Open Rights Group
A global movement to #stopKillingInternet is coming.
Bans will wall off the open Internet. Kids locked out and adults pushed through digital ID checks.
Connection and access to information is being swept away for a policy that leaves platforms free to continue promoting harmful content for profit.
Find out more ➡️ https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.com/
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol #kierstarmer
Open Rights Group
The UK social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms.
Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads.
Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.
Read our response ⬇️
#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship
Open Rights Group
The UK's love affair with Big Tech is toxic ☢️
A small bunch of US firms have captured our critical systems from the NHS to defence.
We need a #DigitalSovereignty strategy to secure independence and economic growth with open source.
ORG's @jim explains ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/8x4qi2BaEpGDLDvfwf8wj6
Write to your MP by 16 June to support the amendment to the #CybersecurityBill ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-end-big-tech-rip/?mtm_campaign=big-tech-rip-off&mtm_source=mastodon
#BigTechRipOff #techsovereignty #bigtech #opensource #palantir #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
How to fix Ripped Off Britain?
🔴 BOOT: Palantir and Big Tech grifters.
🟢 TOOT: Digital Sovereignty and open source.
Tell your MP to stop forking out to a handful of US companies that over-charge and under-deliver. Invest in open source and put the UK in charge instead.
Act now to back an amendment in the Cybersecurity Bill ➡️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp-end-big-tech-rip/?mtm_campaign=big-tech-rip-off&mtm_source=mastodon
#digitalsovereignty #techsovereignty #bigtech #opensource #palantir #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
The government's aim to block nude images would take away control over our devices.
ORG's @JamesBaker explains that this is about mandating for all of us as adults to go through ID checks simply to unlock the actual use of our phone.
Despite there existing ways for parents to protect kids already.
https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/2xsCd8sjXZQYgy17cu8phs
Open Rights Group
Scanning tech would turn every phone into a surveillance device ⚠️
UK Ministers may claim this is to stop children sharing intimate images.
But it means forcing every adult through a digital ID checkpoint and scanning all private images by default.
Once the infrastructure exists, it will be expanded.
It would award every future government and every tyranny across the globe a mechanism to pre-censor everything anyone does with their phone.
Open Rights Group
We're taking on Trolling©️
Image matching tools are being used to fire off automated copyright infringement notices. Threatened with legal action, people are being coerced into paying up.
But there are legitimate defences that this tech fails to check and completely fail to mention.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-rise-of-copyright-trolling/
Open Rights Group
PicRights has threatened ORG with legal action over a screenshot of an online ad in our targeted advertising report.
We deny the allegation of copyright infringement.
The reproduction of the photo used in this ad falls under fair dealing for criticism and review.
Read our letter ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2026/05/Letter_to_PicRights.pdf
#copyright #intellectualproperty #trolling #legal #picrights
Open Rights Group
Companies like PicRights don't represent the copyright holder directly.
Rather they've bought a licence to chase people for payment through bullying or unfounded requests.
The legal system should protect people, but currently there's no means to fine such companies or otherwise stop this activity.
Open Rights Group
ORG is aware of at least one other organisation that has recently received a similar speculative invoice.
We're asking for other charities and groups that have been affected to get in touch.
If you are a lawyer and willing to help with disputes, please contact us and we'll put you in touch.
Open Rights Group
Palantir crawls further under the skin of the UK State ⚠️
Yet another contract has been awarded to the spytech firm with links to ICE and war crimes in Gaza. This time covering… firearms, explosives and poison 💀
We need to move away from controversial US firms and back Digital Sovereignty.
Open Rights Group
MPs want Palantir OUT of the NHS and the UK public sector!
ORG has long warned about our dependency on Big Tech – from vendor lock-in to security risks from foreign-owned companies.
Chi Onwurah MP has echoed our call for Digital Sovereignty to ensure we have control over our critical infrastructure.
Read more ⬇️
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #nhs #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
We must change the system so that companies like Palantir don’t get their hands on UK public services.
Hitching our wagon to proprietary systems makes it punitive to change providers and leaves us vulnerable to foreign interference.
If we back open source, everything from the NHS to defence is more secure.
Sign the petition ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
#digitalsovereignty #palantir #nhs #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
It's right that Palantir, a firm powering ICE and the war in Gaza, is blocked from the Met Police. BUT we must go further.
We must ban so-called crime-predicting tools, "which claim to predict who will commit crimes and where. These systems undermine the presumption of innocence."
🗣️ ORG's Sarah Lasoye.
https://metro.co.uk/2026/05/28/inside-met-polices-750-million-tech-force-battle-use-ai-28524160/
#precrime #palantir #metpolice #police #AI #predictivepolicing #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
The UK needs to break the cycle of dependency on Big Tech ⛓️💥
Proprietary systems, secret code and punishing exit fees mean we're out of pocket and out of control.
The legacy is one of failure over strategic investment. That's why we need Digital Sovereignty now.
ORG's @jim explains.
Watch now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/mSyuUv2AtZvx3ieFLLgvAE
Open Rights Group
£500 million a year 💸
That's how much the Competition and Markets Authority says the UK is being OVERCHARGED in the cloud market alone.
There's a better way: open source 🌱
Public code for public money. Built for the public. Owned by the public. Shared, improved and reused.
Sign the petition ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty
Open Rights Group
Before the online safety consultation even ended, the UK government indicated that new restrictions are on the way.
Pushing for a social media ban ignores its inherent fault – it doesn't work.
ORG's @JamesBaker explains how people will find workarounds and what's a better way to address online harms.
Watch now ➡️ https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/9XiG4Vru3pswk5kNbrJzRZ
#onlinesafety #ageverification #socialmediaban #interoperability #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
🚨 LAST CHANCE 🚨
The UK government's online safety consultation closes TODAY.
We must push back against more and more online ID checks. Making every adult hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers is itself UNSAFE.
Let's take on Big Tech business models instead!
Have your say ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #bigtech #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
Access to information shouldn't be ransomed for our personal data.
We’ve gone from ID checks for porn to potentially age-gating social media, livestreams, websites and more.
Safety doesn't come from a surveillance-based Internet 🚫
Respond to the UK consultation by 26 May ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
#onlinesafety #ageverification #privacy #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol
Open Rights Group
4 DAYS LEFT ⏰️
There's not much time left to push back on the expansion of online ID checks across yet more of the Internet.
The only way to block young people is to run checks on everyone. The sheer amount of sensitive data that represents is 🤯
Have your say in the UK consultation by 26 May ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
#onlinesafety #privacy #ageverification #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol
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