Olives @olives@qoto.org

When you are reading an article which references manga from sixty years ago.

Context is concern trolling by authoritarian regimes.

If it's a funding thing, it'd make sense to say something like "we provide grants to orgs which share our values and work on relevant projects", here are our values, here is a list of grantees (and relevant info).

I get that what they've put out so far is a draft but that comes to mind.

For instance, if they just provide grants and the actual thing is run by another team, that should be clear upfront. Like in some bits, they say "we do this". Who is "We"? An org that's an member in this org? But, if you look a bit further, it sounds like a funded org.

My advice to COSL would be to make clear the divisions between the funding org and the funded org, or other relationships, because I doubt they want someone to confuse it for them running the other org directly.

If you're confused by the date in the URL showing November, that is because that page used to show something like "a conference has been scheduled for December", then it was updated after the conference.

https://www.jfsribbon.org/2024/11/blog-post_23.html There was a conference last month in #Japan (which was scheduled on short notice) to discuss dealing with the urgent issue of financial censorship, a serious threat to #HumanRights. #FreeSpeech

Content moderation / Content policy > "Trust & Safety"

"Trust & Safety" ignores the politics and presents things as objective.

"Trust & Safety" is a cynical PR term coined by Big Tech.

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.