Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: child safety

UK Expands Online Safety Act, Forcing Preemptive Censorship

2025/10/26
The Guardian uses — and then hides/recants — photos of schoolgirl in article targeting fearful parents; perhaps we need a better conversation?

2025/09/22
Canada: Alberta implements book ban to protect children from “adult content” but then has a “…WAIT, NO, NOT LIKE THAT” moment when it actually happens, then blames *librarians*

2025/09/01
I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign…

2025/06/01
Have we yet seen calls from NCMEC @MissingKids & the child safety lobby, for Copilot+ AI to assess your laptop screen for porn & report in real time any presence of apparent CSAM?

2024/05/22
Matt’s cartoon in the Telegraph: Perfect summary of where the UK Government is re: child safety & protection

2024/05/15
Child Safety campaigners celebrating how their demands for blocks are *literally* being used by those sites to drive children to use/buy VPNs

2024/04/19
Heather Burns on Twitter: “This piece … on the Russian digital surveillance system over 540 million teenagers’ accounts, which is presented as “suicide prevention” but is really political surveillance for the Kremlin, reads like a safety tech vendor’s best sales pitch.”

2024/03/27
A turf war between people who want to ban social media for teenagers vs: those who want it regulated to the point of Orwellian surveillance — there can be only one!

2024/02/20
“Could there be an internet where Tesco, Amazon, Netflix, BBC, airlines, banking etc work well but there are major changes elsewhere?” | child-safety activists ask for a read-only internet

2023/12/22
Heather is a keen observer

2023/10/19
The Execution of Mark Zuckerberg …

2023/01/13