**On the marzipan dreadnought | Heather Burns**
Go read the whole thing. Quote:
> The Conservatives aggressively promoted the Online Safety Act as the one weird trick to fix everything wrong with social media, often to the point of absurdity. Anyone who has actually read the Act, and Ofcom’s consultations on it, knew all along that all it does is create paper tigers. The Act is and only ever was about compelling companies to write massive bureaucratic assessments for performative compliance, whilst being forced to enter into extortionate service contracts with the the UK’s rapacious age verification industry.
> […]
> So in my view, whoever is advising Keir Starmer on digital policy has played a masterstroke here. By focusing on the social causes of the riots and the people who carried them out, rather than focusing on the digital tools those individuals may or may have not used on the way, Labour managed to demolish the entire pretense of the Conservatives’ seven-year project on online safety, in less than seven weeks.
https://heatherburns.tech/2024/08/28/on-the-marzipan-dreadnought/
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110326
#heatherBurns #onlineSafety
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