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When I next update this, I might add that there are other forms of conflation too (i.e. conflating sexy with non-sexy).

Maybe, also improve on the wording of part 2, although it already seems fairly good?

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I think it's kind of the "commenting on a claim" vs "a rule which can apply to many claims", otherwise I end up spending a lot of time redundantly commenting on things.

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I have an inner perfectionist which tells me that I should improve on this. When I review it though, it seems pretty good.
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Olives  
While I generally don't dive into this, I saw a few bad faith remarks which are so outrageous that I feel compelled to respond. First off, when tal...

Facebook. That company with a horrid record on privacy and whose very founder called his users "dumb f-cks" for giving him their data.
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Olives  
The information sharing platform also appears to be operated by Facebook which means that not small amounts of personal information are likely to b...

As mentioned before, there are also questions of due process, freedom of expression, and privacy. A cartel means that stupid ideas (or systemic bias / mistakes) have a tendency of being amplified.

That is my "human rights analysis" from a more critical angle.

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It is unclear what the scope of this platform is at all, indeed, rather vague language is used, and you are supposed to just assume it is used against "bad things". However, there is (still rather tortured) language which contradicts this narrative in some areas.

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The information sharing platform also appears to be operated by Facebook which means that not small amounts of personal information are likely to be non-consensually processed by Facebook (even if you don't use any of their services).

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One of the most glaring parts of it, apart from just being very underwhelming, is that it assumes that these platforms are well-behaved actors (and not actors who overwhelmingly act on frivolous grounds). They're not.

It fails to properly challenge these platforms, indeed, it doesn't seem to operate from that angle at all.

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"They also appeared to be funding reports to justify it."

The "human rights analyses" they use to justify it substantially underplay the potential harmfulness of it.
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Olives  
While investigating other things, I discovered multiple tech companies engaging in very creepy and opaque cartel-like behavior with a program calle...

Nice to know that Julie's site also breaks crawlers... Ugh.

"Now @MarietjeSchaake D66 - I thought she was a good MP and MEP at the time, but can hardly believe she hasn't spoken out about the EU's Orwellian chat control plans."

Well, go contact her (and anyone else for that matter) then. Politicians can be fairly unreliable.

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Well, that's good. It's a terrible idea (and should be burned to the ground, we should be very wary of little faux fixes).

I don't really understand what you specifically want done about infinite scrolling (which contexts? how?).
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BREAKING: Politico reports that Senator Cantwell says she will delay hotlining the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) because of ongoing concerns aroun...

At least Sports Illustrated is facing a, small, scandal for being stupid this time, not because a puritan is offended by a photo being too "sexy" for their liking.

"Discord server" is such a stupid phrase.

I see Patrick is trying to protect your privacy on domestic flights.

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