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Our response to the Prime Minister's announcement ā¤µļø
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just canāt let that go on anymore. So weāre giving children their childhoods back.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pubā¦
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Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
When Metaās āpervert glassesā let creeps film you in secret, itās women who pay the price.
Add your name and tell Zuckerberg to put womenās safety first āļø
goodlaw.social/af3w
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Even Ofcom admits it.
Instead of doubling down on further digital prohibition and censorship, it is time for Labour to scrap the Online Safety Act.
Even Ofcom admits it.
Instead of doubling down on further digital prohibition and censorship, it is time for Labour to scrap the Online Safety Act.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Ofcom admits thereās been "no significant change" in children encountering harmful material since the Online Safety Act came into force.
The law created giant digital ID honeypots and rampant censorship - while failing to stop harm.
The left fell into a Tory surveillance trap by backing content prohibition over platform accountability. Why are we now expanding a broken law into subjective topics like "depression" and "body image"?
Itās time for a total rethink - which must start with Labour scrapping the Online Safety Act.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Labour wants to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote, but how can young people make an informed choice if the Online Safety Act censors the climate debates that shape their future?
If they are mature enough to vote, they are mature enough to read about government policy.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
When progressive leaders engage in this type of performative asceticism - or ban entire age groups from accessing the news - they cede the digital public square entirely to the right.
We have to be in the conversation to win the argument. Stop the moral posturing.
When progressive leaders engage in this type of performative asceticism - or ban entire age groups from accessing the news - they cede the digital public square entirely to the right.
We have to be in the conversation to win the argument. Stop the moral posturing.
Labour wants to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote, but how can young people make an informed choice if the Online Safety Act censors the climate debates that shape their future?
If they are mature enough to vote, they are mature enough to read about government policy.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
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Permanent facial recognition cameras will be installed in Oxford Street by December.
Thousands of Christmas shoppers will have their faces scanned by this unregulated surveillance technology without being given a choice.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/hoā¦
š«š· The unrest in France has been deeply concerning to witness, but what is equally chilling is how readily a Western democracy reached for backroom digital censorship to manage public crisis.
Former French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal even called for temporary platform blackouts and the use of AI facial recognition on video footage.
In Britain, we are following a disturbingly similar path. With police units monitoring online "protest-related activity" and the routine deployment of live facial recognition at demonstrations, we are being conditioned to accept surveillance as the price of exercising our basic democratic rights.
Whether you support or oppose any particular cause or protest, these freedoms cannot be conditional.
When we allow governments to suppress the digital public square under the guise of "safety" and "security", we construct a machinery of control that will eventually silence us all.
France had riots, so a minister summoned TikTok, Meta, YouTube, X, Snapchat and Discord to an emergency meeting.
They left promising to remove more content, act faster on livestreams and hand user data to police.
Gabriel Attal wants the power to block platforms during unrest, despite Franceās top court ruling his TikTok ban in New Caledonia illegal.
There are no new laws or court orders. The government just needed a crisis to implement its agenda.
reclaimthenet.org/france-preā¦
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
One good comment to the UK Online Safety Act consultation: age verification mandates are exposing UK Internet users to unbelievable levels of opsec and identity theft risk, drive people to the dark web, and could be abused by future govts.
From: an actual software developer
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
A schoolteacher responds to Parliament's Online Safety Act Inquiry. He writes that it has made "literally no difference" to safety, censored the Internet for adults, "terrible" for user privacy, and is easily circumvented - by children - with no effort.
committees.parliament.uk/wriā¦
Ofcom admits thereās been "no significant change" in children encountering harmful material since the Online Safety Act came into force.
The law created giant digital ID honeypots and rampant censorship - while failing to stop harm.
The left fell into a Tory surveillance trap by backing content prohibition over platform accountability. Why are we now expanding a broken law into subjective topics like "depression" and "body image"?
Itās time for a total rethink - which must start with Labour scrapping the Online Safety Act.
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
ā½Stop treating football fans like criminals @metpoliceuk
Orwellian live facial recognition will scan thousands of innocent fans at the Chelsea vs Tottenham match at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
Mass surveillance has no place in British sport.
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independent.co.uk/sport/footā¦
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
The UK is now classed as a country where encryption is under severe threat, alongside China & Russia, as this map shows.
Encryption keeps our communications secure.
Itās staggering that the UK government isnāt doing everything in its power to defend it.
gp-digital.org/world-map-of-ā¦
šMeta admits its smart glasses were recording private conversations WITHOUT users even giving consent.
Covert recording is the inevitable result of putting surveillance hardware on people's faces.
Read more ā¤µļø
techspot.com/news/114214-metā¦
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
The death of internet anonymity is looming, bringing with it severe implications for our free speech rights. And no one seems to want to stop it.
Laws aimed at protecting children online could have serious unintended consequences.
š° @BostonGlobe
šļø @sarahemclaugh
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Anonymity is one of the best guards we have against consequences ranging from social embarrassment to overt government oppression. So why are we giving it up without a fight?
My latest at @BostonGlobe on free speech, anonymity, and the changing internet: bostonglobe.com/2026/10/20/mā¦
Big Tech is using workplace surveillance to silence political dissent and strip workers of their fundamental right to organise.
Read more from @openDemocracy ā¤µļø
opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-ā¦
Labour Digital Rights Network retweeted
Just two tech companies have paid fines to Ofcom for being in breach of the Online Safety Act, Melanie Dawes of Ofcom tells MPs this morning
One is being appealed, and one is not yet overdue, leaving a total of nine currently unpaid.
"Of theĀ nine that are unpaid in total,Ā two are porn companies that have now implemented highly effective age assurance...Ā
"Another fourĀ have geo-blocked the UK. And so that'sĀ three that are still available without the risks being mitigated out of the 11 services."
"We won't be able to recover every single fine on online safety," she continued.Ā "If foreign courts decide to... try and get in our way, there will be a point at which we have to accept that we won't be able to recover that money.
"But we will always seek to go as far as we can. And in the end, what encourages me about the companies we fined is that they've actually done the things that we want to protect the public, and that is the real test of our implementation of the Act."