Olives @olives@qoto.org

While doing research into one org, what stood out was how, basically, some therapists didn't want anyone to know that they had worked with criminals. I think that even criminals should have access to mental health care, so that is a bit concerning.

It's what someone might call the "dark field". A sexual offender who hasn't been discovered yet (I'd be wary of conflating teens sexting with each other with that though).

Dealing with sexual offenders carries a certain amount of stigma, so sometimes someone is tempted to use lighter language like this, but it is problematic as it ends up conflating people who aren't engaging in criminality with those who have (guilt by association).

"Adolescents with a sexual interest in children represent an underserved population."

I don't know who needs to hear this but adolescents being "interested" in other minors is not surprising or disturbing. I suspect they might mean a sexual offender, in which case it would be simpler to just say that, rather than beating around the bush with a confusing euphemism.

There are a couple of points where legislation is introduced which leads to an increase in the number of potential cases (this doesn't suggest that there are more incidences but that more potential cases are being uncovered). This is one of the things which Diamond and Uchiyama accounts for.

"As Diamond and Uchiyama (1999) and other pieces of science remind us, this sort of content is not associated with crime, even if the fictional character is like / is a child"
When millions, if not tens of millions, of people do something and the sky hasn't fallen.

It's been long established that weird or disturbing fantasies are fairly common and not something of concern.

When you encounter the antiquated and pseudo-scientific concept of "paraphilias" (which could be considered a form of bigotry) and there is a cursed phrase like "transvestic disorder".

And in the case that someone says that it is about the *tool*, what about tools for making memes (there are a number of websites for this), don't they deal in copyrighted content? Where does someone draw the line here?

One of the problems with framing "AI" generated content as an issue of copyright is that it is fairly common to take a funny still from a show, to add a bit of text, and to post that onto social media. If that is infringing, doesn't that practically ban memes? Does using an "AI" tool to make your meme somehow make that different? Where does someone draw the line?

https://reason.com/2024/09/09/federal-judge-rules-inmate-death-records-can-remain-secret-because-they-could-embarrass-prison-officials/
"In response to a public records lawsuit filed by the Reason Foundation, the nonprofit that publishes Reason, a federal judge has ruled the U.S. government can hide findings about whether people who died in federal prison received adequate medical care, partly out of fear that those records could be used to criticize prison officials."

"The judge wrote that a declaration from a BOP official credibly established that the mortality reviews could be used to "criticize" or "ridicule" the agency."
#HumanRights #Foia

https://reason.com/2024/09/11/texas-court-rejects-last-appeal-for-a-man-set-to-be-executed-based-on-disputed-shaken-baby-syndrome-evidence/
"A #Texas appeals court denied a stay of execution today for Robert Roberson, a death row inmate who is scheduled on October 17 to become the first person in the U.S. to be executed based on disputed "shaken baby syndrome" evidence."

"Medical examiners found a trio of internal head conditions that were, at the time, considered to be conclusive evidence of violent shaking and impacts."

"Roberson's lawyers argued that the scientific understanding of shaken baby syndrome, now called Abusive Head Trauma (AHT), has shifted dramatically since his conviction. His lawyers also said they had uncovered previously undisclosed medical records that proved Roberson's daughter died of severe viral and bacterial pneumonia, not trauma from shaking or abuse."
#HumanRights

Australian federal government declines to criminalize hate speech, although expands laws covering incitement and threats.

Google might be in trouble in the anti-trust case around their ad network. It always seemed to be the stronger of the two cases, between it and the one around search.

I've been reading quite a few papers / articles on sex crimes, and it's interesting how the psychologists repeatedly stress that youths are easier to rehabilitate than adults, and that systems tend to treat them as adults.

"Metro Bus Park Game_3D Games"
I mean this title.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/09/thousands-of-avis-car-rental-customers-had-personal-data-stolen-in-cyberattack/
"Car rental giant Avis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that their personal information and driver’s license numbers were stolen in an August cyberattack."

"the car rental company said that the stolen information includes customer names, mailing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, their date of birth, credit card numbers and expiration dates, and driver’s license numbers"
#privacy