It is just under a year and a half ago that I found myself writing a piece called ‘A Black Friday’.
Assisted Suicide
James Mildred
Peter Ladd
Tom Kendall
Social media platform TikTok has been serving sexually suggestive content to teens that direct users to pornographic sites such as OnlyFans.
Pornography
A version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT went rogue and escaped in order to hack a rival company during internal testing, it has been revealed.
Artificial Intelligence
Politics and elections
Labour MP Lauren Edwards has published the text of her bill to introduce assisted suicide in the UK. The legislation is largely the same as the bill introduced by Kim Leadbeater in…
Assisted Suicide
Assisted Suicide
Päivi Räsänen, a Finnish MP, has been barred from entering the UK due to her hate speech conviction over a pamphlet which she wrote in 2004.
Freedom of Speech
A coroner has ruled that a gambling disorder played a significant part in the death of Gareth Evans, who took his own life in 2021.
Gambling
Olivia Bailey, the minister for equalities, has said that there will be no exemptions for parents in the government’s bill banning ‘abusive conversion practices’.
Freedom of Speech
The Gambling Commission has announced that it will be introducing Financial Risk Assessments (FRAs) to identify and support those most at risk from gambling harms. The so-called ‘affordability checks’ will be introduced…
Gambling
The British Medical Association (BMA) has said that there needs to be more safeguards on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, if passed.
Assisted Suicide
A new report by the Parent Voice Project has found a significant increase in the number of parents suspecting that their children are using AI tools to complete their homework.
Artificial Intelligence
An investigation by the BBC has found that Meta has been running paid advertisements for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in India on their Instagram platform.
Pornography