Olives @olives@qoto.org

Looking closer at Taiwan's government's decision against being puritanical (after deciding to be so), it's quite flimsy when looking into the details.

ECPAT Taiwan appears to be promoting puritanism internationally.

While there might be countries which are more puritanical than Ireland, the number of companies there is particularly troublesome.

https://note.com/uguisu_ribbon/n/n8b28650a152f The new talk in Japan on financial censorship.

Too much DSA discourse ignores that many companies are based in Ireland and that Ireland is a puritanical country. #FreeSpeech

Also took the opportunity to improve the wording of the post.

Fixed it.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 As there are bad takes in #UK, here's the piece again. Goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. A critique of censorship, prohibition, puritanism. It's been a while since the last update, I might expand on it further sometime. #FreeSpeech

Thorn are the same folks who have been pushing chat control.

I see Thorn has been saying dubious things (muddling abuse with content they find offensive) while trying to promote one of their products.

Oh, I might have messed up one of these posts. I'm avoiding spending time on social media so I didn't notice that.

I figured I'd mention that since I saw someone approaching that in good faith (and trying to protect free expression). Don't get too swept up by it.

Also, as I said in 2023, cops have never had more tools than in the modern day.

That isn't covered in this particular post because:

1) It's a bad faith argument (from what I've seen).

2) It doesn't fit with the style of the post.

3) It's implicitly addressed.

https://qoto.org/@olives/113820598818964716
As said in 2023, the argument it might be "harder" for cops is overrated. It's one a few folks have used since the *90s*. It's not new, they've just repackaged it as "AI". Also, the sheer breadth, conflations, history and footnotes betray their true motivations.

I actually kind of disagree with it. I remember that there was a word, somewhat mental health related, and it had a quadruple, quintuple meaning, and it ranged from neutral to very very bad.

At the very least, for the sake of clarity, it makes sense to use a different word. But, then word policing might be troublesome.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4780288/
"In addition, promoting diagnostic relabeling to erase stigma makes the anti‐stigma agenda look easy. All we need to do is change the words."

"Diagnostic relabeling encourages word police, prodding media and others to improve their language. Research shows, however, that protest efforts to stop inappropriate words do not diminish stigma, and sometimes even worsen it."
Mental health.