Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/27/teachers-at-private-texas-school-fired-for-going-to-drag-show.html Teacher at private school fired for going to drag show.
Web Environment Integrity is a horrible idea and Google should be ashamed.
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WATCH: Senate Commerce is about to vote on KOSA.
You can watch the livestream and take action at the same time here https://www.badinternetbills.com/#livestream
Keep fighting!
Inside intel + expectations on the #KOSA committee vote today: they’re probably going to pass it out of committee. But! They’re shaking in their bo...
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Inside intel + expectations on the #KOSA committee vote today: they’re probably going to pass it out of committee. But! They’re shaking in their boots thanks to the thousands of people who are calling them out. What we’re doing is WORKING, and the fight is far from over.
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My statement on today's markup of the Kids Online Safety Act: The legislative process is broken.
This describes it well.
Truth #censorship #encryption #cypherpunk #privacy #kosa #EarnItAct
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Yeah, Ylva's opinion survey is unethical. If you want honest opinions, trying to twist someone's arm / influence them to answer a particular way seems antithetical to that.
Also, some of the claims she made to these people were also misleading / false.
https://reason.com/2023/07/26/he-spent-10-years-behind-bars-without-being-convicted-hell-have-to-wait-longer-to-have-the-case-resolved/ Isn't it unconstitutional to lock someone up for a decade without a trial?
https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-31-sex-lies-and-surveillance-fosta-privacy.html Oh. I forgot about this article. How nostalgic.
Running that same survey again with a slight modification (to add a few items reliant on existing items) doesn't fix the underlying flaws in it...
Of course, he is trying to invoke a weak flavor of "won't anyone please think of the children?" to try to push his unconstitutional ideas.
https://element.io/blog/end-to-end-encryption-the-will-of-the-british-people/ Apparently, there is a survey which shows how valuable Brits think end-to-end encryption is to their lives.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide I would set fire to this entire bill. It's a mess.
Someone had the idea of uploading every image to Microsoft's servers for them to check for evil bits. Isn't that a bit... intrusive...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY Since we're talking about Microsoft, here's a hilarious video starring Steve Ballmer.
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These internet bills have to stop.
https://www.badinternetbills.com/
An interesting take on KOSA.
1/ Tomorrow, the Senate Commerce Committee will mark up the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), after it failed last year. Revisions were made, but they...
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11/ There is literally nothing that the "do something" crowd won't...well...*do*.
Violating the First Amendment, actively harming the kids they're claiming to protect, whatever. As long as they get TV spots, headlines, and checks, they'll say they've done their part.
Don't let them get away with it.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
