Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
https://reclaimthenet.org/senator-mark-warner-misinformation-shouldnt-have-first-amendment-protections
While conspiracies like QAnon (which utilizes disinformation and malinformation[1]), which can take on multiple problematic themes, including anti-LGBT ones, can be troublesome, I would still caution against creating an "arbiter of truth", especially a government trying to push for this, and remember that strong free expression standards protect everyone's rights.
Also, consider whether it isn't platformization[2] which is troublesome here.
While I initially tried to ignore it there, QAnon is one of those conspiracies which is quite erosive and harmful. It has a tendency of rearing it's ugly head and poisoning the well. It also fuels abuse.
#UNSW has a QAnon problem. #auspol
Like clockwork, politicians use a tragedy to try to push through some harmful brand of censorship.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-install-toilet-sensors-that-actively-listen-to-pupils/
"Schools are installing “spying” software that “actively listens” to pupils, to crack down on vaping, bullying and rowdiness in toilets."
"But Big Brother Watch’s senior advocacy officer Madeleine Stone said that “secretly monitoring school bathrooms is a gross violation of children’s privacy and would make pupils and parents deeply uncomfortable”."
I figured I'd see bad takes in the wake of the "hearing" so I wrote that in advance for that eventuality.
#Platformization / Platform Syndrome - The bane of the #OpenWeb? So-called "#platforms" have risen a fair bit in recent years (i.e. particularly af...
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If a "deepfake" suggests someone did something they never did, couldn't that be considered "defamation" (with a couple of other tests)?
One of the worst conflation games I saw involved:
We need to censor x.
Hey, that is censorship.
Oh, no, I'm not talking about x. I am talking about y (synonym for x).
He thinks he is "smart".
It's not necessarily just playing around with vague and "clever" language, though that is also a problem.
It's a lot like "okay, so you say it's about this, but then, why do you keep going back to talking about this completely different (no big deal) thing and trying to add that in?"
Implicit conflation (i.e. putting two things next to each other) is still conflation...
Implicit conflation (i.e. putting two things next to each other) is still conflation...
While there are those who prefer Threads away from the fediverse, Alexandra van Huffelen from the Dutch Government is apparently urging them to federate.
https://reason.com/2024/02/05/its-time-to-retire-super-bowl-sex-trafficking-stings-and-myths/ Elizabeth writes about sex trafficking myths.
Salter focusing on the fact that a few people studied might be jerks doesn't really change the basic psychological fact that if you treat people like garbage, then they're not going to feel so good. It's a red herring.
https://apnews.com/article/michigan-innocent-man-compensation-53df1feb44829106f34fbf259b5293b3
"The state of Michigan has agreed to pay $1.75 million to an innocent man who spent 35 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of sexual assault.
Louis Wright was released in November after authorities said DNA tests ruled him out as the perpetrator in an attack on an 11-year-old girl in Albion, a small town in southwestern Michigan, in 1988."
"Police investigating the assault settled on Wright as the suspect after an off-duty officer said he had been seen in the neighborhood. Police said he confessed, though the interview was not recorded and he did not sign a confession, according to the Cooley Law School Innocence Project.
The victim was never asked to identify Wright, the Innocence Project said.
Wright eventually pleaded no-contest to the charges and was sentenced to 25 years to 50 years in prison. He then tried to withdraw his plea at sentencing, but the request was denied."
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If someone's "solution" to someone putting something in their body (War on Drugs) which they reckon is potentially harmful is just having a cop bust down their door, shoot their dog, beat them up, and haul them into a cell where there is a good chance they'll be beaten, raped, or commit suicide (whether in the cell, even after they leave, there may be an increased chance), then maybe there is a very big problem with that "solution" indeed.
Also, tearing apart families (for however long someone is locked up for), which isn't good for their children's mental health or life prospects.
Locking people up is not a magic solution to social issues. #CriminalJustice
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"Proposition E is a “kitchen sink" approach to public safety that capitalizes on residents’ fear of crime in an attempt to gut common-sense democratic oversight of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD). In addition to removing certain police oversight authority from the Police Commission and expanding the circumstances under which police may conduct high-speed vehicle chases, Proposition E would also amend existing laws passed in 2019 to protect San Franciscans from invasive, untested, or biased police technologies.
Currently, if police want to acquire a new technology, they have to go through a procedure known as CCOPS—Community Control Over Police Surveillance. This means that police need to explain why they need a new piece of technology and provide a detailed use policy to the democratically-elected Board of Supervisors, who then vote on it. The process also allows for public comment so people can voice their support for, concerns about, or opposition to the new technology. This process is in no way designed to universally deny police new technologies. Instead, it ensures that when police want new technology that may have significant impacts on communities, those voices have an opportunity to be heard and considered. San Francisco police have used this procedure to get new technological capabilities as recently as Fall 2022 in a way that stimulated discussion, garnered community involvement and opposition (including from EFF), and still passed."
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"For months, Houston police have been citing and arresting local volunteers for the radical act of feeding the needy. Now the city is facing a lawsuit alleging that its crackdown on charitable giving violates the First Amendment."
"Randy Hiroshige, a Texas Civil Rights Project attorney, says the issue isn't just about handing out sandwiches; it's about the government trying to suppress political speech.
"They're a protest group," Hiroshige says of Food Not Bombs. "They want to be visible, and the reason they conduct their food sharing is to show the public what it looks like when a community looks out for each other's needs and really provides mutual aid to one another.""
"Similar cases have popped up elsewhere. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled in 2018 that distributing food was "expressive conduct" protected under the #FirstAmendment. That decision was a response to a lawsuit by the Food Not Bombs chapter in Fort Lauderdale."
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Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
