Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/ "Facebook founder called trusting users dumb f*cks"
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/1/23781271/instagram-threads-twitter-leak-android-google-play Oh no.
Do you think OceanGate is going to go bankrupt?
How many years do you think it will take Bluesky to ship? Ten? Fifteen?
For the next U.S. election, Biden would be better than Trump / DeSantis, although the Democrats really need more up and rising political figures...
For the mid-terms, the Democrats holding the Senate particularly, would be good to keep the courts in order.
For starters, abolishing first past the post would be a good idea...
I don't think this other idea of selecting random people from the population is workable for a number of reasons.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/28/the-idea-to-overhaul-the-house-of-lords-that-politicians-arent-talking-about/
"The UK’s second parliamentary chamber is currently packed with life peers appointed by prime ministers, as well as more than 90 hereditary peers and dozens of bishops."
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To be fair, it's hard for dusty fantasy world politics to compare to a murder mystery in a mansion on an isolated island where they fight over the ...
Apparently, the moderators of the blind community's subreddit are themselves blind (wow) and Reddit broke their ability to moderate.
They're leaving Reddit for Lemmy.
Thank you, Elon.
101,525 people joined Mastodon in the past 24 hours. To put that in context, 84,657 people joined Mastodon in the previous 6 days. Twitter’s ne...
While I'm not personally fond of hate speech, it tends to be packaged along with other restrictions on expression.
The term is also a bit nebulous. Also, how do you distinguish between poor humor and hate speech?
https://reclaimthenet.org/un-human-rights-law-ban-encrypted-messages
British Government invokes Article 8 (the right to privacy) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to avoid transparency of it's own communications.
Get accused of hypocrisy for simultaneously wanting to break encrypted communications.
https://reclaimthenet.org/macron-wants-platforms-to-delete-riot-content
Trying to address complex societal problems by blaming... Violent video games (a tired stereotype... it's never the video games...) and social media...
The Premier of NSW, Australia wants Facebook to prevent people from streaming protests.
NSW (New South Wales) is one of the states in Australia and the premier is the leader of that state.
The NSW Premier has said that he intends to meet with Meta to try to get them to prevent or block people from live-streaming protests. This is a lu...
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The NSW Premier has said that he intends to meet with Meta to try to get them to prevent or block people from live-streaming protests. This is a ludicrous proposal - to do so would be a real government overstep, another encroachment upon the right to protest in Australia, and also like...technically absurd
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hate making a submission to the inquiry into Australia's human rights framework like: please 👉 🥺 👈 can we have some rights?
nonsense no rights country smdh
Bluesky is like a meme at this point.
Fediverse instances are facing a crisis... A crisis of too many users arriving lol
https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
Here's another couple random bits of censorship.
"Mugen Souls" More racism / puritanism. Attaching image to show my point... #anime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xy3lwuJsLY
STAR. A random horror game.
https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/ In Australia, the previous government put a really awful censorship algorith...
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
