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When a platform tries to fact check something in isolation, when they really should be thinking of how it ties into QAnon, and debunking that.

I judge Bluesky by what they do, not what they promise to do, and so far, it's been a mess.

youtube.com/watch?v=BiqDZlAZyg Rowan Atkinson (who plays Mr. Bean) talks about the importance of free expression.

@onrust The U.K. Home Office has never really been known for their adherence to human rights, but they've been especially bad over the past five years.

While it would be nice to take a more radical approach to cutting down copyright terms, repealing this corrupt law would be a good start.

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Repeal the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.

@ploum A site ran by a billionaire has foul content. Well, you know how things go, policy and moderation is impossible to get right at scale. You can't make everyone happy.

Oh boy, there is an obscure site (which happens to use the AP protocol) no one here is ever going to interact with (federation is lazy / conservative, as well as other things) which contains content which offends me. I am outraged.

I saw those very examples once from their circles. There is also nothing which can really change the calculus for them, they really don't want to use a platform not run by a Silicon Valley tech bro.

@metaning @ploum Wow, it's nice to see someone who calls it out for how it is.

@ploum There is a passage in their policies which literally appears to have been lifted from QAnon (rather than being the consequence of a deliberate and well-thought out policy effort), and some of their behavior already points to such.

I think it's going to be another nest of out of touch Silicon Valley tech bros. It's unfortunate, but they can't seem to help themselves.

@ploum I've also seen people who practically behave like shills for Facebook which is... Weird to say the least.

Repeal the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.

@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.

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