Owen Blacker

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Nov 4, 2017 • 19 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X

Next #ORGcon session: @MylesJackman & @pandorablake in discussion with @wendyg about Age Verification for porn from Digital Economy Act 2016

#ORGcon The age-verification powers of Digital Economy Act 2017 are likely to come into effect in April/May 2018. MindGeek are a near- >

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Owen Blacker

@owenblacker

Nov 4, 2017

Next at #ORGcon17: @mikebutcher and @PaulbernalUK: What does #Brexit mean for digital rights?

Paul: most important thing to understand is that we don't understand what will happen with Brexit—pticly with tech matters. Most of our >

< UK digital rights law originates from Europe. And the great timing of GDPR, which we will be required to do … for a few months > #ORGcon17

Owen Blacker

@owenblacker

Nov 4, 2017

Next at #ORGcon17: @JamieJBartlett taking about online extremism. Far more difficult to censor and control, so govt increasing penalties

This is bad, because we're entering a time of increased radicalism—and we need radicals who bring new ideas to democrats. #ORGcon17

Bartlett recently wrote book "Radicals", for which he went to "Liberland", a libertarian anarchocapitalist state in territory disrupted >

Owen Blacker

@owenblacker

Nov 4, 2017

Next at #ORGcon: @mariafarrell with @nighatdad and Azmina Dhrodia talking about abuse online and what we can do about it

With @amnesty, Azmina released a qualitative and quantitative report using machine learning to look at the abuse sent to MPs.

In the 6 weeks up to the 2017 election, @HackneyAbbott received 45% of all abuse sent to MPs. Removing her data, female MPs of colour >

Owen Blacker

@owenblacker

Nov 4, 2017

Next at #ORGcon: @tkingdot and @CCriadoPerez: can online campaigns effect real-world change?

While social media can be a cesspool, it's also a massive advantage to disadvantaged voices. @CCriadoPerez wants to point out that >

< while she is a Jane Austen fangirl, it was a campaign to get female representation on our banknotes, not specifically Austen 😉

Owen Blacker

@owenblacker

Nov 4, 2017

Next at #ORGcon: @NiNanjira: is the Internet helping disadvantaged groups or cementing the power of the powerful?

Half the world's population is still offline, disproportionately women. Women 50% less likely to be online and 35–50% less likely > #ORGcon

< to be politically active online even if they are. Partly because of the cost of access & devices. For the Web to be for everyone > #ORGcon

Owen Blacker

@owenblacker

Nov 4, 2017

Moving from dystopian questions, #ORGcon now hears from @audreyt, civic hacker and Digital Minister of Digital Enterprise for Taiwan.

Short video presentation followed by live Skype Q&A session #ORGcon

(The video's coming from YouTube, but I can't find a link, sorry.)

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