Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
When someone breaks their own blog with weird JavaScript.
@PatrickoftheG It shouldn't be hard to find some religious practice which could be argued to hurt someone's mental health. Even the news could be argued to hurt someone's mental health.
Useful human rights protective language is language which clearly and indisputably tells someone that x activity is allowed. No beating around the bush. Even if it might be "useful" now, who knows what someone might argue in 10, 15, 20 years. What stops a country from just ignoring it?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/calls-mount-principal-un-human-rights-official-business-and-tech-groups-address Frankly, stronger language than just "artistic" should be used to protect #HumanRights and #FreeSpeech. For instance, constraining it to real people (this is already sort of done but it shouldn't be an optional point).
https://qoto.org/@olives/112853953984247398 Also, see this post (which also references science to question arguments about porn being spooky and other such things).
Don't you hate people who clearly don't want to be on the fedi but do so just to complain?
I maintain that if someone doesn't hold at least one public view on free speech which is a bit spicy, then they have no business in calling themselves the "biggest supporter of free speech in the country".
Also, he attacked a company which *did* make tricky decisions on free speech because they weren't censorious enough, and misrepresented them as taking a more radical anti-censorship stance than they really did.
He really wanted people to see it too. Just give us the free speech issues, chief.
It was a weirdo who liked to brag about how he was the "biggest believer in free speech in the country", but when it came to any speech issue which wasn't super straightforward, he was like nah.
It wasn't so much that he disagreed on one point or another, it was that he never took any spicy position.
Ooh, got rid of a smart aleck.
https://reason.com/2024/07/30/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says/
"Inmates in #Texas state prisons are being "cooked alive" by scorching temperatures in facilities without air conditioning, a new investigation claims. Documents obtained by The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaboration of multiple Texas stations, showed that even as inmates died with body temperatures nearing 107 degrees, officials have continued to blame their deaths on causes other than extreme heat."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment
@BrendanSinclair Or one service (Facebook) gets pitted against another (Instagram), even though one is more open social media and the other is more "family and friends" social media.
It's also not surprising that someone wouldn't want to be together on a platform with their parents and grandparents.
@BrendanSinclair That has it backwards. What happens is that companies do try to do that, even doing internal studies, and everything they do is twisted against them. Even the science, which is known to be murky, is treated as if it is definitive proof of them being evil.
https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1143913_future-fords-might-detect-speeding-and-report-you-to-the-cops
While I'm not a fan of speeding, I don't like the idea of a snitch network. Big Brother on Wheels. #privacy
Olives
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17 civil society groups have written to the UK Home Secretary about AI in policing.
The use of these systems magnifies discrimination and injustice experienced by marginalised communities in the legal system.
We want an outright ban on ‘predictive policing’.
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#SafetyNotSurveillance #surveillance #policing #AI #ukpolitics #PreCrime
https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2024-ws-150-language-and-inclusion-multilingual-names
"The Internet must be multilingual to be inclusive. This means the domain names and email addresses we use to navigate and communicate online must also be multilingual – called internationalized domain names (IDNs) and email addresses. In 2005 the WSIS Tunis Agenda committed to the "multilingualization of the Internet", noting the importance of implementing multilingualism in domain names and email addresses.
ICANN's global multistakeholder community has deployed 150 top-level domains (TLDs) in 37 languages in 23 scripts. Today we see internationalized domain names, e.g. Thai ยูเอทดสอบ.ไทย, and email addresses, e.g. Japanese めーるてすと@どこでもつかえる.みんな."
"Despite progress, Universal Acceptance (UA) of domain names and email addresses by Internet applications and services remains a challenge. For example, Arabic email addresses cannot be used to register for a social media application. Less than 10% of popular national or global websites and 23% of deployed email servers are configured to accept email addresses in all local languages, according to ICANN community studies."
Saw a fairly good take from Rand Paul on why internet censorship is bad.
You also have to think, censoring drugs inside a video game isn't really going to make them go away. In fact, the black market seems to proliferating even with this censorship.
It only winds up creating annoying red tape for game developers / players to navigate.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
