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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

Again #Newsquest is adding random #crime reports from other areas amongst local ones.

If you are not paying attention or click through or just skimming the headlines, it would be very easy to assume the murder happened in #Clacton / #Harwich #Felixstowe / or even #Southwold or #Aldeburgh (these last two "posh" places still sometimes have problems with youth #violence )

(the incident occured in #Scotland - a very long distance from #Suffolk or #Essex )

It might drive traffic to the news site, but Maybe #Ofcom needs to intervene here and discourage this kind of headline aggregation - all it does is increase fear of #crime in the local area..

14 Birdsabandon nests after trespassers let dogs loose 15 Second teenager chargedin connection with death of beach attack 16-year-old 16 Viral sensation sells more than 9,000 potatoes at Suffolk Show
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tf

Uber Complex Chief Engineer Fail (cntd, no show): We have reached a new low in this saga. Late on Monday, week after the last fail, OpenReach (in the form of some poor soul in a callcenter in a faraway land) phoned to make a new appointment to complete the work. And even though the work at the house has been completed, they insisted I have to present for this … then never showed up. ... #Tech, #OpenReach, #OFCOM: aye.tf/2025/05/29/chief-engine

aye, tf · Uber Complex Chief Engineer Fail (cntd, no show)We have reached a new low in this saga. Late on Monday, week after the last fail, OpenReach (in the form of some poor soul in a callcenter in a faraway land) phoned to make a new appointment to complete the work. And even though the work at the house has been completed, they insisted I have to present for this … then never showed up.
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Open Rights Group

This week we published our report into the UK Online Safety Act.

We warn that the Act disproportionately impacts small sites, tipping the balance of power further towards Big Tech and threatening our freedom of expression online.

Read now ➡️ openrightsgroup.org/publicatio

🗣️ @Bernard – co-author of 'How to Fix the Online Safety Act: A Rights First Approach'.

Quote from Dr Bernard Keenan, co-author of 'How to Fix the Online Safety Act. "If the Online Safety Act encourages platforms to over-moderate legal content, it may result in chilling effects, disproportionate impact on marginalised or persecuted groups, and disproportionate risks on smaller services."
#OnlineSafetyAct#OSA#freedomofexpression
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Open Rights Group

🗞️ NEW: Read about our important report into the Online Safety Act in Digit.

“This complicated legislation favours Big Tech who have the means and capacity to comply with the Act’s onerous provisions.

Instead of tackling online harms, the Act concentrates the market power of Big Tech companies, exacerbating the underlying reasons that harmful content circulates.”

🗣️ @jim – ORG Exec Director.

digit.fyi/is-the-online-safety

#OnlineSafetyAct#OSA#freedomofexpression
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Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦

I'm sure that Big Tech companies will definitely do everything they possibly can to make social media safer for kids now that OFCOM have published new rules.

They definitely won't completely ignore the rules while laughing at OFCOM's inability to enforce their way out of a paper bag.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yljn

BBC NewsOfcom finalises rules for tech firms to protect children onlineWebsites will have to instate age checks and tighten up algorithm recommendations for young users.
#OnlineSafety#BigTech#OFCOM
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Open Rights Group

Competition makes for a safer Internet.

We urge UK Ministers to exempt small community sites that are at little risk of hosting harmful content and not force them to collapse under the weight of disproportionate duties.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/sav

Open Rights GroupSave our sites - Write to your MPSmall UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.
#onlinesafetyact#onlinesafety#ofcom
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Open Rights Group

With over 1600 pages of guidance on Online Safety duties, Ofcom (UK) has dealt a sucker punch to small blogs, forums and fedi instances.

Onerous duties with the threat of fines has led to many sites shutting down already.

Only the largest companies that engineer harms can realistically comply.

#SaveOurSites

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · Ofcom announces new rules for tech firms to keep children safe onlineBy Dan Milmo
#onlinesafetyact#ofcom#onlinesafety
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