Olives @olives@qoto.org

As mentioned before, there are also questions of due process, freedom of expression, and privacy. A cartel means that stupid ideas (or systemic bias / mistakes) have a tendency of being amplified.

That is my "human rights analysis" from a more critical angle.

It is unclear what the scope of this platform is at all, indeed, rather vague language is used, and you are supposed to just assume it is used against "bad things". However, there is (still rather tortured) language which contradicts this narrative in some areas.

The information sharing platform also appears to be operated by Facebook which means that not small amounts of personal information are likely to be non-consensually processed by Facebook (even if you don't use any of their services).

One of the most glaring parts of it, apart from just being very underwhelming, is that it assumes that these platforms are well-behaved actors (and not actors who overwhelmingly act on frivolous grounds). They're not.

It fails to properly challenge these platforms, indeed, it doesn't seem to operate from that angle at all.

"They also appeared to be funding reports to justify it."

The "human rights analyses" they use to justify it substantially underplay the potential harmfulness of it.

Nice to know that Julie's site also breaks crawlers... Ugh.

"Now @MarietjeSchaake D66 - I thought she was a good MP and MEP at the time, but can hardly believe she hasn't spoken out about the EU's Orwellian chat control plans."

Well, go contact her (and anyone else for that matter) then. Politicians can be fairly unreliable.

Well, that's good. It's a terrible idea (and should be burned to the ground, we should be very wary of little faux fixes).

I don't really understand what you specifically want done about infinite scrolling (which contexts? how?).

At least Sports Illustrated is facing a, small, scandal for being stupid this time, not because a puritan is offended by a photo being too "sexy" for their liking.

"Discord server" is such a stupid phrase.

I see Patrick is trying to protect your privacy on domestic flights.

I see someone complaining about China being puritanical. It would be nice if they didn't import these bad ideas.

https://readwrite.com/californias-privacy-protection-agency-wants-to-put-regulations-on-ai-automation/ What do you think of this?

"legitimate interest" is basically what some websites use to force you to opt out of tracking five hundred times (one for each company running a tracking script on a page).

Though, sometimes they do both.