Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24345310/cfpb-digital-payment-apps-rule-lawsuit-technet-netchoice
"Two major tech trade groups are challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) effort to treat payment apps and digital wallets like banks. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Washington, DC, NetChoice and TechNet claim that the CFPB’s digital payment regulation, announced on November 21st, 2024, is arbitrary and capricious."

I haven't looked deeply into this one, but it sounds very vague / broad. Actual child porn is treated as it is due to the depiction of an actual person (another way of putting it is that it involves actual abuse).

In related matters, Bluesky is accused of censoring images of these.

https://www.lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/sexpuppen-besitz-strafbarkeit-kinderpornografie-sex-irrationale-kriminalpolitik According to a German lawyer, there's an unconstitutional law in Germany (a court is looking at it) to do with "sex dolls" which it conflates with real child porn.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-ross-ulbricht-silk-road What do you think of Ross Ulbricht?

https://mashable.com/article/instagram-blocking-democrat-hashtag #Instagram hiding Democrat hashtag. #FreeSpeech

Cool content on this account.

Encountering references to SDGs in places I wouldn't expect.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/裝甲戰姬/id1143769698
#裝甲戰姬, an #anime style game by CapriceGame(1) (studio based in China and Hong Kong) was banned in #Australia. #FreeSpeech #games

1 https://www.capricegame.com

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Dogs_2
#Ubisoft's #WatchDogs2 was banned in #Australia. #FreeSpeech #games

So many books to read.

Facebook probably hasn't implemented the new policy changes yet, they said they were going to do it over weeks.

When it comes to free expression, Austria is probably better than Germany. Both seem to have some kind of hate speech law.

As one example, Germany had that thing going on with the media authorities where they prevented people from accessing sexual content.

When it comes to hate speech laws, there are countries with a high standard of free expression which also have an anti hate speech law (of some sort).

Someone might be wary of setting a dangerous precedent though.

Politics based on dehumanizing someone is problematic.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/10/all-eyes-are-on-glasgow-uk-first-legal-drug-consumption-room-ready-open Interesting program.

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/01/federal-judge-finds-city-of-corvallis-retaliated-against-city-councilor-for-exercising-free-speech.html Court rules city of #Corvallis violated #FirstAmendment by moving to expel city councilor from council over climate speech. #FreeSpeech #Oregon

If there is anything you'd like to discuss further in regards to this, feel free to contact me, but please no puritanical hypotheticals / low quality points, or bad faith.