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Preston Byrne

@prestonjbyrne
148 posts
2026-02-24
Netflix is not a terrestrial UK broadcaster. It is an American company operating in and from the United States. Ofcom has no right to treat it as a UK television company.
2026-02-24 View on X
Variety

The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K+ users under “enhanced” Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them

Streaming platforms in the U.K. are set to come under “enhanced regulation” from media regulator Ofcom …

2026-02-22
This is nuts. On any social media platform I can think of this would have prompted a report to the FBI.
2026-02-22 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

2026-02-21
This is nuts. On any social media platform I can think of this would have prompted a report to the FBI.
2026-02-21 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: OpenAI staff raised concerns about a Canadian mass shooting suspect months ago; OpenAI says her activity didn't meet the bar for reporting to police

ChatGPT maker opted against informing authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar's descriptions of violence last June

2026-02-19
UK: censor your site. 4chan: no. UK: we will fine you £20k! 4chan: fine. UK: we will fine you £520k! 4chan: kek UK: we will block you here! 4chan: whatever. America:
2026-02-19 View on X
Reuters

Sources: the US State Department is building an online portal at freedom.gov that will let users in Europe and elsewhere see content banned by their governments

The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned …

UK: censor your site. 4chan: no. UK: we will fine you £20k! 4chan: fine. UK: we will fine you £520k! 4chan: kek UK: we will block you here! 4chan: whatever. America:
2026-02-19 View on X
The Guardian

Sources and docs: the US “effectively gutted” the Internet Freedom program that dispensed $500M+ since 2016 to help build tech to evade state internet controls

Programme that funds groups building tech to evade oppressive government controls under serious threat

2026-02-16
The UK is coming after America's AI industry. [image]
2026-02-16 View on X
Financial Times

Keir Starmer says “no platform gets a free pass”, as the UK moves to amend safety laws to include AI chatbots like Grok, which made sexualized deepfakes of kids

Keir Starmer to warn tech companies that ‘no platform gets a free pass’ after deepfake scandal involving Grok

They're going to go lose their minds over there when the GRANITE Act finally passes
2026-02-16 View on X
Financial Times

Keir Starmer says “no platform gets a free pass”, as the UK moves to amend safety laws to include AI chatbots like Grok, which made sexualized deepfakes of kids

Keir Starmer to warn tech companies that ‘no platform gets a free pass’ after deepfake scandal involving Grok

2026-02-10
This move by Discord is almost certainly downstream of regulatory pressure from Australia and/or the UK. Democrats should look to Wyoming, where a foreign censorship shield bill, the Wyoming GRANITE Act, is being advanced as we speak. Bring that bill to Congress.
2026-02-10 View on X
The Verge

Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default”

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default.”

Overseas regulators must have turned the screws on Discord hard. I will simply stop using Discord over this. Congress - could we get moving on a federal shield law please? This is outrageous and it's almost certainly downstream of a foreign regulatory threat.
2026-02-10 View on X
The Verge

Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default”

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default.”

2026-02-09
This move by Discord is almost certainly downstream of regulatory pressure from Australia and/or the UK. Democrats should look to Wyoming, where a foreign censorship shield bill, the Wyoming GRANITE Act, is being advanced as we speak. Bring that bill to Congress.
2026-02-09 View on X
The Verge

Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default”

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default.”

Overseas regulators must have turned the screws on Discord hard. I will simply stop using Discord over this. Congress - could we get moving on a federal shield law please? This is outrageous and it's almost certainly downstream of a foreign regulatory threat.
2026-02-09 View on X
The Verge

Discord says it will roll out age verification globally from March to access some content; all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default”

Beginning in March, all accounts will have a “teen-appropriate experience by default.”

2026-02-07
The European Commission is trying to change the subject. America is not upset with the Commission over what it believes. America is upset that it is trying to control speech and conduct which occurs on U.S. servers and U.S. soil, which is a question of U.S. sovereignty.
2026-02-07 View on X
New York Times

The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings

2026-02-06
The European Commission is trying to change the subject. America is not upset with the Commission over what it believes. America is upset that it is trying to control speech and conduct which occurs on U.S. servers and U.S. soil, which is a question of U.S. sovereignty.
2026-02-06 View on X
New York Times

The EU says that TikTok's “addictive design” is illegal under the DSA, citing the app's infinite scroll and recommendation algorithm, in preliminary findings

European Union regulators said the app's infinite scroll and personalized algorithm led to “compulsive” behavior, especially among children.

2026-02-04
How is it possible that one US website, operating lawfully in the U.S., manages to get hit by every single European and censorship regulator at the same time? Are there no other, worse websites in the world? Of course, we know the answer to this already. It's targeted.
2026-02-04 View on X
Financial Times

The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content

Tech billionaire and platform's former chief Linda Yaccarino summoned for ‘voluntary interviews’ in April

2026-02-03
How is it possible that one US website, operating lawfully in the U.S., manages to get hit by every single European and censorship regulator at the same time? Are there no other, worse websites in the world? Of course, we know the answer to this already. It's targeted.
2026-02-03 View on X
BBC

Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more

Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.

I add, the actions of the UK and France today have materially increased the odds of GRANITE's passage this session So, thanks, I guess?
2026-02-03 View on X
BBC

Paris prosecutors raid X's French offices and summon Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino to appear at April hearings, in a probe into sexual deepfakes and more

Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.

How is it possible that one US website, operating lawfully in the U.S., manages to get hit by every single European and censorship regulator at the same time? Are there no other, worse websites in the world? Of course, we know the answer to this already. It's targeted.
2026-02-03 View on X
Financial Times

The UK ICO launches a new investigation into X and xAI over “serious concerns” about Grok's data use and “its potential to produce harmful sexualized” content

Financial Times:NEW

2026-01-20
Very strange seeing myself and the Molly Rose Foundation on the same side of a political question, but they're right: a social media ban doesn't make anyone safer.
2026-01-20 View on X
The Guardian

UK ministers launch a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling

Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

2026-01-19
Very strange seeing myself and the Molly Rose Foundation on the same side of a political question, but they're right: a social media ban doesn't make anyone safer.
2026-01-19 View on X
The Guardian

The UK launches a consultation on whether to ban under-16s from using social media, alongside restrictions on addictive app features like infinite scrolling

Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

2026-01-13
Ofcom will, assuming it follows the template of prior investigations, have sent X a letter warning it of that investigation, threatening X's senior managers with arrest if they refuse to comply, and demanding X produce information without first getting a warrant.
2026-01-13 View on X
Financial Times

Ofcom opens an investigation under the OSA into Grok over the sexualized deepfakes of women and kids being generated on X and threatens X with a ban or a fine

apnews.com/article/grok...  Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk's Grok over sexualized AI imagesTruls Gulowsen /@trulsgulowsen:Indonesia, Malaysia, UK, ...