Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/calls-mount-principal-un-human-rights-official-business-and-tech-groups-address Frankly, stronger language than just "artistic" should be used to protect #HumanRights and #FreeSpeech. For instance, constraining it to real people (this is already sort of done but it shouldn't be an optional point).

https://qoto.org/@olives/112853953984247398 Also, see this post (which also references science to question arguments about porn being spooky and other such things).

https://reason.com/2024/07/30/majority-of-public-comments-support-descheduling-or-legalizing-marijuana/ Interesting.

Don't you hate people who clearly don't want to be on the fedi but do so just to complain?

https://reason.com/2024/07/30/texas-prisoners-are-being-cooked-alive-by-high-temperatures-investigation-says/
"Inmates in #Texas state prisons are being "cooked alive" by scorching temperatures in facilities without air conditioning, a new investigation claims. Documents obtained by The Texas Newsroom, a public radio collaboration of multiple Texas stations, showed that even as inmates died with body temperatures nearing 107 degrees, officials have continued to blame their deaths on causes other than extreme heat."
#HumanRights #EighthAmendment

https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1143913_future-fords-might-detect-speeding-and-report-you-to-the-cops
While I'm not a fan of speeding, I don't like the idea of a snitch network. Big Brother on Wheels. #privacy

https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2024-ws-150-language-and-inclusion-multilingual-names
"The Internet must be multilingual to be inclusive. This means the domain names and email addresses we use to navigate and communicate online must also be multilingual – called internationalized domain names (IDNs) and email addresses. In 2005 the WSIS Tunis Agenda committed to the "multilingualization of the Internet", noting the importance of implementing multilingualism in domain names and email addresses.

ICANN's global multistakeholder community has deployed 150 top-level domains (TLDs) in 37 languages in 23 scripts. Today we see internationalized domain names, e.g. Thai ยูเอทดสอบ.ไทย, and email addresses, e.g. Japanese めーるてすと@どこでもつかえる.みんな."

"Despite progress, Universal Acceptance (UA) of domain names and email addresses by Internet applications and services remains a challenge. For example, Arabic email addresses cannot be used to register for a social media application. Less than 10% of popular national or global websites and 23% of deployed email servers are configured to accept email addresses in all local languages, according to ICANN community studies."

Saw a fairly good take from Rand Paul on why internet censorship is bad.

You also have to think, censoring drugs inside a video game isn't really going to make them go away. In fact, the black market seems to proliferating even with this censorship.

It only winds up creating annoying red tape for game developers / players to navigate.

I suspect quite a bit of this comes from archaic standards for television or something (and even there, it is kind of broad brush). It gets silly though when someone is nit-picking something silly inside a video game.

The problem is that intuitively, you probably think of them banning it because it's about someone being buried alive. But then, it could be that there is a bottle of pills in a cave somewhere in the game.
QT: https://qoto.org/@olives/112862638939130980

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2475400/Buried_Alive_Breathless_Rescue/
https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
Australia appears to have banned a game where you are buried alive and have to escape from your coffin. As for why, hard to say. #auspol #FreeSpeech

A "PornHub chatbot" which largely goes after people searching for roleplay, art, and such (going by a few of the keywords listed) is really not something to brag about, and an assault on #HumanRights and #FreeSpeech.

It's unsurprising as they are curated by an org which bragged about being a morality crops (who were happy to cosy up to an out of control far right government). Once again, I'd like to call on the United Kingdom to take greater regard of human rights.

There was also a certain amount of sensationalism, ignoring that it is well-documented that the site was used by a few as a "general purpose hosting service" (I think Elizabeth Nolan Brown had an article on that), rather than as one simply for pornographic videos, particularly in 2020 or earlier. This throws into serious doubt how reliable such claims really are. Could we please do due diligence prior to publishing such incendiary claims? #ukpol

https://qoto.org/@olives/112853953984247398 I'm also experimenting with a new kind of post (with a fair bit of science attached) for explaining why porn (and other such things) are not spooky things.

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/blog/workplace-surveillance/
The British civil liberties group, Big Brother Watch (that is such a fitting name), wants to know about your workplace surveillance experience. #privacy #ukpol

"Big Brother Watch" did so well in picking their name.

At this point, I've seen the phrase "guardrail" get misused so much that I'm considering whether to add it to my list of red flags.