"We are planning to do a longer blog post on our regulatory compliance in the near future. If there is anything in particular you would like to see answered by that please feel free to drop us an email at legal@matrix.org."
@matrix, 2025
https://matrix.org/blog/2025/07/terms-update/
Why did you not move your flag to a jurisdiction which has no plans to enact discriminatory laws like the UK Online Safety Act?
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Update: This piece is getting some interesting pushback from parents who think I'm being alarmist about AI toys over on my other social platforms.
On the other side of that, I'm hearing so many people taking the usual "AI BAAAAD" stance, some of those people thinking I agree with them simply because I took a hardliner stance in this post.
For clarification: I'm not anti-AI. I use these tools daily for my research and writing as well as accessibility aids to offset some of the disadvantages I face due to my blindness. I study AI from the computer scientist perspective and am studying to be an elementary teacher precisely because I see AI's educational potential. I'm not even entirely against the idea of AI companionship, if it's framed right.
What actually bothers me is the business model. When Moxie robots suddenly "died" last year because the company went under, kids had to grieve their artificial friend. Parents got a scripted letter to explain why their $799 companion stopped talking which provided little comfort to kids who experienced digital abandonment. Trust me, the videos I've seen of kids crying because their beloved friend unexpectedly died over night is truly heartbreaking.
That's no glitch, that's what happens when you outsource childhood relationships to venture capital that only cares about investment returns.
The real question isn't whether AI toys are inherently bad. It's whether we're okay with corporations experimenting on our kids' emotional development while claiming it's "age-appropriate play."
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kaylielfox/p/the-toys-are-listening?r=2pewuq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
#AIToys #ChildPrivacy #ChildDevelopment #DigitalRights #TechEthics #SurveillanceCapitalism #COPPA #DataPrivacy #ChildSafety #TechRegulation #DigitalLiteracy #ParentingInTheDigitalAge #EdTech #CorporateAccountability #TechCriticism #EthicalTech
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Demand for Tesla’s EVs has slowed amid rising competition and criticism of its controversial CEO. Analysts say robotaxis could be key to sustaining Tesla’s market valuation. With more Autopilot lawsuits pending, the Florida ruling adds legal pressure and may set a precedent. Regulatory delays could further stall Tesla’s efforts to scale autonomous services.
#AutonomousVehicles #AI #TechRegulation #Mobility #TeslaLitigation
ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/?utm_source=feed #ChatGPT #tech #AI #AIRegulation #TechRegulation #murder #selfharm #devilworship
Shareholders have filed an $8 billion suit claiming deceptive user data handling by Mark Zuckerberg and Meta, potentially reshaping social media accountability standards
Anthropic commits to EU AI Code of Practice compliance: Leading AI company announces intention to sign European regulatory framework on July 21, 2025. https://ppc.land/anthropic-commits-to-eu-ai-code-of-practice-compliance/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #EULaw #TechRegulation #Innovation
Defining AI is a regulatory whac-a-mole.
Every time policymakers pin down what AI is, companies pivot to avoid scrutiny. Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian explains why this makes accountability so hard.
Listen here: https://youtu.be/GQiFnpK7Wyo
"The answer 'we have to fix capitalism' doesn't help. It might be true, but it doesn't help.
So here's where I think there are some ... interventions that would require a change in political will to enable. But there's very little stopping them other than a lack of political will, which is largely a result of capture of political power by economic interests."
#ShannonVallor, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-value-free-tech
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Microsoft is updating Windows for EEA users to comply with the DMA, including changes so Edge won’t prompt users to set it as default unless they open the browser. #Microsoft #Windows #DMA #Edge #EEA #TechRegulation #BrowserChoice #TechNews
Lest we forget, because it needs to be a priority for a post-NatACT government;
"A tax on tech revenue would have been one way of disincentivising techbro money-laundering. But National has cancelled it in order to grovel to Trump. But in the process, they've shown us a truth they'd rather deny: when they claim 'there is no money', it is a choice, and a lie."
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/05/national-grovels-to-trump.html
Colin Peacock did a good segment on the bill proposed by National MP Catherine Wedd, aping the Australian government's attempt to ban under-16s from social media (with the head-scratching exemption for YouTub);
https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=3ad7cf4e-6f76-4fcc-8d74-de5fc080f878
Like all such laws, it would require anyone using social media to identify themselves to service hosts, so they can verify age. Corporate DataFarmers would *love* to have this information.
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China's Douyin 
, #TikTok's counterpart, limits teens to 40 mins/day & mandates real-name IDs! ByteDance aims to curb addiction but sparks privacy debates 
. Stricter than TikTok's 60-min limit for U.S. teens. What’s the trade-off? 
#TechRegulation #PrivacyMatters #SocialMedia #oldnewz
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069527/china-tiktok-douyin-teens-privacy/
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@norightturnnz
> Will Labour take on the oligarchs?
I very much hope so, but David Parker is dead wrong when he says;
"... we in the west have made a fundamental error in providing what is in effect an exclusion of liability for third party content."
I suggest reading some of the pieces Mike Masnick has published in defence of #Section230, the US equivalent of the limited liability for third-party content that Parker proposes to abolish;
"... the biggest industries in the world are footloose, they can go wherever they like, in a millisecond, and that's why you have difficulty taxing them. But they still want to sell their products on your market ... So controlling the tech moguls is going to be first, biggest challenge. And this is what Trump is going to try, bully Europeans [into] not controlling the tech moguls."
#FransTimmermans, Leader of Dutch Labour party, 2025
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/02/122-how-europe-can-survive-trump-frans-timmermans/
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After a two-day AI summit in Paris, the U.S. and the U.K. refused to sign an agreement created to unite leaders and tech experts around the world on AI regulation. U.S. Vice President JD Vance said too many restrictions could "kill a transformative industry," but the U.K.'s reasoning was slightly different.
Android Authority details all the ways Android, Search and Chrome have changed for people living in the EU as tech companies prepare for Europe's Digital Markets Act this week.
https://flip.it/cOlyHr
"We can reverse the enshittification of the internet. We can halt the creeping enshittification of every digital device.
We can build a better, enshittification-resistant digital nervous system, one that is fit to coordinate the mass movements we will need to fight fascism, end genocide, and save our planet and our species."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel
