Olives @olives@qoto.org

Saying that no one has been harmed by automated scanning (for the children) won't make it true.

Usual suspects...

A tinge of racism, nonsensical theory crafting, and I suppose desperate for something to grift over.

I see a few QAnons are interpreting Germany's right to a "personality", or whatever, as part of a big evil conspiracy.

https://reclaimthenet.org/elon-musk-announces-new-policy-phrases-such-as-decolonization-and-from-the-river-to-the-sea-could-result-in-x-ban

"Elon Musk has announced a new change in policy to X. On Friday, his announcement established that the use of terms such as “decolonization” and “from the river to the sea”— phrases commonly thrown around by the pro-Palestine movement — would invite suspension on the platform as they imply genocide."

https://reason.com/2023/11/17/brickbat-crazy-ex-girlfriend/

"A Marion County, Florida, sheriff's deputy received a one-day suspension for using a police database to find the identity of a woman dating her ex-boyfriend. She was suspended an additional two days after a video was shared on Facebook of her attacking another woman at a party. The woman she attacked was reportedly a friend of a woman her ex-boyfriend was dating."

In the dub, people getting stabbed to death is replaced with someone's soul being ripped out with a magic artefact and being sent to a dark place forever.

There's even a random card where you go to play it and the computer is like Bzzt, this card is password protected, you can't play it without putting in the password, it is also hacked to be ridiculously overpowered.

I don't think there's anyone in that anime who doesn't cheat.

Using a magic eye to read your opponent's mind while playing card games is cheating.

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/wv-prison-finally-releases-atheist Looks like a prison violated the First Amendment for trying to force Christian programs for atheists.

https://reason.com/2023/11/15/mississippi-makes-it-a-crime-to-advertise-legal-medical-marijuana-businesses/

"Clarence Cocroft filed a lawsuit this week challenging the state's virtual ban on advertising medical marijuana businesses, arguing the law violates his First Amendment rights."

"Clarence Cocroft is the owner of a legal medical marijuana business in Olive Branch, Mississippi. However, while his business is perfectly legal, the state is hell-bent on making it practically impossible for him to actually stay afloat. How? By making it a felony for Cocroft to advertise his business."

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-fifth-amendment-protects-people-being-forced-enter-or-hand-over

"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today asked the Supreme Court to overturn a ruling undermining Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination and find that constitutional safeguards prevent police from forcing people to provide or use passcodes for their cell phones so officers can access the tremendous amount of private information on phones."

What's so striking is that Ylva doesn't even try to make these claims convincing. It's just a mantra or a slogan someone repeats.

https://dimension.im Someone complained that an American cryptobro was buying up fediverse instances last year. His website is quite... something.

Someone seems surprised that between spending potentially limitless amounts of money on making a platform "child safe" (which would also anger countless users with false positives) and wanting to pass legislation putting the onus on parents / app stores, FB has chosen the latter.

https://www.wired.com/story/parental-advisory-chatbots-children-sex-and-alcohol/

I don't think "it might theoretically have this conversation" is a good reason.

That said, it's annoying to pretend that we can make these services "child friendly" like that (without making it far worse for others, and yet, still failing at this aim). An advisory or rating that it might contain mature content would probably be a better way to go.

The IWF is from the U.K. which is not even part of the E.U. and the U.K. Conservative Party was all proud about leaving the E.U...

It's also another reminder that these policies are being primarily pushed by U.S. / U.K. affiliated groups. Even one of the more European looking groups is actually a local branch of a U.S. group.

It does seem they tried to target a particular "page" but that's not really something that is technically feasible.

It's also quite questionable for a random charity, with a tenuous mandate, to engage in censorship, and to second guess the world's largest encyclopedia. This is also the highest profile case, chances are they were doing all sorts of unpleasant things with lower profile sites.