Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/20/trust-safety-and-communication/
This is a whole lot of words about a whole lot of nothing where someone got upset about a minor design decision on another platform built by techbros which you probably shouldn't be using.

Everyone's favorite cute anime girl bullet hell game.

Not really a fan of harassing someone who might have done bad things in the past.

Google's new browser DRM idea is terrible.

Apparently, Reddit is taking over sub-reddits now.

Copyright comes to mind.

There are anime where they write computer programs, and magic spells are cast by running the program.

You too can be a wizard.

Time to detox from social media for a bit, except maybe this science place.

I'm tired of looking at bad news all the time.

The "29 million images" statistic was thoroughly debunked back in 2021 (it was already known as far back as 2019 / 2020 that these numbers were iffy).

The majority are the same 10 images slightly modified. We don't even know if it was a human who posted these.

Ah, I'm not going to go into the caveats of this number this time. I did that already.

What is "confronting"? Trying hard to get someone to answer a particular way on a survey isn't really impressive.

This reminds me of those surveys where someone would use language like "What if it was your child? You wouldn't like that, would you?" to try to emotionally blackmail someone.

I seriously doubt that if the Commission said, "okay, let's keep this current "voluntary scanning" arrangement going for another couple of years (or longer)", that the other parts of the E.U. would put their feet down and refuse to do it.

So, that is a lie.

It's kind of interesting, because one of the "won't anyone please think of the children?" lobbyists were upset (they're never going to be happy, even if you create 1984, they always want more) the survey the EDRi commissioned someone to carry out wasn't of the highest quality, however, Ylva now turns around and carries out whatever this is supposed to be.

A "survey".

How fascinating. The E.U. Commission's Home Office has a new survey which alleges the majority of Europeans want a Chat Stasi.

Since they've done a survey, I'm sure it must be true, even though it runs contrary to previous surveys, which had large majorities against it.

1) Selection bias? Well, gotta throw that one in.

2) Lying about not being able to extend the timeline.

3) Lying about the amount of abuse by conflating more minor things with more major things and potential with actual.

4) We "confronted" people taking the survey.

Language like this doesn't inspire confidence that this is an impartial assessment of public opinion.

By the way, an ultra-conservative lobbyist from... Formerly Florida, now Texas, for a company which sells scanning software thinks you're an "extremist" for not wanting to be spied on all the time.

https://reason.com/2023/07/17/homeless-veteran-sues-police-after-service-dog-tased-during-panhandling-arrest/ Police kill man's dog, then write misleading claims about him before the case is dropped.

https://edri.org/our-work/eu-parliament-libe-committee-opinion-spyware-ban-european-media-freedom-act/ E.U. Parliament Civil liberties committee accused of not going far enough to protect journalists from surveillance.

https://edri.org/our-work/council-poised-to-endorse-mass-surveillance-as-official-position-for-csa-regulation/
I'll reiterate that they should only takedown sexual content containing actual minors. Same with those other tools.

If they're already only doing that, great.

Also, the Germans have been accused of taking down web proxies, simply because one proxied an apparent child porn image.

This isn't exactly something we should want to emulate.

Also, the Germans were accused of censoring literature last year. Steps should be taken to ensure this does not happen.

They should not be breaking end-to-end encryption. I agree with that.

Noting that the E.U. could easily extend the "voluntary" window to avoid making a terrible decision (which is open to misuse, even if it were narrowly targeted).

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/mannheim-system-reports-hugs-police/ German city deploys "AI" based system which claims to be able to detect physical violence.

Mistakes hugs for violence. Unclear whether it prevents violence.

The Chat Stasi (what is known as chat control) is the joint responsibility of Ylva Johansson (Sweden), Ursula von der Leyen (Germany), Eva (Greece), and likely more.

Ylva Johansson is a very disingenuous politician. It feels as if she plugs her ears and pretends not to hear every concern about her proposal.