Olives @olives@qoto.org

If "Link History", is buried in a menu somewhere, then it's probably safe to assume that most people will never change the default. #privacy

https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018

"Facebook recently rolled out a new “Link History” setting that creates a special repository of all the links you click on in the Facebook mobile app. Users can opt-out, but Link History is turned on by default, and the data is used for targeted ads."

"Meta has always kept track of the links you click on, and this is the first time users have had any visibility or control over this corner of the company’s internet spying apparatus. In other words, Meta is just asking users for permission for a category of tracking that it’s been using for over a decade. Beyond that, there are a number of ways this setting might give users an illusion of privacy that Meta isn’t offering."

#privacy

Looks like the lesbian dating game "The Curse of Kudan"(1) is being censored by Australia(2), probably because the system was built by freakin puritans (most likely worrying about things which don't matter(3,4), although incompetence is another smaller possibility in this case).

As always, you can write to reps at the territory, state, and federal levels (5) to oppose any and all censorship.

#anime #auspol

1 https://www.mobygames.com/game/199315/the-curse-of-kudan-folklore-of-kudan/

2 https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/

3 https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826

4 https://qoto.org/@olives/111192296198968801

5 https://www.efa.org.au/get-involved/lobbying/

https://www.biia.com/noyb-sues-crif-and-az-direct-for-illegal-and-secret-data-processing/ CRIF is being sued by NOYB for using data that was collected for advertising purposes for calculating credit ratings. #privacy

https://bensbites.beehiiv.com/p/camera-makers-want-watermark-human-images-not-ai-ones This sounds bad for #privacy.

https://www.biia.com/japan-goes-all-in-copyright-doesnt-apply-to-ai-training/ Not really surprising, otherwise there is a good chance it'd be the same as a ban. #AI

It was kind of ironic when someone used "generative AI is infringing on Disney's copyrights" as an example of something "absolutely terrible" because Disney is like the ultimate example of copyright being absolutely abused and stretched beyond breaking point.

So, a depiction of Tigger entered the public domain too along with Steamboat Willie, so you can expect him to show up in the sequel to this film, lol.

https://nichegamer.com/reviews/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-review/ Lol.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review

This is certainly interesting (I see the EFF has been busy this year), but before risking interacting with people with exceptionally poor takes (probably not from the EFF, mind you), I invite @eff to read the following "articles" (can something be called an article on this platform?) which I wrote (one pertaining to how porn isn't some spooky thing, but also, one about people who almost pathologically* can't stop trying to conflate content containing fictional scenarios / people, with abuse, also engaging in rounds of concern trolling, which is honestly a form of implicit conflation):

https://qoto.org/@olives/111516011246609826 Porn isn't spooky

https://qoto.org/@olives/111191543236620885 Conflation. This doesn't go into any specific conflation but it does go into general patterns of conflation.

Curiously, one of the people I cite here actually used to work for the EFF (as recently as 2018, it seems). Not that I allow him to carry this piece. It's based on a number of observations from a number of people, quite a few locations, what the vast majority of content seems to look like, and *not* trying to project a censorial agenda.

* Metaphor.

One will also attempt to lie to someone's face about apparent "abuse", and trying to depict a general purpose service as being "negligent", then it will turn out it is a photo indistinguishable from legitimate (and even non-sexual) conduct. The sort of (probable very rare) scenario which exists as more of an attempted "gotcha" than a legitimate threat.

Unfortunately, stretching terms (and also methodologies which don't involve actually examining content) seem to be becoming more common.

This is probably just a drop in the bucket of shenanigans. In any case, while moderation is probably important, it doesn't mean there aren't problematic grifters out there trying to make a name out of "dirt".

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/digital-rights-lgbtq-people-2023-review I was going to comment on this but I ended up writing something quite foul about these African countries, so I'm instead going to just post a link.

Robotics; Notes was an unusual but interesting anime, apparently based on a visual novel (quite a few of them are).

I think it was made by the people who came up with Steins Gate, and that other one, Chaos Head.

If there's an Electronic Frontier Foundation, is there also an Analogue Frontier Foundation? Lol.

Then again, maybe there should be an Analogue Frontier Foundation with the sort of civil rights violations that happen in the offline world...

Are there any #anime or #manga related subjects which you'd like me to cover?

Are there any interesting bits of sex science, or civil liberties causes, or technology related things which you'd like me to cover?

https://veilid.com/ Serious question. Why would someone have this ultra privacy project but then have like just a Discord (which isn't exactly great for privacy)? #Veilid

The ironic thing is that the copyright expiring will probably give it far more publicity than it would get rusting away in Disney's vault, lol.

Older localizations in particular can feel very "Ahem, you do realize there are other countries than just America?"

#anime #manga

https://web.archive.org/web/20230918132110/https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2023-ws-69-manga-culture-internet-governance-the-fight-against-piracy By the way, Kadokawa were at the U.N. complaining about piracy, lol.

Ironically, it's probably piracy which aided in marketing and breaking up really localized adaptations which were hard to differentiate from American content (why they were so scared of exposing people to other cultures is really beyond me, the most infamous example was editing out Japanese food items in Pokemon...). Also, the silly "cartoons are for kids" cliché.

#anime #manga