Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reclaimthenet.org/italy-popular-social-media-accounts-to-be-treated-as-publishers

"In what can be seen as an open clampdown against the freedoms and rights of social media influencers, the Italian Regulatory Authority of Telecommunications (AGCOM) has announced that people with a following exceeding 1,000,000 will now be legally considered as “producers of audio-visual content” within the law, placing them on the same legal footing as publishers."

I suspect this language will cause a certain amount of confusion as to what a "publisher" is.

"Under the new regulations, influencers are compelled to clearly distinguish sponsored content and ads, with penalties reaching up to a quarter-million euros for non-compliance. Violations concerning child protection could warrant penalties exceeding half a million euros. Even non-commercial content produced by influencers must adhere to anti-discrimination regulations and uphold various standards currently imposed on traditional media creators, such as abstention from disseminating “misinformation,” “hate speech,” or promotion of “harmful” behavior like excessive alcohol consumption."

Sounds troublesome for free expression.

https://nichegamer.com/japan-getting-first-ever-metaverse-high-school/ #Metaverse High?

This is the sort of nonsense that grandstanding gets you.

Also, while it's easy to understand why they might be frustrated with the other party leading them on, then screwing them over at the last minute at the referendum, I suspect that other party would just go on about how they're victims of some totalitarian regime, if she did this.

https://reclaimthenet.org/the-tsa-plans-big-digital-id-push-in-2024

"The US’s leading transportation security organization, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), is taking significant steps towards a more digital future. And, of course, that means more surveillance and tracking."

"In a four-part action plan released by the TSA, the agency plans to extend its mobile driver’s license initiative and more widely utilize facial recognition technology in airports. This includes up-scaling their current pilot program testing digital identities and mobile licenses — used at TSA checkpoints — to at least nine states. It follows a previous announcement in May that disclosed the TSA’s examination of the potential for digital license and ID implementations across 25 domestic airports."

"Parallel with these digital ID efforts, the TSA also commits to amplifying the utilization of facial identification systems under their PreCheck service, a program aimed at preemptively assessing threats and facilitating a quicker airport security process for enrolled travelers. The service is somewhat controversial as it allows the agency deeper access into data and information about an individual and their lives – some of which go beyond what travelers believe they have access to."

#privacy

https://reclaimthenet.org/how-a-typo-in-a-geofence-warrant-further-endangered-privacy

"Namely, a “suspected typo” in a geofencing warrant is to blame for extending surveillance of everybody and their phone in a given physical location from a supposedly restricted one – to in one instance “two miles over San Francisco,” reports say.

That would include businesses, private homes, and places of worship.

The incident highlights the problems related to this legal/law enforcement tactic, and its implementation, and reminds those willing to listen why it is wrong to begin with – warrant order typos or not."

"It turns the rule of “innocent until proven guilty” on its head, and is therefore, as critics concerned with civil liberties insist, clearly unconstitutional."

#privacy

https://nichegamer.com/prison-architect-2-announced/ Eh, 3D? I liked the 2D style of the game. Well, I suppose you might be able to do some interesting things in 3D.

Considering that Amazon once seemed to think that anime themed figurines were radios, I wouldn't expect too much out of them.

I've never really been a fan of the way that platforms really push for collecting phone numbers.

https://lifehacker.com/twitter-used-your-phone-number-to-send-you-ads-now-wha-1838906777 A possible reason why they do so is for marketing, of course (also, security is not the only reason they might use to push someone to give them their phone number...).

I don't think Twitter in particular was even that aggressive about it prior to 2018. #privacy

You might remember that I dug back to something like 2009, and even back then, I could catch sight of him farting in the direction of the First Amendment.

Whenever I hear about Blumenthal, it involves him wanting to do something that is very clearly unconstitutional.

While these platforms might be slightly more convenient, at first, they often get obsoleted by newer platforms, or they get weird, or have odd ideas of what content they don't like, and then there is the inevitable process of dragging an audience to another site, and changing a bunch of things.

A proper #blog would give someone so much more control and it would pay off in the long run when something inevitably crops up.

Medium is another example, really. I never got why people insisted on using that, over a real blog, even when they had a real readership.

It's worth mentioning that "safetyism" is inherently racist, imperialistic, repressive, and totalitarian. It's very "let your betters tell you how to do things" and nagging you.