Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

Trump could be charged with perjury for false representations he likely made in Dec 2020 to a Georgia court as part of his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

This is the 56th crime he has been credibly accused of since 2015. https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-reports/crime-number-56-president-trumps-perjury-in-a-georgia-federal-court/

Things are going well
#technology #tech #twitter #twittermigration #news #TwitterMigrate

This type of rampant impersonation and misinfo on the primary social platform for news is not going to end well.

#technology #tech #twitter #twittermigration #elon #TwitterMigrate #news #journalist

NPR instructs journalists not to delete birdsite accounts because someone may use their handle to impersonate them. (h/t @semaforben@twitter.com)

In about an hour, at 4:30pm EST, I'm hosting a rad Q&A with a bunch of brilliant activists talking about what the US election results mean for key tech policy fights like privacy, antitrust, section 230, content moderation, abortion related surveillance, and online free expression.

Featuring folks from:

EFF
Planned Parenthood
Media Justice
ProtonMail
GLAAD
Reframe Health and Justice
Sex Workers Project
7amelah
and more

RSVP and tune in on Zoom! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YLXM4uYiTbWC8AmdVqzQIQ

China's Social Credit System is bad: It's both unique and part of a global trend. This should freak you out. 😱

What is more, our societies are heading for the same direction:
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/social-credit-system

So someone messaged me privately and asked how absolute this is.. like would we block an instance calling for genocide. I feel my response is import to reiterate here, so here it is:

Its not just about the authorities, it is about the people whose lives are at risk by that call to genocide having the right to see those posts and use that information to look out for their own safety... If someone is doxed, they should know, if someone is threatened, they should know, and they should be able to take action.

Someone saying violent things online doesnt guarantee some police officer will meander by and take them down. The law only tends to get involved once someone is reported, and sometimes not even then. No one will be reporting a site if no one can see or know it is there.

The question is, if someone is being physically threatened and having their life in jeopardy how are you helping them by blocking the privileges of the **victim** and disallowing the victim the right to see the threat placed against them?

In short, I refuse to take away rights from the victim simply because there is a violent bad actor out there. If the victim doesn't want to see it they simply need to import the block list and the problem is solved for them, so why not keep the power in the victims hands?

As Web 3.0 as a term has been utterly ruined by cryptobros, I propose the next version of the web will be Web 95.

I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:

So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.

Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.

The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.

This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.

I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.

In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.

Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,

#mastoadmin

Tomorrow: Grab a seltzer (or something stronger) for a post-election roundup with experts from ❤️Fight, \@glaad, \@EFF, \@mediajustice + more. We’ll debrief on the midterms’ impact on tech policy, human rights, and more. Bring questions and RSVP below https://bit.ly/midtermtech

Obviously election results are still coming in but it's looking really likely that Republicans will control the House. That means we really really need ALL HANDS ON DECK to push for Congress to pass the Big Tech antitrust bills #AICOA and #OAMA during the "lame duck" (we really need a better term) session after the election. These next few weeks are critical if we want to rein in tech monopoly abuses. incoming GOP leadership will not move these bills. https://www.AntitrustVoteNow.com

US elections be like

(From birdsite user @ campster)

Yesterday, Ohio sent to the Senate a religious zealot who is calling for an “outright ban” on adult content (i.e., going back to jailing people for having sex on camera):

https://www.xbiz.com/news/266768/ohio-republican-senate-candidate-jd-vance-calls-for-outright-ban-on-porn

Don't forget to #BringBackMasks

Introduction:

I am a forensic psychologist and researcher and mostly post about sexuality science, child sexual abuse prevention, and forensic mental health. With occasional posts about fishing and food!

✍️Evan's post-election tech policy legislation cliff notes:

AICOA is a good bill

OAMA is a good bill

ADPPA is an okay bill and i'd be happy if it passed

COPPA 2.0 is a not great bill but i can live with it

KOSA is a bad bill

JCPA is a bad bill

EARN IT is a terrible bill

(cross-posted from the birdsite, sorry)

Loved the bird app for a long time but the recent chaos and ongoing problem of trolls…

Trying Mastodon as an alternative space for discourse about sexuality science, child sexual abuse prevention, and forensic mental health. With fewer posts about fishing and food.

Some people think Mastodon is too weird to become popular:

I joined Twitter in 2008. We had to put a "d" in front of a tweet to convert it to a direct message and every other day you had some embarrassing private moments exposed because someone forgot about the “d”. Hashtags were just a community hack, introduced by Chris Messina to somehow tag content. Search? Hah, you wish! Tweets via SMS were supposed to be a thing. Oh, and the daily meet and greet with the failwhale. Totally not weird.