Olives @olives@qoto.org

Then again, maybe it's not surprising that a one man "think of the children" org attached to what appears to be a one man "think of the children" org run by a former cop would come up with misleading statistics and claims.

Some progressives over at the TST also accuse this individual of being up to some sketchy things.

They've exposed quite a few iffy characters, including an abusive "therapist".

This isn't the first grifter who has founded a one person org to give themselves a fancy title like "branch head" or "CEO".

I've commented a bit on this "org" (and it's affiliate) to others before but not so much on here. What they do is, basically, they use dodgy terms and methodology which makes the "numbers" look bigger.

At one point, they even attempted to conflate minors sharing porn with each other with abuse. Really.

If there is a choice between underestimating even a bit and wildly overestimating, they seem to pick the option which will lead to a wild over-estimation. This is important to consider.

From what I remember, one of their "reports" lacks a temporal condition (so former criminals might be assumed to be currently offending) and they also refer to what might be legal conduct in a state or country as criminality. Or they might refer to conduct which used to be legal decades ago as such.

In 2022, this guy attempted to run and disseminate a "survey" to try to make it appear as if his proposed policy ideas were more popular than they actually were.

He is known to frequently make misleading claims and refuses to acknowledge the negative drawbacks of his policy proposals.

#auspol

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/one-in-10-children-sexually-solicited-online-20240917-p5kb7s.html In other words, a far right grifter who "runs" a one person org airs sketchy claims to grift off "social media bad". #auspol

Also, apart from involving problematic misrepresentations, or conspiratorial framing, some of the points he raises relate to old and dusted things which are not relevant but which he attempts to construe as some sort of conspiracy.

These things might lead to someone being harassed, and all for a charlatan's grift.

I wasn't originally planning to comment on so many things from him, as I figured he has better things to do with his life, however, he hasn't ceased producing infantile posts which construe people as evil or subhuman, or otherwise try to incorporate things into some sort of conspiracy.

Generally speaking, when I refer to conspiracies or misrepresentation by this individual, I refer to it broadly as there are many. He is best described, in my view, as a grifter who panders to conspiracists.

This guy is practically a conspiracy decorum machine.

He takes misleading claims, outright conspiracies, a few outright lies from interpersonal conflicts, lifts things out of context, amplifies sensationalism, amplifies the views of extremist individuals, misrepresents the lack of competence / expertise of a student as evil intent, and misrepresents lower quality / incomplete content as "evidence" of conspiracy.

He also produces the impression that relatively small phenomena are larger than they actually are in an apparent bid to give further fuel to his conspiratorial frameworks. He also misconstrues everyday phenomena as if they are scandalous.

Then, he slaps a veneer of decorum onto that.

Now, conspiracy guy is going neck-deep into trying to revive old and dusted QAnon type conspiracies.

"sex workers' rights"
I personally prefer terms like "adult content creator". Or if you prefer something more direct, "sexual content creator".

Or perhaps, someone could use both.

Just the other week, maybe a bit more, there was one who thought climate protesters should be jailed for a decade for... blocking a road. Also waves her religion around and demonizes scientists she dislikes. Seems to embrace conspiracies too.

These are awful people with slightly more decorum than the average troll.

Conspiracy guy's "fans" are usually far right (I don't mean libertarians) and particularly weird. Don't assume they're reasonable.

He is pretty conspiratorial, and likes to demonize people, particularly those he doesn't like, so he draws in conspiracists.

Making one of the points I debunk here with slightly different wording doesn't make it more valid.

https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-commissioner-thierry-breton-resigns-attacks-von-der-leyen-for-questionable-governance/
Infamous Commissioner Thierry Breton steps down due to push by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

He is best known for putting pressure on tech companies to censor nebulous categories of "harmful content" and for trying to end net neutrality in the #EU. #FreeSpeech

War on Drugs.

https://reason.com/2024/09/13/the-government-is-taking-babies-away-because-their-moms-ate-poppy-seeds/
"Hospitals around the nation are administering unreliable drug tests to pregnant women, and siccing child welfare authorities upon them based on the results, according to a new investigation from The Marshall Project."

"Disturbingly, it's been long known that these drug tests are unreliable. Urine drug tests commonly administered to pregnant women can have false positive rates as high as 50 percent. False positives frequently occur when someone is taking over-the-counter medications, common antidepressants, or routinely prescribed blood pressure medications."

""After a #California mother had a false positive for meth and PCP, authorities took her newborn, then dispatched two sheriff's deputies to also remove her toddler from her custody," Walter wrote."

"While more than half of U.S. states require hospitals to inform child welfare agencies if they suspect a mother used drugs during pregnancy, none require hospitals to confirm that those results are correct. This means that when a mother has a false positive, she often lacks the ability to demand a more reliable drug test to prove her innocence."
#HumanRights

Might be relevant to #privacy.

https://reason.com/2024/09/13/iowas-supreme-court-keeps-libertarian-congressional-candidates-off-the-ballot/ Interesting case.

https://reason.com/2024/09/15/j-d-vance-says-it-does-not-matter-whether-rumors-of-pet-eating-migrants-are-true/
Yes, it does.

Laila.