Olives @olives@qoto.org

Don't you hate those humans.

It's nice to see some people opposing KOSA (although, you can never have too many opposing authoritarianism like this).

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/you-can-help-stop-these-bad-internet-bills Another call to oppose the bad internet bills.

Noting that "STOP CSAM" (it seems that this Congressman is borrowing an Australian phrase here to try to spook you) would likely result in a lot of censorship and over-reach for no real gain.

Distribution of actual child porn is already illegal. Sites already have to take this content down.

They're not required to invade your privacy though, and this clause is in existing law for compatibility with the Constitution.

Sites are also not typically held liable for content they don't know / didn't know about.

Think about it for a moment, that would create all kinds of problems for anyone looking to run a website.

It would also likely chill legitimate expression... We know what large platforms can be like. Giving the government the power to censor online content on a whim would do much of the same.

https://reason.com/2023/07/25/brickbat-baby-you-can-drive-my-car/ While I think the guy is clearly an asshole, arresting him is a bridge too far.

Yes, 911 really sucked in all kinds of ways.

Apparently, Elon also wanted to rename Paypal to X and got ousted over it o.O

He really likes that name for some reason.

NFTs were such a strange phenomena.

They were objectively worthless / useless, however, a few people threw piles of money at them in some sort of tulip mania.

Even a government official jumped up in glee at the fantasy of having something new to regulate and flex her muscle over.

I don't think we've heard of it since.

https://reason.com/2023/07/24/kansas-cops-have-waged-war-on-motorists-by-subjecting-them-to-pretextual-traffic-stops-a-federal-judge-says/
Here's a U.S. District Judge calling into question the practice in Kansas of pressuring motorists into searches (for drugs) and pretending these searches were "consensual".

The judge calls this to a "war on motorists."

Worldcoin. A newly minted cryptobro pitching a product no one ever asked for.

The entire thing is out of touch and unworkable. It is, perhaps, new competition to NFTs over which is worse, is a hideously invasive idea, and would be security disaster, if it did work.

"After publication, Maca Ferguson, a spokesperson for Volunteers of America Western Washington, said the pixel was used for fundraising efforts"
Some of these deliberately added the pixel (although, it's unclear whether they knew how much data it would collect) for unrelated purposes.

"Pellerin said they had removed the code, which they attributed to a plug-in on their website."
Others appear to have been hit by supply chain issues like this where a vendor casually threw the pixel in without their knowledge (although, likely not knowing this would happen).

https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines-promise-anonymity-dozens-of-their-websites-send-sensitive-data-to-facebook

When someone says that "Facebook is tracking you", you might imagine someone tracking the site which you visit, or more extremely, the page you're visiting.

You're not exactly expecting Facebook to be slurping the data out of every form on the page with a script like some sort of malware trying to steal your identity.

IoT devices are known to be insecure and you should be cautious of using any such device (and cautious of where you use it).

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/24/more-suicide-resource-orgs-found-to-be-monetizing-sensitive-user-data/ Ugh, the *suicide resource sites* really shouldn't be sharing sensitive data like this with Facebook.

"In some cases, filling out contact forms on the sites transmitted hashed but easily unscrambled names and email addresses to Facebook."
Very intrusive.

Social media drama (the large platforms) can be fairly time consuming and it's questionable what you really get out of it.

Bad news and drama. Yeah, I'm gonna continue to ramp it down.

I wish there was a button to collapse threads on here. Someone dropped down 40 posts in a row.

Probably someone also posting to *Twitter*.

https://reason.com/2023/07/24/federal-judge-strikes-down-arizona-law-limiting-ability-to-record-police/
Judge strikes down Arizona's law which prohibits someone from filming a police officer within eight feet for being a violation of the First Amendment.

https://reclaimthenet.org/ubisoft-confirms-it-may-delete-inactive-accounts Ugh.