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Exactly. The original proposal for the Online Safety Act included regulating this "harmful but not illegal" content, but it got stripped out (it was so bad that even Kemi Badenoch was against it). Still, the govenment wants more power and "this will make everyody safer" is often a good way to spin it. @ret @TheVampireFishQueen @cardboard

Media coverage here (via @ufwupdates, who's on the scene and doing what they can)https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2025/07/10/immigration-raid-near-camarillo-sets-up-clash-with-ice-protesters/84540242007/@ai6yr @mattblaze

Not sure if you've ever read Simone Browne's "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness" but it really highlights how surveillance here has been a tool to reinforce white supremacy. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/147/Dark-MattersOn-the-Surveillance-of-Blackness@UlrikeHahn @inquiline

cool! my personal account is on neuromatch.social, which has had it for a while ... it really makes a difference (at least in my experience), curious how people there will react!@collectifission

@cwebber Very concerning -- and there's similar regulation in Austrailia as well as some US state laws (currently tied up in courts) that would require age verification for social networks in general. Has there been any thought about how these apply with the Spritely architecture?

@steve very interesting thinking, thanks for writing it up in such detail!