AOL outages and service status in Weymouth, England

Problems in the last 24 hours in Weymouth, England

The chart below shows the number of AOL reports we have received in the last 24 hours from users in Weymouth, England and surrounding areas. An outage is declared when the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line.

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AOL Issues Reports

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 5 minutes ago

  I hate digging into my credentials, but in the context of online child safety and child exploitation, they matter because governments and child safety lobbyists are railroading everyone with personal opinions based on dangerous ideology. Being a parent doesn't qualify me to say what actually works, what' doesn't, and what the cost is in relation to privacy. I've spent more years building standards, API services, filtering technologies, and content moderation techniques than just about anyone. Very few experts sit at the intersection of internet infrastructure, telecommunications, app security, child exploitation detection technology, and content classification and filtering; I'm one of them. People with my background are being entirely ignored by policymakers for a reason. We know what's technically possible, what's not, and the catastrophic costs of getting it wrong. Security isn't just at odds with convenience, it's almost always fundamentally at odds with privacy. I built my first website 30 years ago, and was introduced to online child safety and content moderation that same year, in 1996, when I joined AOL. At the time, I helped launch new technologies and ran global testing for the launch of AIM, AOL's instant messenger and the internet's first consumer instant messaging app. I co-founded the W3C standard for content labelling and web classification, and in 2004, co-invented the concept of classifying internet accounts (labelling them by risk, identity, or purpose). I foresaw that the future of online trust and safety required filtering accounts, not just websites and web pages. Features like Twitter's verified checkmark and LinkedIn's verification are implementations of this very idea - they just got it wrong. I've run operational calls with The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the US Department of Justice on the automation of monitoring, detection and reporting, and I signed an MOU with NCMEC to help combat exploitation through browser software and mobile security services that my teams built for online child safety. The keyword tracking list Thorn shared with partners came from me over 15 years ago, inherited from a colleague who built it for CEOP while seconded from AOL. I also advised IWF. My team built the first child safety API service for mobile device OEMs, an even deeper kind of device-level scanning than Chat Control. Samsung was set to embed it in every device they sold, and Apple planned to put it in the settings of every iPhone, iPad, and Mac, around 1.3 billion devices between them. So I know what this kind of technology can and can't do on a phone, and I know what it costs in terms of end user privacy. Both deals drifted away because we were too early, one of the hardest things about being a tech founder. Years later, Samsung and Apple built parental controls so good that a parent can now block any app or website on a child's phone in a couple of minutes. When I was interviewed on BBC Newsnight 14 years ago, it was to demonstrate how bad parental controls were. Now I'm telling you they're as good as I could possibly hope for. Most leading security companies license my patents for in-app security, covering more than 50 categories of classification, including anti-phishing, malware, child abuse, pornography, and disinformation. Chat Control 2.0 mandates client-side scanning of links for apps like Signal. Luckily of Signal, they require my permission or face infringing in my patents. I'm *extremely* unlikely (read that as never) to license my patents for the purpose of government mandated censorship. I have declined governments in the past and I will do it again in the future.

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  Jon M. Taggart (@jonmtaggart) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 19 for me. Never had an AOL address.

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  Levity (@LevityODonnell) reported 8 minutes ago

  None of them have ever rung me. I got to the MSN point, adding people. I never got to the AOL AIM level they were all on. No one would share the lists with me.

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  The Troll Toll (@Pay_Troll_Toll) reported 9 minutes ago

  @LegionHoops Tim never played in a finals game. Maybe he should have done an aol chat room or something

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  Noah by SAN (@noahintel) reported 11 minutes ago

  ALERT: Iran reported casualties and infrastructure damage from US military strikes, according to Euronews and AOL; the report was last updated at 00:27 UTC July 10.

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  Gonz (@GonzoBeyondo) reported 12 minutes ago

  @walipini The first round of destruction was the free AOL trial CDs. Then came smartphones. It looks like AI will be putting the final nail in the coffin by serving as an uncapped sewer, spewing **** all over the place.

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  Jeff (@Eyedocduncan) reported 14 minutes ago

  @24tog 19 I never had an AOL email address lol

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  Kane (@RaginKane) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Soaringeagle45 never had an aol address

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  AU Blue (@PhilB4AU1) reported 17 minutes ago

  @NotTheExpertYT @neon_everest You guys don’t understand how **** works at all. A great example is the internet itself. Back early on the internet was free. Remember AOL? They gave it away to get you hooked. Once you were they started charging for it. Now it’s just another utility. Same with games. They gave them away to get you hooked. Now they gotta turn that into cash by charging you for everything. It’s the silicone valley model of doing business.

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  Kenny Evitt (@KennyEvitt) reported 18 minutes ago

  @bayesiandroll Wow – that's early! I'm sure there was probably at least one BBS local to me, but I never knew of any until AOL and CompuServe were enough of a thing.