Olives @olives@qoto.org

I don't know how to handle Ireland in such a case though.

After leaving the E.U., there was a great earthquake and the British isles flew off into outer space. They're passing by Mars now. Lol.

Skynet is unfairly discriminated against. He is really a nice guy. Lol.

After being accused of using "AI", someone might reply, I'm not "using" "AI", I am an "AI", lol.

The curse of technosolutionistic censorship / surveillance.

Anonymity is very important for free expression.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/03/25/world/us-open-internet-wto/ Bad idea from the U.S. Trade Representative.

As a warning, some advocacy for so-called "Trust & Safety" appears to be coming from dubious start-ups trying to sell you questionable products. It's not immediately apparent it's coming from them either.

Mike is wrong about "Trust & Safety". It is largely a PR exercise.

It would be simpler to call it what it is: Content policy and content moderation.

While it's plausible some moderation is done for the purposes of the already very vague and nebulous concept of "safety", a lot of it stems more from hard business decisions. A number of them are poor, or at least, dubious business decisions at that.

When you look at a few "policy takes", and a lot of the language (i.e. risk management) is really just a euphemism for censorship, without understanding how insufferable it would wind up being. These commentators are so out of touch.

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/afnemersindicaties-politie-basisregistratie-personen?share=VKplRJYoo3HINeZLen6BrzVXoSYseJNM11aGyImWzFyNhsAtxw%2BLfiPSinRCeE8=
"Elf miljoen Nederlanders worden geautomatiseerd door de politie gevolgd in de basisregistratie personen. Velen zelfs al sinds hun baby- en kindertijd. De politie overtreedt hiermee diverse wetten. De dienders en de korpsleiding weten dat al jaren, maar trekken zich er weinig van aan."
#privacy

https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/afnemersindicaties-politie-basisregistratie-personen?share=VKplRJYoo3HINeZLen6BrzVXoSYseJNM11aGyImWzFyNhsAtxw%2BLfiPSinRCeE8=
"Eleven million Dutch people are automatically tracked by the police in the Basic Registration of Persons. Many even since their infancy and childhood. In doing so, the police are breaking various laws. The officers and the management of the police force have known this for years, but take little notice. This is according to research by Follow the Money."
#privacy

It's okay to hold off on making a take rather than making a really stupid 230 take. Messing around with that isn't a good idea and would just create frivolous lawsuits and "unintended consequences".

I think if someone is enforcing an obscenity law (mostly a thing of the past), there's a question of whether they should be referred to as law enforcement or the Gestapo.

The U.S. trade representative should go back to arguing for a free and open Internet.

Thanks to #EHDS, if you suffer from impotence and require medication for that, Ursula von der Leyen is going to know about that (or one of her underlings). #privacy

If only they didn't hold onto data they didn't need...