Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
https://reason.com/2024/04/24/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-quietly-kills-clemency-initiative-for-drug-free-school-zone-offenders/
"Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has quietly ended a fast-track clemency process for drug-free school zone offenders who were serving outdated sentences."
"The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill in 2020 reducing the size of these zones to 500 feet and requiring that the mandatory minimums be applied only if a defendant's conduct actually endangered children. But the new law was not retroactive, so hundreds of offenders were left to serve the remainder of their sentences."
#HumanRights
https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/ Among very stupid ideas, there is this one from Florida... which probably makes crime worse. #HumanRights
Interesting to see that NCMEC had to remove some clearly erroneous entries from their "child porn list". Unclear how many more there are.
They really should have some process for appealing appearing on this list.
There really needs to be a channel for the admin to communicate through when the site is down. Maybe, an alt account. Maybe, a status page, even one on a different domain.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harvestvegetables.fun Australia appears to have banned* this game about fruit. Presumably, that has something to do with it being rated as containing "sexual themes".
* https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
Lots of instance errors.
@freeschool interesting
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2055410/The_Kindeman_Remedy/ Australia appears to have* banned a (deliberately provocative game) where you play as an evil doctor.
* https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
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Europol issues a press release (after a meeting in the U.K. of all places, which is not a member of the E.U.) voicing their opposition to end-to-end encryption.
It's not really anything new though, they've always been big fans of mass surveillance with nothing in the way of safeguards.
As you might expect, they walk their parade of terribles to try to intimidate people, and even manage to betray the fact that their intention is to engage in very dubious accuracy profiling. Take note of that.
Auch wenn es bei der #Chatkontrolle nicht voran geht. #Europol hat klare Vorstellungen was mit Verschlüsselung zutun ist, am besten einfach verbiet...
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https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-albanese-misinformation-censorship-demands-sydney-stabbing There are a lot of bad ideas here.
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Whether it’s dressed up as a ban or a forced sale, the bill targeting TikTok is laughably unconstitutional and an egregious assault on free expression and human rights.
The Senate will vote TODAY.
Sound the alarm y'all we can't let this happen quietly
@freeschool The point of an automated test is that you write hundreds or more tests which test little parts of a program with varying inputs to make sure that they work as they should.
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The Canadian *Bill C-26*, which is now with the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (https://u.fsf.org/433), may endanger the viability of small free software projects as they may not be able to pay the costs to comply with the reforms. https://u.fsf.org/432
@freeschool It's something a politician might invoke when they're pushing a bad piece of legislation.
https://reclaimthenet.org/jp-morgan-chase-cashes-in-on-customer-data
"The largest US bank, and the world’s largest by capitalization, JP Morgan Chase, is going forward with another way to monetize their clients – by giving access to their spending data to be used for targeted ads."
https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-albanese-misinformation-censorship-demands-sydney-stabbing There are a lot of bad ideas here.
To be fair, I think Zuckerberg does get a lot of rap from a few for things he can't do a whole lot about, such as having this content or that content up.
I haven't specifically seen it in a few months, but with each instance, it becomes ever more obvious what the intentions behind it really are.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
