Olives @olives@qoto.org

They also forgot that the E.U. has data protection laws?

They also don't seem to understand black markets.

Real child porn, by it's very nature, involves some sort of abuse, therefore if it has some proximity to abusers, that is not necessarily surprising.

However, legitimate content does not involve abuse. #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

https://qoto.org/@olives/113361636922921463 Goes over things like porn, science, tech, human rights. A critique of censorship, prohibition, puritanism.

Someone points out the EPP (or part of it) in the #EU Parliament may be misguided on this issue. #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

I feel like the reason someone would go after #VR is to spite Facebook, but they'd hurt plenty of small companies and hobbyists by doing so. #FreeSpeech

Giving a government more power is silly, particularly when you don't know what a future administration will do. #FreeSpeech

they have nothing to do with social networks.

Remember when Lego showed up to lecture people about digital governance? We also haven't forgotten Apple's stunt in 2021... #FreeSpeech #KOSA

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/14/the-kids-online-safety-act-is-back-with-the-potential-to-change-the-internet/ The thing with a company like Apple "supporting" an awful unconstitutional censorship bill like this (even though they surely know it's bad and painful) is that #FreeSpeech #KOSA

New technologies like "VR" or "AI" or something potentially being misused in some way is not an excuse for turning our brains off and coming up with bad overly broad policy. #FreeSpeech

Talking about as in bringing it up as an idea.

Liberato's marketing is curious. They simultaneously say they won't take down content unless it is legal (and consensual as in sex) but they simultaneously have a policy against hate speech.

Legal by which standards? U.S. Law?

What if I take a thousand photos of squirrels, train a model off it, and try to turn it into something grotesque? Is that magically bad because it involved "AI"? #FreeSpeech

The end user and the technology itself is actually a rather uninteresting thing here.

If someone takes issue with it, it likely has more to do with a few large companies sweeping the web. #FreeSpeech

I'm also once again annoyed by people who use the term "AI" as a sort of vague jargon. Usage of porn isn't inherently "bad" simply because it popped out of the rear end of a diffusion model. Someone isn't suddenly evil because they used a particular technology. #FreeSpeech

I wish someone would defend someone's right to do something properly rather than overwhelmingly framing it through a utilitarian lens (only thing that matters is that porn decreases crime, rather than any other positive use of porn) and talking about putting porn onto illegal sites. #FreeSpeech

Looks like Bluesky has geoblocked 72 accounts in Turkey. #FreeSpeech

It's in their report.

Up to 93% of hits in the "Lantern" program might not involve real child exploitation, according to their own terms. Someone should look into that.

It is very concerning that these companies try to use #HumanRights language to try to human rights wash it. #FreeSpeech #privacy

https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview Inter-instance censorship remains a huge issue on Mastodon, and is a big part of why more people don't use it. #FreeSpeech

It's worth noting that it's also a form of protest, so it's also an attack on protest.