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This weekend's #auslaw brain teaser 🧠 ... Do banking apps & websites that permit free text when transferring 💰 fall within the new definition of "age-restricted social media platform" in the Act? This definition determines which platforms have to comply with the social media "ban".

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

At the end of this month, I'm attending #RightsCon - the world's leading summit on human rights & technology in Taipei 🇹🇼 Australia's approach to online safety, internet regulation & our recent social media "ban" may be of interest to the attendees ... 🤔 💭 So here's my (personal) views 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Measles case Victoria www.health.vic.gov.au/health-alert...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

reminder to centre members of the Stolen Generations tomorrow (13/2). If you're a settler, no one needs to hear you politicise or twist the Apology. An apology that was a recommendation in Bringing Them Home report - it meant something to many who were stolen. So please, shut up & listen

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

Crap crap crap. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

Wild how the party of "protecting children" refuses to ban child marriage Its almost as if

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

eSafety, leading the way on ethics and transparency 🙏

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The global online safety groups that make up Meta's Safety Advisory Council have written a letter to the company protesting its recent content moderation changes, saying that the "policy shift risks prioritising political ideologies over global safety imperatives"

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Our reporting in December on the eSafety Commissioner’s undeclared trip to Twiggy Forrest’s private AI conference has resulted in a flood of new disclosures

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Six months later... Australia's eSafety commissioner puts a dollar figure on the hospitality she received from the Minderoo Foundation and Big Tech.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

The government's flagship tech policy, the teen social media ban, went through some big last minute changes — like deciding what ages to ban — according to internal docs, interviews with sources and public docs, bolstering criticism that the law was "rushed through" www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/t...

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

I support people leaving insta but we shouldn't mistake individual decisions to bail for what we really need: a collective reckoning with the rotten system of techno-capitalism; to disentangle online life from the whims of tech billionaires. comments here from me- www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

This is separate from Taylor Lorenz' scoop today. At this point, "technical error" is Meta PR speak for "we got caught." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 52 days ago • 15 comments

We are routinely bombarded with images of heterosexuality (kissing couples, marriage proposals, gender reveal parties) which are celebrated as “normal.” Meanwhile, when LGBTQ folk post content about ourselves, our lives are politicised as “ideological” or “sexual.” We must challenge this censorship.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

2024 saw the launch of our revamped toolkit! Thanks to amazing Toolkit Maintainers and Guardians, you can find a database full of useful free-to-access tools. Complete with complexity ratings and clear descriptions, the toolkit is a one-stop shop for investigations. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

OpenAI is signaling an "attempt to dominate the market, not through superior technology, but by limiting competition through exclusivity deals, government contracts, and licensing requirements for advanced AI models." The analogy Taylor Lorenz draws to the Visa network is fascinating.

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

a good breakdown in @jomc.bsky.social’s latest piece of the differences in how bluesky and mastodon approach decentralization, and how the former’s is influence by its emergence from the blockchain/web3 community

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

I... am going to suggest some vendor sold a load of bullshit to Australia's eSafety Commissioner. www.npr.org/2024/12/19/n...

submitted 70 days ago • 63 comments

The state of Victoria is ablaze with fires raging through the Grampians/gariwerd, wombat state forest near Macedon, my home of Creswick and the Gurdies in the south east. Perfect week for the Environment Minister to approve new monster coal mines and turbo charge climate change.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

The TGA has approved Apple's hearing aid hardware and software for use in Australia, but the feature still isn't showing up as available on Apple's site. I've asked Apple when it will be enabled - but this is good news for the many people I've heard from who desperately wanted this capability. 👏

submitted 70 days ago • 4 comments

You can't just say "Goddammit!" and expect Me to damn it. There's a procedure. File the paperwork.

submitted 70 days ago • 224 comments

There’s no “responsible incorporation” of a technology that demonstrates every single bad habit that education is supposed to wean out of students - from making things up to citing sources you haven’t read to using other people’s work without proper permission to even just reading broadly.

submitted 73 days ago • 3 comments

In today’s @crikey.com.au, I examined the Australian government’s new tech tax for journalism. The good news: Meta can no longer get out of paying by banning news entirely. The bad: The largest media organisations such as News Corp will likely benefit the most. www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/16/n...

submitted 73 days ago • 4 comments

28 Days Later is acclaimed as one of the best horror movies of all time, but it can’t be rented, it’s not available on streaming, and the DVD and Blu-ray versions are out of print www.rollingstone.com/product-reco...

submitted 73 days ago • 26 comments

Of course the social media ban was going to be used to call for other things to be banned.

submitted 74 days ago • 34 comments

The temperature in Victoria just hit 47°C for the first time since December 2019, during the Black Summer. The hottest place in the state so far today is 47.1°C at Walpeup, although this could change in the coming hours.

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

It heartens me enormously that fibromyalgia is being researched and collaborated on, worldwide #fibromyalgia #autoimmuneconditions #chronicpain www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

#KOSA must not be doing that great if they've hauled out the "From Gay Porn to Good Christian" queen to support it. "KOSA opponents want children to see violent degrading gay sex acts acts so that they'll think it's normal" is ... an interesting theory. www.newsweek.com/i-survived-p...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments

I'm not an expert on KOSA but I've been closely following Australia's "social media ban". Who did not endorse the ban includes: - the eSafety Commissioner - the Privacy Commissioner - Australian Human Rights Commission - 140 academic, mental health & legal experts - LGBTQ+ youth & advocates

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

We just hit 40% funded thanks to our first VIP sponsor @tryst.link ! Thank you for all that you do for the community. 😇 Haven’t pre-ordered your copy yet? The link is below!

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Streaming only: because it's good for society when companies can shut away pieces of art with the press of a button 🙃

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

"..many of the laws around content moderation around the globe, such as the DSA, often seem to assume that basically everyone is an honest broker and well-meaning when it comes to moderation decisions. But...that assumption can help allow bad actors to wreak havoc." www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/a...

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

"It seems, based on our data, the men who have been caught killing sex workers might be getting younger"

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