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Craig Walmsley

@craigwalmsley.bsky.social

Medium height, medium build, brown hair, grey eyes. Knows way too much about John Locke (1632-1704). And Prince (God I miss Prince).

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D.Moore@d-moore.bsky.social · 4w ago

Can we all just remember when Farage starts whining ‘everyone is out to get me’ that Jo Cox was murdered immediately after he unveiled his breaking point poster & he has caused more division, more hurt & more national harm than any other politician in the last few decades.

Craig Walmsley@craigwalmsley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I know someone who works at Ofcom and two years ago put to them in very blunt terms that the U.K. is at war and X is a vector for subversion and has been for at least a decade and needs to be banned. Their response was effectively “🤷‍♂️“. Unfathomable complacency.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A lot of us joked last week that, amid rampant misinformation and incitement spreading like wildfire on platforms like X surrounding the Belfast riots, regulator Ofcom would probably write a strongly worded letter. Umm...I just realised that's exactly what they did. www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...

Open letter to UK online service providers regarding civil unrest in Belfast Published: 10 June 2026 Ofcom has today written to online service providers operating in the UK about the increased risk of their platforms being used to stir up hatred, provoke violence and commit other offences under UK law, in the context of recent civil unrest in Belfast. Providers have duties under the UK’s Online Safety Act to protect people in the UK from illegal content, and Ofcom’s job is to make sure sites and apps have appropriate measures in place to comply with these duties, rather than tell platforms which specific posts or accounts to take down. Here is the letter in full: To online service providers operating in the United Kingdom, Following a serious knife attack that took place in Belfast on Monday night, we have seen civil unrest in the city, some of which appears to have been incited online. This has included racially motivated incidents of violence, arson attacks on homes and vehicles, and attacks against police. In this context, we are reminding online service providers of their duties under the UK’s Online Safety Act 2023 to assess and mitigate the risks of illegal activity occurring on their sites and apps. This can include content amounting to offences of stirring up hatred or provoking violence. Taking action during a crisis We are monitoring the situation in Northern Ireland closely, including the role of content hosted on regulated services. We are already contacting individual providers where we believe there are specific risks around the presence of illegal content relating to the civil unrest. Previous crises have shown how a sudden increase in the amount of illegal content circulating online can manifest in hate crime and violence in the real world. Such crises are exceptional, and this means that online service providers’ usual content moderation systems and processes may not be sufficient in such circumstances. This is why it is important that se…