Olives @olives@qoto.org

Of course, the language in the criminal code could be better in order to better protect human rights.

This is the risk in giving these bureaucratic type bodies too much power.

There's an interesting piece suggesting that a classification type body might be engaging in puritanical type censorship in Germany.

I always found it suspicious when someone presumed it was something in the criminal code because the language in the criminal code didn't seem to suggest that.

I see someone has somewhat documented Bluesky's puritanism in a piece, although it could be expanded on.

"It's not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms."
It's not right that a photo can be the header of an article in a big news outlet (i.e. the naked mannequin), but it can't be posted on Facebook.

While yes, the language that someone might use can be rather vague, I avoided focusing that in the long post as I didn't want it to come off as saying that this taboo content or that taboo content is uniquely bad.

I felt it was a distraction from the main point I was trying to convey.

Of course, Bluesky can do it more efficiently, they can do it more efficiently because they are mostly centralized.

"There are all these things which work on Bluesky like like counts despite it being decentralized."
That is because it's not actually decentralized. Also, I think not federating the like counts is more of a *Mastodon issue* than a *fediverse issue*.

Mastodon could do it but it wouldn't be efficient to do so.

Since someone was claiming it again, and how it supposedly solves #FreeSpeech issues... Bluesky is not decentralized.

Please produce transcripts for important podcasts / videos, this is a big accessibility issue.

Bluesky. Is. Not. Decentralized.

Or Neptune is headed towards the Earth, we have to send a small crew of people in a capsule to use this device someone put together in their garage to reverse the magnetic field to stop it.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/india-rupay-upi-payment-push-is-cutting-out-visa-and-mastercard/
"Regulators around the world are notching up scrutiny on Visa and Mastercard over the fees they charge merchants, but India has chosen a different path: Creating rival payment networks that are increasingly sidelining international card networks.

India’s strategy builds on the Unified Payments Interface, known as UPI, a nine-year-old system that lets consumers and merchants bypass traditional card networks by connecting bank accounts directly through QR codes and phone numbers."

Hollywood disaster films be like the Australian continent is headed towards America really fast destroying every island in it's way.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/metas-new-content-policy-will-harm-vulnerable-users-if-it-really-valued-free It's a good piece, although could've focused on FB's failings (focusing on a specific kind of speech) rather than stepping on the #FreeSpeech org landmine of what they ought to remove.

While I could continue to comment on Facebook, I don't think it'll be fruitful to do so without first waiting a while to see if anything happens / any further information comes along.

Now, local politicians across Japan seem to be concerned about financial censorship.

It's tricky to figure out how to react to Facebook here because there isn't really a precedent for their current behavior. So, a lot of it winds up being watch and see.

"random third party org" might come off as a bit harsh, but practically speaking, that is how they might appear.