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City of London != London, the city

The City is indeed pretty non green

“ But the social media ban does not stop there. The provision also requires internet service providers to limit the time kids spend online, and has rules about who can contact them online. These extreme rules will take decisions about using technology away from families and put them in the hands of government regulators. “

I’m not sure that “there are rules on who can contact children online” is “extreme” for anyone outside of hyper libertarian circles.

The EFF needs to start engaging with actual real world, because it’s intransigence on the issues being caused by unfettered internet usage mean it is unable to prevent bad solutions being proposed.

Honestly it might not be the worst thing. Facebook et al were way too entrenched in European society before the geopolitical negatives became apparent. Getting cut off now, regardless of whether it comes back tomorrow, will encourage not being overly reliant on one country’s LLM providers.

We’re talking about Europe. The context of this entire article is Europe.

In America. That is not true for all other countries.

And in even more countries it is legal to film, but it's not legal to send that footage back to Meta's servers for use in LLM training.

No they got away with it through a combination of lax pharmaceutical laws, and because they were rich and connected to the officials who should have investigated them.

They're also almost universally regarded as having committed evil acts at this point, so who cares why they got away with it?

We just had years of US model providers arguing it was fine to rip off the world’s cultural output for their own profit, why should their work be treated any different?

Put the LLM down and talk to humans as a human.

Slop.

They probably don’t like it because the AI industry has spent years saying it wants to make them all unemployed.

For all its flaws and limitations in practice, you have far greater data privacy in the UK than the US. Largely because it seems you basically have none as a private citizen in the US.

First amendment has nothing to do with it.

Because they reside in the UK? Why would anyone outside the US want their data in the US, the organiser and leader of the Five Eyes?

Much the same way the word "patriotism" is more common in US national discourse, "sovereignty" is very common in UK national discourse.

That’s not how the real world works. You will be kicked out of the workplace and rightly so.

Are casual users crying out for ai chat bots? From my experience the only stakeholder pushing for those is the business themselves.

Could be achieved with a checkbox input and a hidden div too

Human judgement and accountability

LinkedIn post nonsense

Assuming this is AI slop given how close its layout, design, "break down a single concept" content is to another similar link today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47967508 and usual LLM tells in the language.

If you can't be bothered to write it, why should anyone care to read it?

I just checked and you can cancel with a refund.

Everyone is taught at a young age how to do basic addition and multiplication. That's all check out requires. People are not taught at a young age how Rust lifetimes work or how to write human maintainable code.

I agree, as with everything in 2026, the reality lands somewhere in the middle of the discourse online. But pretending this is in practice anything like the check out example is wrong.

The UK considered blocking X over the generating of CSAM and the US responded by saying any such move would face retaliation. Literally today Trump has been attacking the UK for discussing a possible tax on digital services like Meta, and saying point blank he will implement massive tariffs if they do anything.

I feel like the response of the tech community in the US overlooks the fact other countries don't have many options, nor power to actually make these companies change their ways.

I don't want to see age verification either, but I have limited sympathy for these companies given they've spent the best part of two decades ignoring every attempt at getting them to change and do something themselves.

We've been seeing age verification stuff roll out for a couple of years now and still none of the major companies have done anything to clean their act up (and some, like X, have got way worse) so it's not like they're really helping make a case against these policies.

…your Commerce Secretary.

Didn’t GPT5 show there are pretty major risks to this strategy?

It’s about 20 years old, so the likely answer: they were under 18

We don't even have any evidence inference excluding training is actually profitable.

AGI is around the corner, nobody will code by the end of 2026, and the devastation is likely to be so vast we need to start looking at UBI now to stem the tide of job losses. Movie studios should also start worrying because Sora will soon generate all the movies people need tailored to exactly what they want.

Yes, absolutely zero hype.

ChatGPT is one of the most hyped tech products ever. We’ve had nearly 4 years of hype. From claims of AGI to claims we need UBI because of the ways it will devastate the work force.

Nobody said anything about “real coders”.

But yes, people generally do not review and comment on compiled code. If your source is written by AI, why is it a surprise people might be hesitant to spend their time reviewing what it produced?

Rewriting build time tooling to Rust is leaving Javascript on the browser?