Preston Byrne
@prestonjbyrne
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"Nothing about the Online Safety Act has gone to plan, and not one person responsible has treated that as information."
Every law like this ends the same way. It doesn't work, so it gets bigger.
The Online Safety Act keeps failing upward. Each thing it can't do becomes a reason to give it more to do.
When people route around a bad law, you can take that as feedback or you can take it as a gap in enforcement. Britain has picked.
Nothing about the Online Safety Act has gone to plan, and not one person responsible has treated that as information.
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Every law like this ends the same way. It doesn't work, so it gets bigger.
The Online Safety Act keeps failing upward. Each thing it can't do becomes a reason to give it more to do.
When people route around a bad law, you can take that as feedback or you can take it as a gap in enforcement. Britain has picked.
Nothing about the Online Safety Act has gone to plan, and not one person responsible has treated that as information.
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Sufficiently advanced engineering is indistinguishable from art
Self-censorship on the rise: How legal threats are quietly rewriting UK news
What was on the Radar: A Qualitative Study of Perceived Legal Risks in UK Journalism study by @jingrong
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Latest episode of the @Brave Technologist with the one and only @prestonjbyrne where we discuss free speech, UK overreach and much more.
Many thanks again for making the time, Preston.
Tune in, and share it around! 🦁🫡🔥
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I was on the @brave technologist podcast with @lukemulks talking about the global fight for free speech on the Internet.
Give it a watch!
GPT-5 was the best model in the world a year ago. Today it's inferior to Qwen3.6-27B, an open weight model you can run on your laptop.
Progress is brutal.
World A)
You can only buy frontier intelligence with permission from one of two mega corporations, under state supervision
World B)
Anyone can run frontier intelligence on $15k of hardware slow, $100k faster, $250k quick
Which path, anon?
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We’re building humanitarian missiles and you’re black pilling?
It's because the U.S. First Amendment bar never gives up.
"It is now clear that the Act is not working as well as it should. We want to understand why."
The I4C order that required GitHub to takedown Bitchat source code doesn't just rest on shaky law—it will likely backfire in ways that the Government did not anticipate.
My latest Ex Machina article.
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Man… we’re building something beautiful. Can’t wait to get this into your hands.
The UK's loser-pays system is something that most claimants don't adequately account for before launching litigation there, particularly in cases which are deeply personal and in relation to which the claimant may be emotionally compromised.
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Prince Harry and the other claimants who lost their court case against the Daily Mail publisher have been told the costs incurred by Associated Newspapers for defending the case amount to a staggering £34.5 million 😮😮
One wonders how Harry, Elton John, Sadie Frost, Liz Hurley etc are going to cover that?
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French musician Kavinsky, best known for the song Nightcall featured in the film Drive, has died aged 50.
There is no reciprocity between China and the rest of the world that can compel Chinese developers to adhere to foreign AI regulatory standards.
Particularly if Chinese devs publish open-weight models, there's not a lot the U.S. can do to prevent Americans from using them.
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If Labour were serious about this, they would need to (a) build a lot of nuclear power; (b) repeal the Online Safety Act and other speech codes that drive innovators out; and (c) make it easier to hire/fire.
This is legislatively simple. I suspect there’s zero political will
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The 4chan sovereign immunity thing was a demonstration. The Brazil sovereign immunity thing makes it a pattern.
All of these foreign states deny us the protection of our own laws and then duck behind those same laws the second they need them.
Enough is enough
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“First, age verification laws do not violate the First Amendment.”
> be a kid
> get your first phone
> excited.gif
> want to download the New York Times app and read anonymously
> open App Store
> “parental consent required”
How does that not violate the First Amendment?
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