Graham Smith
@cyberleagle
IT and internet lawyer. Sceptical tech enthusiast. Reposts and links are not endorsements. All views my own. No posts are legal advice. www.cyberleagle.com
Continuing the pastime of creating GenAI versions of past Cyberleagle blogposts. Today, from 2012, Pre-Raphaelite Regulatory Convergence. www.cyberleagle.com/2012/01/regu...
He of all people has reason to remember, even if the rest of us had forgotten! www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
And the first big Ministerial decision will be whether to drop a comma on the logo.
As the only Cyberleagle blogpost to have been cited in a CJEU Advocate General Opinion, I think this deserves the GenAI treatment. www.cyberleagle.com/2017/05/time...
If you missed my piece 5 years ago on risk of erosion of the ECD liability shields post-Brexit, here is a quick visual recap. (GenAI alert…) www.cyberleagle.com/2021/02/corr...
TL;DR (as portrayed in Hieronymus Bosch’s less well known work, A Garden of Regulatory Delights).
And finally for today, the Bayeux Tapestry version of the Transatlantic Free Speech Wars. www.cyberleagle.com/2026/02/extr...
No doubt the kids will be overjoyed to hear that overnight social media curfews are to be switched off by default. Has no-one in government heard of the Oxford comma?
Brace, brace. #OnlineSafetyAct committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
Here you go. Of course a true southerner assumes that it’s near Watford, Herts not Watford, Northants.
“…presents a seriously harmful threat to Public Safety at an appropriate threshold that preserves individual’s freedom of expression and free speech.” I am irresistibly reminded of this. www.cyberleagle.com/2020/05/a-ta...
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Ofcom’s identification of risk-creating features is heavily weighted towards children. www.cyberleagle.com/2026/02/safe...
Product safety makes for a nice headline, but… www.cyberleagle.com/2024/12/safe...
History repeating itself. The Online Safety Bill got caught up in a Conservative leadership contest. Yet-to-be announced children’s policies could suffer the same fate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I had forgotten (if I ever knew) that this idea came from Ofcom last year. www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...
And as Cory Doctorow famously had it in his ‘Coming War on General Computation’. opentranscripts.org/transcript/coming-war-general-computation/
What the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers Recommendation on Online Safety has to say about this. search.coe.int/cm#%7B%2522C...
“The main news, however, is set to be a range of measures to force private social media companies to ‘give prominence’ to public service content.” Compelled speech? Art 10 ECHR, anyone? order-order.com/2026/06/19/e...