Olives @olives@qoto.org

Casually looking at Twitter and seeing someone calling for people to be gassed.

I don't usually say this but wtf

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/11/news156.html Financial intermediaries now censoring gay content / content for women. #FreeSpeech #Japan

Checking a paragraph a few times to make sure I didn't get the wording hideously wrong.

Having said that, it is hard to discern the reason for firms taking actions like this. A lot of the time, it's not that obvious and can be much dumber than you think.

However, at the same time, it is clear that Bluesky's actions were wildly disproportionate, probably ineffective, heavily striked at innocent people, and were not actions they needed to make.

While this could be a coincidence, Bluesky became more puritanical after the E.U. said vague things about "protecting minors".

I'd like Malcolm to post the raw FOIA requests (letters) he received / sent.

It's not a big part of the story, it's just a joke the author put in.

To be fair, it's not inaccurate.

I've always found "AI" to be a vague term. It might mean LLMs. It might mean predictive policing. It might mean facial recognition.

I'm reading an Internet novel, and in it, an AI doctor scans someone and tells them to masturbate to improve their health.

The author is very creative. Lol.

It was a number of months ago but I think those two Japanese lawmakers were interested in AI transparency.

The EFF does a lot of work behind the scenes which you don't see. They keep the Internet functional. You should donate to them.

Speaking of CSOs, CSOs do a lot of work behind the scenes that you don't see. An example of this is the EFF. The EFF's work keeps the Internet functional. You should donate to them.

Yeah, I mean, when I voice a concern, a lot of the time, it's because we have been down this road before and we didn't like what we found at the end of it.

As someone pointed out, Bluesky is not the first platform which was decentralized not really decentralized and which went down a puritanical route.

I think due process / procedural concerns (i.e. we need precedent to protect human rights) are valid but it's important not to misrepresent the situation because that can lead to confusion.

I'm assuming it was a mistake made by a new under-resourced CSO which was spread too thin.

I waited for the discourse to trickle in about this, and sure enough, the new KOSA still has issues.

Looks like Dr. Ley was in Australia to talk about porn. He's been critical of puritanism before.

Do you remember Valvrave? Lol.