{"id":17221,"date":"2025-01-12T09:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T08:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/note-to-no-10-one-speed-doesnt-fit-all-when-it-comes-to-online-safety-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T09:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T08:37:52","slug":"note-to-no-10-one-speed-doesnt-fit-all-when-it-comes-to-online-safety-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/note-to-no-10-one-speed-doesnt-fit-all-when-it-comes-to-online-safety-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to No 10: one speed doesn\u2019t fit all when it comes to online safety | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something\u2019s gone wrong<\/p>\n

London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed (LFGSS<\/a>) is an admirable online community of fixed-gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London. Sadly, this columnist does not qualify for membership: he doesn\u2019t reside in (or near) the metropolis, and he requires a number of gears to tackle even the gentlest of inclines \u2013 and therefore admires hardier cyclists who disdain the assistance of Sturmey-Archer or Campagnolo hardware.<\/p>\n

There is, however, bad news on the horizon. After Sunday 16 March, LFGSS will be no more. Dee Kitchen, the software wizard (and cyclist) who is the core developer of Microcosm<\/a>, a platform for running non-commercial, non-profit, privacy-sensitive, accessible online forums such as LFGSS, has announced<\/a> that on that date he will \u201cdelete the virtual servers hosting LFGSS and other communities, and effectively immediately end the approximately 300 small communities that I run, and the few large communities such as LFGSS\u201d.<\/p>\n

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nLegislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something\u2019s gone wrong
\nLondon Fixed Gear and Single-Speed (LFGSS) is an admirable online community of fixed-gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London. Sadly, this columnist does not qualify for membership: he doesn\u2019t reside in (or near) the metropolis, and he requires a number of gears to tackle even the gentlest of inclines \u2013 and therefore admires hardier cyclists who disdain the assistance of Sturmey-Archer or Campagnolo hardware.
\nThere is, however, bad news on the horizon. After Sunday 16 March, LFGSS will be no more. Dee Kitchen, the software wizard (and cyclist) who is the core developer of Microcosm, a platform for running non-commercial, non-profit, privacy-sensitive, accessible online forums such as LFGSS, has announced that on that date he will \u201cdelete the virtual servers hosting LFGSS and other communities, and effectively immediately end the approximately 300 small communities that I run, and the few large communities such as LFGSS\u201d.
\nDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something\u2019s gone wrong London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed (LFGSS) is an admirable online community of fixed-gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London. Sadly, this columnist does not qualify for membership: he …<\/p>\n

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