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10.11.26 - 21:06
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UK social media ban expansion for under-16s could cover YouTube Kids (The Guardian)
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Regulations under consideration could affect up to 150 platforms, including LegoPlay, Spotify and eBay, sources sayA substantial expansion of the social media ban for under-16s could inadvertently lead to a ban on YouTube Kids and other sites that had been thought exempt, sources briefed on the government's proposals have said.One source close to the talks said the regulations now under consideration meant up to 150 platforms, including games platforms such as Lego Play, could be covered by the ban, which is set to come into force in March. Continue reading......
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10.11.26 - 05:01
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US Expels Lebanese Diplomat Over Social Media Post Supporting Hezbollah (ZeroHedge)
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US Expels Lebanese Diplomat Over Social Media Post Supporting Hezbollah
Via The CradleThe US State Department informed the Lebanese Embassy in Washington that its Detroit consul, Ibrahim Charara, was declared persona non grata and had 48 hours to leave the country, Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday.Citing Lebanese Foreign Ministry sources, the Saudi-owned newspaper reported that the US decision came in response to old social media posts attributed to Charara regarding the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut.
Lebanese Embassy in Washington D.C., file image
In October of that year, a truck bomb destroyed the US Marine barracks near Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, killing 241 US military personnel.In 2021, the Lebanese consul described that attack by calling it an act of "heroic resistance" that ended the "American military occupation of Beirut with a single strike."The attack has been attributed to a group known as the Islamic Jihad Organization, which ...
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05.11.26 - 13:42
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′Digital ID Checks For All′: Ofcom′s Plan For UK′s Under-16 Social Media Ban Puts Adults In The Age-Check Line Too (ZeroHedge)
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'Digital ID Checks For All': Ofcom's Plan For UK's Under-16 Social Media Ban Puts Adults In The Age-Check Line Too
Privacy campaigners have argued for months that this is where an age ban ends up. In March, Big Brother Watch titled a post "A social media ban for under-16s = digital ID checks for all" and argued that because the alternatives are intrusive and unreliable, ID would be required in many millions of cases. "All of the online age verification options are highly invasive and the biometric and behavioural profiling options are highly inaccurate, meaning IDs will be required in many millions of cases regardless," the group wrote.Britain's communications regulator now points the same way. Ofcom's rapid assessment, published Oct. 29, says the face scans social media platforms use to estimate ages are too imprecise to police the government's coming ban for under-16s on their own, and that a second check, often photo ID, will have to back them up. And the checks w...
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