Olives @olives@qoto.org

Apparently, the AfD is upset that there is a piece of educational information (on some random org out there) which tells young people that fetishes exist. How silly.

If you think the free expression / privacy implications of the #chatcontrol are bad, you might also want to take a look at the proposed cybercrime treaty (it's pretty bad).

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/latest-draft-un-cybercrime-treaty-big-step-backward EFF's newest take on it.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111507457448381388 My newest comments on a few parts of it (although, it is likely best to just can the entire proposal).

https://qoto.org/@olives/111440906410871858 I suppose I should take another opportunity to debunk puritan arguments, although it's probably not necessary.

https://reason.com/2023/11/29/a-los-angeles-jail-let-a-woman-die-of-withdrawal-then-a-coroner-allowed-her-body-to-decompose/

"Amanda Bews was arrested last September after shoplifting from a Los Angeles-area liquor store. Within two days, she would be found unresponsive in a jail cell, dead from apparent alcohol and drug withdrawal.

According to a lawsuit filed this month, that wasn't the only way jail employees mishandled Bews' case. Not only did jail employees fail to treat Bews, despite numerous medical records stating she would need withdrawal medications, but once she had died, the jail mishandled her remains, leading to major decomposition that Bews' mother said made her daughter look "mummified""

https://reason.com/2023/12/01/judge-halts-montanas-first-amendment-violating-tiktok-ban/

"A TikTok ban in Montana is likely unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

Judge Donald Molloy, with the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, issued a temporary halt to enforcing the ban. It was scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2024, and would have meant $10,000 penalties per day for app stores or TikTok "each time that a user accesses TikTok, is offered the ability to access TikTok, or is offered the ability to download TikTok."

The ruling "is a welcome victory in the face of a relentless and illiberal campaign against the First Amendment and the Internet," said Ari Cohn, free speech counsel with TechFreedom. "Wholesale bans on speech-enabling platforms are an affront to the First Amendment, and it is deeply troubling that so many have cheered them on based on panic, fear, or a general disdain for the platform.""

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/latest-draft-un-cybercrime-treaty-big-step-backward The EFF has a take on the newest draft of the proposed cybercrime treaty here.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111497528228022091 I wrote about a couple of provisions here.

I'm also concerned about a provision which encourages states to surveil bank accounts. Britain conveniently forced through a bill suddenly (after the new draft dropped) which allows the monitoring of all bank accounts without due process of law. It is currently in the Lords.

How hard is it not to insert creepy Nazi shit in a comic book about cute girls, LO?

While I wonder whether you really need to buy an engine to make a 2D game, hey, if your competitors are tripping on their faces like that, that is a great time to get in and use that to your advantage, lol.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/29/unity-becomes-marketing-punching-bag-for-other-game-engine/ Lol.

I'm not a fan of Australia trying to ban / restrict vaping. Maybe, better enforcement to prevent minors from doing so would be better than going down the tracks of another prohibition. I could see an environmental argument against non-reusable ones.

More people coming online is also a plausible explanation for more abuse but it also underscores the importance of proportionality (as obviously all these people coming online aren't coming online just to do that).

Apparently, New Zealand are dropping their smoking ban. I'm honestly not a fan of prohibitions, so I'm okay with this (although, I would still recommend against actually doing so, everyone knows cigarettes aren't healthy).

It looks like the E.U. Elections are coming up, so please vote for someone who is against censorship and spying on people when it does. #chatcontrol

Please no more Censor Ursula.

Apparently, the E.U. Election is coming up, so hopefully you will vote for someone who is decent (against censorship and for privacy would be a good start).

For a U.S. parallel, the chat control "compromise" in the E.U. would still be a violation of the First and Fourth Amendments.

Unless, they've changed it radically, it still has that privacy invasive "age verification" clause, and the other things which I previously covered. I know why EDRi did that, it's the so-called "lesser of two evils", but it also obscures the issues with it.

You should celebrate that we're violating your rights because we're doing it in a less brazen manner.

https://edri.org/our-work/csar-european-parliament-rejects-mass-scanning-of-private-messages/

"With strong support for this position from all seven European political groups, this marks a positive development for human rights in one of the most controversial draft European Union (EU) laws in recent memory."

Last I checked, it's still a pretty bad proposal.

I should watch more JoJo.