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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · 2d

📆 Ofcom's consultation on Additional Safety Measures - where this proviso makes a number of appearances - closes on 20 October. 2/2 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Consultation: Online Safety - Additional Safety Measures

This consultation sets out Ofcom’s latest proposals to strengthen our Codes of Practice for providers of online services, as part of our role under the Online Safety Act 2023.

www.ofcom.org.uk

Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 NEW analysis from our expert legal adviser Prof Lorna Woods OBE on the use by @ofcom.bsky.social of a "technically feasible" proviso in many of its #onlinesafetyact code measures and recommendations on how to reduce its potential impact on user safety. 👇 1/2 www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/req...

Requirements for OSA codes measures: technical feasibility and proportionality - Online Safety Act

www.onlinesafetyact.net

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Andy Dudfield @mrdudders.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know what would be good news for fact checkers? Anyone who fancied going to the @fullfact.org website (the people who wrote the widely used fact check cited by lots of people here) and clicking the donate button. We are a tiny charity and your support helps.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23d

Morning! Society for Hopeful Technologists newsletter #2 is arriving in inboxes now. A little bit on Musk and X, much more about future plans + organising buttondown.com/society-of-h... and great to have a group of fellow organisers coming together 💪

#2: Hopeful Actions

What's next for the Society for Hopeful Technologists: events, principles, and opportunities to get involved.

buttondown.com

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 24d

Elon Musk has shared an obviously AI-generated image of the Unite the Kingdom rally in London.

The first AI error is that the Arc de Triomphe is in Paris, not London. And once you zoom in, you'll notice that the Union Jacks and the crowd have other errors typical of AI images.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26d

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission launched an inquiry into AI chatbots and their impact on children. The agency issued orders to seven companies asking them for details on their products, including how they “evaluate the safety of their chatbots when acting as companions.”

FTC Opens Inquiry Into AI Chatbots and Their Impact on Children | TechPolicy.Press

FTC opens probe into the risks of AI chatbots for kids and teens.

www.techpolicy.press

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 New @ofcom #onlinesafetyact consultation launched today on the draft guidance for super-complaints

✍ Deadline for responses: 3 November

👉 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Consultation: Draft guidance for super-complaints under the Online Safety Act 2023

The purpose of super-complaints is to allow such organisations to bring robust evidence and facts to our attention about the most significant online harms and restrictions on free expression arising o...

www.ofcom.org.uk

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.bsky.social · Sep 7

DSIT reshuffle:
- Liz Kendall replaces Peter Kyle as SoS
- Ian Murray, ex-Scot Sec, replaces Chris Bryant at DSIT & DCMS (Bryant follows Kyle to DBT)
- Kanishka Naryan new junior minister
- Vallance stays, added role at DESNZ
- Feryal Clark, Baroness Jones leave govt

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Ministerial appointments: September 2025

The King has been pleased to approve the following appointments.

www.gov.uk

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · Sep 5

The UK is leading the world in addressing online safety.

The Online Safety Act holds social media companies accountable & protects kids from harms.

We should be working to strengthen the OSA, not scrap it. Read our new blog to learn more ⤵️

Defending the UK Online Safety Act — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

Responding to false attacks in the US: The UK's Online Safety Act is a vital, evidence-based law designed to hold tech companies accountable.

counterhate.com

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 3

The US House Judiciary Committee has been taking testimony from Nigel Farage and others this afternoon in a discussion on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation."

We've taken a look at some of the claims made about the #onlinesafetyact ⬇️

www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/fac...

Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 4

This. ⬇️ #onlinesafetyact

David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · Sep 3

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h...

Here are my concluding paras:

last paragraph of testimony: "I urge this Committee to consider the real threat to Americans’ freedom of
expression, the one here at home. I have noted a handful of areas where this administration is
putting freedom of expression under direct attack. Where is the opposition, let alone outrage,
given the attack not only on speakers – journalists, public media, professors, students,
whistleblowers, civil servants – but on every American’s right of access to information about the
issues important to our democracy and to our public’s health? That, I would respectfully submit,
is the real threat to American speech and innovation, and I look forward to helping this
Committee, in any way you see fit, work to address it."

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 4

Officials from @ofcom.bsky.social gave evidence yesterday to the Speaker's Conference on the security of candidates, MPs and elections, with the discussion focusing on implementation and enforcement of the #OnlineSafetyAct - you can watch the session back here.⬇️ www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

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Speaker's Conference (2024)

www.parliamentlive.tv

Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 3

The US House Judiciary Committee has been taking testimony from Nigel Farage and others this afternoon in a discussion on "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation."

We've taken a look at some of the claims made about the #onlinesafetyact ⬇️

www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/fac...

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Sep 3

"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.

So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...

Chicken Farage bans The New World

It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · Sep 3

This letter is important. It is a careful, detailed, scholarly, and accurate explanation of the elements of the DSA and EU law that prevent the DSA from being a "censorship" law in the first place. The list of EU expert signatories is stellar. @hutko.bsky.social @joanbarata.bsky.social

Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · Sep 3

I also joined 30+ EU and US scholars on the DSA in letter debunking Jim Jordan's claims that the Digital Services Act is a censorship law (it's content neutral) and that it censors US speech (it applies only inside the EU) husovec.eu/wp-content/u...

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Sep 1

Parliament's back - and so are we. Catch up with what's been happening over August in our new-term newsletter, out today. And, if you haven't already subscribed to receive these direct every fortnight, the registration link is in the next post. mailchi.mp/1d3aa36da50b... #onlinesafetyact

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · Aug 27

“If a tool can give suicide instructions to a child, its safety system is simply useless. OpenAI must embed real, independently verified guardrails & prove they work before another parent has to bury their child.”

@imranahmed.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com on ChatGPT failing to keep kids safe 👇

Study says AI chatbots need to fix suicide response, as family sues over ChatGPT role in boy's death

A study finds that AI chatbots often avoid answering high-risk suicide questions but are inconsistent with less direct prompts

www.washingtonpost.com

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Aug 17

⬇️ #onlinesafetyact www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rayner says Farage ‘failing young women’ with plan to scrap Online Safety Act

Deputy PM says move would cause rise in ‘revenge porn’, as Labour launches attack ads against Reform UK leader

www.theguardian.com

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · Aug 11

ChatGPT is betraying vulnerable teenagers.

We tested OpenAI’s platform & found it generated harmful answers to over HALF of 1.2K prompts.

AI companies must take safety seriously. CCDH's new research in @themirror.com 👇

ChatGPT found to be giving teens 'dangerous' advice on mental health

More than half of ChatGPT's 1,200 responses were found to be "dangerous", according to a study by The Center for Countering Digital Hate

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Aug 11

Explainer here on some of the issues that have dominated the news in recent weeks. ⬇️
www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/the...

The Online Safety Act: Children’s Duties, Age Verification and Content Moderation on User-to-User Services

www.onlinesafetyact.net

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Aug 11

Explainer here on some of the issues that have dominated the news in recent weeks. ⬇️
www.onlinesafetyact.net/analysis/the...

The Online Safety Act: Children’s Duties, Age Verification and Content Moderation on User-to-User Services

www.onlinesafetyact.net

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · Aug 11

📣 Online safety campaigners, free speech advocates, and tech experts

If you have thoughts and insights on the Online Safety Act, I’d love to hear them

💬 Drop me a DM/comment below

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ruling here: www.judiciary.uk/judgments/wi...

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Online Safety Act Network @osanetwork.bsky.social · Aug 11

Ruling here: www.judiciary.uk/judgments/wi...

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