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19 Nov 2024
Apologies. I should have told you my alternative address. It is johncarr1912.bsky.social. The 1912 refers to my birthday. The day and the month, not the year. So this really is goodbye to Elon's propaganda platform.
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15 Nov 2024
My last Tweet. At least until Elon Musk doesn't own X any more. Sadly I don't think my decision to leave will force a change in ownership. And PS I won't buy or rent a Tesla either.
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13 Nov 2024
Very sad to hear of the death of David Hill, one time Director of Communications for Tony Blair. One of many fond memories I have of David was when we discovered a mutual love of Tamla Motown.
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13 Nov 2024
We agreed it was too difficult to choose between The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and the Isley Brothers' " This Old Heart of Mine" as the finest examplars of the genre but then also agreed we didn't need to.
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9 Nov 2024
RT @LiannaMcDonald: Thank you @viraniarif for championing this bill and standing beside us in our fight to make Canadian children safer. Th…
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30 Oct 2024
RT @LiannaMcDonald: This is a MUST READ from @johnc1912 reacting to the report “Balancing Privacy and Child Safety in Encrypted Environment…
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29 Oct 2024
Not a very happy blog today. Some people who ought to have known better plainly didn't. open.substack.com/pub/john19…
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John Carr retweeted
17 Oct 2024
100% this. @Ofcom will be judged by how effectively it tackles preventable harm - but its draft codes demonstrate a clear lack of much needed ambition
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17 Oct 2024
Excellent story in today's Daily Telegraph putting social media companies on notice that Ofcom will "come down hard" on them from December of this year.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10…
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5 Oct 2024
Delighted to announce I have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a global leader in online child protection.
protectchildren.ca/en/about-…
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John Carr retweeted
13 Sep 2024
“Nick Clegg would do a service to children’s safety by stopping passing the buck and starting to take responsibility for the preventable harm caused by Meta’s choices” theguardian.com/technology/2…
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John Carr retweeted
11 Sep 2024
😂😂😂
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11 Sep 2024
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11 Sep 2024
Brazil banning X, Australia thinks about bans on smartphones for u-16s. The only wonder is why there hasn't been more of this sooner. Tech's failure to find answers which meet parents' and Governments' anxieties has consequences. Not all of them will be good.
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John Carr retweeted
Looking back through the files, we were told by
@ICOnews as long ago as Feb 2020 that pornographic websites were in breach of GDPR and the Children's Code for using children's personal data "to suggest or serve up pornographic content". The campaign for this to be enforced continues but no penalties have ever been imposed and no sign of age verification being required by leading sites
@NSPCC @barnardos @CEASEorgUK @RhonddaBryant @peterkyle @JCE_IC @johnc1912
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John Carr retweeted
5 Sep 2024
Last night I was honoured to join Her Majesty The Queen at a reception to celebrate 70 years of @Book_Aid International.
4 Sep 2024
The Queen joined guests at St James’s Palace, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Book Aid International, a charity in over 25 countries setting up libraries and providing books helping people to discover the power of reading.
#QueenCamilla #RoyalFamily @Book_Aid #royalcameraman
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John Carr retweeted
4 Sep 2024
Survivors of child sexual abuse material are searching for their own material to get it taken down because tech companies are not doing enough to keep it off their platforms.
We have concrete, survivor-centric policy recommendations for gov'ts & tech.
protectchildren.ca/csam-remo…
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31 Aug 2024
Shocked to discover Telegram were not even members of NCMEC or the IWF. So not even making a nod towards rooting out CSAM and protecting children. Or am I shocked? I mean really... bbc.com/news/articles/cy5490…
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29 Aug 2024
Next blog on my conversation with Chat GPT about the internet and its associated technologies and how they support or undermine authoritarian regimes.
wp.me/p16n9D-50r
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