Olives @olives@qoto.org

This is a good decision. I don't want to see people getting punished for things they haven't done.

https://reason.com/2024/04/19/appeals-court-rules-that-cops-can-physically-make-you-unlock-your-phone/
"This week, a federal court decided that police officers can make you unlock your phone, even by physically forcing you to press your thumb against it."

"This week, in an opinion authored by Judge Richard Tallman, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against Payne."

"The officers searched through Payne's camera roll and found a video taken the same day, which appeared to show "several bags of blue pills (suspected to be fentanyl)."
#FourthAmendment #FifthAmendment

https://reason.com/2024/04/19/oklahoma-prisoners-say-they-were-locked-in-filthy-tiny-shower-stalls-for-days/
"According to the suit, staff at the Great Plains Correctional Center locked several inmates in small shower stalls for extended periods, without access to basic amenities like adequate food and water. Most were placed in 3 square foot shower cells, though at least one was confined in an even smaller space. Confinement periods listed in the suit ranged from 24 hours to four days.

The suit describes harrowing conditions for inmates held in the shower stalls. They allege they were placed in stalls filled with human feces and deprived of bathroom breaks. Additionally, several inmates say the only water they had access to was scalding hot shower water."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/congress-no-one-should-own-law
"We should all have the freedom to read, share, and comment on the laws we must live by. But yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee voted 19-4 to move forward the PRO Codes Act (H.R. 1631), a bill that would limit those rights in a critical area."
#HumanRights #FirstAmendment #copyright

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children Remember.

But failed to pass the Senate.

"Parents could be alerted when children access disturbing content on phone"
Possible avenue for them to be abused by their parents. Tories...

https://reason.com/2024/04/18/u-s-sentencing-commission-restricts-federal-judges-ability-to-use-acquitted-conduct-at-sentencing/
"Federal judges will be limited from enhancing defendants' sentences based on conduct a jury acquitted them of, a practice that has drawn condemnation from a wide range of civil liberties groups, lawmakers, and jurists."
#HumanRights #FifthAmendment #SixthAmendment

https://nichegamer.com/duckside-launches-public-beta/ Have you ever wanted to play a survival game where you play as a duck?

https://nichegamer.com/fairytale-city-builder-fabledom-hits-full-release-in-may-console-ports-later-in-2024/ Interesting idea.

If you're wondering why I haven't mentioned age verification (I'm talking about online content here), I don't think that is in scope for this particular consultation, there is one coming up later this year where that might come up. This pertains more to ratings.

For a recap from 2023, Julie wanted it but the Communications Minister overruled her (as there were many privacy concerns around that, and likely, other ones too). #auspol #anime #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

I suppose if a programmer ascends, then whenever they appear, there'll be 0s and 1s filling the sky, lol.

Reboosting the post on the Australian consultation on government censorship as it is very important. #auspol #anime #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

I decided to bring it up again now because Facebook is yet again flaunting the program, despite it being disturbingly opaque, vague, and seemingly broad.

I'm a fairly no nonsense person here, so Facebook operating a platform to sift through other people's data tends to ring alarm bells in my head, *especially* when considering their history when it comes to privacy.

I've commented on Lantern before, such as when Facebook commissioned a phoney "human rights assessment" to essentially justify what they wanted to do.

It is opaque. There are terms which appear alarmingly over-broad. It involves companies who have not been competent in handling such things. It appears to be intrusive.

I have nothing but condemnation for Facebook's (opaque) "Lantern" program and the barely disguised tech cartel it operates under.

We need to have a conversation about whether antitrust legislation is needed here, especially when programs like this come with risks to #privacy and free expression.

Do you trust Facebook with your personal data (from other tech companies)? A "well trusted" custodian of data? Well, that is what Lantern is. A non-consensual transfer of personal data to Facebook on the grounds of it being "suspicious".