Olives @olives@qoto.org

They've taken down the page now but when it was up the TSPA just ran apologia apologia apologia for authoritarian regimes in Asia in the name of discussing "Trust & Safety". #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

There needs to be a real reckoning with the role the so-called "TSPA" plays in white-washing digital authoritarianism. #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

Quite a few Japanese accounts obscure the faces of others for privacy reasons.

It's me again.

Do you remember the manga based on George Orwell's 1984? #anime

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The home feed still broken.

Interesting discourse on whether graduation photos (often tradition) should be a thing or whether it's an intrusion on students' privacy.

When I commented on the #CybercrimeConvention, what struck me was how there were human rights "safeguards" which used language like "can". A State "could" implement such a safeguard.

But, that's really turning someone's human rights upside down. #HumanRights should always apply.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/16/un-cybercrime-treaty-a-trojan-horse-for-transnational-repression/ David Kaye writes on the horrifying mess that is the #CybercrimeConvention.

David Kaye used to be the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Another event was held in Japan to talk about dealing with financial censorship.

This might be a work of fiction or some kind of cosplay. Blanket censorship seems wildly disproportionate, and of questionable effectiveness.

1) Even the original book was a work of fiction. That was the book which the author wrote something like 70 years ago. The author doesn't seem to have intended anything more.

2) The vast majority of instances of this term seem to involve legitimate content.

Speaking of which, there was a law professor who spoke at that conference on dealing with financial censorship. One of the examples of a term which might be censored with one firm (it's unclear when they did this) was "lolita". This is obviously problematic as:

Did you know that Milton Diamond, the sexologist, died earlier this year?

Continuing on the "not a real term" point, I've seen different people, in different countries, use it in different ways. Someone might even have an opinion on what the "right way" to use it is.