@skeane.bsky.social
Hey look, the UK’s Online Safety Act is resulting in the targeting of queer content.
Well, who (barring everyone) could have foreseen that?
Reminder that Ireland’s Online Safety Code seeks to ban anything it (unpredictably) finds to be likely to detrimentally damage the moral development of kids.
Screenshot from thegist.ie Nonetheless, when Viktor Obán's Hungary took the Presidency of the European Council for the back half of 2024, it announced that passing the ChatControl proposal and breaking encryption for eveyone in the EU was one of its main priorities. We're all used to Hungary acting as an illiberal spoiler inside the EU, but in this case, it nearly got a majority of votes from the other member state governments to pass the plan. It was only when the Dutch spy agency actually came out and warned their own government that the plan would threaten the country's own cybersecurity. that they flipped from support to abstain and the Hungarian plan lost its majority. Oh, and of course, we found out Ireland was one of the countries supporting Hungary's plan.
I think it was under-reported (ie, not reported) that we came within a hair’s breadth of implementing a complete EU surveillance state *and* undermining the security of all messaging encryption on the 12th Dec last year.
Ireland was backing Hungary’s plan to do it.
www.thegist.ie/the-gist-a-b...
This week I did an podcast interview with @tonygroves.bsky.social on the Echochamber podcast.
I was being asked about things covered in the Campaign Gists, and some of the wider context for the new government.
Listening back, I think it’s a conversation (positive).
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