Tony Roberts

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,

No one, no matter their age, should have to hand over their passport or driver’s license just to access legal information and speak freely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Great to see that our primer on "Understanding Digital Rights: definitions, conceptions and myths" has been downloaded over 1,000 times. #DigitalRights
opendocs.ids.ac.uk/articles/rep...

When there is no consequence for lying, it becomes a very valuable tool in your arsenal. #TrumpLies

Artificial Intelligence Ethicology (WILL A.I. CRASH OUT?) with Dr. Abeba Birhane — alie ward Who’s babysitting AI? Will it steal your job? What happens when you’re rude to a chatbot? Cognitive scientist, Trinity College professor and Artificial Intelligence Ethicologist  Dr. Abeba Birhan...

Fun podcast discussion about AI ethics with the awesome 😎
Dr. Abeba Birhane
www.alieward.com/ologies/arti...

Algorithmic authoritarianism

Decomputing For a Better Future w/ Dan McQuillan - Tech Won’t Save Us A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.

Dan McQuillan explains the concept of "Decomputing" to Paris Marx on the Tech Won't Save Us podcast.
techwontsave.us/episode/286_...

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

It's political correctness gone mad arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Facial recognition technology discriminates against people of colour | Letter Letters: Alba Kapoor from Amnesty International responds to an article about the Met’s increased use of the technology

Facial recognition technology is biased, error prone, and disproportionately deployed on already disadvantaged communites. Amnesty International. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

YouTube video by HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION MARIO SAVIO - "Operation of the Machine"

“There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part, and you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, & you’ve got to make it stop". Mario Salvio
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Tucson City Council rejects Project Blue data center amid intense community pressure - AZ Luminaria The Tucson City Council voted to reject the proposed Project Blue data center— tied to Amazon — after weeks of community pushback.

Your Cloud is Our Drinking Water. Tucson community forces city council to unanimously reject huge new Amazon data centre.
azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

When will they make an actually smartphone that blocks state surveillance and stops companies stealing your data and micro-targetting you with messaging to manipulate your beliefs and behaviour?

Resisting AI Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...

Resisting AI: the need for an anti-fascist resistance bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

How South American sovereignty got lost in Big Tech’s clouds US tech firms want to extract data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. Governments must stand up to them

South America’s sovereignty is being lost in Big Tech’s clouds
US tech firms want to extract data, knowledge and natural resources from the region. Governments must stand up to them.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/south-ame...

Decomputing For a Better Future w/ Dan McQuillan - Tech Won’t Save Us A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.

Dan McQuillan talks to Paris Marx about AI techno-politics and the need for decomputing. techwontsave.us/episode/286_...

‘The lesson from Gaza is clear: when AI-powered machines control who lives, human rights die’ CIVICUS discusses the military use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Gaza with Dima Samaro, a Palestinian lawyer and researcher, and director of Skyline International for Human Rights, a civil societ...

I spoke w/ #Civicus about Israel's AI genocide in #Gaza:

• AI kill lists, biometric, facial scans checkpoints
• Tech giants & Corps profit from algorithmic violence
• EU laws exempts military AI; Israeli firms get immunity

This dystopia won't stop in #Palestine.

lens.civicus.org/interview/th...

Is Digital Public Infrastructure a colonial technology?
What would decolonising DPI look like.
Some early thoughts here >
appropriatingtechnology.org/decolonising...

Texas AI Data Centre guzzles millions of gallons of water as citizens are asked to cut back on taking showers. But sure we need to unfetter Big Tech. www.msn.com/en-in/money/...

AI is leading to thousands of job losses, report finds The advent of AI in the workplace is one factor behind a spike in layoffs this year, new labor data shows.

AI is leading to thousands of job losses, report finds - CBS News share.google/5fK4yVZCVhs1...

Palantir’s quiet coup: the military-industrial complex embedding itself in Britain’s public sector - AOAV Keir Starmer’s secretive meeting with US spy-tech firm Palantir — brokered by defence-linked lobbyist Peter Mandelson — reveals the growing grip of the military-industrial complex on Britain’s public ...

Palantir’s quiet coup: the military-industrial complex embedding itself in Britain’s public sector
aoav.org.uk/2025/palanti...

The new party needs to avoid looking/being Labour2.0. It needs to look and be radically different. People hate all establishment politicians.
I suggest a cabinet that includes
Mick Lynch, Caroline Lucas, Gary Stevenson, Ash Sarkar, Carol Vorderman, Maria Black, Andrew Feinstein, Fergal Sharkey.

Corporations love surveillance. They lobby for it.

Data Brokers are Selling Your Flight Information to CBP and ICE For many years, data brokers have existed in the shadows, exploiting gaps in privacy laws to harvest our information—all for their own profit. They sell our precise movements without our knowledge or ...

Companies are Selling Your Personal and Location Data to police forces and immigration agencies via data brokers.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Deadline this week: Call for Chapters by African Authors for collected edition on "Digital Youth Participation in Africa: citizenship, unruly politics and technological affordances".
Chapters from francophone and North Africa encouraged.
www.africandigitalrightsnetwork.org/news

DOGE builds AI tool to cut 50 percent of federal regulations The U.S. DOGE Service is using a new AI tool to eliminate federal regulations, aiming to cut 50 percent of rules by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

AI to unfetter capitalism. As if it wasn't already inadequately regulated.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Over 500,000 sign ups and 6 MPs…

Not too bad for a party that’s going nowhere!! 🤣😂🤣

I think you could add toxic online actors to that venn diagram Peter with 'angry men' at the central intersect and the root problem that needs addressing. Toxic masculinity is the symptom. What is the cause and the solution?

All powerful parties are using violence to control resources. That's the business model.

More Perfect Union on X: "Tech CEO Bill McDermott: " We're slowing down the hiring in jobs that are, quite frankly, soul crushing jobs...  think about people that talk to customers. There's no prep work anymore. Their AI teammate is doing that for them...  They work hard 24 by seven. You don't have to pay https://t.co/ZRtmMCng7k" / X Tech CEO Bill McDermott

Tech billionaire boasts about plans to replace all software generation and IT support jobs with AI, how he benefits, and how he presents working class pain as billionaire gain.
x.com/MorePerfectU...

Here’s Why Zero-Knowledge Is the Gold Standard in Digital Identity Management Current digital ID systems often compromise our privacy by revealing more information than necessary. Enter zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), a cryptographic technique poised to revolutionize digital ID m...

Zero-Knowledge Proofs could give citizens control over what personal info they share, for example, allowing a bar-owner to scan your digital-ID to prove you are over the legal age without sharing your actual birth date, name, address, mobile number etc. www.humanity.org/blog/here-s-...