https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_New_Zealand In New Zealand, they even had their own Wizard working for the government, and presumably, protecting the realm, lol.
@josephcox This article raises valid issues but also regurgitates sensationalism.
IWF's claim there is self-contradictory. One analyst reckoned it was "hard to identify" but another "did it easily". They're also notorious for talking about one thing in one breath for dramatic effect, then in the next talking about something else.
Some actors cited are notorious for being very activist, playing up claims, and having a penchant for scandal. Could be, might be, possibly, becomes the sky is falling.
It's also not clear whether IWF is hunting for whatever they deem to be "obscene" or for something actually problematic here in their "partnership".
If you have a problem with stupid politicians complaining about online porn in Europe, then you should contact them about that.
One moment.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Here's some scientific resources which show it isn't awful.
@auldlangsin Incest commercial?
https://eupolicy.social/@1br0wn/111611995353395257
What does EDRi think of privacy intrusive "age verification" for porn sites?
Also, there is significant room for over reach here in terms of content removal.
https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Also, viewing porn is unrelated to crime.
We know that platforms have made inappropriate judgements in this area, particularly in regards to artistic works, and there appears to be implicit conflations here.
Also, in quite a few cases, someone might insinuate one thing, then another might be represented.
For now, SFW / NSFW should suffice, to explain that:
"sexy" doesn't necessarily mean NSFW.
Some degree of "nudity" isn't necessarily that strange to see either, particularly in a cartoon style, unless someone is prudish to a degree I'm not sure exists. At the very least, that is silly to censor.
One that was dropped from that update, for now, was "a few have conflated "sex", "sexy" and "nudity", because it was a more complicated one to explain.
"othering" was compacted, although it's there, because I didn't want it to dominate Part 2.
"Last week, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated a defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination when they presented testimony about his refusal to give police the passcode to his cell phone. In State v. Valdez, the court found that verbally telling police a passcode is “testimonial” under the Fifth Amendment, and that the so-called foregone conclusion exception does not apply to “ordinary testimony” like this. This closely tracks arguments in the amicus brief EFF and the ACLU filed in the case."
https://edri.org/our-work/2023-a-good-year-for-privacy-a-bad-year-for-chat-control/
"Rumours are also swirling that the European Commission is deeply frustrated by the Parliament standing up for our digital rights, and is considering options and strategies to push through broad, untargeted scanning measures despite a lack of political credibility."
Something to watch out for. #chatcontrol
Updated dive into bad faith conflations of reality and fiction, involves #GenAI (imagery and text stories) and VR, although not limited to them.
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"A Tennessee youth detention center has been skirting a state law prohibiting solitary confinement for minors by classifying solitary lockups as "voluntary"—even when youth have said they spent days locked alone in a cell.
An investigation from ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio published last month found that the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center, a youth lockup near Knoxville, was violating a 2021 Tennessee law that banned solitary confinement for minors."
This "voluntary" classification reminds me of #chatcontrol...
https://qoto.org/@olives/110847252096826064 I've written about how solitary is inhumane before.
https://reason.com/2023/12/18/5th-circuit-reluctantly-rules-against-victim-of-a-prosecutor-who-was-also-a-law-clerk/ Apparently, a prosecutor was also a clerk simultaneously working for the judge...
https://nichegamer.com/peter-molyneuxs-godus-and-godus-wars-pulled-from-steam/ Don't worry, you're not missing much, Godus is an awful game.
From what I remember, Godus is basically do a tiny bit and wait 24 hours game, but instead of a free mobile game, it cosplays as a PC game. Also, it had next to no real content.
@kkarhan @arcade @ctrl For passively consuming online porn, sex education is one recommendation I've seen mentioned by psychologists, although got to watch out, because some conservatives like to dress up their opinionated rhetoric as "education" too.
I.E. Instead of teaching someone things normally, they instead decide to ram down someone's throat about how Porn is Evil, how LGBT acts are Evil (some curriculums in the U.S. have that, the more you know), and other ideological talking points in a propagandistic fashion.
That said, I also think that some very morally motivated people are trying to make more out of online porn when the evidence of it being some terrible thing isn't really there. Even if it were "problematic" in a few cases, censorship and intrusions on privacy would not be remotely proportionate, I mean, it's prejudicing other people too, and it approaches living in a big prison.
I think that probably keeping obvious minors away from adult spaces is trying to avoid trouble.
https://nichegamer.com/sony-prohibits-reselling-physical-games-tracks-activity/
"Sony updated their Software Usage Terms about a year ago and users are just now discovering some troubling rules.
Namely, a rule about reselling games has caught attention; especially since the rule explicitly calls out physical media."
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