Public Policy Director - Data Economy and Emerging Tech at Meta India. Co-founder of cis-india.org, mahiti.org and Students for Peace. sunilabraham.in

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🚨 Temporary restriction of Telegram access in India until 22 June 2026 under Section 69A of the IT Act, 2000. Disabling Telegram’s message-editing feature in India until 30 June 2026 to prevent manipulation of old messages and fabrication of false “paper leak” evidence.
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BREAKING: Telegram will be blocked in India till June 22 at the request of the National Testing Agency.
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What if I don't want my social media to be a 'safe and healthy environment'? What if I want to see everything, warts and all, with options for sensitive users and children to control their content access. Don't I have a right to choose too?
A ban on social media for under-16s is the right step to protect young people and one I’ve called for. But bans only treat the symptom, not the problem. Social media companies need to re-imagine their platforms so they can offer a safe and healthy environment for all users, where restricting access wouldn’t be necessary. There’s nothing inevitable about algorithms which feed us a diet of dangerous content. Londoners deserve platforms which prioritise people, not just profit.
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We brought quote to life in this video

Samuel Pepys describes the 17th Century equivalent of smartphone addiction. (Incidentally the watch cost ÂŁ14).
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Samuel Pepys describes the 17th Century equivalent of smartphone addiction. (Incidentally the watch cost ÂŁ14).
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When I was 14, social media was my escape hatch from mediocrity. I did not relate to anyone at school. Online, I found people on the other side of the world who thought the way I did. That changed my life. It is how I ended up working with one of Silicon Valley’s most respected investors and some of the smartest engineers in the world. It is how I started a podcast and got into rooms school would never have opened for me. The UK wants to close that door for every weird, ambitious, hyper online 14-year-old. They say it is “for safety”. But there is a much greater danger in being trapped inside schools, consuming state-mandated narratives, and waiting for permission from people whose entire worldview is obedience. The internet lets kids escape the factory before the factory stamps them into shape. It lets them find mentors, employers, collaborators, friends, customers, and ideas no school would ever give them. It lets them discover that the classroom is not the world, and the adults around them are not the ceiling. A social media ban for under-16s protects the enforcement regime, not the child. Age verification is KYC with a child-safety sticker on it. First they ask if you are old enough. Then they ask who you are. Then the anonymous internet is gone. The excuse is children. The prize is obedience. Fight back, Britain.
We are banning social media access for under 16s. These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life. I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect: gov.uk/government/pub… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46…
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TV covering the comic book panic feels very similar…

Everything about this clip is brilliant.
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Jun 15
Can banning children from social media really keep them safe online? Parents are right to worry. The risks are real. But age limits alone won’t fix a problem that’s built into the way many digital platforms operate. Here’s what needs to change.
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Sunil Abraham retweeted
Don’t take it from me. Take it from one of the internet’s greatest pioneers @jimmy_wales
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The best of SF's culture and community is exemplified by @sterngrovefest. Yesterday @pcrcdelhi opened it. A band from Delhi where I grew up and one I first heard in a remote college town in India at @bitspilaniindia in 2015. Didn't see that one coming.
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I was thinking today about this framework by @AdamThierer not because of AI policy, but because of social media policy (the UK ban). I'm a huge believer in adaptation & resiliency, use parental controls, and teach my daughter digital literacy. It's my role, not the government's.
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Il n'y a pas "un VPN" à bloquer. Vous louez un serveur à 5 euros par mois chez Hetzner, DigitalOcean ou AWS, vous installez WireGuard ou OpenVPN en trois commandes, et vous avez votre propre VPN sur une IP que personne n'a sur sa liste de blocage. Un gamin de 16 ans fait ça pendant la page de pub.
"Interdire les VPN", c'est ne rien comprendre à ce qu'est un VPN. Un VPN, ce n'est pas un produit, c'est un principe. Un tunnel chiffré entre votre machine et un serveur que vous choisissez. Votre trafic ressort avec l'adresse de ce serveur, point final. C'est de la cryptographie et du routage, rien d'autre. Or ce tunnel chiffré, c'est exactement la même brique technique que le HTTPS de votre banque, le SSH de n'importe quel développeur, le réseau interne de n'importe quelle entreprise. Le chiffrement et le tunneling, ce n'est pas "le truc des hackers", c'est le socle de l'internet moderne. Donc "interdire les VPN", au sens littéral, ça veut dire interdire les tunnels chiffrés. Et interdire les tunnels chiffrés, c'est casser le e-commerce, la banque en ligne, le télétravail, bref tout ce qui fait qu'internet fonctionne. Vous ne pouvez pas tuer l'un sans tuer l'autre. Maintenant le concret, celui qui fait que c'est déjà perdu. Il n'y a pas "un VPN" à bloquer. Vous louez un serveur à 5 euros par mois chez Hetzner, DigitalOcean ou AWS, vous installez WireGuard ou OpenVPN en trois commandes, et vous avez votre propre VPN sur une IP que personne n'a sur sa liste de blocage. Un gamin de 16 ans fait ça pendant la page de pub. Vous pouvez bloquer les IP des fournisseurs commerciaux connus ? Ça ne change rien à l'auto-hébergé. Pour aller plus loin, il vous faut un pare-feu national avec inspection profonde des paquets et liste blanche de protocoles. Autrement dit la Chine, l'Iran, un appareil de surveillance de masse. Et même ça fuit en permanence (Shadowsocks, V2Ray, protocoles obfusqués qui imitent du trafic HTTPS classique). Le choix réel est donc binaire. Soit votre interdiction est du théâtre, contournée en 48 heures. Soit vous construisez une Grande Muraille numérique, et même Pékin n'arrive pas à la fermer complètement. Le fond du problème, c'est que ces gens légifèrent contre l'arithmétique. On ne vote pas une loi contre les mathématiques. Le tunnel chiffré existera tant que le chiffrement existera, et le chiffrement existera tant qu'internet existera. Des bureaucrates qui n'ont jamais écrit une ligne de code de leur vie décident d'interdire une primitive cryptographique qu'ils ne savent même pas définir. Ils ont déjà perdu. C'est le poulet sans tête : ça continue de courir, mais la décision est déjà tombée.
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Banning social media for teenagers only puts them in greater danger. Teens are forced to switch to VPNs — and unlock far worse illegal content. We’ve seen this before. When the Russian government banned Telegram, 95% of Russian teenagers kept using it. They just moved to VPNs.
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Sunil Abraham retweeted
CADA just dropped. Defines AI sovereignty through cloud and data centres. Local AI is invisible in 100 pages. @ClementDelangue thoughts? Help us get this on the radar?
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Big Brother Watch's Silkie Carlo warns that Keir Starmer's social media ban is "sleepwalking" Britain into a total surveillance state. "We will become one of the first democracies in the world to require IDs to access the internet." @JuliaHB1 | @silkiecarlo
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The first Tibetan Freedom Concert took place 30 years ago today
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Big day for all of us at Sarvam. I want to start by thanking my team for shouldering this mission with immense belief, urgency, and care. Reflecting on the last few years of the founding journey, my conviction has only deepened: - AI will be far more consequential than most of us realize even today - The value loops of this new world cannot be owned by a couple of companies - Country of India scale cannot rent intelligence. We have to build it ourselves We are going to push hard across every layer of the company, but the thing that excites me most right now is our shot at building frontier-class AI systems from India. We are assembling the team, the compute, and the deployment engine to make this happen. I also want to thank our new investors. HCLTech’s partnership opens joint opportunities to bring our research and platform to many of HCLTech’s clients - this is also a unique template to bring together India’s strengths. BVP brings to the team the rare combination of being at the forefront of India's biggest tech shifts for the past two decades while globally having partnered with category defining enterprise AI companies. Onwards
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We're thrilled to announce that we have raised $234M in the first close of our $300M Series B at a $1.5B valuation. @HCLTech and @BessemerVP have joined us in this round, alongside continued support from @khoslaventures and @peakxvpartners For countries and companies, sovereign control on the AI stack is no longer an optionality. Sarvam will be the partner of choice for this aspiration. The capital allows us to accelerate our momentum towards this full stack of models, compute, and deployments. A huge thank you to our customers, partners, investors, and the Sarvam team for your trust and belief in what we are building. We’re just getting started. Read more: sarvam.ai/announcing-series-…
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The Commission: Bill C-34’s super-regulator decides how dozens of rules are implemented, including age verification, social media ban exemptions, and harmful content removal requirements. Full investigative power and potential one person will decide it all x.com/mgeist/status/20665288…
The kids’ social media ban gets the headlines, but my post argues Bill C-34’s most consequential element may be the Commission, a super-regulator overseeing the system with its own rules of evidence, potentially secret hearings, and wide-ranging powers. michaelgeist.ca/2026/06/thec…
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In 1908 the Lancet called for an 18 age limit on reading in bed for U.K. children.
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The only way to restore that trust is to return to the ideals that helped build American prosperity. A legal regime that is democratically created, transparent, fairly applied with due process, and based upon evidence. Please read the letter at freefable.org
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