Olives @olives@qoto.org

Apparently, not asking for access to the contact list fixed that particular case.

It appears Maryland and Vermont are having legislative hearings on an #AADC (a censorious and unconstitutional bill which tackles vague "harms" to minors).

It looks like a KOSA-like law, an "AADC" is before Maryland's legislature, so that might be of interest to you.

Perks of a privacy law with some standard of data minimization:

1) It doesn't violate the U.S. Constitution ✅

2) It helps avoid embarrassing security breaches, or if there is one, less information will be revealed ✅

3) The data can't be used by some wacko state to enforce an unjust law, or other form of persecution ✅

4) Less data to be used for marketing purposes ✅

5) It helps protect someone's privacy more generally ✅

Kind of funny to see people comparing Bluesky to Linkedin.

So, this was my initial assessment of Bluesky. It was pretty prescient.

Two things to add though:

1) QAnon like policy has been confirmed.

2) Evidence shows that Bluesky is actually quite puritanical. This part was based primarily on second hand accounts.

Google removing XMPP apps from their Play store for apparently nonsensical reasons. #antitrust

https://reason.com/2024/02/15/big-brother-in-the-drivers-seat/ Big Motor Is Watching You.

Some motorists are even modifying their cars to evade the all-seeing eye of Big Motor. #privacy

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-02-15-fight-for-the-future-statement-on-new-version-of-kosa-some-improvements-but-the-duty-of-care-still-enables-harmful-censorship

"However, by not clarifying that the Duty of Care only applies in a content neutral manner, as we have asked, it still invites the harms that we’ve warned about.

As we have said for months, the fundamental problem with KOSA is that its duty of care covers content specific aspects of content recommendation systems, and the new changes fail to address that. In fact, personalized recommendation systems are explicitly listed under the definition of a design feature covered by the duty of care. This means that a future Federal Trade Commission (FTC) could still use KOSA to pressure platforms into automated filtering of important but controversial topics like LGBTQ issues and abortion, by claiming that algorithmically recommending that content “causes” mental health outcomes that are covered by the duty of care like anxiety and depression."

"It’s important to remember that algorithmic recommendation includes, for example, showing a user a post from a friend that they follow, since most platforms do not show all users all posts, but curate them in some way."

#kosa

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-02-15-fight-for-the-future-statement-on-new-version-of-kosa-some-improvements-but-the-duty-of-care-still-enables-harmful-censorship Fight for the Future still sceptical of the "new" #KOSA.

"“New bill text, same problems,” Adam Kovacevich, the head of tech trade group Chamber of Progress, said in a statement. “This bill still gives right-wing AGs extraordinary power to police online speech. And the bill still forces platforms to over-moderate and censor marginalized communities by creating sweeping liability. As federal courts have repeatedly held, the features of a platform are inextricably linked with its speech, and KOSA’s censorship of that speech runs headlong into the constitution.”"

Already seeing criticism of the "new" KOSA draft.