Olives @olives@qoto.org

It looks like Malcolm quietly edited one of his articles from last year -.-

This is why I want to see those FOIA requests. I think these will probably be fine though.

There was a bit of concern trolling about a bad actor who misused a site a couple of years ago (and has since been convicted, it seems). #FreeSpeech

A number of these sites being hit by financial censorship have nothing to do with user generated content (and it would be a wildly disproportionate response for a site with many millions of users).

Trolls have been a community mod's enemy since forever but these Twitter trolls are quite something.

A troll is someone who says provocative things with the intention of getting a reaction out of people.

One possibility is that with so many people becoming inactive (perhaps, due to things like the "verified accounts" curbing the value of the site), the trolls are becoming more prominent and are trying to say more "shocking" things.

Casually looking at Twitter and seeing someone calling for people to be gassed.

I don't usually say this but wtf

https://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2412/11/news156.html Financial intermediaries now censoring gay content / content for women. #FreeSpeech #Japan

Checking a paragraph a few times to make sure I didn't get the wording hideously wrong.

Having said that, it is hard to discern the reason for firms taking actions like this. A lot of the time, it's not that obvious and can be much dumber than you think.

However, at the same time, it is clear that Bluesky's actions were wildly disproportionate, probably ineffective, heavily striked at innocent people, and were not actions they needed to make.

While this could be a coincidence, Bluesky became more puritanical after the E.U. said vague things about "protecting minors".

I'd like Malcolm to post the raw FOIA requests (letters) he received / sent.

It's not a big part of the story, it's just a joke the author put in.

To be fair, it's not inaccurate.

I've always found "AI" to be a vague term. It might mean LLMs. It might mean predictive policing. It might mean facial recognition.

I'm reading an Internet novel, and in it, an AI doctor scans someone and tells them to masturbate to improve their health.

The author is very creative. Lol.

It was a number of months ago but I think those two Japanese lawmakers were interested in AI transparency.

The EFF does a lot of work behind the scenes which you don't see. They keep the Internet functional. You should donate to them.

Speaking of CSOs, CSOs do a lot of work behind the scenes that you don't see. An example of this is the EFF. The EFF's work keeps the Internet functional. You should donate to them.

Yeah, I mean, when I voice a concern, a lot of the time, it's because we have been down this road before and we didn't like what we found at the end of it.

As someone pointed out, Bluesky is not the first platform which was decentralized not really decentralized and which went down a puritanical route.