Olives @olives@qoto.org

Also took the opportunity to improve the wording of the post.

Fixed it.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 As there are bad takes in #UK, here's the piece again. Goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. A critique of censorship, prohibition, puritanism. It's been a while since the last update, I might expand on it further sometime. #FreeSpeech

Thorn are the same folks who have been pushing chat control.

I see Thorn has been saying dubious things (muddling abuse with content they find offensive) while trying to promote one of their products.

Oh, I might have messed up one of these posts. I'm avoiding spending time on social media so I didn't notice that.

I figured I'd mention that since I saw someone approaching that in good faith (and trying to protect free expression). Don't get too swept up by it.

Also, as I said in 2023, cops have never had more tools than in the modern day.

That isn't covered in this particular post because:

1) It's a bad faith argument (from what I've seen).

2) It doesn't fit with the style of the post.

3) It's implicitly addressed.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113820598818964716
As said in 2023, the argument it might be "harder" for cops is overrated. It's one a few folks have used since the *90s*. It's not new, they've just repackaged it as "AI". Also, the sheer breadth, conflations, history and footnotes betray their true motivations.

I actually kind of disagree with it. I remember that there was a word, somewhat mental health related, and it had a quadruple, quintuple meaning, and it ranged from neutral to very very bad.

At the very least, for the sake of clarity, it makes sense to use a different word. But, then word policing might be troublesome.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4780288/
"In addition, promoting diagnostic relabeling to erase stigma makes the anti‐stigma agenda look easy. All we need to do is change the words."

"Diagnostic relabeling encourages word police, prodding media and others to improve their language. Research shows, however, that protest efforts to stop inappropriate words do not diminish stigma, and sometimes even worsen it."
Mental health.

I don't think I mentioned it directly in the long post, so I'm just going to note that benevolence can also be a form of stigma.

For instance, assuming someone to be incompetent and them being taken care of by a benevolent figure.

I don't think a "civility police" (i.e. never say a specific bad word, such as "crazy" in "this censorship bill is crazy") makes sense on the Internet and can be overwhelming / frustrating for users.

Apparently, the U.K. Government is interested in passing a bill to remove small sites from the scope of the OSB (although, the serpent has other fangs).

Looks like there is going to be another talk on financial censorship in Japan soon.

It involves law professors, a couple of free expression non-profits and a former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

https://apnews.com/article/iowa-civil-rights-code-gender-identity-cf68d2183210133b15a47e526ad2fb0d
"About half of U.S. states include gender identity in their civil rights code to protect against discrimination in housing and public places, such as stores or restaurants, according to the Movement Advancement Project."