Olives @olives@qoto.org

I'm reading a really weak hit piece about the fediverse. What strikes me is just how little actual child porn there actually is. When you consider the scale of both instances and networks, the number is essentially nil.

They really had to snip random things out of context to try to pretend there is a "problem". They still failed.

It's not hard to figure out why Q aligned people are so concerned about what might or might not have happened at the Kinsey.

It's because they're upset about pornography, the acceptance of homosexuality, and other forms of social liberation. Reading some posts of theirs shows that.

And they blame the researchers who work at Kinsey for that.

The 50s weren't exactly a good time for ethics.

Supposedly, the U.S. Government carried out experiments involving STDs and psychological torture they called "mind control experiments" (MKUltra).

There were also inhumane experiments on criminals, MIT feeding people radioactive oats, and more.

At the end of the day though, while there might be something to be learned, whatever happened in the 50s has little bearing on the modern day.

Unless, of course, you're a Q conspiracist who sees everything as some sort of conspiracy.

The argument would generally be that they just wouldn't get these people, if they did go around reporting it, and that there is scientific value to it.

That's not an argument which I'm making here, although it's unsurprising that standards might have been different in the past.

In order to whet the appetites of Q enthusiasts, the Australian guy is now dredging up what some researcher at Kinsey in Indiana might have done back in the 50s (when ethics at plenty of universities were a fair bit dodgier).

For instance, he is upset that someone collected survey data from a child abuser without reporting them to the police.

He ignores that not only was research ethics in plenty of universities a fair bit dodgier, but that, researchers in Germany have been known to withhold reports from German police in modern times, for the sake of research.

He then peeks at some unsubstantiated and sketchy claims. That is the core of it though.

It's awfully convenient to go after a researcher who has been dead for around 60 - 70 years and to ignore anyone who might actually defend themselves...?

If Twitter decides to launch a video offering to compete with YouTube, they should consider calling it "X Videos".

Lol.

The magic truck that sends you to reincarnate in a fantasy world filled with magic, dragons, you being overpowered, and lots of cute girls.

Can Goku overcome it?

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