Considering the EUs rather horrendous track record in regulating both the internet and the digital world, I dont want them to be conservative, I want them to do precisly nothing.
The EU has achieved very little for the average user of the internet in the last 20 years but has
- done large damage to civil rights with things like #Uploadfilter, mass survailance ( Ohh and currently #chatcontrol has as serious chance of being made into law besides violating countless civil and human rights)
- severerly damaged the european digital industry by mostly listening to lobbyists from legacy media and analog companies
I find it ironic how the EU now debates AI.... besides having exactly nothing even remotly influential to offer in the digital market.
I dont know if the USA or the chinese will win the leadership race in the digital economy.... but I am 100 certain... Europe wont play any role... and neither will we get many of the benefits that a good digital policy could have unlocked for us. 😩
The executive director of a certain infamous anti-porn and anti-LGBT group works for that Church.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/09/heres-request-ban-book-mormon/ After the Bible was removed in a school district, someone put in a request to remove the Book of Mormon too.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/26318318221116354
There's a weird sub-culture which believes that erectile dysfunction (ED) is linked to pornography. As is likely no surprise to anyone, this study shows it isn't. The only variable which is here is anxiety.
https://www.statology.org/moderating-variable/ If you don't understand what she means by "moderates", this resource might help you.
The idea of a criminal creating a malicious import which is likely to be hallucinated in response to a request for sample code is interesting because it mirrors the threat of an obscure library out of tens of thousands which a program might import (or it's dependencies might import) just so happening to be malicious.
@det Could you please not water down the seriousness of things like child abuse by comparing it to things like anime? Thank you.
I saw a bad Bluesky take. Someone is upset that Bluesky is trying to implement blocks in a decentralized manner (and currently trying to move away from public blocks). He contends it will never be decentralized and there is no point trying.
This ignores the obvious point that the entire premise behind using Bluesky, and not these other wannabe centralized social media competitors, was that it would be some radically architected platform.
We can be sceptical of that, especially as it is another group of techbros parachuting themselves in, and thinking they can solve all of the worlds problems, rather than a truly grassroots effort, however, getting mad that they are trying to do exactly what they promised to do is strange.
If the judge is going to rule that way, like a well-oiled machine, it would be better if he just did it in a cold neutral tone, rather than sadistically throwing in little demands for "remorse" (and gleefully using this to justify what it is he does) and injecting his own conservative views on the matter.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/woman-in-uk-jailed-for-28-months-over-taking-abortion-pills-after-legal-time-limit British woman jailed over abortion. Judge writes nonsensical piece of apologia as a "ruling".
Even the bit where he goes on about her "remorse" or whatever reeks of him trying to justify his ruling to himself, and is really quite creepy and disturbing.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/jun/13/nottingham-in-shock-after-three-die-in-early-morning-attacks Several killed in early morning rampage in Nottingham, includes a couple university students.
https://reason.com/2023/06/13/poppy-seeds-trigger-child-neglect-investigations/ Mothers subjected to non-consensual drug tests with a high number of false positives and a high risk of having their children taken away from them.
https://edri.org/our-work/the-belgian-government-is-failing-to-consider-human-rights-in-csa-regulation/ Belgian Government pushing chat control and trampling on human rights.
https://www.wired.com/story/anti-porn-covenant-eyes-bond-revoked/ Violations of the First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendments.
This is deeply suspicious and smells of a conservative judge trying to harass a family with an infamous anti-porn app (one already known to be abused for attempts at conversion therapy).
It also reminds me of their attitude towards bail more broadly.
If we let them out, they'll go back to their old ways. But, when you look at the number who do, it is absolutely miniscule. I'm suspicious it'd be similar here too, and I suppose, if he did go back to his old ways, there'd be more evidence against him?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/montana-anti-drag-ban-library-transgender/ Anti drag law leads library to cancel event with transgender speaker.
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Free Expression. Human rights. Anime. Liberal.