the moment we’ll imagine he is right. Even at 99% accuracy, that means this algorithm is going to be incorrectly flagging roughly 2 million tweets per day as spam that are actually perfectly legitimate.

https://laughingmeme.org//2011/07/23/cost-of-false-positives/

Via: https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmarks.com/post/3lefwdts3n225

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#classifiers #ofcom #onlineHarms #onlineSafetyAct

Online Harms to Get Split Up With Criminal Offences Getting Put into a Separate Bill

In an admittedly surprising move, the government has said that it will be splitting the Online Harms bill up to help its passage.

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-harms-to-get-split-up-with-criminal-offences-getting-put-into-a-separate-bill/

#Censorship #News #Canada #CivilRights #FreeSpeech #OnlineHarms

Editorial: You Will Never Censor Your Way to a Better Internet

As more tout government censorship as a cure-all to all of societal ills, Drew Wilson discusses why this idea will drive down economic growth.

https://www.freezenet.ca/editorial-you-will-never-censor-your-way-to-a-better-internet/

#Censorship #Editorial #News #AgeVerification #Internet #OnlineHarms #opinion #speech

The Online Harms Act doesn’t go far enough to protect democracy in Canada
#Canada #Politics #Tech #SocialMedia #Democracy #BillC63 #FakeNews #CanadianPolitics #Misinformation #InternetSafety
#OnlineHarms #AlgorithmicAccountability #PlatformRegulation #DemocracyProtection #OnlineNewsAct
https://the-14.com/the-online-harms-act-doesnt-go-far-enough-to-protect-democracy-in-canada/

“It’s disgusting and cheap to compare social media to drugs. Social media is speech. When you compare it to drugs, you’re making an argument that speech is scary and dangerous…”

Excellent thread by Shoshana Weissmann, click through for the entire thing.

Plus: I feel we should also combat comparing Social Media to physical harms, but that’s an entire book…

It's disgusting and cheap to compare social media to drugs. Social media is speech. When you compare it to drugs, you're making an argument that speech is scary and dangerous. Scalia rejected this cheap thought in the video game cases where he said if there was actually …

— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) March 14, 2024

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109383

#freeSpeech #onlineHarms #socialMedia

I am super worried about the harm done to children who have easy access to mobile phones, so I signed this petition. Please do the same, if the issue worries you - we want our kids to grow up without being harassed or subject to the whims of algorithms!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/655473
#onlineharms

Ottawa to create regulator to hold online platforms accountable for harmful content: sources | CBC News

Oh, Canada. Here we go again.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-harms-legislation-new-regulator-1.7125289

https://alecmuffett.com/article/109260

#canada #onlineHarms

#UK: New offences have been introduced to criminalise #cyberflashing, fake news intended to cause non-trivial harm and other #online abuse.

#TechAbuse #OnlineHarms #OVAWG #TFGBV

➡️https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cyberflashing-epilepsy-trolling-and-fake-news-to-put-online-abusers-behind-bars-from-today?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&utm_source=854dea81-3848-48b0-82af-0adda7c6c3e1&utm_content=daily

Reflecting on 2023: A Year Where Politicians and the Media Conspired to Try and Break the Internet

Between existential threats and horrible ideas disguised as "regulating Big Tech", 2023 has been a tiring year.

At around this time of year, I usually look back

https://www.freezenet.ca/reflecting-on-2023-a-year-where-politicians-and-the-media-conspired-to-try-and-break-the-internet/

#Editorial #News #2023 #AI #Freezenet #OnlineHarms #OnlineNewsAct #OnlineStreamingAct #reflections

Canadian Heritage Committee Proves Government Has Learned Nothing From Online News Act Debacle

Today, the department of Canadian Heritage held a committee hearing. It shows how the government has learned nothing from the Onlin

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-heritage-committee-proves-government-has-learned-nothing-from-online-news-act-debacle/

#Censorship #Copyright #Technology #BillC11 #BillC18 #Canada #CanadianHeritage #government #OnlineHarms #OnlineNewsAct #OnlineStreamingAct

Canadian Heritage Committee Proves Government Has Learned Nothing From Online News Act Debacle

Today, the department of Canadian Heritage held a committee hearing. It shows how the government has learned nothing from the Onlin

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-heritage-committee-proves-government-has-learned-nothing-from-online-news-act-debacle/

#Censorship #Copyright #Technology #BillC11 #BillC18 #Canada #CanadianHeritage #government #OnlineHarms #OnlineNewsAct #OnlineStreamingAct

Canadian Heritage Committee Proves Government Has Learned Nothing From Online News Act Debacle

Today, the department of Canadian Heritage held a committee hearing. It shows how the government has learned nothing from the Onlin

https://www.freezenet.ca/canadian-heritage-committee-proves-government-has-learned-nothing-from-online-news-act-debacle/

#Censorship #Copyright #Technology #BillC11 #BillC18 #Canada #CanadianHeritage #government #OnlineHarms #OnlineNewsAct #OnlineStreamingAct

The vigilance should never stop. With #earnit, #onlineharms, #chatcontrol the legislatures seek to break encryption and read your DMs.

https://chaos.social/@onepict/103651892192364802

Back in August 1996 @ietf
 thought incredibly carefully about cryptography and the internet.  

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1984  

Even back then governments were trying to interfere with the internet with weak cryptography.  I love the RFC number.   Read each point. It's still very relevant all these years later.

#RFC1984

Yours truly is editing the Routledge Handbook of #SocialMedia, #Law and #Society.

The #CFP is out. Final call for 250 word abstracts - due 20 January 2023 👇

#onlineviolence #data #privacy #onlineharms #governance #speech #onlinesafety #harms #governance #socialmedia

UK now expects compliance with children’s privacy design code - In the UK, a 12-month grace period for compliance with a design code aimed at prot... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/fCxuS3cVd5k/ #generaldataprotectionregulation #regulatorycompliance #socialmediaplatforms #identitymanagement #dataprocessing #dataprotection #unitedkingdom #onlineretail #onlinesafety #socialissues #ukgovernment #unitedstates #humanrights #onlineharms #socialmedia #encryption #instagram #europe

Google tightens UK policy on financial ads after watchdog pressure over scams - The UK’s more expansive, post-Brexit role in digital regulation continues to be fe... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/BhX_VjyliW0/ #financialconductauthority #onlineadvertising #digitalmarketing #advertisingtech #onlineplatforms #financialscams #europeanunion #unitedkingdom #onlinesafety #ukparliament #martinlewis #onlineharms #enterprise #adnetwork #googleads #facebook #policy #google #tc

UK publishes draft Online Safety Bill - The UK government has published its long-trailed (child) ‘safety-focused’ plan to ... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/So3qoqllQXE/ #onlinesafetybill #oversightboard #onlinecontent #unitedkingdom #oliverdowden #ukgovernment #onlineharms #socialmedia #europe #policy #social #tc

UK’s Digital Markets Unit starts work on pro-competition reforms - A new UK public body that will be tasked with helping regulate the most powerful c... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/cj7QM4MvSqc/ #competitionandmarketsauthority #financialconductauthority #socialmediaplatforms #digitalmarketsunit #onlinesafetybill #europeanunion #unitedkingdom #ukgovernment #onlineharms #australia #facebook #bigtech #europe #policy #google #apple #ofcom #g7

How will EC plans to reboot rules for digital services impact startups? - A framework for ensuring fairness in digital marketplaces and tackling abusive behavior online is br... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vmuMjBKdxg4/ #artificialintelligence #electioninterference #freedomofexpression #digitalservicesact #ecommercedirective #platformregulation #competitionreform #marketanalysis #competitionlaw #disinformation #extracrunch #onlineharms #government #hatespeech #europe

UK names its pick for social media ‘harms’ watchdog - The UK government has taken the next step in its grand policymaking challenge to tame the worst exce... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/SGTWEQCK1Xw/ #onlinedisinformation #socialmediaplatforms #usergeneratedcontent #damiancollins #dcmscommittee #onlinecontent #unitedkingdom #digitalmedia #onlinesafety #ukgovernment #onlineharms #socialmedia #government #homeoffice #instagram #facebook #privacy #europe #social #tc

ICYMI: #QueensSpeech contains commitment to #onlineharms bill. Explanatory notes here: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Speech_2019#Online_harms

Adopting a ratings system for social media like the ones used for film and TV won’t work - Gail Ann Hurd
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UK age checks for online porn delayed after bureaucratic cock-up - The UK government has delayed the introduction of mandatory age verification for accessing online po... more: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/38WaULQcjHk/ #europeancommission #ageverification #europeanunion #unitedkingdom #jeremywright #ukgovernment #onlineharms #pornography #government #privacy #europe #policy