Don't underestimate the chances of humans screwing up when it comes to censorship.
I remember a case where someone was like "it's got to be an algorithm" because it was so bizarre and stupid. When the company fixed it, it turned out it wasn't just a human, it was multiple humans. #FreeSpeech
https://www.jfsribbon.org/2024/11/blog-post_23.html Quite a few folks spoke at the Japanese conference on dealing with financial censorship earlier this month.
The previous post is actually from a couple of hours ago. I reposted it as it didn't federate properly.
Things seem to be working properly now though.
"age assurance" is more of a blanket term for guessing at someone's age. "age verification" is a more specific implementation of "age assurance". #FreeSpeech
https://www.independent.ie/business/media-regulator-coimisiun-na-mean-to-defend-legal-action-taken-by-x/a1652074334.html "age assurance" covers data collection, guessing and stupidity. Some got banned by FB for "being minors" for rping as obvious #anime / toon style characters. #FreeSpeech #Ireland
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.
From what we've seen, their team is actually pretty small, it can't be easy to take on all of these projects. While they're taking the role of a "fiscal sponsor", with the mental health circle run by another small team of volunteers, rather than being more involved, it still consumes resources.
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