Olives @olives@qoto.org

This guy is practically a conspiracy decorum machine.

He takes misleading claims, outright conspiracies, a few outright lies from interpersonal conflicts, lifts things out of context, amplifies sensationalism, amplifies the views of extremist individuals, misrepresents the lack of competence / expertise of a student as evil intent, and misrepresents lower quality / incomplete content as "evidence" of conspiracy.

He also produces the impression that relatively small phenomena are larger than they actually are in an apparent bid to give further fuel to his conspiratorial frameworks. He also misconstrues everyday phenomena as if they are scandalous.

Then, he slaps a veneer of decorum onto that.

Now, conspiracy guy is going neck-deep into trying to revive old and dusted QAnon type conspiracies.

"sex workers' rights"
I personally prefer terms like "adult content creator". Or if you prefer something more direct, "sexual content creator".

Or perhaps, someone could use both.

Just the other week, maybe a bit more, there was one who thought climate protesters should be jailed for a decade for... blocking a road. Also waves her religion around and demonizes scientists she dislikes. Seems to embrace conspiracies too.

These are awful people with slightly more decorum than the average troll.

Conspiracy guy's "fans" are usually far right (I don't mean libertarians) and particularly weird. Don't assume they're reasonable.

He is pretty conspiratorial, and likes to demonize people, particularly those he doesn't like, so he draws in conspiracists.

Making one of the points I debunk here with slightly different wording doesn't make it more valid.

https://www.politico.eu/article/frances-commissioner-thierry-breton-resigns-attacks-von-der-leyen-for-questionable-governance/
Infamous Commissioner Thierry Breton steps down due to push by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

He is best known for putting pressure on tech companies to censor nebulous categories of "harmful content" and for trying to end net neutrality in the #EU. #FreeSpeech

War on Drugs.

https://reason.com/2024/09/13/the-government-is-taking-babies-away-because-their-moms-ate-poppy-seeds/
"Hospitals around the nation are administering unreliable drug tests to pregnant women, and siccing child welfare authorities upon them based on the results, according to a new investigation from The Marshall Project."

"Disturbingly, it's been long known that these drug tests are unreliable. Urine drug tests commonly administered to pregnant women can have false positive rates as high as 50 percent. False positives frequently occur when someone is taking over-the-counter medications, common antidepressants, or routinely prescribed blood pressure medications."

""After a #California mother had a false positive for meth and PCP, authorities took her newborn, then dispatched two sheriff's deputies to also remove her toddler from her custody," Walter wrote."

"While more than half of U.S. states require hospitals to inform child welfare agencies if they suspect a mother used drugs during pregnancy, none require hospitals to confirm that those results are correct. This means that when a mother has a false positive, she often lacks the ability to demand a more reliable drug test to prove her innocence."
#HumanRights

Might be relevant to #privacy.

https://reason.com/2024/09/13/iowas-supreme-court-keeps-libertarian-congressional-candidates-off-the-ballot/ Interesting case.

https://reason.com/2024/09/15/j-d-vance-says-it-does-not-matter-whether-rumors-of-pet-eating-migrants-are-true/
Yes, it does.

Laila.

I wouldn't even be mentioning him, if a journalist wasn't foolish enough to reference this guy (when it came to a take with a bit more decorum).

I really don't understand why anyone would listen to anything this weirdo has to say. He is beyond a joke.

Now, the conspiracy guy is referencing an American fundamentalist who used to work for a puritanical org with abstinence pledges and other strange things, and who reckons that God wants her to get rid of porn (surely, God has more important things to worry about?), who is trying to shut down porn sites.

She is accused of committing crimes in the process and of misleading people.

This sounds like a good way to put innocent people to death.

Taiwan schedules referendum over whether courts should be forced to enforce the death penalty within six months of handing down a verdict.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/30/us/missouri-prison-guards-othel-moore-death/index.html Meanwhile in prisons in Missouri.

I'm reading a take which boils down to "I'm upset that a company would hire a lawyer to fend off a frivolous lawsuit."

This sort of crud makes me wonder why anyone would want to listen to what he has to say. A lot of it is this sort of weird wink wink think of the immorality.

And he is like this conspiracy guy and so much garbage comes out of his mouth.