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cbc.ca/news/business/vending-m
"An Ontario university is pulling dozens of vending machines that were tracking the age and gender of customers in the latest example of pushback against technology that tests the boundaries of rules."

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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.

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cdt.org/insights/cdt-joins-oth
cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/202
"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 legislation."

The @eff, CDT, ACLU, and Fight for the Future had that to say about the newest attempted TikTok ban.

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reason.com/2024/03/08/bidens-i Would like to see Congress do more here.

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reason.com/2024/03/11/carded-f
"The law would require all social media users to verify their age through privacy-invading methods such as uploading their driver's license, submitting to a facial scan, or providing the last four digits of their Social Security number. Minors must also obtain parental permission before they can create a social media account. Once online, the law would force social media companies to restrict minors' ability to find new content and other accounts and to limit when they can message others on the platforms."

"Following FIRE's suit and other legal challenges, Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, delayed the law's implementation until October 2024. In a legal filing from January 19, the state noted that the Utah State Legislature "is likely to repeal and replace the law." Less than three weeks later, state legislators introduced two bills that proposed minor changes to the law while keeping the considerable restrictions on accounts held by minors and required age verification in order to create an account."

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hsp.org/blogs/fondly-pennsylva
"In 1903, political cartoonists – especially one man, Charles Nelan – made the governor of Pennsylvania so mad that he criminalized cartooning.

You read that right. Gov. Samuel Pennypacker and his allies pushed through a law that made it illegal in Pennsylvania to publish or even draw cartoons that portrayed people (i.e. politicians) as "beast, bird, fish, insect, or other inhuman animal." Who knew that cartoons could inspire such passion, such outrage, such . . . legislative willpower?!"

"Perhaps because of this public outrage (or at least press outrage), the law was never enforced, and it was repealed in 1907 when a new governor took office."

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reclaimthenet.org/big-tech-coa
One of Facebook's sites (I think Instagram) has been known to miscategorize people as "minors" because they roleplayed as some clearly fictional cartoon character. They don't fix their mistakes either. There is a lot of room here for privacy intrusions too.

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reason.com/2024/03/11/feds-enf Interesting case.

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reason.com/2024/03/11/carded-f
"The law would require all social media users to verify their age through privacy-invading methods such as uploading their driver's license, submitting to a facial scan, or providing the last four digits of their Social Security number. Minors must also obtain parental permission before they can create a social media account. Once online, the law would force social media companies to restrict minors' ability to find new content and other accounts and to limit when they can message others on the platforms."

"Following FIRE's suit and other legal challenges, Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, delayed the law's implementation until October 2024. In a legal filing from January 19, the state noted that the Utah State Legislature "is likely to repeal and replace the law." Less than three weeks later, state legislators introduced two bills that proposed minor changes to the law while keeping the considerable restrictions on accounts held by minors and required age verification in order to create an account."

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reason.com/2024/03/08/bidens-i Would like to see Congress do more here.

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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.

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@Melpomene@erisly.social reason.com/2024/03/06/dear-gov It's not just the TikTok ban, it's also how it attacks things like VPNs in the name of enforcing the TikTok ban.

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@BongoMcnulty I remember that was a cute looking anime.

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cdt.org/insights/cdt-joins-oth
cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/202
"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 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.

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reason.com/2024/03/06/dear-gov
"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."

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@freemo If you don't get the reference, TCP uses ACK to signal that it has received a particular packet.

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@freemo Ack

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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 in 2024 on Google Play for "pornography".

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netzpolitik.org/2024/chatkontr
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.

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