Olives @olives@qoto.org

If you want my opinion, PiS is a vile and inhumane party, and it shows in a lot of what they do.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/01/nick-clegg-ai-clamour-similar-moral-panic-video-games He's not wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/01/nightmare-is-over-polish-election-result-brings-relief-for-lgbtq-people Discourse around the fall of PiS.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/01/hungary-anti-lgbt-law-under-18s-barred-world-press-photo-exhibition

"People younger than 18 have been barred from visiting this year’s World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest after Hungary’s rightwing populist government decided that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content.

The prestigious exhibition, being shown at Hungary’s National Museum in Budapest, receives more than four million visitors from around the world every year. Showcasing outstanding photojournalism, its mission is to bring visual coverage of a range of important events to a global audience."

https://reason.com/2023/10/29/free-the-meds/ What do you think of this?

https://www.wired.com/story/pornhub-tracking-cookies-gdpr-video-history/ What do you think of this?

There is a lot of warm and fuzzy language, and high aspirations. Those aren't necessarily bad aspirations to have, or not all of them. There are certainly parts which seem very moral panicky.

Still, it's not the aspiration, it's how it comes out in practice.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/30/fact-sheet-president-biden-issues-executive-order-on-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence/

First Amendment says hi.

https://techfreedom.org/loot-boxes-benefit-videogame-developers-and-players-alike-techfreedom-tells-ninth-circuit/

I'm honestly not a fan of loot boxes. I've played games with mechanics like this, and I honestly think they're annoying, and make the experience worse. That said, I don't think the government should ban them.

https://ncac.org/news/ncac-set-to-host-first-annual-stand-up-for-free-speech-comedy-benefit Interesting.

It's as if an evil spirit took control of the bodies of politicians in 2017 / 2018, and now, we keep getting hideously authoritarian (and nasty) proposals...

https://nichegamer.com/peter-molyneuxs-blockchain-game-legacy-to-launch-next-month/

"While the game isn’t out yet, those interested can purchase “land” using Ethereum or GALA through OpenSea. The latter of which is Gala Games own type of cryptocurrency. In terms of USD, prices range from $47 to $11465."

Why...

"My assessment is these are the same folks who called the insurrection at the Capitol free speech."

Well... No... someone making a post mocking a dead cop is not really the same thing as someone physically trespassing (among other things) at the Capitol.

https://reason.com/2023/10/31/tennessee-to-pay-125000-to-settle-lawsuit-by-man-arrested-for-posting-meme-mocking-dead-cop/ What do you think?

https://reason.com/2023/10/31/overcrowding-causes-unsafe-and-unsanitary-conditions-for-youth-in-philadelphia-jail/

"One Philadelphia, Pennsylvania juvenile jail is keeping youth in overcrowded, filthy conditions. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, the situation has grown so dire that the city has now requested that a judge hold the state in contempt of court for failure to address the crisis.

Legal documents claim that the facility, which is built to house 184 juveniles, reached a peak of 242 this June. As a result, at least 30 children were forced to sleep in "mattresses on the floor in the admissions area," or "in physically crowded cells with no windows." Violence in the facility also reportedly increased."

https://reason.com/2023/10/31/several-justices-express-dismay-at-long-delays-in-returning-seized-cars-to-innocent-owners/

"In February 2019, police in Satsuma, Alabama, pulled over Halima Culley's son and arrested him for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. They seized the car, which belonged to Culley, and tried to keep it under Alabama's civil forfeiture law. Although Culley ultimately got her car back as an "innocent owner," that process took 20 months."

"Like Culley, Sutton successfully invoked the "innocent owner" defense to get her car back after police seized it. But that did not happen for over a year. In the meantime, her lawyer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, "she missed medical appointments, she wasn't able to keep a job, she wasn't able to pay a cell phone bill, and as a result" she "was not in a position to be able to communicate about the forfeiture proceedings.""

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/10/victory-california-department-justice-declares-out-state-sharing-license-plate

"California Attorney General Rob Bonta has issued a legal interpretation and guidance for law enforcement agencies around the state that confirms what privacy advocates have been saying for years: It is against the law for police to share data collected from license plate readers with out-of-state or federal agencies. This is an important victory for immigrants, abortion seekers, protesters, and everyone else who drives a car, as our movements expose intimate details about where we’ve been and what we’ve been doing."

I'd rather not use the euphemism "age appropriate access controls".

That's not necessarily a representative sample. Also, it's kind of the path of least resistance to nod along with fuzzy ideas... Right? In fact, if you talk to a few people, they suggest just banning minors from social media altogether, which is obviously harmful (and impractical).