Olives @olives@qoto.org

The NSPCC's former spokesman is now promoting a QAnon conspiracy. Yikes.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/payment-provider-stripe-upholds-free-speech-reactivates-nifty-archives Here's an incident from 2012 (it's worth remembering that the context behind one of the upstream demands was real bestiality).

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/no-nudity-allowed-censoring-naked-yoga Here's an incident involving nudity from 2022.

Curiously, looking back at an incident from a decade ago, and an incident from two years ago, payment processor, Stripe, has a historic record of censoriousness.

They would hide behind "MasterCard" and "Visa" before backing down under criticism.

Old punditry about the election continues to appear on my home feed (if you remember, it's a bug on this instance from the last update).

As we know, a few higher courts in Japan ruled that the prohibition on same sex marriage is unconstitutional.

Someone argued that because there was a lower court which thought otherwise that there is a split but I'm sceptical of that. I wouldn't write that off so quickly.

It's also important to remember that there is broad support for it among the public (going by polls) and the political environment is moving more in that direction.

I would recommend explicitly putting language in to the effect of depicting a real person though (or involving the abuse of a real person), because the public seems to get confused.

As a rule of thumb, German law does not cover porn involving fictional cartoon characters.

Speaking of transparency, it's a shame that Twitter stopped posting notices to Lumen (they did it early last year).

METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) is 経産省. 省 is ministry.

And done.

In short, a lawmaker met with the regulator to figure out what to do about financial censorship.
#anime #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Japan

https://x.com/yamadataro43/status/1855143114023092273
"11月8日、クレジットカードの規律に関し、経済産業省及び金融庁と協議"

"On November 8, we discussed with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Financial Services Agency (FSA) regarding credit card regulations."

"コンテンツ戦略も所管している経産省は、部署間で連携し、なぜアクワイアラ・決済代行会社による表現規制が急拡大しているのか、把握し、対処について検討すべきです。"

"METI, which is also in charge of content strategy, should work with other departments to understand why restrictions on expression by acquirers and payment service providers are rapidly expanding, and consider how to deal with this issue."

"クレジットカードの規律を行っているのは割賦販売法で、経産省が所管"

"The Installment Sales Law regulates credit cards. This falls under the jurisdiction of METI."

"なぜアクワイアラや決済代行会社による表現規制が急拡大しているのか経産省は把握していない"

"METI does not understand why the regulation of expression by acquirers and payment service providers is rapidly increasing."

* regulation of expression

In other words, financial censorship.
#anime #FreeSpeech #HumanRights #Japan

I might update the post shortly as it has a few nits I'd like to fix.

He probably will put something out there but it might take a while for him to do so.

If he also wants to put a statement out on social media, then fine.

I wish he would put a statement out on his website, a news outlet, or something. I don't really like linking to social media.

One of the examples that they gave was not taking a position on things like guns.