Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise (404 Media)
- Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People (404 Media)
- Ofcom head says age checks are ‘really big moment’ for children’s online safety (The Guardian)
- New online safety rules not ‘the end of the conversation’, says minister (BBC)
- Commission’s guidelines for online child safety target platforms of all sizes (Euractiv)
- I met the sextortion scammers destroying young lives for £1 a day (The Times)
- “Why me?” On shame, self-blame, and feeling so. damn. Stupid. (Blockparty)
- If It Breaks Wikipedia, It’s Probably Bad Policy (InternetExchange)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund and by our sponsor, the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. In our bonus chat Mike talks with DTSP Executive Director David Sullivan to talk about their new Safe Framework Specification, which is an official ISO standard (available for free download) which will help everyone better understand best practices and concepts around online trust & safety work.
Filed Under: age verification, child safety, content moderation, ncii, ofcom, scams, sextortion, uk, wikipedia
Companies: civitai, hugging face
Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen”
Just a reminder to everyone in the UK to sign this petition
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
and contact your MPs!
I haven’t listened to the podcast, but there’s a project underway in the EU as well. Denmark, Spain, Italy, Greece and France are going to trial the system, whose prototype is apparently already finished (press release in URL).
Re:
It sounds like a good blueprint on paper but I don’t think anyone here would bat an eye when I say I’m still distrustful of it.
I fear this is gonna destroy online social networks.
Civitai is now geoblocking the UK because of the OSB.