Olives @olives@qoto.org

Arkansas' social media "age verification" law has been blocked by a judge for violating the First Amendment.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Sec-CH-Prefers-Color-Scheme There is also this header but it only works in Chrome (and I guess it doesn't matter how someone does it).

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/prefers-color-scheme Curiously, there is a CSS media feature for testing whether someone prefers light or dark mode (which is useful for accessibility purposes), although it's a bit of an obscure one.

You'd think that Russia being so thrilled by that proposed cybercrime treaty would be more of a red flag.

Looks like the Fandom Post has gotten a bit of engagement.

Anti puritan starter kit:

Unsurprisingly, a lot of puritanical arguments involve porn.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2015.1023427
https://psyarxiv.com/ehqgv/
Porn is not associated with sexism.

https://qoto.org/@olives/110462274531891870 Meta analysis of 59 studies didn't find that porn is linked to sex crimes.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601/evidence-mounts-more-porn-less-sexual-assault
https://qoto.org/@olives/110400288665794817
There are even studies showing less crime with higher levels of porn use, even among criminals.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222001637
In regards to "sexualization in video games", some studies have chosen cut offs which are very difficult to distinguish from noise.

This drastically increases the number of false positives. Even here, they have often found results which appear to contradict their hypothesis.

The meta analysis fails to find a link between this and sexism or mental well being.

#anime

Judged? The judge. That is a typo. A funny typo but a typo nonetheless, lol.

https://theappeal.org/florida-prison-celebrity-cipher-newspaper/ Florida prison scared of puzzle game, lol.

Germany's "dark field" child abuse prevention program has been criticized for being ineffectual, and possibly, even harmful and counter-productive.

Whatever they come up with, I'm expecting them to respect human rights, including the rights to freedom of expression, privacy, and due process.

The judged pointed out that:

Texas didn't bother to educate parents about content filtering tools, or at the very least, they didn't put this as an argument in the lawsuit.

This meant that it wasn't the least intrusive possible measure they could have taken.

Verifying people's government identification also means the government might monitor what content someone is viewing, and that this has a substantial chilling effect on free expression.

Also, the First Amendment applies. #FreeSpeech

By the way, the judge in Texas completely eviscerated the government's arguments when he granted that injunction against the anti-porn law.

Apparently, the ACLU (I haven't heard their name in quite some time, it's usually the EFF) has filed a complaint with the FTC against MasterCard for engaging in discriminative practices against sex workers.

It's not typically that (or just that) which tears down puritans, it is also the complete lack of scientific basis for their arguments (also their lack of principle).

I have fairly consistent values.

I don't follow the meme that "it is okay because Japan is doing it", and then, snap at an American doing the same thing.

I actually find that kind of hilarious.

It's the nerd equivalent of "won't anyone please think of the children?".