#onlinesafetyact — Public Fediverse posts
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Note that this proposal is about "nude images".
Not "pornography", but merely "nude" photos and videos.
Not non-consensual nude imagery, but consensual nude imagery too.
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These seem very strongly worded principles. I can't see this coming to pass (even if the law demands it).
Perhaps the actual legislation will be limited in scope.
> It must be impossible for anyone under the age of 18 to take, view or send nude images.
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> The only way for any user to take, view or send nude images should be for an adult to verify their age through a robust age-assurance process.
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Why thank you #Steam, it's absolutely impossible for you to verify my adulthood any other way than with a credit card… :flan_XD: #OnlineSafetyAct
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Potentially hot on the heels of yesterday's announcement (https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/117236701809921531), Ofcom has today announced:
> Enforcement programme into measures being taken by services to prevent users from encountering or sharing non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)
You might recall that Ofcom has previously updated its Illegal Content Code of Practice, to
> recommend that those service providers that fall within scope use hash matching technology to detect NCII, for the purpose of then making an illegal content judgement.
The new code comes into force on 30 September 2026.
It will be interesting to see which services Ofcom considers are of greatest risk here.
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UK #OnlineSafetyAct announcements today
> the government is today committing to introducing primary legislation to require major tech platforms to build in device-level protections for children
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> the government will also require apps - that children use - to prevent them from accessing or sharing nudity, as soon as possible
The detail of these will be interesting.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/lisa-nandys-statement-on-protecting-children-online
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UK's Online Safety Act Fails to Curb Harmful Online Content for Children
Children have bluntly told the Children's Commissioner that the UK's Online Safety Act has failed to make a tangible impact on their online lives, with many saying it has made "absolutely no difference" to their exposure to harmful content. Despite being in effect for over a year, the law seems to be falling…
#OnlineSafetyAct #ChildProtection #UkLegislation #SocialMediaRegulation #EmergingThreats
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📬 4chan blockiert britische Alterschecks
#Internet #Netzpolitik #Rechtssachen #4chan #Altersverifikation #Bußgelder #Forum #Ofcom #OnlineSafetyAct #Vollstreckung https://sc.tarnkappe.info/bc085d -
@eff , #OpenRightsGroup , #BigBrotherWatch , and Index on #Censorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct
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@eff , #OpenRightsGroup , #BigBrotherWatch , and Index on #Censorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct
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@eff , #OpenRightsGroup , #BigBrotherWatch , and Index on #Censorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct
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@eff , #OpenRightsGroup , #BigBrotherWatch , and Index on #Censorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct
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@eff , #OpenRightsGroup , #BigBrotherWatch , and Index on #Censorship Call on #UK Government to Repeal #OnlineSafetyAct
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MCMC: All major social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and WhatsApp deemed “licensed” on 1st January 2026 #asp #digitallife #facebook #google #instagram #mcmc #meta #news #onlinesafetyact #onlinesafetyact2024 #socialmedia #socialmedialicence #socialmediaregulation #telegram #tiktok #twitter #wechat #whatsapp #x #youtube
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Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
A reasonable 8 minutes of time, allowing for advertising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ZB8XIHpHs
#ageVerification #censorship #cyberFlashing #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #ukLabour #vawg #vpns
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A short explanation for Home Office Minister Jess Phillips re: why attempts to restrict kids to using “teenager” phones will be doomed to failure
~14 years ago a friend – a highly respected & credentialed security consultant – shared that he’d set up all manner of content filtering & parental blocks on his home network, for the safety of his then ~14yo son.
So the kid went to the local High Street and spent ~£20 of pocket money on a secondhand Android phone.
He said: “I have strongly mixed feelings about this. I don’t know whether to be angry or impressed.”
That’s it. Things have not changed in the time which has passed, if anything the supply of competent inexpensive second- and thirdhand hardware has become even more abundant.
To achieve what the minister suggests below will require regulation of the sales of all phones, laptops, and tablets, not to mention games consoles and IoT, including in the second hand market and on the likes of eBay and so forth.
The likely rebuttal will be “we must not let perfect be the enemy of good” and “if we can save one child it will be worth it” – but this is nonsense, because we also have to forbid software freedoms. You would have to ban installations of Linux – including under virtualisation and with Raspberry Pi – and other alternative operating systems like Tails. And you would also have to stop kids learning how to code using cloud environments which would allow them to circumvent all of this control.
Waiting for “child friendly” software to somehow trickle down into the second hand market is not going to make the child’s safety activists happy, and it is not going to prevent systems being reinstalled with operating systems that do not implement the controls.
Jess Philips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls in the Home Office, in the FT today (archived here) says:
The minister charged with tackling violence against girls has called on smartphone makers to do more to embed child protection technology into their devices, as she defended the UK’s new requirements for online age verification.
Jess Phillips said it is “absolutely imperative” that device manufacturers and the developers of their operating systems take greater responsibility for blocking pornographic imagery from children’s phones.
“I want to see tech companies putting as much resource and capability into this as they do into addictive algorithms,” Philips, the minister for safeguarding, told the Financial Times in an interview.
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Phillips said: “If there are very easy means of getting around [the rules], then obviously government has to look at that.”
Regulating the second hand market is where you will have to begin.
#ageVerification #censorship #homeOffice #JessPhillips #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #vawg
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Facebook Scam Ads: Malaysia to use Online Safety Act 2024 to hold social media platforms accountable #apps #digitallife #facebook #facebookscamads #fahmifadzil #featured #meta #news #onlinesafetyact #onlinesafetyact2024 #onsa #socialmedia #socialmediaregulation
https://soyacincau.com/2025/05/19/facebook-scam-ads-malaysia-online-safety-act-2024-fahmi-fadzil/