Today is Online Safety Day because the terrible awful Online Safety Law comes into affect this month.

To me, Online Safety means:

* Never use your government name on the internet.

* Use fully end to end encrypted services like Signal.

* Avoid using large online surveillance projects like Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp.

* Self-host wherever possible to protect your data from Big Tech.

* Alter your software to block ads, use ad-blockers everywhere.

* Use a VPN to help subvert tracking technology.

But the government, and most of the callers to talk radio today, seem to think it means:

* All sites must ID check their users to ensure they aren't children.

* Encryption must have government back doors so the police and state can read all messages.

* Only big tech sites are legitimate because they are more subject to legal control.

* Self hosting should be legally onerous so that only big companies with huge legal compliance departments can run internet sites.

* It should be illegal to alter the software made by big business.

* VPNs should be illegal since they can avoid government blocks.

So that's all pretty depressing.

Good luck everyone. Stay safe.