Olives @olives@qoto.org

Oh, it's not them doing it directly. The ACLU of Indiana are doing it on their behalf.

The traditional First Amendment warriors.

https://reason.com/2023/06/28/prison-ministry-group-sues-indiana-jail-for-banning-amazon-books/ A religious group is suing because they're not allowed to send their religious books to a prison.

Apparently, citizens in the Netherlands have started a petition against the Chat Stasi, and it contains thousands of signatures.

I can't find the petition though (to see if it says anything interesting), so if anyone knows where to find it, please tell me.

Once again, Patreon is a hate group.

Did you know that Jimmy Savile who used to abuse dozens of children used to take them right into the BBC Broadcasting Building to do it?

Making a cop's job a bit easier is never a good reason for trampling on someone's rights.

I don't know why cops get positioned as "experts" on the human mind. They're not. They're cops. They're paid to walk around vigilantly and arrest people.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2023/06/27/google-drag-show-christian-employee-complaints/70362823007/ It's nice to know that at least Google is courageous, principled, and stands for people's ri- Oh wait.

People who get mad about Nazis getting deplatformed are sometimes puritans who are in favor of deplatforming sexual content.

What's so disturbing about a gas chamber to execute people isn't just that it is cruel (there are a number of arguments against the death penalty), but that it kills at scale and ever so efficiently.

https://reason.com/2023/06/27/alabama-isnt-ready-to-kill-inmates-by-nitrogen-hypoxia-it-wants-to-try-anyway/ While he may well be an awful person, I don't think he should die in this Nazi like contraption.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/18/critics-ridicule-nsw-police-commissioners-idea-for-sexual-consent-app
"There's an app for that" took a weird twist with one cop's idea of having an "app to track consent".

An example of techno-solutionism...

Looks like this instance is lagging in serving posts?

https://reason.com/2023/06/27/ron-desantis-border-plan-invade-mexico-shoot-drug-smugglers-end-birthright-citizenship/ wtf

https://reason.com/2023/06/24/police-let-their-k-9-maul-on-the-wrong-guy-they-arrested-him-anyway/ Completely unnecessary violence.

https://reason.com/2023/06/23/massachusetts-district-attorney-sued-for-refusing-to-release-names-of-problem-cops/
District Attorney sued for not releasing the names of officers who engaged in misconduct which might affect the credibility of their testimony.

If it was in the United States, none of this would be permissible under the Fourth Amendment, and it reeks of looking for a problem for a solution.

https://edri.org/our-work/civil-liberties-meps-warn-against-undermining-or-circumventing-encryption-in-csar/
"fourteen MEPs from four of the seven political parties tabled amendments rejecting the CSAR entirely"
Well, that's a positive sign. More of that is needed.