Alec Muffett

everybody deserves good security.
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2026-06-28 11:05:21 GMT

It’s not about the children, it’s about how monetize surveillance: demand the illiberal, stupid, self-defeating & impossible, & then criminalise the wrong people for circumvention
https://alecmuffett.com/article/161699
#AgeVerification #australia

2026-06-18 18:17:07 GMT

If you are a Parent here’s One Thing you should be utterly furious about regarding the UK’s Social Media Ban
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943
#SocialMediaBan #censorship #youth

2026-06-08 15:33:21 GMT

I think it's pretty safe to say that the technical & operational impossibility of #PedoClippy the magic nudity detector that #KierStarmer wants embedded in every extant camera & in every online device, is going to seriously damage if not sink his premiership. #Clippy

2026-04-15 11:35:54 GMT

‘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
https://alecmuffett.com/article/156478
#AgeVerification #ZeroKnowledge #clipper #eu #oops #rofl

2026-04-12 12:45:48 GMT

I find it disappointing that so many folk in "digital rights" today are defining themselves wholly via opposition to [phenomena & entities] rather than in pursuit & support of [liberties & capabilities]; it's tragically narrow, limiting, & strategically unwise.

2026-04-03 09:05:19 GMT

Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone
https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #irony #surveillance

2026-01-27 08:05:19 GMT

“The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment” | Jimmy Wales
https://alecmuffett.com/article/143312
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #vpns

2026-01-23 16:38:47 GMT

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw | Forbes
https://alecmuffett.com/article/142847
#EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #KeyEscrow #apple #encryption #gchq #privacy #surveillance

2026-01-22 08:05:22 GMT

Gammons, Boomers & Musk-fixated ideologues in Lords seek ban on online anonymity, pursue Age Verification for Social Media & VPNs
https://alecmuffett.com/article/142518
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #libdems #surveillance #vpns

2025-12-15 14:05:21 GMT

Danish government proposes to ban streaming over VPNs due to risk of circumvention of content controls
https://alecmuffett.com/article/135332
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #denmark #surveillance #vpns

2025-12-11 13:07:49 GMT

AND FINALLY: UK House of Lords demands client-side scanning of content to check for “viewing of CSAM”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/134940
#AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpn

2025-11-21 14:05:20 GMT

“Key Management” is the cryptographic community’s version of “…it’s always DNS”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/126061
#cryptography #iacr

2025-11-10 08:05:20 GMT

IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act | Hacker News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119703
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #PrestonByrne #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpns

2025-08-13 13:05:20 GMT

How I believe Terry Pratchett would likely view those activists who promote Age Verification to support the Online Safety Act
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114357
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #TerryPratchett #censorship #surveillance #vpn

2025-08-04 19:05:20 GMT

Everyone has seen the thing about Nvidia apparently age-verifying people before they are allowed to tweak the hardware they have purchased?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114075
#AgeVerification #nvidia

2025-07-31 09:05:19 GMT

I really really hate that division over the Online Safety Act is making technical commentary into political supposed debate, but worse: some of the most sane commentary is coming from Reform
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113951
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #ThangamDebbonaire #reform

2025-07-30 15:05:20 GMT

It is bizarre to believe both: 1) 16-year-olds are mature enough to vote in general elections 2) 16-year-olds should be prohibited from content adults can legally view or create
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113933
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #voting

2025-07-29 17:05:20 GMT

UK Minister describes Age Verification as a collective action to keep children safe: the act of inconveniencing adults somehow, like magic, actively protects children
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113902
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #PeterKyle #censorship #online

2025-07-07 19:05:19 GMT

“National security” only ever means what the government wants it to mean, without limiting principle – Ari Cohn
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113652
#HomeOffice #censorship #surveillance #tiktok #trump

2025-06-25 15:05:19 GMT

Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113615
#FakeAccounts #mastodon #spam

2025-06-25 07:05:20 GMT

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: aren’t you glad that we don’t (yet) live in a world where on-device client side surveillance triggers report you to the police for using words like “bomb” or “uranium” in Signal & WhatsApp chats?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113606
#ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #HomeOffice #apple #censorship #meta #signal #surveillance #whatsapp

2025-06-20 19:05:21 GMT

From 2024: “COERCING LLMS TO DO AND REVEAL (ALMOST) ANYTHING”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/109226
#PromptInjection #leaks #llm

2025-06-20 15:05:20 GMT

1933: The Technocrats’ Magazine | Technocracy Inc | Internet Archive
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113055
#history #politics #technocrat #technology

2025-06-19 11:05:21 GMT

Sometimes I wonder whether this push for “AI summaries of everything” is simply a consequence of the failure of “chat” to provide effective “search”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113517
#collaboration #discord #facebook #messenger #search #slack #workplace

2025-06-03 07:05:21 GMT

“My experience with Canonical’s interview process” | …this is an atrocious story
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113440
#interviewing #tech

2025-06-02 07:05:19 GMT

BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113416
#NorthKorea #OnlineSafety #censorship #totalitarianism

2025-05-30 09:05:20 GMT

“OpenAI, defender of user privacy” – not what you would typically expect to hear from civil society, but in this case it’s true…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113410
#EndToEndEncryption #NewYorkTimes #deletion #openai #privacy

2025-05-14 07:05:19 GMT

The Mastodons are inventing “Algorithms”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113330
#algorithms #mastodon

2025-05-05 15:05:20 GMT

ICYMI: “Every TWINSCAN EUV ships with ~45 million lines of code […] Bugfixes and features start out as *word documents* sent to a series of review boards…”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113264
#SecurityByDesign #SoftwareEngineering #bugs

2025-04-14 07:05:24 GMT

There’s a lot of chatter going around at the moment regarding “AI IS EVIL BECAUSE IT EATS A LOT OF POWER” …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113183
#ai #chatgpt #llm

2025-04-10 15:05:26 GMT

Adolescence team to remake Threads nuclear attack epic | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113165
#NuclearWar #bbc #threads

2025-04-08 19:05:24 GMT

[Meta] Introducing New Built-In Restrictions for Instagram Teen Accounts, and Expanding to Facebook and Messenger
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113157
#OnlineSafety #finsta #instagram #messenger #meta

2025-04-04 07:05:24 GMT

So let me get this straight: Trump’s tariff formula (a) was the result of an AI query which (b) was misunderstood by a human and (c) misapplied to (d) incomplete data on the basis of (e) bad economic thinking to (f) crash the world economy
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113089
#ai #grok #llm #openai #tariffs #trump

2025-04-02 19:05:25 GMT

Meta faces ‘substantial’ fine for not complying with Turkey’s gag orders | POLITICO
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113078
#censorship #facebook #meta #turkey

2025-03-19 10:05:24 GMT

“I’ve just closed the forum of a small classic car club because we don’t have the time or capacity to ensure compliance with only volunteers. Meta will benefit, because we will, reluctantly, move to using a Facebook page”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112834
#OnlineSafetyAct #ofcom

2025-03-19 08:05:25 GMT

“There is something deeply wrong when a law passed with cross-party consensus & endorsed by Britain’s most trusted charities has made it impossible to run an internet forum for hamster owners”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112832
#OnlineSafetyAct #hamsters #ofcom

2025-03-15 10:05:26 GMT

The New York Times shutting down its Tor Onion Service
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112789
#TorProject #nyt

2025-03-14 10:05:23 GMT

“…TERRIBLE BOOK, POINTLESS, DON’T BOTHER…” — and…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112776
#CarelessPeople #SarahWynnwilliams #facebook #meta

2025-03-10 14:05:49 GMT

Project Aldrin / Facebook into China, a partial retrospective from someone who saw some of the code
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112685
#CarelessPeople #FactChecking #ProjectAldrin #censorship #china #facebook

2025-02-24 12:05:25 GMT

James Ball on Twitter
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112453
#DigitalId #ElonMusk #IdCards #TonyBlair

2025-02-17 08:05:26 GMT

Mastodon will add quote posts, even though some users don’t want them | The Verge
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112389
#OnlineSafety #SafetyByDesign #mastodon

2025-02-06 10:05:25 GMT

Honestly can’t tell if Civil Society believes that copyright-breaking LibGen & SciHub are rebel heroes or piratical villains
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112149
#ai #copyright #eff #libgen #llm #scihub

2025-02-05 14:05:25 GMT

Reminder: merely a few months ago we were all worried about audio & video “deep fakes” and now even the Guardian is extolling their positive uses
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112141
#DeepFake #OnlineSafety #ai #llm

2025-02-04 08:05:26 GMT

Asking Elon Musk’s own Grok AI about US Trade Tariffs, and, well…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111620
#ElonMusk #ai #grok #llm #tariffs

2025-02-03 21:35:12 GMT

Surely we should be calling this “The Spook-Hawley AI Censorship Act”?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112123
#ai #censorship #china #daaicca #hawley #llm

2025-02-03 10:05:24 GMT

Don’t use an LLM to generate a random number or to generate passwords
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111084
#ai #llm #randomness

2025-01-30 16:05:26 GMT

Essay: “Securing Model Weights” considered pointless | Lessons learned from (failed) protection of the Unix source code, et al…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111066
#DeepSeek #ai #copyright #llm #openai #regulation #unix

2025-01-29 12:05:24 GMT

Run a 670 Billion parameter LLM at home for $6000 with no GPU required
https://alecmuffett.com/article/111049
#DeepSeek #ai #homebrew #llm

2025-01-23 18:05:13 GMT

If what @BrianRoemmele claims is delivered, running a Chinese LLM on a Raspberry Pi at home should become trivial
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110988
#DeepSeek #RaspberryPi #llm

2025-01-21 08:05:08 GMT

Utterly delighted new BBC Wonderblocks are teaching our preschoolers the basics of both algorithm development & applied password guessing, core skills that they will certainly need
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110966
#WonderBlocks #algorithms #bbc #cyber #programming

2025-01-20 10:05:07 GMT

If you’ve recently installed Homebrew you may have installed a Trojan Horse if you used Google to find it
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110957
#HomographAttack #hacking #homebrew

2025-01-19 18:05:08 GMT

I wonder how many free marketers amongst the political right have stopped to wonder why it tends to be quite rare that governments, to one or other extents, permit their people to choose by whom they are governed?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110956
#tiktok

2025-01-17 22:05:07 GMT

Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban, and Domestic and Foreign Censors Rejoice-TikTok v. Garland | Technology & Marketing Law Blog
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110951
#censorship #tiktok #trump #vpn

2025-01-17 20:05:08 GMT

TikTok faces ban in US by Sunday after Supreme Court rejects appeal | BBC News | Oh dear…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110946
#censorship #omnishambles #tiktok #trump #vpn

2025-01-17 12:05:10 GMT

“The idea that a bunch of Americans flooding Rednote is exposing the Chinese workforce to the concepts of weekends & unionization is extremely funny to me” | Imgur
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110935
#censorship #china #rednote #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-17 10:05:10 GMT

Remind me, did anyone mention that VPN companies would gear up to actively sell circumvention of US law in the wake of the TikTok ban?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110933
#censorship #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-16 16:05:11 GMT

REDnote emergency-hiring English language content-moderation (i.e. censors) due to sudden influx of American TikTok users
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110927
#censorship #rednote #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-16 12:05:09 GMT

1/ US Gov’t censors US-Singaporean TikTok as “National Security Risk” 2/ Users jump to *Chinese*-owned RedNote 3/ Users learn RedNote / China is massively illiberal 4/ …
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110924
#NationalSecurity #censorship #rednote #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-16 08:05:09 GMT

“Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S.” | …whilst the world watches
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110919
#censorship #ofcom #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-15 16:05:08 GMT

THIS IS WHAT WE CALL A/B TESTING, FOLKS!
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110917
#CommunityNotes #facebook

2025-01-15 08:05:09 GMT

Does anyone know precisely how the US government proposes to prevent millions of teens / millennials from accessing TikTok?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110906
#KevinBacon #censorship #footloose #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-14 14:05:08 GMT

Best Dinosaur Joke, Evar
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110886
#dinosaurs #tiktok

2025-01-14 12:05:08 GMT

It’s Tuesday, my house is a plague pit*, Trump v2.0 is due soon, friends are burning their Neil Gaiman books, and I’m here for Americans who believe TikTok will entirely cease to exist by the weekend…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110882
#censorship #tiktok #vpn

2025-01-13 08:05:10 GMT

Why AI Works
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110875
#ai #llm

2025-01-02 12:10:08 GMT

This is a cute and amusing snapshot of some issues that social media cause to political power & regulation
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110786
#SocialMedia #censorship #france #regulation

2024-12-24 12:40:08 GMT

Media is flooded with complaints about AIs being trained on images or text & roughly reproducing them; meanwhile in the (human) music industry for the past 100 years…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110777
#1 #55 #SoundAlike #ai #copyright #llm #music

2024-12-20 08:10:09 GMT

Ofcom apologises for ‘ill-judged’ porn joke job ad | BBC News
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110774
#OnlineSafety #funny #ofcom

2024-12-19 12:10:11 GMT

Zuck: “It’s sad that I basically have to tell our teams to launch our new AI advances everywhere except the EU at this point”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110772
#AiTo #regulation

2024-12-19 08:40:07 GMT

That feeling when you finally give up on trying to find the book that you probably lent out to somebody, and go buy a second-hand replacement on eBay; this is mildly sweetened by the observation that…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110771
#geb #truckers

2024-12-19 08:10:09 GMT

US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency strongly endorses use of robust, unsurveilled End-to-End Encrypted Messenger software; it would be bizarre for #Ofcom to oppose this
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110769
#EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety #cisa #ofcom

2024-12-18 14:01:24 GMT

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@nprofile…txde we could do, but I'm not going to; this philosophy & approach has been fairly squarely pushed by a pair of people who have been actually recognised, even rewarded for it, even though it's an obviously illiberal approach to online regulation and from the outset has exhibited manifestly obvious negative consequences for online communities, all in the supposed name of user safety / holding corporations to account
https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2023/09/26/lorna-woods-praised-in-lords
https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2020/10/13/professor-lorna-woods-to-receive-obe-for-research-on-internet-safety-and-online-harms

2024-12-18 13:10:25 GMT

Presumably Lorna Woods & @WillPerrin are delighted at saving British children from the “harms” of lycra-clad cyclists
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110766
#LornaWoods #OnlineSafety #WillPerrin #cycling #lfgss

2024-12-16 09:40:08 GMT

Ofcom spreads misinformation, misrepresents internet and software apps as being unregulated / beyond the rule of law
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110764
#misinformation #ofcom

2024-12-16 09:10:08 GMT

Ofcom publishes “illegal harms” codes and guidance; follow @cyberleagle for analysis of how Ofcom imagines that privacy & technology work, how people can have “too much” privacy
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110763
#OnlineSafety #ofcom

2024-12-16 08:10:10 GMT

Tony Blair calls for roll out of digital ID | “…put all your eggs in one basket, it makes it easier to lose them all and for the government to surveil you…”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110762
#IdCards #ThreatModelling #TonyBlair

2024-12-13 14:10:08 GMT

Google says its breakthrough Willow quantum chip can’t break modern cryptography | The Verge
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110761
#QuantumComputing #clickbait #encryption

2024-12-11 08:10:10 GMT

If you’re interested in tech policy or security & looking for Christmas read, I recommend “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” by @nprofile…4cqy
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110758
#books #history

2024-12-09 10:40:08 GMT

Dual_EC_DRBG with Justin Schuh & @nprofile…5qn3 | …listening to Matt not trying to be rude, but achieving it, makes a worthwhile morning podcast
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110756
#DualEc #nsa #teammatt

2024-12-09 09:10:09 GMT

Linux Kernel: TOCTOU in Exec System | …I am sure that there was a vulnerability of this exact kind in Unix circa 1988 +/- 4yrs
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110753
#Cve202443882 #security #setuid #unix

2024-12-05 21:40:08 GMT

Austrian federal court decides that use of reCAPTCHA is not “essential” and therefore the cookies it sets are in violation of GDPR/EPD, thus reCAPTCHA is illegal
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110748
#austria #epd #gdpr #recaptcha

2024-12-05 10:10:08 GMT

I remain perpetually amazed how often the same people are one moment calling for “open APIs” and “access to data for research” and the next are “what do you mean you let just anybody scrape the locations of all rental bikes in New York City?”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110747
#OpenData #cycling #surveillance

2024-12-05 09:10:07 GMT

“So when is the earliest that UK users could now benefit from options to verify their identity?” | …clearly that’s what’s lacking in the UK: social media sites must vet us
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110746
#AgeVerification #identity

2024-12-04 12:40:09 GMT

Sometimes I imagine that there is an alien race watching and discussing us, and they’re saying “…these humans aren’t *really* intelligent, it’s all just pattern matching and stochastic parroting”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110745
#ArtificialIntelligence #llm

2024-12-04 08:10:08 GMT

Proof of the universality of the “safety activist crusades to undo demonstrable technical benefit to all because of fringe issue…” trope
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110744
#AutomotiveSafety #EndToEndEncryption #OnlineSafety

2024-12-03 13:40:19 GMT

Here is a picture of me using giant, mega marshmallows for their zero-rated VAT approved purpose as an ingredient, in this case for rice crispy cakes
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110743
#food #marshmallows #taxation

2024-12-03 12:10:09 GMT

EU GPSR: General Product Safety Regulations
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110740
#gpsr

2024-11-30 09:37:04 GMT

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@nprofile…cwgl there is a curious kind of blindness which seems to affect people when they think they are doing the right thing and haven't really thought about the consequences or externalities of their proposals.
I will give them credit though: when you explain the stupidity in simple enough terms they immediately walked back or mitigated the question, which is more than most governments would do.

2024-11-30 09:35:40 GMT

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@nprofile…cwgl I was helping #AllTechIsHuman (ATIH) draft the attached and at one point during discussions had to explain that they were proposing:
1) that governments strip privacy rights from children and then we all discuss giving them back, and
2) that ATIH were literally calling upon companies to break local laws re: subpoenas
…all to square the circle of "E2E encryption gives everybody privacy, both good people (who we like) and bad people (who we don't)"
https://alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-human-blog/balancing-privacy-and-child-safety-in-encrypted-environments

2024-11-30 09:06:45 GMT

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@nprofile…8nj8 you are showing {your, our} age; back when we were kids they had more simplistic models which just predicted warming on the basis of CO2 and the atmosphere of Venus; now it is disruption / change with an undercurrent of warming

2024-11-29 22:48:51 GMT

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@nprofile…lh5j that's only the first brick to fall and it went early

2024-11-29 22:10:09 GMT

Honestly thinking that Australia has just done a “Leeroy Jenkins” to Government efforts to “save children from themselves” by banning them from Social Media
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110718
#KevinBacon #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #australia #censorship

2024-11-29 21:22:44 GMT

Australia bans social media, and I'm wondering how legislators of an age likely raised on movies like #WarGames & #Footloose ever thought this idea will work?
Also, I suspect the cited child-safety campaigners are v.worried "what happens when this fails?"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/29/australia-social-media-ban-under-16s-uk-charities-children

2024-11-28 10:40:08 GMT

Electric Dreams | Tate Modern | …I’m here and waiting for the inevitable backlash about “algorithms cannot create art”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110713
#TateModern #algorithms #art

2024-11-27 12:10:08 GMT

Runa Sandvik: “Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Digital Security” | Global Investigative Journalism Network
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110710
#journalism #opsec #security

2024-11-27 11:10:09 GMT

Remember, Kids: just because Bluesky is suddenly and massively popular whilst X is dying on the vine does *not* mean that all those people screaming that “network effects prevent people moving between social networks, we must regulate!” — were wrong…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110705
#bluesky

2024-11-27 08:10:08 GMT

This sounds so much like the online safety mafia
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110703
#OnlineSafety

2024-11-26 15:10:10 GMT

TFW someone’s randomness pretty strongly suggests that they’re a bot, but their grammar is so poor that it’s not worth attempting a prompt-injection experiment because they surely can’t be an LLM…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110699
#bots

2024-11-26 09:10:09 GMT

So if you’re a historian researching the 17th century Italian use of weasel testicles as contraceptives (yes, really) you may be flagged by your Google searches
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110695
#OnlineSafety #censorship

2024-11-26 08:10:10 GMT

Regulators. They are attracted by success and limelight. They feed on headlines. They will hunt for you.
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110693
#DigitalMarketsAct #EuropeanCommission #bluesky

2024-11-25 16:48:00 GMT

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@nprofile…kxpq "ALSO, SEE THE WORLD'S FIRST 10 LEGGED SPIDER (PLUS 2 PEDIPALPS)"