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‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ moment
Who is going to be this generation’s Matt Blaze? 🙂 The Clipper Chip was announced on April 16, 1993, exactly 33 years ago, less one day:
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From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’
99.8% would not be “bad people”. This is “scale”. Occasionally people need reminding how this works.
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I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data”
It’s like those criticisms of the BBC where they receive conflicting hate from both sides, so you have to start wondering whether the platforms aren’t simply doing the right thing to have pissed-off everybody. Probably, yes, given the circumstances. Compare Contrast
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Trump posts graphic video of slaying to argue for stricter immigration policies | BBC News
“Hey, d’ya remember the good old days back when journalists, politicians & civil society would rage that platforms “must do more to take down violent content” – including proactive censorship – RATHER THAN POLITELY COMMENT ABOUT IT BEING REPOSTED & AMPLIFIED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE USA ON HIS OWN SITE?” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1eqvpw3j1no
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In a X/Twitter post that garnered over 3.2 million impressions, EFF declares X is”…no longer where the fight is happening”
A startling revelation: if folk who are supposed to be fighting for your rights abandon the battlefield in fear & despair, then there will no longer be a fight. Who would have guessed? Supposedly 3.2 million people “saw” the EFF tweet; which is comparable to / only marginally less than the total daily usage of
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A bug on the dark side of the Moon
The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) is one of the most scrutinised codebases in history … We found a bug in it that had been missed for fifty-seven years: a resource lock in the gyro control code that leaks on an error path, silently disabling the guidance platform’s ability to realign. https://www.juxt.pro/blog/a-bug-on-the-dark-side-of-the-moon/
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The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Media
Trial lawyers are poised to accomplish in courtrooms nationwide what politicians have thus far failed to write into statute. The effects of this effort — undertaken without the deliberation of the nation’s representative bodies — are likely to rival those of even the most sweeping laws. https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/the-trial-lawyers-come-for-online-free-speech
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Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone
What could possibly go wrong?
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Australian eSafety: “It is a ‘dark pattern’ to permit people to 1/ amend mistakes 2/ be in control of information about themselves 3/ be obliged to validate abuse reports”
Clearly the perspective which the Australian eSafety Commissioner brings to the table is “users are untrustworthy scum and must be whipped into control” – basically like MPs, then. Also: “false negatives” are not a thing and never occur; if an AI declares you to be likely “too young” it cannot possibly be a technological problem.