Olives @olives@qoto.org

Parental controls might chill expression too, especially if the parents are looking at the contents of someone's communications (and might undermine trust).

I imagine it being more of a thing for younger ones, rather than teenagers, where education might be a better avenue. Parental controls aren't really an issue I deal with though.

Still, it might be worth considering whether a broad brush approach of treating everyone like they're five makes sense.

I suppose I mangled that broad brush term there in trying to make it short enough to work within possible character limits.

In my defence, I was also recovering from an illness.

Think of the chatter as if anyone might go in and "be harmed", that social media is single-handedly driving mental illness, and that we have to take broad brush sweeping "action".

With katakana, someone typically takes a word from another language, say English, and directly imports it into the language, maybe it's spoken a bit differently.

So, I'm not surprised that one English word or another might not catch on. Also, the meaning / cultural context can diverge from whatever English term it is based on or inspired by.

First off, they might assume that "one site is the Internet", and well, it's not. And someone has to tell them all over again that it's a bad idea.

I'm losing patience for people who talk about "age verification" as if it's simple but don't acknowledge any of the discourse over the past couple of decades about how it's not.

They spoke to their colleagues at the IGF.

That they used to be the whatever Christian association is literally right there on the front page of their website.

I initially considered not putting it on a tag *but the article is just so wrong that I have to*.

Clearly, a bad faith group showed up one day, spoke to a guy who works there, and they just copied everything he said verbatim.

On a second glance, there appear to be more inaccuracies in there. It's a pretty bad article.

While I've seen folks who are more critical of this site, their articles are usually alright and informative, this one though seems to do next to no due diligence and just publishes claims from this weirdo group verbatim.

"while most adults are not up-to-speed with educating young people on how to protect themselves and their privacy and take care of their mental health"
A subject for schools to cover?

"no parental control mechanisms are available"
There are takes which are more sceptical of parental controls, but it probably wouldn't be a big deal, if they added some sort of parental control mechanism. #FreeSpeech #Japan

"Line does not mandate age verification"
This ignores though the privacy issues (and potential chilling of expression) involved in age verification which has been discussed ad nauseum throughout the globe.

Namely, the collection of people's personal info. Any take that fails to engage with that prior discourse isn't really a take worth reading. #FreeSpeech #Japan

"In fact, the word “grooming” in katakana is more commonly associated with animals — and in a very different context — instead of being discussed to raise awareness about the threat of online (and offline) predators."
Perhaps, you should run an awareness campaign about grooming, if you think that is a problem. You could even come up with novel terminology, if this one doesn't culturally fit.

"13 to 16"
Yeah, no, we know #Japan does some things federally (this is referencing a 200 year old law) and some things regionally. This is misleading. Again, parroting. Also, the U.K. didn't have a prohibition on grooming until a few years ago.

"After all, social media providers are driven by profit. As I write this, X has relaxed its block policy"
I don't think X is representative of the typical company and I don't think this is a good representation of "profit based decisions". I suspect this is parroting talking points that someone else has provided.

I think they should have a working block function but this is reaching. #FreeSpeech #Japan

"cases of bullying"
Generally speaking, it is one version of a social media platform that is available globally, so it is unlikely that any particular policy in any particular country has anything to do with that, much less the lack of the sorts previously mentioned.

Of course, there is a question as to what is being proposed?

Something which comes to mind is snooping on people's messages, which runs into privacy issues, issues of false positives, and the like, plus, it sounds unconstitutional. And it's questionable whether it would be effective. #FreeSpeech #Japan

A year ago, "Child Fund Japan" deliberately misrepresented the results of a survey gauging attitudes towards online porn and presented that to their British colleagues. #FreeSpeech #Japan

"Child Fund Japan" used to be called something like the "Christian Child Welfare Foundation". I've covered this before. Crucially, they're not known for making particularly nuanced or accurate takes. #FreeSpeech #Japan

The "warning label" comment comes from *political rhetoric* in an environment where people are sick of one or two companies controlling large platforms.

It's scientifically dubious, broad brushed (that is to say it is silly to suggest it is having negative mental health effects on such a large scale), and contested by various scholars. #FreeSpeech #Japan