Olives @olives@social.cleverlibre.org

I read that bit at the end a few times.

I think there has been an unfortunate over sensitivity in our society on a few occasions, which in this case hit far off the mark, although I think they are valid concerns about social conservatism.

Those concerns become more and more apparent as time passes...

Considering that for these cases of Dr. Seuss or Orcs, there are far more egregious cases of a pressure group travelling across the U.S. to attend local meetings to censor countless books, religious groups trying to censor porn on the Internet, and Republicans passing sweeping legislation.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202004/no-orcs-arent-racist Dr. Christopher Ferguson goes into how orcs in Dungeons & Dragons are not and do not promote racism.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202007/13-reasons-why-and-teen-suicide Dr. Christopher Ferguson on how suicides in fictional media do not cause people to commit suicide.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/social-media-age-requirements-are-anti-free-speech Social media age verification is anti free speech.

https://www.utsa.edu/today/2020/08/story/pornography-sex-crimes-study.html
A meta analysis from 2020 of 59 studies which tried to look for a link between pornography and sex crimes and couldn't find one.

It found studies which found a "link" failed to control for factors which might make it appear as if there is a link when there is not.

They also found tell-tale signs of p hacking and citation bias.

Studies which followed best practices didn't find this.
Population level studies showed more pornography was associated with lower crime.

They closed by calling for more research to be done.

It's interesting one researcher is from Texas given how anti-porn the politicians can be there.

I don't quite agree with his framing on one points, although it makes a lot of sense that hopelessness about the future of society might contribute to these ailments.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/checkpoints/202304/social-media-and-youth-mental-health Dr. Christopher Ferguson goes over why the social media moral panic about teen mental health is very much a moral panic.

U.S. Supreme Court declines to take on a case from a religious group which is against pornography and appears to be filing an ambulance chasing lawsuit against Reddit.

Leaves Ninth Circuit precedent standing upholding Section 230.

https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-gender-inclusive-and-safe-digital-world-that-is-free-from-violence-for-all/
Summary of what they said:

It might be abused to accuse people of sending unsolicited content, when it was actually solicited.

A man might do this after ordering content from a sex worker.

There should be more risk assessment requirements.

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I'm worried a "risk assessment" could become a one size fits all solution for many platforms, even ones where it doesn't make sense.

Perhaps, a platform might be less moderated, and that is part of the appeal of using it. Perhaps, a platform might be more adult.

Also, it creates a window for bureaucrats to interfere in platforms in annoying ways.

Also, oftentimes you might know a friend doesn't mind a particular kind of content. Unsolicited is not necessarily unwanted.

I see he is trying hard to avoid documenting the failure of the auto-driving system.

Frankly, I've always been a bit sceptical about self-driving cars.

I don't think it is impossible per say, with the right infrastructure (much like how trains have their own infrastructure).

But, the idea you can stick a bunch of fancy math in a car, stick it on any random road, and it can drive itself perfectly feels like a bit of a reach.

Looks like Tesla has been breached and over 100GB of sensitive data was taken.

Looks like the bill which just passed in Uganda which has the possible use of the death penalty for homosexuality was instigated by some of the same religious groups in the U.S. trying to censor pornography.

They were there stirring the pot, demonizing gay people, and some of their members have been known to support fairly extreme bills.

Well, you could say they're all extreme by nature of bigotry, although this is still particularly shocking.

I wonder how much of that money is real though.

A lot of it is in the form of stock which has value because everyone agreed it has value, however, much of this stock is bought with other stock which has value because everyone agreed it has value.

If someone were to try to "cash out", the value of these stocks would crash, and they wouldn't get anywhere remotely near these big valuations.

https://www.madinamerica.com/2023/05/psychiatric-detentions-rise-988/ Because, in America, people are more interested in their silver bullet to every problem, locking people up, rather than compassion and empathy.

Kneel before the true god.

https://qoto.org/@olives/110400288665794817 Porn has nothing to do with crime...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31432547/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31042055/
Also, teens appear to be fine, even with porn...?

#NoToCensorship #NoToObscenityLaws #ukpolitics #OnlineSafetyBill

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