1 Policy debates and online services The framework for the regulation of online services has never been static. For as long as I have been thinking about these topics - since the early 2000s - there Read more

The Law Society - the official representative body for solicitors in England and Wales - runs a publication called "The Law Society Gazette". A bit like "Heat" magazine, but different in every way. Read more

We've had yet another round of "online anonymity should be banned" over the weekend. It's one of those tropes which has not died the death it deserves, and it appears with such predictable regularity Read more

Every now and again, I get involved in debates which entail a view that (some? all? dominant? or just ones doing things they don't like) tech companies should have an "obligation to consult" imposed Read more

I was pleased to take part in a meeting co-hosted by DCMS and the Home Office today, as part of the government's "Safety Tech challenge fund". The problem question The key bit of the challenge is: to Read more

A lot has happened in the last week. Not just in terms of Nominet stuff, as the volume of Internet regulatory issues crossing my inbox has seeming turned up another notch or two, but perhaps Read more

It might be heresy to use an Apple mouse and keyboard on Linux but, well, I like my Apple keyboard (and I might be the only person in the world who does...) and my Apple Magic Mouse. The keyboard Read more

Okay, dull even by my standards. I have a bash function which I use to generate a meeting URL for our jitsi video conferencing system. I type the function name in the terminal, and it generates the Read more

In case the title is not enough, I am trying to drive two 4k monitors, at 60Hz each, from my Surface Pro 6 running Debian 11 Bullseye, with Gnome 3 as the desktop environment, using Wayland. Perhaps Read more

Nominet - the body responsible for the .uk namespace - has vacancies for two non-executive directors. I have registered my interest with Nominet in standing for one of these vacancies. There are a Read more