Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.jfsribbon.org/2024/11/blog-post_23.html There was a conference last month in #Japan (which was scheduled on short notice) to discuss dealing with the urgent issue of financial censorship, a serious threat to #HumanRights. #FreeSpeech

Content moderation / Content policy > "Trust & Safety"

"Trust & Safety" ignores the politics and presents things as objective.

"Trust & Safety" is a cynical PR term coined by Big Tech.

They've taken down the page now but when it was up the TSPA just ran apologia apologia apologia for authoritarian regimes in Asia in the name of discussing "Trust & Safety". #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

There needs to be a real reckoning with the role the so-called "TSPA" plays in white-washing digital authoritarianism. #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

Quite a few Japanese accounts obscure the faces of others for privacy reasons.

It's me again.

Do you remember the manga based on George Orwell's 1984? #anime

Avatar.

The home feed still broken.

Interesting discourse on whether graduation photos (often tradition) should be a thing or whether it's an intrusion on students' privacy.

When I commented on the #CybercrimeConvention, what struck me was how there were human rights "safeguards" which used language like "can". A State "could" implement such a safeguard.

But, that's really turning someone's human rights upside down. #HumanRights should always apply.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/16/un-cybercrime-treaty-a-trojan-horse-for-transnational-repression/ David Kaye writes on the horrifying mess that is the #CybercrimeConvention.

David Kaye used to be the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression.

Another event was held in Japan to talk about dealing with financial censorship.

This might be a work of fiction or some kind of cosplay. Blanket censorship seems wildly disproportionate, and of questionable effectiveness.

1) Even the original book was a work of fiction. That was the book which the author wrote something like 70 years ago. The author doesn't seem to have intended anything more.

2) The vast majority of instances of this term seem to involve legitimate content.