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
Tom Kendall
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence platform who run the popular Claude chatbot, have consulted with leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches about AI's moral and spiritual development.
Artificial Intelligence
Carlo Tritta was convicted of grooming a 14-year-old girl, and encouraging her to send sexually explicit pictures of herself, on the popular gaming platform Roblox. Tritta, who is 19 years old, has…
Pornography
Artificial Intelligence
Report Remove, which is a service allowing children and young people to report intimate images of themselves online has reported a 34% increase in reports of blackmail attempts compared to last year.…
Pornography
Major wins in regulation of online pornography
Pornography
Scottish Parliament rejects Assisted Suicide Bill
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland urges MSPs to reject assisted suicide ahead of…
Assisted Suicide
CARE for Scotland comment: Royal College of Psychiatrists switches to oppose…
Assisted Suicide
Freedom of Speech
In two landmark trials in the United States, social media platforms have been found liable of causing harm to children. On Tuesday a court in New Mexico found Facebook’s parent company, Meta,…
Pornography
More than 70 MPs and Peers have written to the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, to ask them to “hit pause” on the plans to decriminalise abortions…
Abortion
Girlguiding, who oversees girl guides groups in the UK, has said that transgender children must leave the organisation by September. This follows their announcement in December that it would no longer be…
Transgender
A new report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows that artificial intelligence generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) reached a record high last year with over 8,000 cases identified. The research…
Pornography
The House of Lords have voted to approve the details of the Crime and Policing Bill that will decriminalise abortion up to birth. Peers voted down amendments that would have removed the…
Abortion
Research by the domestic violence charity Refuge has found that artificial intelligence chatbots can aid abusers with stalking and harassing their victims, and with evading investigation by the police.
Artificial Intelligence
PEGI, the pan-European system for age classification of video games has announced that games with paid random items, or ‘loot boxes’, will have a minimum rating of 16-years-old or older. The new…
Gambling