Eur-lex says October 29th, presumably since DARA (the Delegated Act on Researcher Access) says it comes into effect 20 days after it's published in the EU's Official Journal.

Yesterday, I testified before a New Zealand Parliament committee doing an inquiry into children's harms online.

My testimony criticizes efforts to impose age authentication mandates online

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ICYMI, highly recommend this human rights impact assessment of @wikimediafoundation.org AI/ML work by @royapak.bsky.social (w/ @farzdusa.bsky.social and david liu)

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

For all the talk of a Reform government, there seems to be no UK planning to prevent and resist one.

Not so in Germany. This lawyer interviewed by the Robert Bosch Stiftung is systematically identifying legal and governmental levers the AfD could pull, to harden them and all society in advance.

Carr's views as of October 2024:

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One might call it a "Streisand order"

What would be the quantum of damages?
I propose a new remedy: if the police has made an arrest for a malicious communications offence, but doesn't proceed to prosecution, the police should be forced to broadcast the message in question itself, to a mass audience.
Think twice next time...

This is an exceptionally good piece starting with the grifters pushing ‘age verification’ and continuing through to the ongoing collision between the Online Safety Act and reality. Highly recommended.

Every time an academic paper equates online platform with algorithmically curated social media, somewhere a fairy dies. #DutyOfCare #Risk-CreatingFunctionality

We must get online safety right! Lord Clement Jones and I have written a letter to the Secretary of State regarding our concerns about the implementation of the Online Safety Act, calling for a cross-party committee from both Houses of Parliament to ensure effective implementation.

Ein Anti-SLAPP-Gesetz soll vor Einschüchterungsklagen schützen. Der Deutsche @richterbund.bsky.social befürchtet "verheerende Auswirkungen" und will die Streichung zentraler Rechtsfolgen. Sein Vorschlag geht aber auch über den Entwurf hinaus. Von @fewizi.bsky.social

EFF and @article19.bsky.social support @wikimediafoundation.org’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act. Wikipedia is the world’s most trusted and widely used encyclopedia, and the OSA must not be allowed to diminish it and jeopardize the volunteers on which it depends.