John Carr

Apologies. I should have told you my alternative address. It is johncarr1912.bsky.social. The 1912 refers to my birthday. The day and the month, not the year. So this really is goodbye to Elon's propaganda platform.

My last Tweet. At least until Elon Musk doesn't own X any more. Sadly I don't think my decision to leave will force a change in ownership. And PS I won't buy or rent a Tesla either.

We agreed it was too difficult to choose between The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and the Isley Brothers' " This Old Heart of Mine" as the finest examplars of the genre but then also agreed we didn't need to.

Very sad to hear of the death of David Hill, one time Director of Communications for Tony Blair. One of many fond memories I have of David was when we discovered a mutual love of Tamla Motown.

Thank you @viraniarif for championing this bill and standing beside us in our fight to make Canadian children safer. This bill MUST PASS. This country needs to protect our children online.

This is a MUST READ from @johnc1912 reacting to the report “Balancing Privacy and Child Safety in Encrypted Environments” which I can best describe as misinformed, if not totally biased: johncarr.blog

Not a very happy blog today. Some people who ought to have known better plainly didn't. open.substack.com/pub/john1912/p…

@_andyburrows @Ofcom Other than the suggestion the Government are energetically on the case. Which is what you would hope and expect them to be.

100% this. @Ofcom will be judged by how effectively it tackles preventable harm - but its draft codes demonstrate a clear lack of much needed ambition

Excellent story in today's Daily Telegraph putting social media companies on notice that Ofcom will "come down hard" on them from December of this year. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/1…

The Speaker of the House of Commons made a strange decision. wp.me/p16n9D-50V

Delighted to announce I have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, a global leader in online child protection. protectchildren.ca/en/about-us/le…

@RealW7Crossley The John Carr mentioned in this piece is not me so unless there is another person of that name who takes an interest in these issues, this picture is a fake.

What the fuck 🤯🧐 Why did Jill Dando get shot for no reason? Huw Edwards.

“Nick Clegg would do a service to children’s safety by stopping passing the buck and starting to take responsibility for the preventable harm caused by Meta’s choices” theguardian.com/technology/202…

😂😂😂 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Brazil banning X, Australia thinks about bans on smartphones for u-16s. The only wonder is why there hasn't been more of this sooner. Tech's failure to find answers which meet parents' and Governments' anxieties has consequences. Not all of them will be good.

Looking back through the files, we were told by @ICOnews as long ago as Feb 2020 that pornographic websites were in breach of GDPR and the Children's Code for using children's personal data "to suggest or serve up pornographic content". The campaign for this to be enforced continues but no penalties have ever been imposed and no sign of age verification being required by leading sites @NSPCC @barnardos @CEASEorgUK @RhonddaBryant @peterkyle @JCE_IC @johnc1912

Last night I was honoured to join Her Majesty The Queen at a reception to celebrate 70 years of @Book_Aid International.

Survivors of child sexual abuse material are searching for their own material to get it taken down because tech companies are not doing enough to keep it off their platforms. We have concrete, survivor-centric policy recommendations for gov'ts & tech. protectchildren.ca/csam-removal-r…