Olives @olives@qoto.org

#FreeSpeech stories (#FirstAmendment)
https://reason.com/2025/02/24/trump-tries-to-carve-out-a-first-amendment-exception-for-fake-news/
https://reason.com/2025/02/24/florida-sues-target-over-trans-merchandise/
https://reason.com/2025/02/25/d-c-s-u-s-attorney-is-a-menace-to-the-first-amendment/

Someone complaining about "woke" is someone essentially complaining about a vague and amorphous sense of political correctness, not about an actual concrete ideology.

I'd be wary of someone trying to repackage "morality" as "exploitation".

"Did companies removing eye candy do anything for women (feminism)?"
Very unlikely. If anything, it's been used to argue that they are going woke or to complain about women.

"woke" itself is a term which doesn't really have a meaning.

Presumably, becoming woke involves drinking coffee.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://sinverse.com/
SinVerse. A Grand Theft Auto style game with blockchain elements was banned in #Australia. #games #FreeSpeech

I'll look into using Bluesky. I might not do that very soon though.

One reason for this is that I have other priorities, and I don't want to spend a lot of time experimenting with (and posting on) various social media accounts.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://egdata.app/offers/e9bd09671131463fa160977c3610a8b4
Brendan Samuel Rose's Luciferianism was banned in #Australia. #games #FreeSpeech

I'm a bit wary of orgs which try to be both a safety and freedom of expression org. It's harder for an org to do multiple things at once, and they might say things which are not good for free expression.

I don't always see an org where defending freedom of expression is one of the main planks and almost the entire team are psychologists.

The term unmoderated is overrated.

Practically everyone moderates. Chans moderate, even if they have a lighter approach to it. This might be to remove spam or an undesired form of content. Perhaps, it's a form of content unrelated to the purpose of a site. It might be due to legal concerns or some other reason. Even a drug marketplace was reported to moderate, such as in removing photography of child abuse.

Not taking down a bit of content immediately doesn't make a site "unmoderated".

There are people saying that Twitter is censoring links to Signal.

A few suggestions to try out Bluesky.

It's interesting how in a few fantasy novels, the world is actually about as big as the Sun.

Thoughts on COSL. The website (they point out it's a WIP) talks of projects being independent, but then, there's language implying they're not so independent. One's a project which probably should be independent, even if they offer consulting services (as they have suggested they do) to them.

Looking at COSL's annual report. There seems to be a bunch of therapists (and a lawyer). I would have thought there'd be more tech expertise (not replacing an existing person but in addition).

https://reason.com/2024/06/21/the-supreme-court-again-strengthens-the-right-to-a-jury-trial-in-criminal-sentencing/ An old one but steep sentencing enhancements now require a trial by jury. A boon for due process.

https://reason.com/2024/04/18/u-s-sentencing-commission-restricts-federal-judges-ability-to-use-acquitted-conduct-at-sentencing/ An old one but judges can no longer boost someone's sentence on conduct a jury acquitted them of. A boon for due process.