Sadly not just social media. Same is as true in the press (where female chancellors get mocked as Rachel from accounts, or for their outfits) - I'm not sure social media is the source of the problem somehow.

Likewise I think a social media ban is a bad idea (and a disaster for disabled kids) - we need to actually fix social media, which means like a pub some people need to be shown the door and told not to come back

the depressing reality is that a group of (mostly) male, rich, powerful people (MPs and the broader British political class) are now discussing further punishing this group of young people by isolating them from any support they'd otherwise be able to find.

Meanwhile the Online Safety Act is slowly making it more and more difficult for proper social media - circles centred around interests, passions and identities - to exist. Driving more users into all the platforms this young person talks about here - Instagram, TikTok etc.

Once again, politicians have taken a problem, been offered nine hundred and ninety nine solutions and picked option 1000 - make everything worse.

we've got to find a way to make society in general consider women as people rather than as objects.

toot.wales/@HarriettMB/1161191…

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Love how The Guardian could’ve run this exact article about online misogyny any time in the past ten years to make an argument against monetizing sexism and destroying the social fabric between genders. But now that the billionaires want a surveillance bubble, it’s truly their rag’s time to shine!

Ban abusers from public spaces, not their victims. It’s really not that complicated if we put our minds to it, but power loves to pretend.

Thank you for sharing this!

I think this hints that the solution to this problem might not be of a legal nature.

OK, that reads like I'm suggesting something illegal would be the answer. Perhaps a better phrasing would be that there isn't a legislative answer to this question?

I have an easy fix no one wants to talk about:

Punish people who don’t treat women as humans

No buts. Just punish them.

Important article. I highly recommend the "Men who hate women" book by Laura Bates.
It shows how the hate towards women is not accidental, but the result of an highly organized political project that uses it to gain power. No ban on social media would accomplish anything unless that machine is stopped.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Who_…

I wish I could say this article didn't read as I expected, that I was surprised by what it reports.

I remember some boys at school could talk like that. Everyone avoided them. Lads will be lads, we said. This was the nineties.

Decades on, that attitude has not only survived, it's been legitimised on an industrial scale, by algorithms, influencers and people in power.

Preparing my kids for this world, giving them the skills and fortitude needed to traverse it, is a helluva challenge.

15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day.

Disgusting is nowhere near strong enough for the contempt I feel for such stinking ignorant misogynist moronic excuses for male humans that write such crap.

I can sadly also assure only the media has changed not the content. When I went to school it was big mouth bragger words or scribbled on paper.

It is truly awful online for anyone with a remotely feminine profile

I've had a lot of crap online over the years & I'm not a teen & never shared photos or anything personal

The problem with bans for under 16s is that this stuff still exists for everyone & delaying exposure to it until 16 doesn't solve the problem

The problem is govts won't make platforms stop feeding & promoting toxic content

Many platforms have removed their harassment protections

The article is essential reading

@benjamineskola @osma
To be clear, while this article is focused on teen girls, this is the stuff every minority sees on social media as well.

I'm trans. I have to actually relegate myself to only small corners of the internet because everywhere else feels so unsafe.

Meta no longer considers slurs and harassment of trans people as "against their policies." So any Meta platform is insufferable for me now.

Twitter actually encourages harassment of trans people and made the word "cis" a bannable offense.

And if I stray too far from the queer spaces of Reddit, I'll get called a man and doxxed pretty quickly.

I've been doxxed while using Insta in the past simply for existing as a trans person.

But the algorithm is the problem here. It's force feeding hate to kids and teaching them that it's good to hate. Monetizing hate is the issue and is what should be regulated.

Some implications from the research in today's story:

"Consider the following scenario, in which the mere act of allowing someone to use your Wi-Fi network could lead to a Kimwolf botnet infection. In this example, a friend or family member comes to stay with you for a few days, and you grant them access to your Wi-Fi without knowing that their mobile phone is infected with an app that turns the device into a residential proxy node. At that point, your home’s public IP address will show up for rent at the website of some residential proxy provider."

"Miscreants like those behind Kimwolf then use residential proxy services online to access that proxy node on your IP, tunnel back through it and into your local area network (LAN), and automatically scan the internal network for devices with Android Debug Bridge mode turned on."

"By the time your guest has packed up their things, said their goodbyes and disconnected from your Wi-Fi, you now have two devices on your local network — a digital photo frame and an unsanctioned Android TV box — that are infected with Kimwolf. You may have never intended for these devices to be exposed to the larger Internet, and yet there you are."

"Here’s another possible nightmare scenario: Attackers use their access to proxy networks to modify your Internet router’s settings so that it relies on malicious DNS servers controlled by the attackers — allowing them to control where your Web browser goes when it requests a website. Think that’s far-fetched? Recall the DNSChanger malware from 2012 that infected more than a half-million routers with search-hijacking malware, and ultimately spawned an entire security industry working group focused on containing and eradicating it."

This is one of the reasons I keep all the IoT/customer surveillance devices on their own network and block access from that network to other internal spaces It's not a perfect and doesn't prevent that network from becoming a cesspool, but at least it isolates the blast radius.

I do periodic checks of the outbound traffic from that network looking for suspicious activity but it's tough given how chatty even legitimate boxes are.

#Security

Perhaps a stupid question…

How much does this rely on the internal network being 192.168.0.x?

(I could not tell from the article as to whether that was an example… or specifically how it worked)

good piece on the kimwolf botnet, but i disagree with the solutions (buy name brands, check Synthient for compromise, use guest wifi). these treat symptoms, not causes. there will inevitably be another kimwolf botnet b/c of industry malpractice

the issue is lack of regulation and audits for hw/sw + anti-circumvention laws that block independent shops from flashing custom fw: media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-ame…

projs like pmOS, lineageos, and mobian help users reclaim control of their hw

whenever I do network threat modelling, lateral movement has been on the top spot for a long time for me. Whenever I consult IT departments I always tell them:

Always assume your whole network being totally exposed to the Internet, that there are no edge firewalls to filter traffic. If you design your network to be resilient under that assumption, you're 90% there.

The only things here on LAN are PCs (mostly Linux), Tablets and Phones. Android is an issue, as are apps.
No BD player, home theatre or TV gets a WiFI password or cable. Google & Vendors not trustworthy on Privacy, apart from security issues.
Also simply won't buy gadget / device that needs Internet to work, like doorbell, security, heating, etc.

Why do Routers have a uPNP at all? It's evil. No router ever deployed on default settings.

this is probably my favorite video of Veronica's - even if it's not technically a tutorial. I have already learned so much from her. She speaks so eloquently about the erosion of critical thinking brought forward by algorithmic media.

I was already super motivated to set up Jellyfin... now I'm checking out websites about garage sales in my area, so I can enlarge my music and DVD collection 😊​

@vkc

@vkc

and what do i give tomorrow at @haufegroup ?

a "digital literacy course" ;)

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #Selfhosting #resist #MediaLiteracy