Pat Walshe. Interested in how the processing of data about people, impacts their fundamental rights & freedoms

UK
Joined July 2009
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In case you missed it: #Ofcom are proposing to ban open access to content by Joy Division, Pink Floyd The Wall, Nine Inch Nails, and anything pertaining to goth subculture; also #dysphoria forums and anything discussing body "wrongness.
I wish this were a joke: #Ofcom are going to ban "Being #Goth" under the #OnlineSafetyAct Like: how much music will this wipe off of YouTube? How many dark Ian Curtis jokes will be censored? You don't address depression by burying it. ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/reso…
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Ukraine was once again unable to intercept a single incoming Russian missile overnight. Ukrainian officials blame another delayed shipment of Patriot interceptors.
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And yet @SEPeaceMissions @SteveWitkoff @realDonaldTrump you think the butcher and war criminal Putin is a ‘humanitarian’ - we see you and despise you #SlavaUkraïni
Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them. When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive? From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)
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I, like many, hope that @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @POTUS & the Trump admin are held accountable for the actions & betrayal of Ukraine
A senior Ukrainian commander told me he lost more than $1 million in drones the first night StarShield went out. The next 3 days, speeds remained so unstable they canceled almost all ops striking RU logistics to protect Ukrainian infantry in the kill zone nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world…
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A senior Ukrainian commander told me he lost more than $1 million in drones the first night StarShield went out. The next 3 days, speeds remained so unstable they canceled almost all ops striking RU logistics to protect Ukrainian infantry in the kill zone nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world…
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The UK speech regulator's chief executive, Dame Melanie Dawes, told MPs this week that the regulator won’t be able to recover every Online Safety Act fine. Nine of the eleven fines it has issued remain unpaid. 4chan was fined £520,000 plus £800 a day, and its lawyer replied with a picture of an AI-generated hamster. When Ofcom wrote again, he sent another hamster. In July, Ofcom closed a case against an American forum it had fined £950,000 because it had run out of legal routes. Then it asked the government for more powers. In the same hearing, Dawes said the UK’s under-16 social media ban will be “much more draconian” for Meta than its US settlement. Those were her words. The only way to keep under-16s off a platform is to check the age of every adult on it. reclaimthenet.org/ofcom-stru…
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🚨NEW: The Online Safety Act has been a failure, according to a new report from Ofcom. Ofcom have found "no significant change" in children encountering harmful content since the law came into effect last July. This is despite the signifigant threats to free speech and privacy.
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I wish this were a joke: #Ofcom are going to ban "Being #Goth" under the #OnlineSafetyAct Like: how much music will this wipe off of YouTube? How many dark Ian Curtis jokes will be censored? You don't address depression by burying it. ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/reso…
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🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨This has been an incredibly long and painstaking piece of work, led by @GazTheJourno who spent months looking at maps, an ungodly number of digital tracking data websites and plotting where various Russian ships had been and how that corresponds to the network of undersea cables. It’s also one of the last stories I played a part in during my time at @Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
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Russia has attacked Kyiv with at least 21 ballistic missiles and Ukraine has sent hundreds of drones towards Moscow, hours after Russia said it was ready to resume US-mediated talks with Ukraine next month. President Zelenskyy said two people had been killed in attacks launched by what he called Russian "humanitarians" in reference to US envoy Steve Witkoff praising Vladimir Putin as a "humanitarian" during their talks yesterday.
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As the White House and Elon Musk point fingers at one another over who restricted Starshield to Ukraine, here are some of the real life repercussions for troops on the front lines. From @siobhan_ogrady, @carlottagall and @antontroian nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world…
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Still want to claim that Putin is a ‘humanitarian’ and that ‘ Russia has been fine on Ukraine and hasn't been doing much’ @realDonaldTrump @POTUS ? I await the day you are held accountable. #SlavaUkraini
Three waves of ballistic missiles have been launched at Kyiv by Russian “humanitarians” since yesterday evening. They used 21 missiles. Unfortunately, numerous sites across the city have been hit and damaged: ordinary residential buildings, energy facilities, infrastructure at one of the railway stations and the metro, shopping malls, and businesses. Even a monastery is among the damaged sites. Our emergency services are working at all the affected locations. Twelve of our regions came under Russian attack overnight. In Kyiv and across the regions, 34 people were injured, including five children. As of now, two people have been confirmed killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Almost immediately after another round of talks, Russia launched a pointed attack. This means there has been no real change in its attitude toward everything that is happening. It is important to keep trying to find the right solutions to end this war. But when Russia responds to negotiations with ballistic missiles, real pressure on Russia is needed to bring about different steps – steps toward ending the killing. Stronger air defenses and the rapid delivery of missiles, the ability to destroy ballistic missile launchers, sanctions over the war – all of this must be in place. I am grateful to everyone who sees the situation for what it is and acknowledges the reality. The aggressor deserves to be treated accordingly. Ukraine deserves support. People's lives deserve protection. Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine!
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The next time Nick Clegg in invited onto BBC to pontificate as an independent tech expert…please note that here he is, named in the $27bn New Mexico judgment as one of execs engaged in a systematic cover-up of Facebook’s deceptive consumer practices.
Woah! Go New Mexico. This is a really important message to Silicon Valley tech companies: you are not above the law
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Is this moving the needle @elonmusk ? Do you feel you have blood on your hands? I hope the law holds you and Trump accountable for your decisions and actions in restricting the use of Starlink in Ukraine
Starlink moves the needle
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Russian missiles bombard Kyiv after @SEPeaceMissions Witkoff-Putin talks in which Witkoff praised Putin as a ‘humanitarian’ < shame on Witkoff & Trump ft.com/content/9f0c58d3-1833…
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SpaceX Investor @GerberKawasaki tells me he’s not only “disgusted…from a humanity perspective” by restrictions on Starlink in Ukraine, but also: “…they've given everybody a reason not to use Starlink, that Starlink isn't reliable for national security for anybody but Trump.”
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Ukraine is ready to accept a peace deal in whick Kiev retains 75% of the Ukraine's territory, Zelenskiy told Fox News.
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Musk moved the needle and cost lives in Ukraine. I would never buy any product owned by Musk.
Starlink moves the needle
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