Olives @olives@qoto.org

The grifter is currently promoting Indonesia. A Muslim country which censors porn. Indonesia is a terrible example of internet policy.

I don't agree with everything she says (she's British so that might explain some of the following), like the utopian technocratic idea (which even she seems unsure of).

I don't think it adds anything but it does detract from it.

One I'm thinking of adding to the post.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620919372
"In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to roll a boulder up a steep hill in the underworld for eternity: Every time he reaches the top, the rock rolls back down to the bottom, forcing him to start the cycle all over again. Likewise, psychological research on technology effects is in an intricate cycle of addressing societal worries about technologies. With every new technology treated as completely separate from any technology that came before (Wartella & Reeves, 1985), psychological researchers routinely address the same questions; they roll their boulder up the hill, investing effort, time, and money to understand their technology’s implications, only for it to roll down again when a novel technology is introduced."

It's striking how grifters (or people who have no clue what they're talking about) keep cropping up.

The grifter is now peddling his stupid ideas at an ASEAN event.

Well, people like alcohol, so if a politician attacks that, then people are not going to be happy.

Actually getting politicians to loosen censorship can be a nightmare, so the idea that someone can put a restriction in place at first and remove it later is ridiculous.

It involves a utopian world of tech policy which doesn't exist.

Progress is being made.

Curiously, some anti porn points were removed (vaguer ones), but if they're still making new ones, then it's hard to see this as progress.

It kind of already falls under the "new technology" paragraph. That was to cover AI, but frankly, if someone argues that "VR" is a new technology, that should also cover that.

Grifters gonna grift.

It reminds me that I might have to specifically mention VR in my post, even though it shouldn't make a difference whether it's a image / video or VR.

Also, ridiculous amounts of concern trolling with very unlikely imaginary scenarios.

Nicknamed "the nasty party".

The original "WeProtect" goes back as far as David Cameron. The guy who tried to make a far right party which passed things like Section 28 of the Local Government Act (a law which prohibited councils and schools from "promoting homosexuality") look a bit more "reasonable".

He is also the one who wrecked Britain with Brexit. A stupid political stunt.

The more recent iteration involves far more recent ministers.

If you're thinking that they said this a while ago, that might be so, it's not as if we allow grifters like this to live rent free inside our heads.

You also have to ask yourself, why did the now former commissioner Johansson work with such extremist nonsense peddling charlatans?

That's the thing with groups like this. You have to ask yourself, why is someone so obsessed with clearly ridiculous ideas which are only harmful and are not effective.

And there you have it, they just don't like porn.

The very same fake foundation backed by a far right British Home Office which was promoting things like chat control.

The far right founded "WeProtect" admits on the record that their real agenda is to censor porn.