Olives @olives@qoto.org

Interesting to see some U.S. lawmakers questioning the authoritarian antics of the E.U.

https://journalnow.com/north-carolina-sends-6-year-olds-to-court-why-some-say-its-time-for-change/article_e2a15a82-8383-11eb-91ee-43ce7c88753b.html It could be worse. There was a case where a younger child picked a flower off a yard and they tried to nab them for "vandalism" or something. Black. #CriminalJustice

https://reason.com/2023/12/20/10-year-old-kid-offered-probation-for-peeing-behind-his-moms-car/

"A Mississippi 10-year-old has been sentenced to three months' probation for urinating behind his mother's car. But the boy's mother is refusing to sign his probation agreement, citing the stringency of the agreement's terms.

"It's just a regular probation. I thought it was something informed for a juvenile. But it's the same terms an adult criminal would have," Carlos Moore, the family's attorney, told the Associated Press on Tuesday. "We cannot in good conscience accept a probation agreement that treats a 10-year-old child as a criminal.""

"The fact that police—and prosecutors—responded so aggressively to a completely nonviolent child has led Moore to suggest that racial bias has played a role in the boy's case."

I did have that immediate thought, that they probably wouldn't have done it, if he was white. #CriminalJustice

https://www.audacy.com/krld/news/state/texas-da-loses-fight-against-netflix-over-french-film Apparently, that's what happened with Cuties. I forgot about that incident.

https://reason.com/2023/12/20/sentencing-commission-again-proposes-restricting-judges-use-of-acquitted-conduct/

"A government panel could soon limit a little-known but outrageous practice that allows federal judges to enhance defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of.

The U.S. Sentencing Commission published proposed amendments to federal guidelines on December 14 that include three potential options to restrict judges' ability to use acquitted conduct at sentencing—a practice that a wide range of civil liberties advocates say is antithetical to the principles of the American justice system."

#CriminalJustice

Honestly, rather than using LLMs as some magic tool in every widget, I think it'd be more interesting used as a game.

Think roleplaying game. That'd be cool.

Yes, I like the idea of "AI" run on your local machine, rather than some thing running on the servers of your corporate overlords.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_New_Zealand In New Zealand, they even had their own Wizard working for the government, and presumably, protecting the realm, lol.

If you have a problem with stupid politicians complaining about online porn in Europe, then you should contact them about that.

One moment.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Here's some scientific resources which show it isn't awful.

Have you considered the possibility that we're already in Hell?

@ella

https://eupolicy.social/@1br0wn/111611995353395257

What does EDRi think of privacy intrusive "age verification" for porn sites?

Also, there is significant room for over reach here in terms of content removal.

https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Also, viewing porn is unrelated to crime.

#DSA

We know that platforms have made inappropriate judgements in this area, particularly in regards to artistic works, and there appears to be implicit conflations here.

Also, in quite a few cases, someone might insinuate one thing, then another might be represented.

For now, SFW / NSFW should suffice, to explain that:

"sexy" doesn't necessarily mean NSFW.

Some degree of "nudity" isn't necessarily that strange to see either, particularly in a cartoon style, unless someone is prudish to a degree I'm not sure exists. At the very least, that is silly to censor.

One that was dropped from that update, for now, was "a few have conflated "sex", "sexy" and "nudity", because it was a more complicated one to explain.

"othering" was compacted, although it's there, because I didn't want it to dominate Part 2.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/victory-utah-supreme-court-upholds-right-refuse-tell-cops-your-passcode

"Last week, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors violated a defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self incrimination when they presented testimony about his refusal to give police the passcode to his cell phone. In State v. Valdez, the court found that verbally telling police a passcode is “testimonial” under the Fifth Amendment, and that the so-called foregone conclusion exception does not apply to “ordinary testimony” like this. This closely tracks arguments in the amicus brief EFF and the ACLU filed in the case."

#privacy

https://edri.org/our-work/2023-a-good-year-for-privacy-a-bad-year-for-chat-control/

"Rumours are also swirling that the European Commission is deeply frustrated by the Parliament standing up for our digital rights, and is considering options and strategies to push through broad, untargeted scanning measures despite a lack of political credibility."

Something to watch out for. #chatcontrol

Updated dive into bad faith conflations of reality and fiction, involves #GenAI (imagery and text stories) and VR, although not limited to them.

https://reason.com/2023/12/18/a-tennessee-youth-detention-center-has-been-illegally-throwing-kids-in-solitary-confinement/

"A Tennessee youth detention center has been skirting a state law prohibiting solitary confinement for minors by classifying solitary lockups as "voluntary"—even when youth have said they spent days locked alone in a cell.

An investigation from ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio published last month found that the Richard L. Bean Juvenile Service Center, a youth lockup near Knoxville, was violating a 2021 Tennessee law that banned solitary confinement for minors."

This "voluntary" classification reminds me of #chatcontrol...

https://qoto.org/@olives/110847252096826064 I've written about how solitary is inhumane before.

#CriminalJustice

https://reason.com/2023/12/18/5th-circuit-reluctantly-rules-against-victim-of-a-prosecutor-who-was-also-a-law-clerk/ Apparently, a prosecutor was also a clerk simultaneously working for the judge...

https://nichegamer.com/peter-molyneuxs-godus-and-godus-wars-pulled-from-steam/ Don't worry, you're not missing much, Godus is an awful game.

From what I remember, Godus is basically do a tiny bit and wait 24 hours game, but instead of a free mobile game, it cosplays as a PC game. Also, it had next to no real content.