Olives @olives@qoto.org

Also, going by commentary on it, Mozilla seemed to run their fedi instance really badly, so is one less badly run instance that much of a loss?

That aside though, launching new projects, wasting time on them, only to shutter them later, is something which Mozilla seems to do a lot.

"Mozilla is closing their fedi instance and diving into AI."

Remember that Mozilla has always been a company which chases "new things". In fact, one of them even blames wasting time on trying to build an OS or whatever for failing to improve their web browser.

They're still doing the thing with KOSA where they change the language a bit but there are still plenty of problems...?

Let's see if I can compile some asks with surveys.

I don't use these particular surveys though for a number of reasons, including relevance.

The grifter flies in, poops everywhere, flies out, and leaves it to others to clean up the mess.

Can I go back to just working on my draft and stuff? Don't want to deal with grifters.

As a rule of thumb, if it comes from an org with a title about saving the children or something, then they're probably not going to come up with quality data or claims.

It is honestly rich that someone who does lower quality surveys would put himself on a moral high horse over someone purportedly doing lower quality surveys.

In fact, I think there is a large newspaper in the U.K. which used to put a topless 16 year old in one of the first pages. This happened decades ago (the law on that has since been changed), but it's not implausible that the "child porn" points could apply to that.

So, then, someone might be treated as a "current offender" by the grifter in the statistics for flicking through a major newspaper back then.

It might have been founded a bit before that, but honestly, 2022, 2023, there isn't really a meaningful difference there.

It's worth considering that he only appears to have founded, or should I say registered, his "think of the children" org last year.

One of the tenets of the org is that "studies" should be carried out once, and not replicated by anyone else, which is curious.

Then again, maybe it's not surprising that a one man "think of the children" org attached to what appears to be a one man "think of the children" org run by a former cop would come up with misleading statistics and claims.

Some progressives over at the TST also accuse this individual of being up to some sketchy things.

They've exposed quite a few iffy characters, including an abusive "therapist".

This isn't the first grifter who has founded a one person org to give themselves a fancy title like "branch head" or "CEO".

I've commented a bit on this "org" (and it's affiliate) to others before but not so much on here. What they do is, basically, they use dodgy terms and methodology which makes the "numbers" look bigger.

At one point, they even attempted to conflate minors sharing porn with each other with abuse. Really.

If there is a choice between underestimating even a bit and wildly overestimating, they seem to pick the option which will lead to a wild over-estimation. This is important to consider.

From what I remember, one of their "reports" lacks a temporal condition (so former criminals might be assumed to be currently offending) and they also refer to what might be legal conduct in a state or country as criminality. Or they might refer to conduct which used to be legal decades ago as such.

In 2022, this guy attempted to run and disseminate a "survey" to try to make it appear as if his proposed policy ideas were more popular than they actually were.

He is known to frequently make misleading claims and refuses to acknowledge the negative drawbacks of his policy proposals.

#auspol

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/one-in-10-children-sexually-solicited-online-20240917-p5kb7s.html In other words, a far right grifter who "runs" a one person org airs sketchy claims to grift off "social media bad". #auspol

Also, apart from involving problematic misrepresentations, or conspiratorial framing, some of the points he raises relate to old and dusted things which are not relevant but which he attempts to construe as some sort of conspiracy.

These things might lead to someone being harassed, and all for a charlatan's grift.

I wasn't originally planning to comment on so many things from him, as I figured he has better things to do with his life, however, he hasn't ceased producing infantile posts which construe people as evil or subhuman, or otherwise try to incorporate things into some sort of conspiracy.

Generally speaking, when I refer to conspiracies or misrepresentation by this individual, I refer to it broadly as there are many. He is best described, in my view, as a grifter who panders to conspiracists.