Olives @olives@qoto.org

I try to balance the vibes in the post to avoid it feeling too dark. I know there is a bit of a problem where someone might write about dark and disturbing things in an academic tone and someone might not be comfortable reading that.

One of the things I spare you when drafting posts is going through the entire two thousand year history of sex crimes involving children, which someone put in for whatever reason, so that someone can get to a potentially useful bit of information.

Now, I understand that someone might not like it when "someone from the U.N." talks about some sort of censorship, but I'm going to cite one to make the opposite point.

Something I found interesting was how they don't like being called "far right" and the like. They insist on being called "normal".

When a far right extremist Brit tries to get across how "reasonable" they are and simultaneously talks about how good it would be if all the people in Gaza were dead.

I was thinking of just introducing human rights in the next post, but you know what, I'll also cite the Special Rapporteur about artistic sexual expression.

It's been hectic over the past few weeks, and I wanted to see how people reacted to the existing science post, so I haven't written that much for a new post yet.

Mainly, I've expanded on the VR paragraph somewhat, and I've added a point about human rights.

I do avoid bringing up criminals being abused by evil doctors in the post, because otherwise I have a feeling that someone will forget that the point of the post is to fight censorship, rather than to dig into that injustice and to fight that.

Is there anything in particular which I should cover in terms of civil liberties?

Television is a broadcast medium, often with a more limited number of channels. Also, depending on how many TV sets someone has, they might have watch whatever they're watching with a bunch of other people.

The Internet is a marketplace of potentially limitless numbers of people offering content and someone can look for whatever content it is that they like (and avoid that which they don't like).

Between Australia and the U.K., the U.K. is actually the worse one. Australia has more of an issue of archaic standards but the U.K. actively looks to create new problems.

For instance, one of the proponents of internet censorship in Australia went on about *television* from decades ago* and even how television is pre-recorded. He seemed confused as to what this new technology was.

I think Mother Run 3D has been banned before, so I don't know why it appeared again. Maybe, they pushed a new version, that got assessed, then got banned too.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
More games banned by Australia.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mother.run.tomatogames
Mother Run 3D. A game about eating vegetables and giving birth to babies.

https://usagixr.com
Some sort of scientific VR drug game was banned for drug references.
#auspol #FreeSpeech

All they do is look at what minorities are doing, play that up as something spooky, then punish them more harshly. How is that racist?

It's not like the U.S. could possibly be racist. Not when the government passed laws where one group of people was punished much more harshly for doing the same thing.

It's ironic when someone makes a meme making fun of people who scapegoat minorities, then someone replies in a ridiculous fashion to basically scapegoat minorities, essentially proving the point of the person who made the original post.

"Twitch claims their policies haven't changed."

Big Tech companies (#Twitch is owned by Amazon) often have two sets of policies. A vague public set of "guidelines" which are there to justify a decision they've made.

And then, there are the more detailed internal policies which are distributed to moderators.

I can't speak for Twitch specifically but there are other companies which are like this.

And hey, I think their rules are silly and censorious, I'm not defending them. #anime

Of course, someone might then ask a question like "what to do if an index from the origin server is corrupt?". As I said, this one is just an idea off the top of my head. It's here to think about how it might be done.

Practically speaking, it might be done differently. For instance, one server? Multiple servers? How might it work? What if a server or set of servers fails?