Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org

That is ironic because I was just reading a paper on that very ageplay subject :o

Reddit keeps dragging themselves further and further into the mud and destroying their practical value for anything.

Huh, someone says Reddit banned ageplay.

That is shameful and another reason why Steve Huffman is not fit to run this company (or any company for that matter).

Patreon is a hate group.

While you might argue that it's the lesser of two evils, a lesser censor, it is still silly when someone is all smug about the fact that the First Amendment doesn't apply to private companies (with caveats).

So, basically, smug about not having rights?

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/20/kenya-anti-homosexuality-law-africa/ Kenya wants to introduce an extreme anti-gay law.

Some highlights:

"the East African country’s bill would see a complete ban on activities that “promote homosexuality”, including openly identifying as LGBTQ+ or wearing Pride emblems."
Bad for free expression.

"Those found in breach of the law would face a minimum of 10 years in jail while those found guilty of performing same-sex acts would face a minimum of 14 years."
Needless persecution for engaging in little more than a consensual sexual activity or expressing themselves.

"Additionally, anyone found guilty under a clause for “aggravated homosexuality,” defined as engaging in “homosexual acts with a minor or disabled person and transmitting a terminal disease through sexual means”, could be executed."

This is intended to:

1) Further chill consensual sexual activity.

2) Conflate homosexuality with sexual activity with minors.

3) Apply such laws in a discriminatorily fashion.

4) Conflate homosexuality with exploiting disabled individuals.

5) Interfere in consensual sexual activities which "disabled" individuals might have in an even more extreme manner.

"Similar bills are also being proposed in Tanzania and South Sudan, while Ghana‘s president, Nana Akufo-Addo, has signalled that an anti-LGBTQ+ bill is being proposed there, although he is wary of its “constitutionality”."
A few other African countries are looking to introduce similar bills.

"The bill will propose a total ban on what the West calls sex-reassignment prescriptions"
They also want to ban this.

"He added that this would include Pride parades, drag shows, wearing rainbow colours and flags, and openly wearing “emblems of the LGBTQ+ group.”"
They would censor this free expression.

"Additionally, Zambian priest and Boston University academic Kapya Kaoma told the BBC that he believed bills such as this are part of lobbying efforts by right-wing groups to impose “militant homophobia” in Africa."
Lobbying from right wing groups might be involved.

The semantics are a bit different, but yeah, it would have many of the same horrible effects (and wouldn't solve that).

They're probably going to get a stooge from a start-up selling scanning software to write something they can use to justify themselves. #OnlineSafetyBill

The amended version of the Cooper Davis Act is still awful.

In fact, it now attacks providers who "blind themselves" which could be taken as a literal attack on end-to-end encryption.

As pointed out before, mere mention of past drug use could be flagged to the DEA and other speech protected by the First Amendment by over-cautious platforms.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/victory-embedded-links-photos-instagram-dont-infringe-photographers-copyrights Ninth Circuit rules that images embedded from somewhere else do not constitute copyright infringement.

The Woodhull Freedom Foundation primarily deals in issues relating to sexual freedom and sexual expression.

They're friends with that other foundation, the EFF.

They appear to have Article 19 confused with the First Amendment there, although I get that they serve similar goals.

https://www.woodhullfoundation.org/kosaquences/ The Woodhull Freedom Foundation made a statement on KOSA (a terribly authoritarian bill).

"Make 1984 fiction again"
1984 was never fiction. Big Brother is said to be inspired by folks like Joseph Stalin.

If you remember, the name of the totalitarian ideology in 1984 was English Socialism. Very prophetic.

Apparently, Apple now says they will pull their iMessage out of the U.K., if they implement their own British branded Chat Stasi.

Promising.

The Q film is about devious modelling agencies which trick parents and covertly traffick little kids over the southern border down into Latin America for someone to do unspeakable things to them.

It seems to have more to do with the insecurities of the person who made the film than any sort of real phenomena.

The actor who plays the main character is a believer in the Q conspiracy theory and openly promoted it, as did the "character" he plays as.

See, the main character was not entirely fictional. He was based on a real person who ran a grift where he made misleading claims about participating in fighting trafficking and he promoted savior type theatrics.

All kinds of conspiracies were promoted by him (and this other guy). Wayfair trafficking children in bits of furniture (come on...). Demonic blood rituals.

Truthfully speaking, he was a rather fringe figure, who was covered by very few progressive outlets, and now, he is getting more attention due to this film.

It's mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

"Won't anyone please think of the children?" is a phrase from The Simpsons where someone keeps interrupting with that at inappropriate times.