Snoopers Charter

[jjlynn27]

El stovey said:

Me personally? Or pilots in general? I’m not sure I’ve posted any for years,



Here’s one of a glacier going into the sea in Greenland. Is that what your after or more of runways and stuff?

Can't beat that office view. Being pilot was my dream job, but my eyesight + requirement to know an MD of a national airline put a quick end to that. Very envious, in the nicest possible way. There should be a thread for those.

[BlackLabel]

Amber Rudd wants content providers to sign up to use government filters which decide what is and isn't allowed on the internet. Fair enough if it's genuine 'extremist content' that is blocked but who decides what is and isn't allowed? There are already laws about what websites can and can't publish - if these laws are broken these companies should be prosecuted and therefore will self-censure as a result. Why do we need a government approved filter?


AMBER RUDD has unveiled an AI-powered tool to block Jihadist content from the internet. And if you've got a mental picture of the Home Secretary in a top hat pulling the cloth off a Heath-Robinsonesque machine that blows bubbles, then welcome to our world. Ms Rudd has warned that she hasn't ruled out making tech firms use it. The news comes as she visits tech giants in the US to discuss the idea. However, the government claims it is primarily aimed at smaller content providers who could not afford policing of this type.

[Rovinghawk]

BlackLabel said:

Amber Rudd wants content providers to sign up to use government filters which decide what is and isn't allowed on the internet. Fair enough if it's genuine 'extremist content' that is blocked but who decides what is and isn't allowed? There are already laws about what websites can and can't publish - if these laws are broken these companies should be prosecuted and therefore will self-censure as a result. Why do we need a government approved filter?

Free speech is passe & so overrated.

[Einion Yrth]

BlackLabel said:

Amber Rudd wants content providers to sign up to use government filters which decide what is and isn't allowed on the internet.

I'd quite like providers to tell her to go and fk herself.

[Murph7355]

Einion Yrth said:

I'd quite like providers to tell her to go and fk herself.

I think there's a website for that sort of thing...

[Jonesy23]

Flashy 'AI' tool to recognise a class of video content, complete with context recognition of being 'original' or in something like a news report, with a fantastically high performance for false positives? Developed for a mere £600K?

Bullst.

Someone has sold them an obvious pup and they're too stupid to recognise it, and have taken the marketing spiel to heart and plan to use this toy for far more than would ever be realistic.

And that's before we even start to touch on the whole twisted idea of these Minitrue filters actually being considered in the first place.

[techguyone]

I'm more concerned about mission creep, once these assholes get something like that it's the thin end of the wedge, it starts off being things that no one will question like Child porn, terrorist stuff, that's all well and good, but typically as we saw with RISA it just gets abused.

[BlackLabel]

Meanwhile...

Appeal court judges have ruled the government’s mass digital surveillance regime unlawful in a case brought by the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson. Liberty, the human rights campaign group which represented Watson in the case, said the ruling meant significant parts of theInvestigatory Powers Act 2016 – known as the snooper’s charter – are effectively unlawful and must be urgently changed.

[SystemParanoia]

:whoohoo:

[roachcoach]

BlackLabel said:

Meanwhile...

Appeal court judges have ruled the government’s mass digital surveillance regime unlawful in a case brought by the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson. Liberty, the human rights campaign group which represented Watson in the case, said the ruling meant significant parts of theInvestigatory Powers Act 2016 – known as the snooper’s charter – are effectively unlawful and must be urgently changed.

I'm sure they'll get right on that....