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After a long and anxious summer for those of us working on tech policy, the new DCMS Secretary, Michelle Donelan, announced that the Online Safety Bill would be returning. The future of the bill became uncertain when a combination of...
The news broke on Wednesday that due to motion being tabled on a vote of no confidence, that the planned Third Reading in the Commons of the Online Safety Bill would be postponed for scheduling reasons, and would return to...
Government regulation and political speech online are uneasy companions – discussion around how to regulate the online world frequently comes up against two inevitable yet clashing truths. One, that doing nothing about the systemic harms in online spaces, from rampant...
Government regulation and political speech online are uneasy companions – discussion around how to regulate the online world frequently comes up against two inevitable yet clashing truths. One, that doing nothing about the systemic harms in online spaces, from rampant...
This is a time of existential change, and technology has a role in it all. Climate change is accelerating, while blockchain technologies outstrip the carbon footprint of entire countries. Global violence is fuelled by disinformation online, from the Russian attacks...
With gambling, as in all areas, we cannot just apply what we know about men and assume it to be universal. This universalisation of the male experience as the norm for everyone has led to a historic dearth of information...
All too frequently, liberal societies struggle to articulate what a good Internet would look like. Some of it is hubris, a hangover from the days we celebrated the sight of smartphones in Tahrir Square and thought Twitter would be the...
With the publication of the Online Safety Bill, it has been a landmark few weeks for platform regulation. What is stated in the Bill now is supposed to keep us safe not just on the internet as we know it,...
The UK’s Online Safety Bill has been lauded by the government as “world-leading,” with claims that it will make the UK the “safest place in the world” to go online. Major loopholes in the bill, however, mean this bill represents...
