Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2055410/The_Kindeman_Remedy/ Australia appears to have* banned a (deliberately provocative game) where you play as an evil doctor.

* https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/

No one buys apologia that only the government can censor people. It has always been a dishonest deflection from real discussions pertaining to free expression.

There are two contexts where this can come up. A theoretical context where it is being referenced in an abstract manner. This happens around about 1% of the time.

Or 99% of the time, it is to distract from a controversial moderation decision by refusing to discuss that, because it just so happens to align with the views of whoever is invoking the argument.

No one buys apologia that only the government can censor people. It has always been a dishonest deflection from real discussions pertaining to free expression.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent Interesting piece.

Apparently, it also violates the Fifth Amendment due to due process deficits.

Oh, of course they would sneak the TikTok Ban bill into the foreign aid bill. Ugh.

Unit tests can be illuminating.

Working in production but not in a test case, huh. Well, better than the opposite, lol.

Was the 2012 apocalypse cancelled?

When a bug happens to be acting as a fix for yet another bug, and now, you have another bug to fix.

If someone wants more American competition to YouTube though, a good start might be to repeal the DMCA and to implement stronger intermediary liability protections whenever copyright is involved. That is one of the biggest obstacles.

Banning TikTok entrenches Big Tech at a time when people seem to want more competition.

Blocking Telegram isn't a good idea.

Chasing bugs. They're hiding inside this program somewhere.

Unilever continues to rollback the ESG.

I can't help but feel I could have done more here but then when I think about it I've actually done a lot.