Olives @olives@qoto.org

Susie Hargreaves.

Her successor "Derek" should also be scrutinized. He appears to be promoting censorship while pretending that he is saving the children.

At the end of the day, if someone is grifting off saving the children, while opportunistically censoring a large amount of legitimate content, such as online porn, then maybe there should be consequences for that abuse.

It's worth remembering that her org was known to mislead people, so as to push particular opinionated and human rights violating pieces of policy.

Next, Prime Minister Keir Starmer should revoke her OBE which was granted by the previous far right extremist government.

Looks like Censor Susie has stepped down but her vigilante outfit is probably still problematic.

Sometimes, the home feed just stops loading new posts and it might take hours to resume. Opening a new tab seems to fix it.

Making a post sort of works with occasional 500s.

I don't follow these that closely, it's something which appeared on my radar.

Well, people have a right to protest, so if someone is saying that a protest shouldn't be held because one particular person in the crowd might have done something, then that is concerning.

Seeing the government described as the "good guys" when talking about surveillance. What if the government are the bad guys though?

More 500s appearing again.

Also:
https://reason.com/2023/06/08/maines-legislature-passes-bill-to-partially-decriminalize-prostitution/
"But keeping sex work customers criminalized keeps in place many of the harms of total criminalization. The sex industry must still operate underground, which makes it more difficult for sex workers to work safely and independently."

"A recent study of prostitution laws in European countries found full decriminalization or legalization of prostitution linked to lower rape rates, while countries that instituted the Nordic model during the study period saw their rates of sexual violence go up."
#japan

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/06/japan/society/japan-sex-tourism/
I would not take advice from someone who runs an org called "People Against Pornography" and basically sounds like a prohibitionist.

Something which has been seen in some countries is that when they had prohibitions, people couldn't report it to the police, and the police might even be part of the problem, they might abuse someone in exchange for "overlooking" it.

See https://reason.com/2024/05/24/what-does-decriminalized-sex-work-actually-look-like/
#japan

Remember that it has nothing to do with whether the themes of something are "offensive" or "taboo". It's whether the person depicted (if anyone is depicted, think fictional characters) consented to that*.

* When talking about someone consenting, I obviously mean adults here.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/prison-journalism-jail-newspapers-giving-voice-to-prisoners/104399728
"Prison newspapers have overcome bans to give incarcerated Australians a voice and connection to outside"
#auspol #FreeSpeech

People in Australia really should be disturbed that the leader of one of the major parties basically wants to curtail the ability to protest because someone might say something supportive of Hamas.

It's basically a way of saying "subhumans" without actually saying subhumans. That is what makes it awful. It also has a vibe of being archaic and old.

Also, if someone isn't making the bare minimum effort to not use blatant and cartoonish dehumanizing language which looks like something which popped out from fifty years ago, then that kind of says something about them as a person.

If someone uses the word "deviant", that is basically an immediate red flag.

The reason is that it shows that they habitually dehumanize people and that usually means that they are unlikely to have anything useful to say.

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