Olives @olives@qoto.org

Fairly important Australian Government consultation. If you don't like censorship, you might be interested (i.e. of sexual expression, censorship of titles which contain "drugs"). #auspol #anime #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression

https://www.meta.com/experiences/7876543229079988/ Australia appears to have* banned this tag game. As for why, who knows.

* https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/

https://reason.com/volokh/2024/04/18/n-y-bill-would-require-users-to-swear-they-wont-use-generative-ai-to-produce-offensive-harassing-violent-or-discriminatory-speech/ A ridiculous and clearly unconstitutional idea. #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #NewYork

https://reason.com/2024/04/24/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-quietly-kills-clemency-initiative-for-drug-free-school-zone-offenders/
"Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has quietly ended a fast-track clemency process for drug-free school zone offenders who were serving outdated sentences."

"The Tennessee Legislature passed a bill in 2020 reducing the size of these zones to 500 feet and requiring that the mandatory minimums be applied only if a defendant's conduct actually endangered children. But the new law was not retroactive, so hundreds of offenders were left to serve the remainder of their sentences."
#HumanRights

https://reason.com/2024/04/24/she-only-served-10-months-behind-bars-florida-still-slapped-her-with-a-127000-bill/ Among very stupid ideas, there is this one from Florida... which probably makes crime worse. #HumanRights

Interesting to see that NCMEC had to remove some clearly erroneous entries from their "child porn list". Unclear how many more there are.

They really should have some process for appealing appearing on this list.

There really needs to be a channel for the admin to communicate through when the site is down. Maybe, an alt account. Maybe, a status page, even one on a different domain.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.harvestvegetables.fun Australia appears to have banned* this game about fruit. Presumably, that has something to do with it being rated as containing "sexual themes".

* https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/

Lots of instance errors.

https://reclaimthenet.org/jp-morgan-chase-cashes-in-on-customer-data
"The largest US bank, and the world’s largest by capitalization, JP Morgan Chase, is going forward with another way to monetize their clients – by giving access to their spending data to be used for targeted ads."

https://reclaimthenet.org/australia-albanese-misinformation-censorship-demands-sydney-stabbing There are a lot of bad ideas here.

To be fair, I think Zuckerberg does get a lot of rap from a few for things he can't do a whole lot about, such as having this content or that content up.

I haven't specifically seen it in a few months, but with each instance, it becomes ever more obvious what the intentions behind it really are.

When some guy who worked at Facebook casts shade at smaller competitors (~millions of users) for supposedly having far smaller amounts of child porn being posted by bad actors than the company they used to work for.

It's worth remember that some of this "we are concerned" sophistry is just plain old anti-competitive conduct.