Olives @olives@qoto.org

Even with the "reduced functionality mode" idea, where they strip out every convenience feature in social networks, how many people are really going to use that? It's a feature which just makes it a fair bit harder to use the site and I don't think anyone has patience for that.

Though, does this still count as infinite scrolling? I think a page based design definitely wouldn't.

If large social networks get forced to forgo infinite scrolling, I wonder what you'd get, a "load more" button?

That'll be a bit painful for them, as if you know UX, then you'll know that users are not patient and 100ms delays in loading times already have a (small but cumulative) impact on Amazon sales.

When China complains about "screen time", keep in mind China is a country with a 9 to 9 6 days a week schedule for at least some sectors.

https://truthout.org/articles/anti-lgbtq-group-wants-supreme-court-to-repeal-wa-ban-on-conversion-therapy/ If you remember, there is a loophole to conversion therapy bans, which one religiously motivated quack in Utah was using (while abusing others as well). That isn't okay either.

https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lessons-enter-the-school-curriculum-are-you-a-thief-230822/ Ridiculous...

https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-dl-site-goes-offline-as-hosting-provider-enforces-court-ordered-ban-230809/

"Hosting provider Uberspace has taken down the website of YouTube-ripping software, youtube-dl. The removal is the result of a German court order in a copyright infringement lawsuit, filed by Sony, Warner and Universal. While Uberspace didn't host the open source software, it was held responsible for the website linking to the software hosted on developer platform GitHub."

https://torrentfreak.com/lead-youtube-content-id-scammer-sentenced-to-46-months-230821/

"After masquerading as legitimate music rightsholders, two men fraudulently extracted over $23 million in revenue from YouTube's Content ID system. The men were indicted in 2021 and subsequently entered guilty pleas. An Arizona court has now sentenced Webster Batista Fernandez, who reportedly initiated the scheme, to 46 months in prison."

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-sites-from-users-privately-saved-links-230830/ ...

https://torrentfreak.com/disclosure-of-pirates-identities-compatible-with-eu-privacy-laws-230929/ I don't think this sort of surveillance is worth it to fight something as petty as copyright infringement.

https://nichegamer.com/kick-streamer-johnny-somali-criminally-charged-in-japan/

"On the 2nd, the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office charged Ismael Ramsey Khalid (24), a.k.a. Johnny Somali, a U.S. citizen who caused a nuisance at a restaurant in Minami, Osaka, with forceful obstruction of business. Indicted."

"The streamer was most recently arrested when he trespassed on a construction site. Somali became infamous on the internet after he allegedly harassed women in Japan and taunted Japanese citizens"

https://therecord.media/eu-urged-to-drop-law-website-authentication-certificates

"A similar joint letter has been sent by industry organizations — including the Linux Foundation, Cloudflare, and Mozilla — telling the EU lawmakers that the proposed regulations are a “dangerous intervention” that risk breaking the fragile system of trust that underpins the use of cryptographic certificates on the web."

"Such cases of abuse have been documented, most infamously in the DigiNotar case when the Dutch certificate authority was hacked allowing the attackers to intercept communications between Google and Iranian Google users. Similar cases have affected companies including Comodo and GlobalSign, as the cybersecurity researchers write."

#eidas #chatcontrol

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/2023-eu-eidas-feedback/

"New legislative articles, introduced in recent closed-door meetings and not yet public, envision that all web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments."

#eidas #chatcontrol

It would be very, very bad, if it were about pornography.

Speaking of which, there is a fair bit of rubbish on this site, such as "AGI is only a step away".

https://futurism.com/the-byte/anti-ai-camera-journalists-deepfakes I hope there aren't any privacy implications to this.

I've been reading some of the "think of the children" literature. It's a lot like you hear of "this" or "that" which might be bad and play it up. The document speaks in a primarily shrill paranoid tone.

Some of the language is quite alarming. When speaking of sexting among peers, participants are referred to as simultaneously "perpetrators" and "victims" (emotionally charged language). Someone can't simply be engaging in an activity considered inappropriate.

They talk of content in terms of contagions which inevitably lead to "harm" (a vague term which could mean something as simple as unpleasantness). This is not really true. It's also a very paranoid way to look at the world.

Online porn gets a mention, even though this is pretty moral panicky (1) (honestly, all of it is, but it's not as if we haven't had porn crop up multiple times as a moral panic over the decades).

Even auto-complete gets mentioned as an "evil feature"... There doesn't seem to be a lower bar as to what they're willing to include as an "evil feature".

Quite a few suggestions require somehow knowing someone is a minor... That requires collecting data... Unclear whether they're helpful, they look a lot like random ideas.

It implies that livestreams are commonly visible to millions of people. This might be true, if you're a large influencer. But, you know... We'd be lucky, if we got any (or barely any) watching a livestream, without a pre-established fanbase.

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