Olives @olives@qoto.org

Also, quite a few things which get blamed on "the porn" are actually general mental health issues which could be treated more normally, and crucially, without conflating it with porn.

No, Olives, instead of doing that, we can violate people's human rights, so that, uhh... Something.

Just complaining on page 10 of a thread hardly anyone reads, on an obscure site, is a very effective way of fighting bad doll law proposals.

It is also interesting how in this culture of individual responsibility, someone might gear up to put blame onto "the porn" (even though, this can be a recipe for maximizing harm).

In fairness, it's not as if there aren't external influences, such as, say, socioeconomic conditions which might be at play.

You know, this stuff still applies.

They're not really looking to make people's lives better, they're thinking of ways to ruin them, to implement their fucked up ideology.

I concur with the idea that ECPAT are evil monsters.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/content-moderation-at-scale-is-impossible-to-do-well-child-safety-edition/

Obligatory shout out about how this AI panic is trouble[1].

Back to the topic at hand:

This is something which we call the "Scunthorpe Problem"[2]. The name comes from (censorious and half-baked, though not that rare) algorithms which kept finding the word "cunt" inside the word "Scunthorpe" despite it being a completely valid location in the U.K.

As for this specific matter with the "child porn warnings", when I say that warnings are fuzzy[3], I really do mean "fuzzy" as in "Oh, it might appear... Maybe." (though, in that case, moderation is often the better option).

Also, bad actors might change their language to... Something weird... There are a few examples which I won't mention. In one well-documented one from 2020, they started talking about "pasta".

Also: "Part of the problem is that much of it is a demand-side problem, not a supply side problem. If people are demanding certain types of content, they will go to great lengths to get it"

For the second example that @mmasnick gives, there is actually no legitimate reason for this platform to be doing this.

A few policies, as written here, actually appear to originate from lobbying from QAnon. It's not a policy decision, it's a blunt and misguided PR move. Even when it does not involve "QAnon" (so not that entire passage), they still seem to be clustered in the years 2018, 2019, and 2020, and crucially, involve Morality in Media.

1 https://qoto.org/@olives/111866367418212996

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

3 https://qoto.org/@olives/111853578250172533

https://nichegamer.com/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-2-tigger-new-trailer/ Lol.

Like the FBI, I see the Australian police (#auspol) also like to entrap autistic kids by trying to push them towards terrorism, so that they will have an excuse to arrest them. Another point for the saying that "all cops are bastards". #CriminalJustice

When you see Facebook creating their own fake "supreme court" (I don't think their decisions are binding though), you really start to feel that:

1) Platformization[1] has gone too far.

2) Facebook is too damn big.

1 https://qoto.org/@olives/111832774730509831

https://letutahread.org/

"Let Utah Read is coalition of Utah community members, educators, parents, librarians, and organizations dedicated to preserving Americans’ freedom to choose what we read"

#FirstAmendment

These sorts of decisions aren't ones I usually post here but this might be of interest to someone.

https://oversightboard.com/news/1068824731034762-oversight-board-upholds-meta-s-decision-in-altered-video-of-president-biden-case/

"The Oversight Board has upheld Meta’s decision to leave up a video that was edited to make it appear as though U.S. President Joe Biden is inappropriately touching his adult granddaughter’s chest, and which is accompanied by a caption describing him as a “pedophile.”"

"Additionally, the alteration of this video clip is obvious and therefore unlikely to mislead the “average user” of its authenticity, which, according to Meta, is a key characteristic of manipulated media."

https://edri.org/our-work/automated-data-exchange-in-prum-ii-eu-securitisation-mindset-encroaching-on-fundamental-rights/

"The agreement on automated data exchange for police cooperation, known as ‘Prüm II aligns with a broader EU trend of laws prioritising national security over human rights. The final text of this regulation has insufficient fundamental rights safeguards and could even encourage more member states to adopt facial recognition technology."

"The inclusion of facial images and a low threshold for crimes pose problems against recent Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) case law: in Tele2 Sverige, the ruling distinguished between the handling of data for the purpose of preventing serious crimes and the prevention of minor offences or the efficient management of non-criminal proceedings."

#FaceRecognition #privacy