Olives @olives@qoto.org

Plus, this isn't something which is done with practically any other crime, so it seems strange to keep lowering the threshold.

There has to be a point when turning medical professionals into snitches, rather than actually doing their jobs, becomes a problem.

"exploitation" is defined broadly, so it's not just abuse. Maybe, viewing images.

exclude someone who does not believe they are likely to abuse someone. #privacy #HumanRights

or to self-censor when doing so (which could be detrimental in a number of ways).

One proposed mitigation seems to be to exempt services which are explicitly for abuse prevention, however, such an overt focus on that might be intimidating to someone and would necessarily #privacy #HumanRights

I have a #privacy concern about a proposal part of the E.U. Parliament came up with. If a medical professional reports someone, because they "suspect" they may have been involved in child exploitation, it's likely that would turn a sizeable number of people off from seeing any #HumanRights

Someone pointed out that prohibition would also make research very hard. Yes, it would.

Something as simple as reaching someone might be difficult.

EPP refers to the European People's Party.

"proximity to abusers"

Not in a passive way, for instance, you wouldn't argue there is a proximity, because someone who has happened to have abused watches television. I mean, there is a dependence there, one which might appear in a community dynamic.

otherwise involves a sexual proliferation depicting someone's likeness w/o their (adult) consent) make sense, but more abstract and conceptual prohibitions do not (and are very problematic when it comes to #HumanRights).

For more, I have a post about various things to do with porn. #FreeSpeech

In addition, in a black market, there is no need to follow any standards or to have any values. It's not unlikely a prohibition selects out such people. Blanket prohibitions are a very bad idea and a bad form of policy. A prohibition restricting content involving abuse (or #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

They also forgot that the E.U. has data protection laws?

They also don't seem to understand black markets.

Real child porn, by it's very nature, involves some sort of abuse, therefore if it has some proximity to abusers, that is not necessarily surprising.

However, legitimate content does not involve abuse. #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 Goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. A critique of censorship, prohibition, puritanism.

Someone points out the EPP (or part of it) in the #EU Parliament may be misguided on this issue. #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

I feel like the reason someone would go after #VR is to spite Facebook, but they'd hurt plenty of small companies and hobbyists by doing so. #FreeSpeech

Giving a government more power is silly, particularly when you don't know what a future administration will do. #FreeSpeech

they have nothing to do with social networks.

Remember when Lego showed up to lecture people about digital governance? We also haven't forgotten Apple's stunt in 2021... #FreeSpeech #KOSA

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/the-kids-online-safety-act-is-back-with-the-potential-to-change-the-internet/ The thing with a company like Apple "supporting" an awful unconstitutional censorship bill like this (even though they surely know it's bad and painful) is that #FreeSpeech #KOSA

New technologies like "VR" or "AI" or something potentially being misused in some way is not an excuse for turning our brains off and coming up with bad overly broad policy. #FreeSpeech

Talking about as in bringing it up as an idea.