Olives @olives@qoto.org

1) People have rights. You know, that is very important.

2) What led to end-to-end encryption proliferating so much, and which likely contributed to this newest decision, is how often the government abuses it's power to spy on people (or to oppress people).

Governments (and their apologists) seem to think they can do whatever crazy thing and people will just take it. That's crazy talk.

Exaggerating the dangerousness of every criminal viewing (real) child porn is not going to make the argument against end-to-end encryption any more compelling.

I've wanted to do one on Marija for a while.

Every now and then, she shows up uninvited, as if she is some sort of royal queen, and starts talking a load of rubbish, as do a lot of the people around her.

Already one bad faith actor is screaming.

Marija might also be very upset. Not because anyone might be in danger, but because she thinks she might miss her SDG quota (she would have failed anyway, her goals are not only unrealistic, they are anything but sustainable).

Also, trying to violate people's rights like this was always very foolhardy...

She should also stop pretending to be some sort of global org when she appears to be... Operating one out of New York.

Her team looks mostly Western. The ones who approve projects appear to be from Britain / America (and mainly from around those governments). Surprise.

According to Facebook, they're rolling out "default end-to-end encryption" for "personal calls and messages" on "messenger".

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.