Olives @olives@qoto.org

It is pretty ugly to see the "co-founder" of a company sit around on Bluesky seemingly trying to smear competing websites.

I mean, I'm sure he does good work to make sure that people's free expression is protected, but it's interesting how even here, in a policy discussion, sex seems to be taboo to talk about.

https://www.eff.org/pages/speaking-freely-tomiwa-ilori This is interesting but doesn't tell us anything about sexual expression.

Even if it was extended a tad beyond "SFW", I don't think it would make a difference to the point in my post. Hype.

The Japanese Parliament (called the "Diet") has two houses. The House of Representatives (lower) and the House of Councilors (upper).

Financial censorship was mentioned in a committee in the Japanese House of Representatives.

Seeing Japanese discourse that is critical of using "AI" powered search engines.

He seems to be going into things this time with the assumption that Australia is some sort of fascist state that arrests people left and right for ridiculous things.

And maybe, Australia does have human rights issues, particularly in how the legislature words language in statutes or "guidelines", or that "social media ban for minors".

And transparency is important. FOIA requests which peel the curtain back a bit on the government are important.

But, I think it's premature to make these kinds of assumptions about the government.

He makes stronger claims then he waters them down.

To tell you a short tale, I was thinking of something he said one day (this was a few months ago), and I decided I would check up on it, and it wasn't there.

It looks like Malcolm quietly edited one of his articles from last year -.-

This is why I want to see those FOIA requests. I think these will probably be fine though.

There was a bit of concern trolling about a bad actor who misused a site a couple of years ago (and has since been convicted, it seems). #FreeSpeech

A number of these sites being hit by financial censorship have nothing to do with user generated content (and it would be a wildly disproportionate response for a site with many millions of users).

Trolls have been a community mod's enemy since forever but these Twitter trolls are quite something.

A troll is someone who says provocative things with the intention of getting a reaction out of people.

One possibility is that with so many people becoming inactive (perhaps, due to things like the "verified accounts" curbing the value of the site), the trolls are becoming more prominent and are trying to say more "shocking" things.

Casually looking at Twitter and seeing someone calling for people to be gassed.

I don't usually say this but wtf

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/11/news156.html Financial intermediaries now censoring gay content / content for women. #FreeSpeech #Japan

Checking a paragraph a few times to make sure I didn't get the wording hideously wrong.

Having said that, it is hard to discern the reason for firms taking actions like this. A lot of the time, it's not that obvious and can be much dumber than you think.

However, at the same time, it is clear that Bluesky's actions were wildly disproportionate, probably ineffective, heavily striked at innocent people, and were not actions they needed to make.

While this could be a coincidence, Bluesky became more puritanical after the E.U. said vague things about "protecting minors".