Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reason.com/2024/03/11/carded-for-posting-online/
"The law would require all social media users to verify their age through privacy-invading methods such as uploading their driver's license, submitting to a facial scan, or providing the last four digits of their Social Security number. Minors must also obtain parental permission before they can create a social media account. Once online, the law would force social media companies to restrict minors' ability to find new content and other accounts and to limit when they can message others on the platforms."

"Following FIRE's suit and other legal challenges, Utah's Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, delayed the law's implementation until October 2024. In a legal filing from January 19, the state noted that the Utah State Legislature "is likely to repeal and replace the law." Less than three weeks later, state legislators introduced two bills that proposed minor changes to the law while keeping the considerable restrictions on accounts held by minors and required age verification in order to create an account."
#privacy #AgeVerification #FirstAmendment

https://reason.com/2024/03/08/bidens-inaccurate-and-inadequate-lip-service-to-marijuana-reform-ignores-todays-central-cannabis-issue/ Would like to see Congress do more here.

Do you believe in time travel?

Once, I saw a puritanical Australian woman (she also wants to ban all porn and has links to an infamous group of Christian fundamentalists from the U.S.) who argued that because someone committed a crime (something to do with child porn, it's unclear how long prior, could have been years) *before* buying some sort of "sex robot", that the sex robot must have caused that.

https://cdt.org/insights/cdt-joins-others-in-letter-opposing-the-protecting-americans-from-foreign-adversary-controlled-applications-act/
https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Coalition_Letter_Opposing_H.R._7521.pdf
"H.R. 7521 is censorship — plain and simple. In a purported attempt to protect the data of U.S. residents from Chinese government acquisition, this legislation would forbid app stores and internet service providers from offering TikTok so long as the company remains under foreign ownership. Passing this legislation would trample on the constitutional right to freedom of speech of millions of people in the United States. TikTok is home to massive amounts of protected speech and association: it enables its users to discuss their opinions, share their hobbies, make art, and access news from down the street and around the world. Jeopardizing access to the platform jeopardizes access to free expression."

"If Congress wants to protect Americans’ data, it should pass comprehensive #privacy legislation."

The @eff, CDT, ACLU, and Fight for the Future had that to say about the newest attempted TikTok ban.

#FirstAmendment

https://reason.com/2024/03/06/dear-government-stop-trying-to-make-tiktok-bans-happen/
"Also notable here: the bill bans enabling "the distribution, maintenance, or updating of a foreign adversary controlled application." Like last year's RESTRICT Act, this could implicate services—like virtual private networks (VPNs)—that help people download or access foreign apps forbidden by U.S. law."
#FirstAmendment #privacy

According to the E.U. "transparency database", the website known as "#Pinterest", is very puritanical and removes content left and right.

There is a literal tidal wave of entries relating to it. #WarOnPorn

The flat earthers were only partially right. The world is a disc which sits on a couple of elephants standing on a giant turtle swimming through space. Lol.

https://nichegamer.com/steam-bans-order-us-for-having-an-adult-with-a-small-chest/
By the way, that was also NCOSE (a group of puritanical Christian fundamentalists led by Mormon fundamentalists).

Back in 2018, they bragged about lobbying #Steam (and misled them), and took responsibility for it. They would probably rather Steam bans all sexual content though.

#anime #WarOnPorn

According to the same database, it appears that Apple also censored an app in 2024 for "pornography", although with a wider scope than just in one country. #WarOnPorn

According to the E.U.'s "Transparency Database" (which tends to be far too vague and is probably misleading in some areas), a couple of apps were censored in #Germany in 2024 on Google Play for "pornography". #WarOnPorn