Paul Bernal

We have 40% research time. This will be in that.

This one has taken years. A book I really want to write, but one that old-fashioned publishers have failed to understand. I have the right publisher now!

Generating dodgy lists of what AI will do is top of the list of what AI will do.

That’s my writing planned for the next few years. Finish one book, write the next,* one article already drafted, one book chapter scheduled.

*the one I just got a contract offer for..

Ofcom *may* be starting to understand that platforms are free to label entire forums as 18+ but that this conflicts with the OSA leading to overblocking Clarifying press releases such as the above presume that all individual items of content are classified for appropriateness under the Online Safety Act; but for example: Reddit has a ~20 year histo…

Ofcom *may* be starting to understand that platforms are free to label entire forums as 18+ but that this conflicts with the OSA leading to overblocking
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114092
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #ofcom #reddit #surveillance #vpn

*new book contract face*

I do listen. That’s the point. You’re not listening.

No, it’s not answering the question at all. I’m not asking *what* they saw, or even *where* they saw it - I’m asking *how*. Do you see extreme pornography when you browse the net? Or beheading videos?

I’m betting not. So why them, not you?

You need to dig deeper.

Terrapins I think

And in practice, the Online Services Act gives the social media companies more power, not less. They do the policing.

P.S. anything that quotes Jonathan Haidt uncritically should be taken with a huge pinch of salt.

You didn’t answer my question.

And no, of course we shouldn’t do nothing. I’ve been calling for action over the social media companies for well over a decade. This is just the wrong action, particularly as it will have no effect on the issue.

Now, how about answering my question.

Tony Blair has history….

Ah, but these are turtles, not terrapins.

It’s always the ones you’d never expect

I’m a bit obsessed with the turtles here in Spain.

These problems require considered, intelligent solutions.

Any “tough on crime” policy which does not have this as its centrepiece is a distraction.

A con.

Don’t let con artists and hatemongers distract from the real issues.

There are significant problems with the way that sexual violence is dealt with in the criminal justice system.

There is chronic underreporting.

Investigations take years.

The court backlog means several more years before a trial.

Complainants give up.

Prosecutions collapse.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Turns out we have three juvenile peregrines on our building, not two. Playing like maniacs.

Nah. Not only in America.

And as true in the U.K. as in the U.S.

"Fewer immigrant workers means a smaller economy"

This was the point I was making in the Observer yesterday and on Today this morning.

We at Wolves have two new players. One’s called Wolfe, the other called Lopez. Which means wolf, or son of wolf…

A knowledge of history should make it obvious…

From the Dutch Resistance Museum in Amsterdam

You literally described stopping people from catching trains because of what’s printed on their card. That’s a police state.

And bringing in voters you’re extending that to citizens too.

Does this not ring alarm bells on a big level?

Anytime I hear ‘nothing to hide’ all the alarm bells start ringing.