Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-against-openai-would-open-up-the-ny-times-to-all-sorts-of-lawsuits-should-it-win/ Now, a copyright take more favorable to "AI" (although, I prefer the idea of someone running something without the OpenAI middle-man, still).

https://apnews.com/article/university-wisconsin-la-crosse-porn-fired-2bcaa8e751be50ebe83f8e1ed1a7cc32 University of Wisconsin fires chancellor for appearing in porn film... Puritans...

"Gow told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday morning that regents had discovered that he and his wife, former UW-La Crosse professor Carmen Wilson, had been producing and appearing in pornographic videos.

He maintained that he never mentioned UW-La Crosse or his role at the university in any of the videos and the firing violated his free speech rights.

“My wife and I live in a country where we have a First Amendment,” he said. “We’re dealing with consensual adult sexuality. The regents are overreacting. They’re certainly not adhering to their own commitment to free speech or the First Amendment.”"

There are a lot, lot, lot of examples. Some might get flashy articles. Many don't. Censorship that is the most obvious to just about everyone in this regard is just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mzpj/pornhub-content-deleted-verification

"Before the purge that disappeared more than 75 percent of content on the platform, Pornhub hosted a lot of videos and photos that weren’t humans having sex. There were full-length movies, memes, and video game playthroughs that you might see on a non-adult site like Twitch, but there was also a ton of animation, 3D renderings, audio erotica, music videos, fanfic from furries and bronies, and stop-motion animation like LEGO minifigs fucking."

One example of what "collateral damage" can look like, oh, that is only one of many examples. Isn't it fun to have people randomly giving you the middle finger? #DSA

https://ecnl.org/news/ecnl-joins-cso-coalition-court-case-against-eus-terrorist-content-regulation ECNL on why the #TERREG is bad.

Here's one which flew under the radar in mid-2023:

https://ecnl.org/news/ecnl-access-now-and-eff-joint-statement-extended-reality-xr-technologies

@ecnl, @eff and Access Now wrote to the European Commission to urge them to protect #privacy (and it seems free expression too) when it comes to the #metaverse.

NetChoice appears to have sued Utah over their unconstitutional social media law which includes privacy intrusive "age verification" measures.

I'm concerned that their ideologues as it were are going to go around invading people's privacy in order to feed into some "algorithm" to do a load of number crunching on (probably for questionable gains) with some vague idea like this relating to health.

https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/all-news/artificial-intelligence-can-predict-events-in-peoples-lives?id=49c0a5da-0ef9-4222-8f59-aff35888a2ba But, did they think about their #privacy, when building this... Questionable thing? Also, at first glance, it appears to have told us things we already knew.

https://reason.com/2023/12/27/british-teen-gets-potential-life-sentence-for-grand-theft-auto-vi-hack/ Reason comments on *that* incident.

I hear chatter about new trans border European train links.

I suppose with the LLM, someone can finally get their cute loli wife, huh? Lol.

https://reason.com/2023/12/23/jeff-brandes-on-criminal-justice-reform/ Reason interviews a less "law and order" Floridian Republican politician.

He says things like this:

"I sat on the criminal justice committee back in 2014 and recognized pretty quickly that there was no real leadership on that issue statewide and that the prison system in Florida was circling the drain. I began to tour prisons, and the more I toured, the less I liked. I was often going to prisons that had 1,500 inmates and zero education opportunities, realizing that a vast majority of our prisons were understaffed. We had really created a Department of Warehousing and not a Department of Corrections. We weren't correcting behavior. We weren't getting better outcomes. So I started to work to fix that."

Might be an interesting read.

Reminder that David has links to Facebook.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-fails-to-prove-efficacy-of-extensive-surveillance Interesting.