Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.221451
Study shows that on average, the citizens of 72 countries have gotten a small improvement in their well-being from using Facebook.

This calls into question the idea that Facebook might cause widespread psychological issues.

The silly debunked ED claim about online porn made a cameo (not on the fedi though)...

This study yet again shows how that is not the case (and points to a review which showed that is not the case).

There are so many things someone could blame problems in modern society on but I guess we gotta bust out the ol' online porn, violent video games, and other debunked theories.

Noting that it's not just "sex education" in schools which can be pretty bad but that parents might not be interested in talking about that.

Hmm? So, a "conservative think tank" has a poll which indicates the majority of people are in support of "age verification"?

Have they considered selection bias and framing?

When someone tags something as "NSFW" and it's barely even so x.x

https://reason.com/2023/08/09/indiana-law-lets-cops-push-bystanders-back-25-feet-a-new-lawsuit-says-its-unconstitutional/
ACLU files lawsuit against Indiana for preventing someone from recording police from within 25 feet of them.

They argue it violates the First Amendment (which it does).

Apparently, that game from your childhood, Neopets, is under new management and they're going to revive it.

https://ij.org/case/detroit-retaliation/ This lawsuit is interesting.

Apparently, he filed a lawsuit against Wayne County's civil forfeiture practices, and to try to intimidate him from continuing the lawsuit, they kept trying to pin bogus felony charges on him (which a judge kept dismissing).

Now, he is also suing them for violating the First Amendment.

https://reason.com/2023/08/09/appeals-court-rules-woman-who-had-8000-seized-through-asset-forfeiture-will-get-her-day-in-court/
Appeals Court decides that woman who had $8k seized through civil forfeiture, without being charged with a crime, should be given more leeway in meeting deadlines to file documents in order to try to get it back.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/20/twitter-users-courts-footballer-injunction As a reminder, this is the country which says they would be reasonable in censoring social media. The United Kingdom.

Here, there's a huge battle over... Users posting information about celebrities which is already in the public domain and well-known.

Political compass meme, lol.

Apparently, KOSA's "knowledge standard" has changed from "reasonably likely to be used by a minor" to knowing that minors use your site.

The obvious problem with this (as pointed out by others) is that:

a) If a site simply knows that minors have been known to use their site, that could be grounds for state harassment.

b) As others have pointed out, if the moderation isn't perfect (particularly when it comes to removing a particular minor from a platform), or gets circumvented, that particular minor might be used in evidence and that *might* lead to liability.

This might be a problem for very large platforms.

c) Older minors are not the same as younger ones and any standard here is going to be a bit of an one size fits all solution.

d) There is still a big chilling effect on freedom of expression.