(This started life as a Twitter thread but, since I delete my tweets automatically after a few days, here's a more permanent version of my thoughts.) Continuing its obsession with online anonymity, Read more

The excellent Rowenna Fielding posted an interesting question on Twitter: If person X pretends to be person Z to engage with a company (fraud, spite, stalking, etc), and this is later discovered, Read more

I tweeted last week about the fallacy of the "Wild West Web" analogy, which is trotted out with depressing regularity. My tweets auto-delete, so this short blogpost reflects the key themes. It is not Read more

I've heard the term "public safety by design" come up a few times recently, and I think we are going to hear it a lot more in 2022. "Public safety by design" For example, in Wired's "The Wired World Read more

Someone asked me today for recommendations of people to follow on Twitter if you're interested in sex/sex work and Internet and online platform regulation / governance and the law. Here's the list I Read more

A response to this thread on Twitter. Suppose someone posts a verbal/written/image message (through channels/publishers/navigators, detailed below) with content that is: a) lawful but awful b) Read more