https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/01/japan/japan-school-regulation-easing/
"part of a broader movement to reassess overly strict school regulations and involve students in the decision-making process"
Interesting idea.
https://www.article19.org/resources/malaysia-stop-stifling-social-media/
"ARTICLE 19 and 66 partner organisations and individuals in civil society have written an open letter to the Prime Minister of #Malaysia, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to express concern for the cabinet’s licensing regime for social media."
#FreeSpeech
"After the study is completed, we will retain your anonymized data"
Some thoughts about studies involving sensitive subjects and privacy.
First off, as privacy activists know, there is no such thing as "anonymized data". Each data point can make it easier for someone to deanonymize someone.
That is just something to keep in mind.
If that is a worry, then for starters, someone could avoid collecting superfluous data, or maybe for something like an age, they could collect an age range instead of a specific number (unless, that precision is needed).
This reminds me of something I spoke about before. Maybe, it will lead to improvements in mental health (since there is science showing that).
When something that is supposed to be #privacy oriented insists on using Discord.
https://9to5google.com/2024/07/25/reddit-search-engine-block-google-deal/ Sounds like an anti-trust issue.
@PatrickoftheG It shouldn't be hard to find some religious practice which could be argued to hurt someone's mental health. Even the news could be argued to hurt someone's mental health.
Useful human rights protective language is language which clearly and indisputably tells someone that x activity is allowed. No beating around the bush. Even if it might be "useful" now, who knows what someone might argue in 10, 15, 20 years. What stops a country from just ignoring it?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/calls-mount-principal-un-human-rights-official-business-and-tech-groups-address Frankly, stronger language than just "artistic" should be used to protect #HumanRights and #FreeSpeech. For instance, constraining it to real people (this is already sort of done but it shouldn't be an optional point).
https://qoto.org/@olives/112853953984247398 Also, see this post (which also references science to question arguments about porn being spooky and other such things).
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