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A director from a free expression NPO also spoke there. Forgot to mention that one.

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Apparently, itch.io was taken down by an "AI" powered trademark robot.

Ken Akamatsu has an interesting style of politics. Negima / UQ Holder are good works too.

Bluesky is the opposite. I think the character limit there is around 300 (and on Mastodon, URLs don't contribute towards the limit as much).

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While this instance has been behaving strangely since the update, it does have a 65k character limit.

While scrolling through my posts, I deleted an accidental duplicate post (instance bug).

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itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/24 Visa reaffirms their position when quizzed by lawmaker on statement made by rep (financial censorship issue).

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."

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