Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://ccla.org/press-release/ccla-urges-substantial-amendments-to-the-online-harms-act/
"This is a massive bill that we need to examine in greater detail. Our preliminary read raises several serious concerns. While the CCLA endorses the declared purposes of upholding public safety, protecting children, and supporting marginalized communities, our initial assessment reveals that the bill includes overbroad violations of expressive freedom, privacy, protest rights, and liberty."

Canadian Civil Liberties Association comments on why the new bill is bad. #canada

Don't know what is up with that snippet (which clearly doesn't match the link), looks like a bug.

If you're curious about the sorts of people who push for these sorts of things, one who appeared before parliamentarians is the U.K.-based Vice-President of an American bunch of Christian fundamentalists known as NCOSE (formerly known as Morality in Media)*, Haley McNamara.

These politicians also voice "concern" about something, then they push for broader censorship than that. For instance, this "baroness" appears to be looking to censor vast swathes of content. It is an extreme attack on free expression.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_on_Sexual_Exploitation
#ukpol

24/7 GPS monitoring of migrants enabled the UK Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data, invading people’s privacy and inflicting psychological burdens.

It’s a punitive and offensive measure that has rightly been found unlawful by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

#migrants #ukpolitics #surveillance #privacy #GPS #GDPR

https://www.wired.com/story/gps-ankle-tags-uk-privacy-illegal/

They also conflate real content with fantasy content, rely on misleading misrepresentations of the effects on porn, and typically, people like this conflate animated violence with realistic violence, and mild "aggression" with what might more typically be viewed as "aggression". To put it simply, it is a mess, and extremely problematic.

As it turns out though, they're looking for submissions. #ukpol

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/eff-dc-circuit-us-governments-forced-disclosure-visa-applicants-social-media

"EFF recently filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit urging the court to reverse a lower court decision upholding a State Department rule that forces visa applicants to the United States to disclose their social media identifiers as part of the application process. If upheld, the district court ruling has severe implications for free speech and privacy not just for visa applicants, but also the people in their social media networks—millions, if not billions of people, given that the “Disclosure Requirement” applies to 14.7 million visa applicants annually."

#FirstAmendment #privacy

I suppose since the British government is at great risk of becoming puritanical fascists (if they're not already), as evidenced by the above meeting, I should repost my "porn isn't bad" science / knowledge pack* for #ukpol.

* https://qoto.org/@olives/111888946356326887