Olives @olives@qoto.org

And are they becoming less political? Or more political?

One of the things that the E.U. fails to understand with the DSA is that member states are actually really bad at legislating, and this isn't simply because any one person is incompetent, but because of politics.

Hmm... Okay, maybe I'll consider it but I'd have to avoid an emphasis on teens.

I saw a potentially good source which mainly went on about how censorship is harmful but then it went on about how teens viewing porn (queer porn) is a good thing.

To include or not to include. I'm concerned that if I do, someone is going to get fussy about that one point (it's a journalistic source).

Keep in mind that the RC site might not include the content that is chilled, regular content moderation, or takedown requests but it is still a useful tool for shining a light on Australian censorship.

There are people who write so-called "codes" which get pulled into law and they're arguing that they should be able to copyright that.

If something is part of the text of a law, then it makes sense that someone should be able to distribute it.

Twitter also probably ran into the inconvenient reality that a lot of people (of all kinds) curse on social media.

There have been moderation mess ups like this from Twitter *over a decade ago*, like when someone got banned for saying the word "tit" (when they meant the bird).

I guess they're going back to those sorts of things until they learn it's a bad idea.

Bluesky is more like Linkedin than Linkedin. Ultra professional.

While there might be money in selling an alternative to social media, there is more money in grifting about being an alternative to social media, while practically being the same thing (and banning even more accounts over petty things due to cutting corners on policy). Bluesky in a nutshell.

While you might not like Zuckerberg or Facebook, they're not fooling anyone about what they're about. Facebook is a company, and companies are about making money, running ads is how they make money. Maybe, he tries to avoid scandal and acts anti-competitively but he doesn't pretend it isn't that.

This company though is shrouded in layers of grifts.

As far as offering my knowledge goes, I'm happy to do so on something on the fediverse, as it's a communal project, but I'm not going to offer my knowledge for free so that someone can create a worse version of Threads.

The point isn't to actually care about "open source" or "federation". It's to get a few Silicon Valley pundits and tech journalists to talk about them while slipping these terms in as buzzwords.

It is also to get people to offer up free labor and expertise to help bootstrap their start-up.

Bluesky has "federation" which never comes as a gimmick for their grift.

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Like "Bluesky", Reddit also played the open source game, until they stopped doing that.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
More Australian censorship:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abedstudio.dicemergemaster&hl=en
A game where you play with dice. No gambling.

https://www.meta.com/en-us/experiences/living-in-sim-360-3d-movie-do-we-live-in-a-simulation-comedy-horror/7284585661582063/
A low quality VR film which contains drug use.
#auspol #FreeSpeech

I might change "online porn" to "erotic media forms (including online porn)" to better reflect the breadth of the post. I'm not attached to that particular term "erotic media forms", so if there is a better one I could use here, I'll use that instead.

I even point out in the new post that a "VR device" might not be some high spec ultra tech thing that people keep imagining.

It might just be a phone inside a cardboard box attached to someone's face.

Remember that when some blogger writes some stupid take about "AI" generating (vaguely defined) "offensive content" (might be some sort of erotic content), it might lead to people being harassed, and it is not them who has to follow up on that, I am the one who has to follow up on that and tell you about it.