Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/18/hungary-bans-pride-events-and-plans-to-use-facial-recognition-to-target-attenders Hungary bans pride events and plans to use #FaceRecognition. An attack on #FreeSpeech, #HumanRights and #privacy.

https://www.redartgames.com/games/822-1917-the-alien-invasion-remastered-dx-ps5-deluxe-edition.html
https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
#RedArtGames' 1917 - The Alien Invasion DX Remastered was banned in #Australia. It's a bullet hell game. #games #FreeSpeech

Looking closer at Taiwan's government's decision against being puritanical (after deciding to be so), it's quite flimsy when looking into the details.

ECPAT Taiwan appears to be promoting puritanism internationally.

While there might be countries which are more puritanical than Ireland, the number of companies there is particularly troublesome.

https://note.com/uguisu_ribbon/n/n8b28650a152f The new talk in Japan on financial censorship.

Too much DSA discourse ignores that many companies are based in Ireland and that Ireland is a puritanical country. #FreeSpeech

Also took the opportunity to improve the wording of the post.

Fixed it.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 As there are bad takes in #UK, here's the piece again. Goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. A critique of censorship, prohibition, puritanism. It's been a while since the last update, I might expand on it further sometime. #FreeSpeech

Thorn are the same folks who have been pushing chat control.

I see Thorn has been saying dubious things (muddling abuse with content they find offensive) while trying to promote one of their products.

Oh, I might have messed up one of these posts. I'm avoiding spending time on social media so I didn't notice that.

I figured I'd mention that since I saw someone approaching that in good faith (and trying to protect free expression). Don't get too swept up by it.

Also, as I said in 2023, cops have never had more tools than in the modern day.

That isn't covered in this particular post because:

1) It's a bad faith argument (from what I've seen).

2) It doesn't fit with the style of the post.

3) It's implicitly addressed.