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The dial-up sound. Now something people view with nostalgia.

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Brought up a point which I hadn't made in I think around about a year.

Of course, chances are that someone doesn't have to go after that specifically, as they're involved in other criminal activity.

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Also, legal scholars have written papers fairly recently about how this context matters a lot to a U.S. Court.

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Even the "case with the soldier", what someone is fixating on are news headlines. If you read one article, it says "children he knew".

Making a sexual depiction of a particular minor is illegal, yes. This seems very rare, particularly compared to sexual depictions of a fictional minor.

For an issue with such human rights implications, puritanical Bluesky censorship has a remarkable lack of documentation. Perhaps, a project for someone?

When Bluesky censors content in a puritanical manner with a paper thin pretext, it's important that people question that.

itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/24 In Japan, a conference was held to discuss financial censorship. Lawmakers and a law professor from California spoke there.

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"We investigate the balance between regulation and freedom and explore how new forms of resistance and empowerment can emerge in response to increasing attempts to control sexual expression in the digital age."

Other than academics pointing out criminalizing prostitution is bad policy, the War on Prostitution has given us jumpy financial institutions, jumpy tech firms, a contribution to the rise of Q, and so on.

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The War on Prostitution in the U.S. is the source of a lot of nonsense.

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We are really reaching a new low in arguments for censorship.

I'd rather focus on wrongness which creates problems than a wrong take which is technically wrong but I'm not sure has real implications.

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On second thought, let's not waste time on bad takes.

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Screaming about the potential for "AI" to become sentient is like screaming about the potential for mole people to come out of the ground in tanks because someone saw it in a film once.

It's also a piece of misinfo which has been dead for many years, because it became very clear that it was false.

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It's not just a piece of misinfo, it's a particularly stupid piece of misinfo.

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