Olives @olives@qoto.org

From the sounds of it, there's always been quite a few Republicans who wanted to defund the Kinsey Institute, although they usually got opposition within their own ranks (I don't buy the excuse for not opposing it this time).

Reboosting my posts relating to the Kinsey incident as someone expressed interest in that.

If you want a rough TLDR (there's more to it than this), one with less formality to it, the article goes into how governments keep excluding civil society from discussions, including the EFF, and come up with really stupid ideas.

They are also unhappy that the U.N. decided to host an internet policy conference in Saudi Arabia of all places.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/netmundial10-multistakeholder-statement-pushes-greater-inclusiveness-internet Interesting article.

Bolstering copyright to fight "AI" might be troublesome when you consider that copyright is an institution which is very prone to censorship and the suppression of culture.

If you've forgotten, the Prime Minister Theresa May was practically overthrown because she was unwilling to implement a "hard brexit".

Looks like an election is being called in the U.K. very soon.

I've even seen someone confuse someone called Epstein with that *other Epstein*.

They were also one who used to mention "abuse prevention", and did so with all the grace of a Nazi advocating that we should implement the final solution. They didn't seem like a bunch who were respectful of the human rights of criminals, saying creepy things.

I'm seeing the name of the British "StopSO" and I have a vague recollection of that being one which mentioned "sex dolls" as some kind of anti-abuse tool.

It's interesting how that was collectively memory holed by the media after around 2019 (coinciding with the rise of QAnon and the "coup" in the Conservative Party).

Partly to address that point and partly because I have a suspicion it might come up and it is useful to keep handy if so.

"the terms "loli" and "lolita" also suffer from censorship in regards to lolicon content"

Actually referring to an incident from 2010.

"lolita" clearly originates from Nabokov's crappy book, and I think it would be dishonest to ignore that, although it's a book from something like 50 - 70 years ago, and it is hardly relevant in how it might be used now. Even Nabokov's book could be said to be a work of fiction, although it also appears to be more geared around shock, and that might have bearing on how someone in the West might perceive it.

I suspect though it's probably used without knowing that background, especially with the Japanese tendency for very vague terms which are highly context dependent, and a tendency for cutesy takes on just about anything. It can even mean roleplay or cosplay by adults. Or a particular cutesy type of fashion. And yes, this one also trips up "PornHub" (why anyone would want to use this site is anyone's guess), likely because of their dodgy source (who once flagged *Wikipedia* of all sites and are very weirdly motivated).

Because of that, it is hard to say that that is specifically being singled out, even if it is far, far more likely to be using that particular term. Censorship is not good in any case because https://qoto.org/@olives/112432593064021268 but it's a bit more complex than that.

Pondering over how to word a post.

What I was originally thinking of covering also touches on "think of the children" nonsense, because surprise surprise, this is a point of quite a bit of nonsense.

If not, then maybe I can get back to covering what I was originally thinking of covering.

Anything I should cover next?

"I am going to go full QAnon because I don't like #AI. That'll show it." is not the "win" someone thinks it is.