Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
Do you believe in time travel?
Once, I saw a puritanical Australian woman (she also wants to ban all porn and has links to an infamous group of Christian fundamentalists from the U.S.) who argued that because someone committed a crime (something to do with child porn, it's unclear how long prior, could have been years) *before* buying some sort of "sex robot", that the sex robot must have caused that.
@Melpomene@erisly.social https://reason.com/2024/03/06/dear-government-stop-trying-to-make-tiktok-bans-happen/ It's not just the TikTok ban, it's also how it attacks things like VPNs in the name of enforcing the TikTok ban.
@BongoMcnulty I remember that was a cute looking anime.
https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-joins-others-in-letter-opposing-the-protecting-americans-from-foreign-adversary-controlled-applications-act/
https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Coalition_Letter_Opposing_H.R._7521.pdf
"H.R. 7521 is censorship — plain and simple. In a purported attempt to protect the data of U.S. residents from Chinese government acquisition, this legislation would forbid app stores and internet service providers from offering TikTok so long as the company remains under foreign ownership. Passing this legislation would trample on the constitutional right to freedom of speech of millions of people in the United States. TikTok is home to massive amounts of protected speech and association: it enables its users to discuss their opinions, share their hobbies, make art, and access news from down the street and around the world. Jeopardizing access to the platform jeopardizes access to free expression."
"If Congress wants to protect Americans’ data, it should pass comprehensive #privacy legislation."
The @eff, CDT, ACLU, and Fight for the Future had that to say about the newest attempted TikTok ban.
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.@CenDemTech opposes this fundamentally flawed bill, which violates the #FirstAmendment and puts at risk users’ #constitutional right to communicate, access info, & express themselves on platforms like TikTok.
https://reason.com/2024/03/06/dear-government-stop-trying-to-make-tiktok-bans-happen/
"Also notable here: the bill bans enabling "the distribution, maintenance, or updating of a foreign adversary controlled application." Like last year's RESTRICT Act, this could implicate services—like virtual private networks (VPNs)—that help people download or access foreign apps forbidden by U.S. law."
#FirstAmendment #privacy
@freemo If you don't get the reference, TCP uses ACK to signal that it has received a particular packet.
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According to the E.U.'s "Transparency Database" (which tends to be far too vague and is probably misleading in some areas), a couple of apps were censored in #Germany in 2024 on Google Play for "pornography". #WarOnPorn
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https://netzpolitik.org/2024/chatkontrolle-der-rat-will-es-nochmal-versuchen/
The Belgian Council Presidency is asking to look into encrypted messages while simultaneously not breaking the encryption. A farcical notion.
They also speak of "risk categorizations" which they won't define and which could be changed on a whim later, to be mitigated via unspecified measures which themselves could be oppressive.
Still, member states remain divided.
At least it doesn't seem? to be an obscenity law (i.e. perhaps targeting some sort of roleplay with vague criterion about what a depiction "looks like", rather than whether it was made to depict a particular person without their consent). I haven't looked deeply into it though. I'd hope someone would have to have actual knowledge that the depiction is non-consensual.
I'm not a fan of site blocking, as that usually involves collateral damage.
https://reason.com/2024/01/17/ai-fraud-act-could-outlaw-parodies-political-cartoons-and-more/ I suspect the concerns about art might be similar to the ones here.
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Deleted my #Pinterest account. I'd been thinking about it anyway because Pinterest has been rotting away and then they sent me a (presumably automated) vague "content warning" and I decided it was time.
According to the E.U. "transparency database", the website known as "#Pinterest", is very puritanical and removes content left and right.
There is a literal tidal wave of entries relating to it. #WarOnPorn
@berkes With one recent big case, it wasn't even a proper spammer per se, it was someone casually stirring up trouble. That probably could have been dealt with with a simple text Question + Answer captcha set by the admin.
I think it's also probably far less likely someone will pay someone to solve questions for a smaller site. Being a smaller site using an exotic stack also helps.
The flat earthers were only partially right. The world is a disc which sits on a couple of elephants standing on a giant turtle swimming through space. Lol.
@eob I don't think vanilla Mastodon has much in the way of anti-spam tooling. The option of a text Question + Answer Captcha set by the admin would probably be an improvement over what it has.
I'm not sure about fediverse spam, however generally, spam often came from compromised machines in the past (or other situations where simply blocking IPs could lead to legitimate users also being hit).
https://nichegamer.com/steam-bans-order-us-for-having-an-adult-with-a-small-chest/
By the way, that was also NCOSE (a group of puritanical Christian fundamentalists led by Mormon fundamentalists).
Back in 2018, they bragged about lobbying #Steam (and misled them), and took responsibility for it. They would probably rather Steam bans all sexual content though.
So, there is a consultation where a puritanical anti-porn Tory appointee[1] wants to censor free expression. She made a highly disturbing rant, and...
According to the same database, it appears that Apple also censored an app in 2024 for "pornography", although with a wider scope than just in one country. #WarOnPorn
According to the E.U.'s "Transparency Database" (which tends to be far too vague and is probably misleading in some areas), a couple of apps were censored in #Germany in 2024 on Google Play for "pornography". #WarOnPorn
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I think it's silly to single out "nicotine pouches" here and it is probably indicative of moral panic.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-27/nicotine-pouches-banned-from-sale-in-australia/103428520 Australian War on Nicotine expands. It's probably n...
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
