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If a "deepfake" suggests someone did something they never did, couldn't that be considered "defamation" (with a couple of other tests)?

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One of the worst conflation games I saw involved:

We need to censor x.

Hey, that is censorship.

Oh, no, I'm not talking about x. I am talking about y (synonym for x).

He thinks he is "smart".

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It's not necessarily just playing around with vague and "clever" language, though that is also a problem.

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It's a lot like "okay, so you say it's about this, but then, why do you keep going back to talking about this completely different (no big deal) thing and trying to add that in?"

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Implicit conflation (i.e. putting two things next to each other) is still conflation...
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Implicit conflation (i.e. putting two things next to each other) is still conflation...

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While there are those who prefer Threads away from the fediverse, Alexandra van Huffelen from the Dutch Government is apparently urging them to federate.

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reason.com/2024/02/05/its-time Elizabeth writes about sex trafficking myths.

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@lucifargundam @freemo Blood, huh. Do you think a vampire would be fine?

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@freemo Is this when it flies out of a barrel or when it's ingested?

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Salter focusing on the fact that a few people studied might be jerks doesn't really change the basic psychological fact that if you treat people like garbage, then they're not going to feel so good. It's a red herring.

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@Damon@mozilla.social Well, you are the one talking in the style of this, this, and that, and about how bad the fediverse supposedly is.

Copying what I'm saying (though, I suppose there are trolls in some places, but that is a bit of a different beast from puritanism) doesn't really change that.

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@glynmoody qoto.org/@olives/1118327747305 It also won't "fix" what people dislike about platforms either. Brief post on "platformization".

qoto.org/@olives/1118535782501 A few seem to think this thing with the "search warnings" is some sort of "scandal", but with how fuzzy it is in practice, the more likely explanation is that Facebook just sucks at communicating, and also might not want to censor legitimate content. It also doesn't seem that blunt instruments work.

"safetyism" is also a magnet for bad faith and awful arguments...

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apnews.com/article/michigan-in

"The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault.

Louis Wright was released in November after authorities said DNA tests ruled him out as the perpetrator in an attack on an 11-year-old girl in Albion, a small town in southwestern Michigan, in 1988."

"Police investigating the assault settled on Wright as the suspect after an off-duty officer said he had been seen in the neighborhood. Police said he confessed, though the interview was not recorded and he did not sign a confession, according to the Cooley Law School Innocence Project.

The victim was never asked to identify Wright, the Innocence Project said.

Wright eventually pleaded no-contest to the charges and was sentenced to 25 years to 50 years in prison. He then tried to withdraw his plea at sentencing, but the request was denied."

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If someone's "solution" to someone putting something in their body (War on Drugs) which they reckon is potentially harmful is just having a cop bust down their door, shoot their dog, beat them up, and haul them into a cell where there is a good chance they'll be beaten, raped, or commit suicide (whether in the cell, even after they leave, there may be an increased chance), then maybe there is a very big problem with that "solution" indeed.

Also, tearing apart families (for however long someone is locked up for), which isn't good for their children's mental health or life prospects.

Locking people up is not a magic solution to social issues.

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eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/what

"Proposition E is a “kitchen sink" approach to public safety that capitalizes on residents’ fear of crime in an attempt to gut common-sense democratic oversight of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). In addition to removing certain police oversight authority from the Police Commission and expanding the circumstances under which police may conduct high-speed vehicle chases, Proposition E would also amend existing laws passed in 2019 to protect San Franciscans from invasive, untested, or biased police technologies.

Currently, if police want to acquire a new technology, they have to go through a procedure known as CCOPS—Community Control Over Police Surveillance. This means that police need to explain why they need a new piece of technology and provide a detailed use policy to the democratically-elected Board of Supervisors, who then vote on it. The process also allows for public comment so people can voice their support for, concerns about, or opposition to the new technology. This process is in no way designed to universally deny police new technologies. Instead, it ensures that when police want new technology that may have significant impacts on communities, those voices have an opportunity to be heard and considered. San Francisco police have used this procedure to get new technological capabilities as recently as Fall 2022 in a way that stimulated discussion, garnered community involvement and opposition (including from EFF), and still passed."

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reason.com/2024/02/02/houston-

"For months, Houston police have been citing and arresting local volunteers for the radical act of feeding the needy. Now the city is facing a lawsuit alleging that its crackdown on charitable giving violates the First Amendment."

"Randy Hiroshige, a Texas Civil Rights Project attorney, says the issue isn't just about handing out sandwiches; it's about the government trying to suppress political speech.

"They're a protest group," Hiroshige says of Food Not Bombs. "They want to be visible, and the reason they conduct their food sharing is to show the public what it looks like when a community looks out for each other's needs and really provides mutual aid to one another.""

"Similar cases have popped up elsewhere. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in 2018 that distributing food was "expressive conduct" protected under the . That decision was a response to a lawsuit by the Food Not Bombs chapter in Fort Lauderdale."

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@Damon@mozilla.social I think you're making every single mistake here.

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First off, you're conflating fiction and reality, and consequently diminishing reality, and diverting mental resources towards what tends to result in racism / puritanism / bigotry. It's very zero sum, and I think it's bad, particularly in the long run.

Perhaps, there is a conversation to be had about content moderation, but too easily it turns into just giving a big middle finger to people. And it seems that whether somewhere is good, or poorer, that can be lumped in together.

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Scientifically, porn isn't really a big deal. I go over other concepts there too, but that is the main take away from that post.
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Censorship here also tends to have perverse effects which are generally not helpful.

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To really understand why Facebook is "bad" though, we really have to dive into the concept of Platformization, which I cover briefly here.

It's worth mentioning that Facebook has big issues with bad actors, and yet, they have stringent anti porn policies. Hell, platforms have cracked down further on porn over the past five years, and it doesn't seem to have gotten better. It's also not really about "scale" per se (I made a mistake earlier this year on focusing a fair bit on scale, actually, but once I thought about it more critically, and read a fair bit of literature, it's not really the key element here), and I think that is actually a distraction. It's more the one stop shop syndrome. Got to be everything. It's hard to know where to even really begin with that even.

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Also, one complainer, who appears to be associated with Facebook, is a well-known bad actor.

There is also the little detail, that actually, an instance is really just a glorified website. Complaining about someone out there is a lot like complaining about "some website out there", and federation is already fairly conservative tbh.

I'm open to a discussion, I suppose, but I think it's hard to have a discussion with that.

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@freemo Yeah, that makes sense, I think that bit at the end was more of a reflexive addition.

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