Olives @olives@qoto.org

Privacy activists are also taking responsibility for it.

Well, whoever is responsible for it, maybe everyone, it's a nice decision to make.

"Without any mass surveillance, Meta could make Facebook and Instagram secure by design for children if Zuckerberg was willing to compromise on profits. Why, for example, are young people not asked, regardless of their age, if they want their photos and profiles to be publicly visible to strangers?”"

If it's just that, then I don't think I mind.

The term "safe by design" has been tainted for me though, by someone who is very censorious.

Patrick Breyer MEP takes responsibility for forcing Facebook to adopt end-to-end encryption by default in Messenger, in part, due to his lawsuit. Lol.

https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/111511725573852454
https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/111528189445982011

Do you think Microsoft is getting their revenge for Tuta pointing out all the trackers on their email service?

Maybe not, but that is quite... the timing. Wow, quite the coincidence.

Something I wrote about #KOSA before.

If you need an image in your mind, imagine Priti Patel ranting about end-to-end encryption, shipping migrants to Rwanda, and wanting to bring back the death penalty (after I think around century).

The U.K. Home Office is one of the most politicized parts of the British Government under the Conservative Party... Especially, the home secretaries...

On closer review, Marija's org appears to be funded by the U.K. Home Office, the Oak Foundation (which is essentially the U.S. / U.K.), and an unknown org called HDF. This is not highly visible on their site though, it's in one of the reports.

https://reason.com/2023/12/06/desantis-gets-sex-trafficking-wrong-at-gop-debate/

"At tonight's GOP debate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis offered up a Trumpesque word salad of border boogeymen, promising to build a wall along the United States' southern border to help stop fentanyl trafficking, human trafficking, and sex trafficking. Once again, we have a politician conflating very separate issues and spouting myths about their origins in order to score cheap debate-stage points."

https://nichegamer.com/twitch-is-shutting-down-in-south-korea-due-to-increasing-costs/

"This morning, I shared with our community in Korea that we’ve made the difficult decision to shut down the Twitch business in Korea on February 27, 2024 KST. We understand that this is extremely disappointing news, and we want to explain why we made this decision and how we are planning to support those impacted.

Ultimately, the cost to operate Twitch in Korea is prohibitively expensive and we have spent significant effort working to reduce these costs so that we could find a way for the Twitch business to remain in Korea. First, we experimented with a peer-to-peer model for source quality. Then, we adjusted source quality to a maximum of 720p. While we have lowered costs from these efforts, our network fees in Korea are still 10 times more expensive than in most other countries. Twitch has been operating in Korea at a significant loss, and unfortunately there is no pathway forward for our business to run more sustainably in that country."

https://reason.com/2023/12/07/ohio-republicans-drop-last-minute-effort-to-derail-voter-approved-pot-legalization/

"Ohio, where legislators authorized medical use of marijuana in 2016, became the 24th state to legalize recreational use a month ago, when 57 percent of voters said yes to Issue 2. As of today, that ballot measure makes it legal for adults 21 or older to publicly possess 2.5 ounces or less of marijuana and grow up to six plants at home. Issue 2 also envisions a state-regulated cannabis industry with retail sales taxed at 10 percent."

https://nichegamer.com/prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-for-kyoto-animation-arsonist/

I'm not really keen on the existence of the death penalty, but that is a thing in Japan.

1) People have rights. You know, that is very important.

2) What led to end-to-end encryption proliferating so much, and which likely contributed to this newest decision, is how often the government abuses it's power to spy on people (or to oppress people).

Governments (and their apologists) seem to think they can do whatever crazy thing and people will just take it. That's crazy talk.

Exaggerating the dangerousness of every criminal viewing (real) child porn is not going to make the argument against end-to-end encryption any more compelling.

I've wanted to do one on Marija for a while.

Every now and then, she shows up uninvited, as if she is some sort of royal queen, and starts talking a load of rubbish, as do a lot of the people around her.

Already one bad faith actor is screaming.

Marija might also be very upset. Not because anyone might be in danger, but because she thinks she might miss her SDG quota (she would have failed anyway, her goals are not only unrealistic, they are anything but sustainable).

Also, trying to violate people's rights like this was always very foolhardy...

She should also stop pretending to be some sort of global org when she appears to be... Operating one out of New York.

Her team looks mostly Western. The ones who approve projects appear to be from Britain / America (and mainly from around those governments). Surprise.

According to Facebook, they're rolling out "default end-to-end encryption" for "personal calls and messages" on "messenger".