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@Ragashingo @anicasts en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrigh
"The length of copyright established by the Founding Fathers was 14 years, plus the ability to renew it one time, for 14 more."

If it weren't for copyright being extended over and over, with how old some games are getting, they'd be falling out of copyright already (and you wouldn't have that problem).

@Ragashingo Who'd have thought a former piracy site would become an anime monopoly.

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theregister.com/2008/10/22/soc Did you know that even in 2008, German privacy agencies were already mad at Facebook over ?

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@KatS @echo_pbreyer
Maybe. In regards to porn, I'm seeing quite a few exaggerations. For instance, that it might be related to crime.

When it comes to crime:

qoto.org/@olives/1104622745318 (contains summary + link)
American scientists carried out a meta analysis of 59 studies. They found porn isn't associated with crime. A meta analysis is a study where someone studies studies.

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/al
There are even studies (across the United States, Japan, Finland, and more) showing porn is associated with less crime, even among criminals.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/314325
Nor did it seem to be the case among adolescents (the meta analysis also points to that) in this Croatian study. Here, the minors who used more porn engaged in less sexual aggression.

This seems to be one of those areas where people are eager to look for "links" between porn and something bad, and the substance of the "link" tends to be bad.

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Google's deprecation of #JPEGXL demonstrates its unjust amount of control over the web. Read our writeup here: u.fsf.org/3z8

Did you know that Facebook has a crawler which looks at images on the page on the other side of a posted link?

theguardian.com/technology/202
Once, they got in hot water for censoring an article from The Guardian (rebutting a claim by the then Prime Minister who claimed that slavery never existed in Australia) for "containing nudity".

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Like clockwork, politicians use a tragedy to try to push through some harmful brand of censorship.

Five years ago, did you think one of the biggest causes of the day would be to fight someone to stop them censoring books?

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https://letutahread.org/ "Let Utah Read is coalition of Utah community members, educators, parents, librarians, and organizations dedicated to pres...
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letutahread.org/

"Let Utah Read is coalition of Utah community members, educators, parents, librarians, and organizations dedicated to preserving Americans’ freedom to choose what we read"

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When you see Facebook creating their own fake "supreme court" (I don't think their decisions are binding though), you really start to feel that:

1) Platformization[1] has gone too far.

2) Facebook is too damn big.

1 qoto.org/@olives/1118327747305

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https://oversightboard.com/news/1068824731034762-oversight-board-upholds-meta-s-decision-in-altered-video-of-president-biden-case/ "The Oversight B...
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Like the FBI, I see the Australian police () also like to entrap autistic kids by trying to push them towards terrorism, so that they will have an excuse to arrest them. Another point for the saying that "all cops are bastards".

@dragestil@hostux.social I think I already removed this post, as there wasn't that much there.

@Melpomene@erisly.social It might be one of those cases where they try to be "apolitical", and consequently, wind up underenforcing their policies somewhere. The decision also indicates that Facebook might not enforce this policy, when someone isn't "using AI":

"The Board agrees with Meta that the content does not violate the company’s Manipulated Media policy because the clip does not show President Biden saying words he did not say, and it was not altered through AI. The current policy only prohibits edited videos showing people saying words they did not say (there is no prohibition covering individuals doing something they did not do) and only applies to video created through AI."

It is strangely specific.

Facebook might be going ahead with "labelling" following this particular case.

@Melpomene@erisly.social I think quite a few of these companies have a vaguer public policy, and a more specific private one which they give to moderators (there are a few possible good reasons for this, but I suspect it also lets them sweep gaffes under the carpet by *quietly changing the policy* and acting as if it was always that way).

I think it is more a matter of transparency, or the policy being misleading, than a matter of moderation.

It can also be subjective, and might lead to someone splitting hairs over each decision, which runs against the intention of 230. In this Biden case, it feels easier to handle, because they probably announced it months in advance, collected comments, and made an announcement. How many decisions do they make a day other than it?

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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a brilliant series with an addictive edge that has its fans saying "just one more page" until the wee hours of the morning. Mark Rowland explored how Hirohiko Araki mastered and used the art of suspense to make the iconic series utterly irresistible.

@KatS @echo_pbreyer
Maybe. In regards to porn, I'm seeing quite a few exaggerations. For instance, that it might be related to crime.

When it comes to crime:

qoto.org/@olives/1104622745318 (contains summary + link)
American scientists carried out a meta analysis of 59 studies. They found porn isn't associated with crime. A meta analysis is a study where someone studies studies.

psychologytoday.com/us/blog/al
There are even studies (across the United States, Japan, Finland, and more) showing porn is associated with less crime, even among criminals.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/314325
Nor did it seem to be the case among adolescents (the meta analysis also points to that) in this Croatian study. Here, the minors who used more porn engaged in less sexual aggression.

This seems to be one of those areas where people are eager to look for "links" between porn and something bad, and the substance of the "link" tends to be bad.

Good times.

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