Olives @olives@qoto.org

On occasion, they might engage in namedropping. If they can get a sucker to do what they want, they'll use their name (it doesn't seem they do so with their consent), *even if no one else agrees with them*.

One of the disturbing things about outfits like this is that they confidently stroll in, as if they know what they're doing, and then, judging from companies who have worked with them, they just come up with absolute garbage.

I wasn't planning on my first take today being something spicy but I'll go with it.

We call on #MasterCard to cease your "partnership" with the "IWF". We have watched for the past three years as you have made complete fools of yourself, utterly failing to curb abuse on the Internet, all while playing with all kinds of ridiculous "ideas" which only end up suppressing legitimate content. Enough already. Leave the policing to the police. #FreeSpeech

For one example of this, someone thinks a financial service is being puritanical but then they might have been hit by an algorithm because their fictional cartoon work contains the word "slave" in the title.

It's dumb. It's stupid. It's known to happen.

When trying to figure out why something has been censored, remember that the reason can sometimes be dumber than you think.

Since someone is curious, yes, someone has been sued for defamation before for misrepresenting some fictional sexual thing as if it is real.

On second thought, I'll add a tag to that one.

https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2024-ws-62-childrens-rights-and-ai-digital-textbooks
"President Yoon Suk-yeol said: "Textbooks … should now be phased out... Education should transition to individualized, tailored approaches." In short, #AI will be made to study the particular needs and talents of each student and present next learning goals tailored to those needs and talents."
Sounds suspicious.

Sometimes, I think it's the NIMBYs who tie up housing.

You would think it'd be simpler to just provide people with housing.

The United Kingdom. Where people go to prison just so they don't have to sleep on the streets.

It isn't someone's awkward use of the phrase "revenge porn". It is that there are these weird people who hate porn and they go out of their way to attack it.

I've even seen someone using "NCII" (non-consensual intimate imagery) in a tortured fashion to talk about NCII which doesn't have real people in it (which is a contradiction of what the term even means).

"By definition, pornography is consensual."

I think that what people who talk like this miss is that bad actors already like to use the word "abuse" in completely inappropriate situations where there is no abuse.

Put it simply, it doesn't matter to them if the actor consented, it is more whether the themes offend them, or maybe they just don't like porn.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-let-anyone-own-the-law
"Court after court has recognized that no one can own the text of the law. But the Pro Codes Act is a deceptive power grab that will help giant industry associations ration access to huge swaths of U.S. laws. Tell Congress not to fall for it."
#FreeSpeech #copyright

https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/1818965347342361018
"So if you click through to the press release, you'll see they did prostitution stings while Comic Con was happening and called it. “sex trafficking” operation"

"adult potential victims of sex trafficking"
Hmm... That is interesting language. I hope they're not using the terms interchangeably as that would confuse things. One seems murkier than that (although, they didn't have to do it like this to go after that one).

It's not clear it has anything to do with the event, they chose to run their operation at the same time as it, and across the city.

Since there is an inquiry in NSW about online porn which might be taking submissions, here are some porn science points (among other things) which might be worth considering. It largely debunks anti-porn talking points. #auspol

I would like to see Labour revisit Section 62.

Historically, the British Labour Party haven't been the most reliable bunch.

For instance, coming up with an obscenity law and insisting that the Human Rights Act would exclude artistic expression from it's scope, rather than explicitly writing something in.

https://edri.org/our-work/empowering-people-to-flourish-and-thrive-a-vision-for-our-digital-future/ Unless you already understand what they're about, this is hard to follow.