Olives @olives@qoto.org

Quite a few posts trickling in. Yeah, down with KOSA.

This is obviously a pretty big invasion of privacy, and I'm wondering what exactly it is that's spurred this.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202306/kids-math-and-reading-scores-drop-but-is-it-sgnificant A good new article from Dr. Ferguson about math and reading scores in light of covid-19 and how some reactions to it might be a bit exaggerated.

This sounds like something which calls for Dr. Ferguson. Buster of video game moral panics.

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-esrb-wants-to-start-using-facial-recognition-to-check-peoples-ages/ The ESRB wants to scan your face to guess your age to control what video games minors can play and how much of it they can play.

Ugh, is it another video game related moral panic...?

I don't usually cover these ones, however, since it intersects with the First Amendment and the Internet, I'll give a crack at it.

I think that, yeah, it's a clear 1A violation for a sex offender to be forced to go around social media with a mark of shame.

It's compelled speech. This is ipso facto a First Amendment violation.

Even if it's an awful person, I don't really want to be making exceptions here and there, on principle.

Also, this sounds like a good way to attract harassment and to avoid positive socialization. Their families might also be harassed.

Someone who is up to evil could likely find a way around this. This is going to hit someone acting in good faith, rather than a bad actor.

You also have to consider that some sex crimes are more or less heinous than others. Does it make sense to treat a more minor one the same as the worst of the worst?

Also, some of these were committed as *minors*.

Rather than writing dry hit pieces, they could instead, I dunno, talk to admins to tell them about cases they know of of this?

No one likes a "clever" guy lecturing them from up above.

Ire about the fediverse originates primarily from right wing figures who are really upset about the fact that people are not jumping up and down in excitement in response to Elon acquiring Twitter.

I'm reading a really weak hit piece about the fediverse. What strikes me is just how little actual child porn there actually is. When you consider the scale of both instances and networks, the number is essentially nil.

They really had to snip random things out of context to try to pretend there is a "problem". They still failed.

It's not hard to figure out why Q aligned people are so concerned about what might or might not have happened at the Kinsey.

It's because they're upset about pornography, the acceptance of homosexuality, and other forms of social liberation. Reading some posts of theirs shows that.

And they blame the researchers who work at Kinsey for that.

@lucifargundam @freemo Good game.

The 50s weren't exactly a good time for ethics.

Supposedly, the U.S. Government carried out experiments involving STDs and psychological torture they called "mind control experiments" (MKUltra).

There were also inhumane experiments on criminals, MIT feeding people radioactive oats, and more.

At the end of the day though, while there might be something to be learned, whatever happened in the 50s has little bearing on the modern day.

Unless, of course, you're a Q conspiracist who sees everything as some sort of conspiracy.

The argument would generally be that they just wouldn't get these people, if they did go around reporting it, and that there is scientific value to it.

That's not an argument which I'm making here, although it's unsurprising that standards might have been different in the past.