Olives @olives@qoto.org

This is looking an awful lot like other tech firms. Ad powered. VC funded / backed. Operated out of Silicon Valley. Hype bubble. Centralized.

If this isn't what you were expecting (and it is what I was expecting), then you've been sucked in by the marketing lingo.

Looks like Bluesky is already planning on implementing ads.

Screaming about the potential for "AI" to become sentient is like screaming about the potential for mole people to come out of the ground in tanks because someone saw it in a film once.

Someone saying that "AI" is going to become sentient is always a red flag.

https://nichegamer.com/soul-reaver-remasters-undo-controversial-change-to-statue/ Censorship to make statue look less sexy is reverted. #FreeSpeech #games #SoulReaver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0 The dial-up sound.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dwch2d.dopewar2d
Australia banned Dope War 2D, this is a game where someone plays as a drug dealer. It has a PEGI 18 rating.

Automated enforcement against piracy is already pretty bad (false positives).

Millions of voices screamed in terror before being suddenly suspended for violating a policy no one has ever even heard of.

I cover civil liberties issues from all over the world.

https://www.tribune242.com/news/2024/mar/20/review-delay-over-demon-slayer-ban-erased-benefits/ Has anything happened in the #Bahamas case since March? #FreeSpeech #anime #DemonSlayer

I imagine that with anime and piracy, accessibility is an issue. It's not that easy to get every title, especially through one avenue. There is the localization / censorship issue too (which has gotten better).

A few seem confused by Taro Yamada's (in Japan, the family name comes first) use of the term "child pornography", someone already pointed out it refers to real children, not a fictional character.

It created the post but it doesn't seem to have bothered federating the post anywhere so I had to recreate it. Unfortunately, after this instance was upgraded, it's had quite a few 500s (and in this case, a weird bug).

Let's try this again as it seems to be bugging out.

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/03/news135.html #LifeCard under fire over relationship with notorious vigilante censor. #FreeSpeech #anime

Federation is having some hiccups.

Okay, posting it again with better wording (for social media).

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/03/news133.html Visa reaffirms their position when quizzed by #Japan lawmaker on statement made by rep (financial censorship issue). #FreeSpeech #anime #HumanRights