Olives @olives@qoto.org

There are a lot, lot, lot of examples. Some might get flashy articles. Many don't. Censorship that is the most obvious to just about everyone in this regard is just the tip of the iceberg.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7mzpj/pornhub-content-deleted-verification

"Before the purge that disappeared more than 75 percent of content on the platform, Pornhub hosted a lot of videos and photos that weren’t humans having sex. There were full-length movies, memes, and video game playthroughs that you might see on a non-adult site like Twitch, but there was also a ton of animation, 3D renderings, audio erotica, music videos, fanfic from furries and bronies, and stop-motion animation like LEGO minifigs fucking."

One example of what "collateral damage" can look like, oh, that is only one of many examples. Isn't it fun to have people randomly giving you the middle finger? #DSA

https://ecnl.org/news/ecnl-joins-cso-coalition-court-case-against-eus-terrorist-content-regulation ECNL on why the #TERREG is bad.

Here's one which flew under the radar in mid-2023:

https://ecnl.org/news/ecnl-access-now-and-eff-joint-statement-extended-reality-xr-technologies

@ecnl, @eff and Access Now wrote to the European Commission to urge them to protect #privacy (and it seems free expression too) when it comes to the #metaverse.

NetChoice appears to have sued Utah over their unconstitutional social media law which includes privacy intrusive "age verification" measures.

I'm concerned that their ideologues as it were are going to go around invading people's privacy in order to feed into some "algorithm" to do a load of number crunching on (probably for questionable gains) with some vague idea like this relating to health.

https://www.dtu.dk/english/news/all-news/artificial-intelligence-can-predict-events-in-peoples-lives?id=49c0a5da-0ef9-4222-8f59-aff35888a2ba But, did they think about their #privacy, when building this... Questionable thing? Also, at first glance, it appears to have told us things we already knew.

https://reason.com/2023/12/27/british-teen-gets-potential-life-sentence-for-grand-theft-auto-vi-hack/ Reason comments on *that* incident.

I hear chatter about new trans border European train links.

I suppose with the LLM, someone can finally get their cute loli wife, huh? Lol.

https://reason.com/2023/12/23/jeff-brandes-on-criminal-justice-reform/ Reason interviews a less "law and order" Floridian Republican politician.

He says things like this:

"I sat on the criminal justice committee back in 2014 and recognized pretty quickly that there was no real leadership on that issue statewide and that the prison system in Florida was circling the drain. I began to tour prisons, and the more I toured, the less I liked. I was often going to prisons that had 1,500 inmates and zero education opportunities, realizing that a vast majority of our prisons were understaffed. We had really created a Department of Warehousing and not a Department of Corrections. We weren't correcting behavior. We weren't getting better outcomes. So I started to work to fix that."

Might be an interesting read.

Reminder that David has links to Facebook.

https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-fails-to-prove-efficacy-of-extensive-surveillance Interesting.

Do you know of any civil rights (i.e. free expression / privacy) violations which I don't?

Screaming about the end of the world is marketing for OpenAI.

Holding "AI summits" about the end of the world is marketing for politicians.

NodeBB (which seems interested in joining the fediverse) is a lot like Discourse but it isn't run by a jerk from Silicon Valley. It's Canadian.

By the way, by his own standards (if someone believes in whatever he is doing, frankly, he seems to be a troublemaker) what he is doing seems to be... very unethical.

For instance, instead of giving advice (well, minus all the censorship and most over the top stuff) to someone many months ago quietly, he seems to have sat there trying to manufacture a "scandal", so that he could descend down like some sort of "wise sage".

Even if the vendor was wrong though, or perhaps, imprecise (seems like a stretch, but alright, let's theorize that way), it's still the usual "what if" "could be" "might be" "possibly".

And, again, not really practically relevant.