Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/06/even-if-you-hate-both-ai-and-section-230-you-should-be-concerned-about-the-hawley-blumenthal-bill-to-remove-230-protections-from-ai/ A really stupid "AI" censorship bill.

"AI"

This is a detached piece as I'm thinking of how to best word this post. It seems that someone has, again, gotten awind of gossip over a bit of content, and are talking with apocalyptic overtones again about entire platforms. What is with this tendency?

"VR"

A (seemingly retired) British cop was engaging in their own "what if" hypotheticals (and conflating that with something quite different).

Uh, there are plenty of innocent people who engage in those activities, you know, Mr. Cop.

Wow, both the AI and VR (x.x) parts have come up in the past few days.

That someone could look to "harm someone" with "generative AI" is a bad reason for tearing it down for everyone else.

If it pops up when it isn't prompted for, there could be an argument that that isn't the desired behavior from the user, however, acting as if an algorithm generating violent content is inherently abhorrent comes off as silly.

"What if the AI generates violent content?"

Well, I don't see why that is the end of the world, if someone is going out of their way to prompt for that?

Well, they were, and it was really specific too. Rwanda. Of all countries.

https://apnews.com/article/felon-disenfranchisement-legislation-voting-rights-prison-2431448db8be2cc41df7b78c11e30e83 Interesting.

I see "5rights" (a censorship org run by someone from the British Conservative Party who was apparently appointed to her position in the upper house by them after making a documentary about how much she hates porn) is looking to "improve online safety in Rwanda".

Is this to market Rwanda as a safer place for sending migrants to...? I don't think this would address those issues there at all...

https://nichegamer.com/more-people-doxxed-for-talking-about-the-coffin-of-andy-and-leyley/ Worth noting that someone being sent child porn as a form of harassment is not new.

It's kind of ironic that the E.U. is hurtling itself towards totalitarianism and the only one who can do anything about it is apparently some guy from the fringe pirate party.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/06/us-senator-warns-governments-spying-apple-google-smartphone-users-via-push-notifications/

"U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has warned in a letter to the Justice Department that unidentified governments are spying on Apple and Google phone users through their push notifications. The letter says his office received a tip last year that government agencies in foreign countries were “demanding” push notification records from the tech giants."

#privacy

https://www.iza.ne.jp/article/20210324-5D4NYLCUN5OIPJ3T3HA6NEK5CE/ According to this, Kagawa Prefecture's "time limit" rule on playing games and using smartphones might be associated with lower such usage, however, it is associated with higher levels of addiction.

It is also criticized for being a violation of the Constitution, and there is an active lawsuit against it.

"MEPs in't Veld and Breyer believe that both the EU Parliament and the European Commission uncritically give in to pressure from commercial interests"

Oh, what a coincidence, there Sophie is.

https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-marks-tutanota-emails-as-junk

"Since mid November, our users are reporting that their emails sent to Outlook are being flagged as Spam. This affects all emails sent from any tutanota.com email address. Our team reached out to Microsoft’s support team as well as to our direct contact, a board member of Microsoft Germany. However, the issue has yet to be resolved."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-22/the-uk-banned-a-toyota-truck-ad-for-promoting-off-road-driving Nannies...

"And he suggests the suicide rate may also have been boosted by "parental death and incarceration" associated with the shift from legally produced pharmaceuticals to illicit drugs."

If it is prohibition driving that, then that is quite alarming.

https://reason.com/2023/12/04/oxycontins-reformulation-linked-to-rising-suicides-by-children/ Interesting theory.