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It is not "weaponizing" the criminal justice system to indict people on strong evidence of their criminal conduct.

a computer can never be poked in both eyes three stooges style. therefore a computer should never make a management decision

Same train. Same.

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YouTube starts mass removal of videos promoting "cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective" or discouraging "seeking professional medical treatment" (Jon Porter/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/15/23832603/youtube-cancer-treatment-misinformation-policy-medical
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https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/14/wisconsin-pushing-bill-that-requires-websites-to-treat-all-users-as-if-theyre-children/
Okay, I wrote an earlier version of this, but I wanted to sum it up better, so here's another post.

Some things to consider here:

1) IPs are not individuals (one might be shared by many on a mobile network).

Or someone might use a VPN. This might be for a number of reasons, including for security at a less secure hotspot.

It's very presumptuous to assume it's simply to bypass an "age restriction". There are many reasons other than this.

2) Geo IP is not always reliable, particularly at a smaller scale (i.e. cities).

3) IPs are cycled fairly frequently. How do I know someone's intent for doing so?

4) Feedback about things going wrong might not reach a platform. Often, it won't.

5) Parenting could address minors fooling around at night. It's already widely practiced.

Lawmakers here have not shown that the problem they look to address is actually a problem.

6) Accuracy is hard to measure. Exaggerated marketing materials, or artificial tests in labs, have a tendency of catching people's attention.

7) At scale, any inaccuracy is going to be a problem, and will lock out a lot of people (who may be vulnerable and / or disproportionately affected).

I've seen these systems going wrong in practice. Often, that is it, you are out.

8) If someone moves, have they "actually moved", or does a social network have to assume they're using a VPN?

Maybe Stephen Miller should get a real job.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/08/stephen-miller-flips-out-over-gay-pop?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=78125

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https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/14/wisconsin-pushing-bill-that-requires-websites-to-treat-all-users-as-if-theyre-children/
Did you know that on a mobile network, many many people might share the same IP Address? Pretty mundane thing.

There are other ways in which IPs are unreliable and don't mean a specific person. Again, lawmakers making very shallow assumptions here...

This is the same mistake Elon made and it bit him too.

Now, this might sound radical, but usually parenting prevents minors just fooling around all night (although gotta sleep too). Nanny state much?

How do you measure "accuracy"? Is it exaggerated marketing materials? Is it artificial tests in the lab?

Also, at scale, that is still a nightmare, and can effectively lock a lot of people out (who might quite vulnerable and / or disproportionately affected).

I've seen these systems going wrong in practice. Often, that is it, you are out.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/14/youths-win-montana-climate-trial/

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@alfora @futurebird @MostlyHarmless My favourite Excel “feature” is that biologists ended up having to rename some genes because Excel “autocorrects” them, leading to detectable errors in over 30% of a sample of published journal papers:

“What is not funny though is having genomics spreadsheets suffer from auto-conversion of gene names like SEPT8, DEC1 and MARCH3 into dates, a problem first characterised in 2004. A 2016 article on this topic led the Human Gene Name Consortium to change many of these gene names to be less susceptible to autocorrect. Despite this, our work here shows that gene name autocorrect errors continue to accumulate in supplementary genomics spreadsheet files at a rapid pace.” — https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984

After all these years I’m rarely surprised by medical misogyny, but finding out that the research from the first ever tests on period products using blood instead of water were published LAST WEEK is one of those surprises.

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