Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
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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
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https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 On request, here's the piece again which goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. It criticizes censorship, prohibition, puritanism.
It's been a while since I last updated this, so maybe I'll expand on it further sometime. #FreeSpeech
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Politics based on dehumanizing someone is problematic.
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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
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While the fediverse is put forward by some as a solution to social media, the fediverse itself has a serious problem with inter-instance censorship which is very arbitrary and capricious. #FreeSpeech
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"You are not allowed to support the Republican Party on this instance."
I saw something like that in an instance's rules.
It reminds me of how in the U.S., there are only really two political parties. In a lot of other countries, there are more.
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https://www.newarab.com/news/incites-sex-work-libya-bans-rap-music-amid-conservative-turn
"Authorities in eastern #Libya have imposed a sweeping ban on rap music, the latest move in a broader crackdown on artistic expression in the conflict-riven country."
#FreeSpeech
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https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/2ae182b849c5937373cd168835c724ba17804de2 #Japan gay magazine removed from #Amazon Kindle Store. #FreeSpeech
During the election, I remember quite a bit of discourse about how the polls aren't really accurate.
https://reason.com/2025/02/24/trump-tries-to-carve-out-a-first-amendment-exception-for-fake-news/ These polls have always had some degree of inaccuracy. I don't see a way around that other than not doing a poll.
It's been a while since I've covered it but internet freedom in Russia has been getting pretty bad.
Should I write more long posts?
It's interesting to see a sci-fi concept which basically just says "everyone is practically immortal / has a really long lifespan" and they spend a hundred years travelling from one star system to another (which gets mentioned in a paragraph).
It's not that far away from saying "no one should insult anyone" which is completely impractical.
Or not even that professional, but trying to be a bit more civil.
"let's be professional" is probably a better argument to not use "moron" than it potentially being ableist.
I considered putting it in a nicer fashion but it's disruptive.
Treating calling someone a "moron" as a form of "ableism" when used as a general insult is precisely the sort of out of touch thing that doesn't help.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
