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Germany's "dark field" child abuse prevention program has been criticized for being ineffectual, and possibly, even harmful and counter-productive.

Whatever they come up with, I'm expecting them to respect human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, privacy, and due process.

The judged pointed out that:

Texas didn't bother to educate parents about content filtering tools, or at the very least, they didn't put this as an argument in the lawsuit.

This meant that it wasn't the least intrusive possible measure they could have taken.

Verifying people's government identification also means the government might monitor what content someone is viewing, and that this has a substantial chilling effect on free expression.

Also, the First Amendment applies.

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By the way, the judge in Texas completely eviscerated the government's arguments when he granted that injunction against the anti-porn law.

Apparently, the ACLU (I haven't heard their name in quite some time, it's usually the EFF) has filed a complaint with the FTC against MasterCard for engaging in discriminative practices against sex workers.

It's not typically that (or just that) which tears down puritans, it is also the complete lack of scientific basis for their arguments (also their lack of principle).

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I have fairly consistent values.

I don't follow the meme that "it is okay because Japan is doing it", and then, snap at an American doing the same thing.

I actually find that kind of hilarious.

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Just finished the first episode of One Piece.

What the holy hell have I been watching, lol. A crazy-ass pirate crew ((nope, not a crew)) ((not together)) in the making. Looks pretty smooth, I think I will get highly entertained by this series.

Not entirely sure what genre this would be. It has a dash of this, and a dash of that. Adventure, sorta fantasy, the high seas, anime-ish stuff (the way they pose), just crazy stuff in general. And it seems to work out so far.
#Series #Netflix #OnePiece

@lookitmychicken Also, in part since you don't seem scared of porn (although, seems that Aus have some issues)...

I wonder if you've ever thought about something more granular than a NSFW but without the semantics of hashtags (where something gets shouted out everywhere).

I'm experimenting with writing a sort of fediverse implementation and that is one of the things which keeps swirling through my mind. It vexes me o.O

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@lookitmychicken Psst. Psst. This might seem like a very random question but I'm doing a bit of research into what sort of functionality someone might look for in a fediverse implementation.

So, I'm curious what might come to mind for you.

It's the nerd equivalent of "won't anyone please think of the children?".

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The wild thing about HE is that their actions there not only set a very dangerous precedent, it also has precisely zero impact on the availability ...

Someone thought that this makes it *better* somehow, however, it doesn't because it can't even be argued that it's led to a practical impact.

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The wild thing about HE is that their actions there not only set a very dangerous precedent, it also has precisely zero impact on the availability of a certain site.

It's setting a precedent so we "feel like we're doing something".

@kkarhan @KelsonV @eff I'm not going to ask him about every bit of drama that has gone on on the fediverse. I'm not that interested.

From what I've seen, it's usually petty office politics and philosophy, and that's just not interesting.

@kkarhan @KelsonV @eff "constant downplaying" I think you're interpreting posts in the worst possible way.

@kkarhan @KelsonV @eff I kind of like RMS but some of his takes are loopy.

@kkarhan @KelsonV @eff At that point, you have to wonder why he doesn't just pack it in.

It's not like he doesn't have the expertise to run a hosting company or something. Instead, he keeps the troll site chugging along.

Is it worth it.

@kkarhan @KelsonV @eff Imagine running all the way to a little village in a distant country to operate a troll site out of...

What has the world come to.

@kkarhan @KelsonV @eff I think you have a tendency of over-simplifying things.

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