Olives @olives@qoto.org

Your occasional reminder that "AI" is not actually intelligent (that is why I put quotes around it). #AI

https://www.wired.com/story/house-section-702-vote/ Uh oh, that's not good. #privacy

Getting vague inspiration from what you see / hear doesn't make a fictional character real either o.O

https://reason.com/2024/04/12/democrats-tank-fisa-warrant-requirement/ I see Republicans and Democrats are taking turns to sink any possible reforms to Section 702, while pushing through an unchanged renewal.

https://reason.com/2024/04/11/states-keep-passing-unconstitutional-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites/
"Last Friday, #Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed a controversial bill requiring #AgeVerification for individuals seeking to use pornography websites in the state. While the bill seeks to prevent minors from accessing explicit materials, the law will require a substantial invasion of adults' privacy."
This doesn't appear to be the only thing in there which is unconstitutional (and harmful), mind you. This isn't a single issue bill.

Multiple courts have ruled (in the past couple of years no less) that this is unconstitutional (#FirstAmendment). The Supreme Court has ruled in the past that this is unconstitutional. It is also terrible for #privacy (and by extension, #FreeExpression).

I see they've included pseudo-scientific anti porn language lifted from an extreme group of religious fundamentalists (led by Mormon fundamentalists).

https://qoto.org/@olives/112257875717066085
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26318318221116354
The only problem is that these claims have no basis in science.

https://reason.com/2024/04/12/ron-desantis-signs-florida-bill-limiting-how-close-bystanders-can-get-to-police/
"Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law today that will prohibit bystanders from getting too close to police and other first responders.

The legislation, Senate Bill 184, makes it a second-degree misdemeanor to approach within 25 feet of a first responder after receiving a verbal warning to stay away. The law includes a requirement of intent to interfere, threaten, or harass the first responder who is in the course of his duties."

""These are highly subjective terms which we believe will have a chilling effect on journalists' and citizens' First Amendment rights to observe and record the activities of responders at work," Bobby Block, executive director of Florida's First Amendment Foundation, told the Orlando Sentinel."
#FirstAmendment

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/netzsperre-fuer-wissenschaft-groesste-deutsche-provider-blockieren-sci-hub/ German ISPs block SciHub on #copyright grounds. Could impede access to science.

Looks like the Section 702 extension is returning to the House floor. Did they make any privacy reforms though? Did they make it even worse (like last time)?

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/one-year-later-hope-for-humanity-in-arizona-prisons The use of solitary confinement is concerning. It can be very psychologically damaging. #HumanRights

https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/16288/
"Introduction: Digital preservation underpins the persistence of scholarly links and citations through the digital object identifier (DOI) system. We do not currently know, at scale, the extent to which articles assigned a DOI are adequately preserved."

"Results: Of the 7,438,037 works examined, there were 5.9 million copies spread over the archives used in this work. Furthermore, a total of 4,342,368 of the works that we studied (58.38%) were present in at least one archive. However, this left 2,056,492 works in our sample (27.64%) that are seemingly unpreserved. The remaining 13.98% of works in the sample were excluded either for being too recent (published in the current year), not being journal articles, or having insufficient date metadata for us to identify the source."

It is, really, ridiculous to see a #NewHampshire cop spewing his anti porn nonsense, worse still, a politician is actually elevating it (and disregarding the #FirstAmendment).

He doesn't know anything. He is pulling crap out of his ass.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201601/evidence-mounts-more-porn-less-sexual-assault So, why do some studies show lower crime with more porn then?

https://qoto.org/@olives/110462274531891870 A meta analysis of 59 studies concluded it wasn't linked to crime either. A meta analysis is a study where someone studies studies.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00224499.2015.1023427 Hell, let's throw in that porn isn't linked to sexism either.

https://reason.com/2015/07/23/despite-all-the-panic-millennial-teens-h/ Also, teens are having less sex with more porn around...

#FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

Someone doesn't like my "non-existent being" language...? Prefer "imaginary character" instead? Hahahahahaha.

I don't have a particular preference here. I merely picked up language which someone else was using to try to convey my point as clearly as possible.

Sometimes, I lack elegance when trying to deal with something urgently.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/04/mpa-doesnt-get-decide-who-first-amendment-protects
"Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build censorship into the internet at a fundamental level. This week, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a group that represents six giant movie and TV studios, announced that it hoped we’d all forgotten how dangerous this idea was. The MPA is wrong. We remember, and the internet remembers.

What the MPA wants is the power to block entire websites, everywhere in the U.S., using the same tools as repressive regimes like China and Russia. To it, instances of possible copyright infringement should be played like a trump card to shut off our access to entire websites, regardless of the other legal speech hosted there."
#FirstAmendment #copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

https://reason.com/2024/04/11/come-back-with-a-warrant/
"The reauthorization of a warrantless electronic surveillance tool hit a snag in the House on Wednesday, as a group of Republicans revolted against Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's (R–La.) plan to bring the bill to the floor without guaranteeing the inclusion of key privacy-protecting reforms."

https://freiheitsrechte.org/en/ueber-die-gff/presse/pressemitteilungen/pr_chatcontrol_facebook What do you think of this lawsuit?

It might be easier to get companies to adopt end-to-end encryption (which is more private, secure, and resilient than anything a lawsuit could accomplish).