Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.internetsociety.org/news/press-releases/2021/new-study-finds-australias-tola-law-poses-long-term-risks-to-australian-economy/ This is from 2021, I don't know if the folks in #auspol have seen it. It's about that law which could be used to undermine encryption which was passed in 2018. The Internet Society argues that it could have a detrimental impact on Australia's economy.

In regards to Godot, it's a good example of how arguing with a random person on Twitter and trying to get even with them is *probably not a good idea*.

If they call themselves "woke", what someone might think of someone very political correct and without sense (that is the definition which is spread around at least), they could have simply asked for content with LGBT characters and casually continued with their day.

The ironic thing is that after destroying their party's reputation (further?), the E.U. is likely to tighten it's borders anyway regardless of what they would have or wouldn't have done.

Now, rather than simply looping through old posts (mixed in with new posts), it now appears to be showing old posts but quickly removing the post from the feed after it appears.

I see there was another 500 while trying to post that.

They didn't really govern. They came up with some sound bite which had no actual substance or meaning to it.

They didn't really govern. They came up with some sound bite which had no actual substance or meaning to it.

Maybe, rather than calling them extremists though, maybe I should just call them morons.

The dumbest thing about the far right extremists who were in the British Government was that they would rush to burn everything down to get even with one guy (often Zuckerberg) or to get even with the E.U. (like floating the idea of pulling out human rights treaties, even though that is completely dumb, and they still managed to pass their Rwanda bill).

Considering that the British Government was run by far right extremists, the idea that the BBFC also had a far right extremist leaning or influence would probably make sense.

I'm not arguing that the so-called agency is good at what they do either, but not only is the BBFC full of nonsense, they are not even needed in the modern day.

The U.K. should seriously consider just dismantling the archaic BBFC. They are quite literally just apologists for censorship and their "regulatory functions" have long been taken over by a real agency.

I might have accidentally posted that twice. There was a 500 so I posted it again.

By the way, this is one of the things I warned about during chat control when the E.U. Parliament was arguing for "new capabilities", even though capabilities already exist in member states. Does it add anything? Or is it another tool which might be misused?

Have you noticed how the things the draconian and censorious DSA was supposed to do, a member state just started doing with laws which were around for ages anyway?

In the end, rather than getting a less draconian law, someone ends up with *two* draconian laws.

It looks like someone from another instance can see my posts so that is good and talking to users on other instances appears to work.

I suspect the forensic types discover sites by following their samples (which might already have a skew), or parts of them, around.

There are new posts mixed in with the looping old ones on here.

Ironically, the same posts looping is the same thing that would happen on Twitter.