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@ret@furry.engineer · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2023⁩

Half-fox, half-wolf, half-engineer. Into electronics, radio & software. (Very) amateur radio operator. Talk to me about TETRA V+D. Talks about NSFW stuff sometimes - please be 18+ 🔞 Runs (NSFW) isthisyiff.net

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So... after almost a decade of failure in the online regulation space, perhaps some legislative navel gazing is finally about to take place...

I encourage every single person negatively affected by the #OnlineSafetyAct to submit evidence here:

committees.parliament.uk/work/

If your freedom of expression, security or privacy has been curtailed in any way, however minor, submit evidence.

That includes people who have been forced to submit data to unregulated third party age verification processors.

That includes people who have had to remove content from their blog or website for fear of censorship and legal harassment by Ofcom - an unelected quango.

That includes people who have felt that their speech or artistic expression has been limited.

I will be submitting evidence as a website/service operator.

#OnlineSafetyAct

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depressed musing

There's an old lady who walks her little old corgi dog around here.

I have spoken to her on the odd occasion, but had a longer interaction with her outside the post office today. I think she is struggling with memory and cognition.

She showed myself and another person in the queue a letter from her bank that was quite concerning. She had no idea what it meant. She had no idea that the post office couldn't help her with it. She was less worried than perhaps she should have been. We (without panicking her) directed her to call her bank at once.

The interaction made me aware of how few safety nets our society has. How did we get to a situation where random people in the post office queue are a lifeline for that lady?