Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-books-librarians-obscenity-lawsuit-c05fc196fe4ba9c6ffe83d3287bc0d2f
"A federal judge on Monday struck down key parts of an #Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors."

"The law would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible to children."
#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment

https://www.independent.ie/business/media-regulator-coimisiun-na-mean-to-defend-legal-action-taken-by-x/a1652074334.html Twitter takes legal action against Irish censorship. #FreeSpeech

Now, you might not like Twitter's boss, but it looks like #Ireland is seriously over-reaching here.

It's not always easy to tell how much censorship in the E.U. comes from the E.U. itself and how much of it comes from Ireland.

Ireland is a very puritanical country.

If it doesn't drive censorship, why did Bluesky engage in censorship the moment the Commission yelled at them about it.

https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/a-losing-game-moderating-online-content-fuels-big-tech-power This is a more mature take on the DSA than we usually see from people who insist it doesn't drive censorship.

https://nichegamer.com/going-medieval-gets-new-overview-trailer/ If you think about it, it kind of looks like the wall is made of giant pencils. Lol.

It's so Square Enix to spend more than a decade developing something. Lol.

Ironically, this particular video is not available in Japan.

Apparently, Bluesky users are having difficulty understanding that they have to follow the bridge user to become visible to fediverse users and that has reignited the opt-in / opt-out debate.

There was an anime where the Japanese death penalty made an appearance and it was death by hanging. I haven't looked deeply into it though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5fgOHy1JY It looks like it.

I remember there were people who died in a fire who were involved in it. I vaguely recall a prosecutor pursuing the death penalty for an arsonist.

Hey, is that the Dragon Maid anime there. I never got around to watching that one.

https://nichegamer.com/localization-service-problem-gabe-newell-help-anime-industry/ Interesting article.

Kingdom Hearts. Huh. Did they finally make a sequel to 2?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIB53GK0rKY A parody where Luigi is the one punch man.

No, not Master Roshi, the other one.

Mario. When things take a bad turn, you can rely on the Italian plumber to make everything right.

Imagine if Mario had a backpack filled with mushrooms.

Mario. Shouldn't have underestimated the Italian plumber.