Olives @olives@qoto.org

Since there was a fuss over online porn a while ago in #canada, I'll share this post I'm working on on this tag.

It debunks porn (and themes of porn) being spooky with science, and also questions things like "age verification" (i.e. demanding someone's ID). There are other things in there too, which might be relevant when thinking about one of the bills which was proposed recently.

https://www.article19.org/resources/spain-time-to-end-to-repressive-gag-law/
"The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) organisations call on the Spanish government to fully repeal the so-called ‘Gag Law’ as part of its announced ‘democratic regeneration’ efforts. While we welcome the initial proposed changes to the law, these fall short of the full repeal necessary to protect free expression in #Spain."
#FreeSpeech

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/08/20/japan/crime-legal/japan-police-cybercrime/
They had a weird definition a few years ago. For instance, they were spooked by an old German nudist event brochure.

https://endviolenceagainstchildrenconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Global-Ministerial-Conference-on-VAC-Townhall-1_2.pdf
https://endviolenceagainstchildrenconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EVAC-Pledging-Guidance-24-Jul-2024.pdf
"Don't think too hard about these issues. Just nod your head along to violating someone's human rig- Uh, saving the children, Minister."
This is what I'm getting from this.

Since a certain puritanical group is bragging about the government of Taiwan having an anti porn streak, here's a porn science post I'm working on for #Taiwan too which, among other things, debunks porn being spooky with science.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/19/black-children-in-england-and-wales-four-times-more-likely-to-be-strip-searched-figures-show
"A Metropolitan police spokesperson said: We have a duty to do everything we can to prevent children in London from being used in the supply of drugs"
Tories and their War on Drugs.

Maybe, I'll move it to hours which would better align with someone being awake there.

Maybe, I could have timed that post better.

I remember that someone also pointed out that the false positive rate (by the government's own metrics, maybe it's even higher, if we assume that Channel is inaccurate in assessing those who get to them) is as high as 99%.

Prevent feels very Stasi like to me and that is not good.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2849960/Revue_Starlight_El_Dorado/
Revue Starlight El Dorado has been banned by Australia. It appears to be a game about characters acting on a stage. #auspol #FreeSpeech

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.KihonSyugisya.EGame
A game where you have to escape from the bathroom has been banned in Australia. #auspol #FreeSpeech

It's good when the Ninth Circuit stands up for the First Amendment.

Sticking on words like "feminism" doesn't make what they have to say any more valid.

If someone does nothing but show up to far right conferences, promote far right figures, take far right claims at face value and adopt far right positions, engage in harassment, and make a big point about not criticizing the far right, I am going to assume that org is far right.

To be clear, the point that I made about cannabis was making a general point about governments (and how someone shouldn't necessarily expect them to be rational), it wasn't really intended as a great example of an argument for it.

Other than that, they appear to be complaining about strip clubs (performers who are adults). And hey, if that is the profession someone wants to go into, I don't see the issue.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/08/14/companies/us-antitrust-breaking-up-google/ Google might be broken up.

It's important to remember that freedom of expression is multifaceted. Sure, the language of hate speech legislation might be relevant, but it is not the only form of expression which is of interest when looking into how well freedom of expression is protected.

Actually, if it was represented as a report into hate speech legislation, that might be one thing, but it was branded as some sort of report into the "state of free expression" and which countries care about it more or less.