Olives @olives@qoto.org

These kinds of bills can be pretty broad so I'll tag #anime too.

"The American Civil Liberties Union of #SouthDakota testified in opposition and said that while the intention is to safeguard minors, the legislation could undermine the #FirstAmendment rights of adults who might be deterred by #AgeVerification #privacy concerns from accessing legal content."

https://southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/01/17/age-verification-bill-for-adult-websites-passes-committee-of-sd-lawmakers/
"A committee of #SouthDakota lawmakers endorsed a bill Friday that would require pornographic websites to implement #AgeVerification measures." #FreeSpeech

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.