(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
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"What if you could only speak online if you had a car number plate": quick comments on yet another weird Internet surveillance proposal
Alec Muffett spotted the latest in a long line of proposals for the regulation of the web which can most charitably be described as "weird and confused". Today's contender is here (Google Drive Read more
Introducing the Internet policy "red team": the underappreciated scrutineers of online regulatory discourse
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
"Making [vulnerable group] safe online": unpicking those who "spin a line" to sell their proposal
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