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And then there’s this motherfucker, getting people killed by using the power of his governorship to spread misinformation and lies.

Thing is, I think they understand it well enough. This is never, ever about safety and is 100% always about control. They continue to push these bills because they want to chill anonymous speech and destroy privacy protections and they’ll keep doing so until they get their way or are voted out.

While I admire your optimism, the fact that US intelligence agencies have been caught -repeatedly- violating citizens’ privacy under cover of covert programs… I can only asssume this was more of the same.

Given that the vast majority of child exploitation happens in heterosexual, traditional families… I’m going to call bullshit. Changing words does not change the reality of child exploitation, nor does it excuse your hiding behind a bigoted little stance because something something tradition.

If tradition involves bigotry or hate, tradition can fuck all of the way off, forever.

So who indoctrinated you into heterosexuality? Because if sexuality is purely environmental, then you’re suggesting that but for your indoctrination as straight you would otherwise potentially be LGBTQ+.

To be clear, Texas’s position is consistent… if you understand that the point of Texas’s anti-abortion laws have nothing to do with the protection of women and EVERYTHING to do with controlling women’s bodies. Those in power would prefer women as subservient servants, so denying the protections they supposedly champion when it protects a woman is… pretty much where they want to come out on this.

TL;DR the people championing these laws wanted women controlled. They give zero fucks about fetuses.

Hmm… so what you’re saying is that I should make an app called UNsafe Chat? /jokes

“it’s common for victims to be persuaded into installing a chat app under the pretext of transitioning the conversation to a more secure platform.”

…I guess we need to do better at explaining how / why Signal (and WhatsApp, overall) are plenty secure. If I were going to guess, this is probably people being offered sex or nudes… because people get real stupid when those things are in play.

A thought… given that these databases use known hashes of child exploitation media to identify offenders, could someone release an add-on to Mastodon etc that could use the hash DB to delete, flag the account, and notify whoever? It would serve to cut down on NCP too if a victim were willing to hash them.

Edit: Hey serial downvoter!

Maybe, or they just trade it via Google / iCloud etc. I’m absolutely sure Telegram etc are used, but I tend to think that most predators use whatever is convenient.

Report found a fair few examples on Mastodon instances so it does happen.

The article reads like a low key hit piece, the report is good and has food for thought.

As an aside, always look at anything NCMEC says with a critical eye. They do great work in their space, but they are vehemently anti-decentralization and anti-privacy.

I’m sure Musk will argue that because he owned x.com back in the early 2000s (thanks, Wayback Machine!) he now owns all X brands.

Also today I learned that PayPal used to be called X and used X.com.

https://web.archive.org/web/20000302221305/http://x.com/about_management.htm

If an instance is sharing content that another instance finds problematic, then defederation makes sense. Regardless, though, it seems like lemmynsfw is doing their due diligence to handle illegal content. We all know that porn will exist… having good stewards of those communities is vital. Punishing them for providing a (legal) porn platform is counterproductive.

I was thinking that a good use of AI might be eliminating the human race, but I guess my Ultron is showing a little bit.

I tend to stay up late sometimes worrying about the moment AI becomes self-aware. I hope, by then, we’re not so selfish, destructive, and petty.

Logging telemetry requests can be very, very enlightening. Both Microsoft and Apple are ridiculous for this… hence my migration off of both for personal use.

It is refreshing to have so much control and zero advertising in PopOS.

Well we do need somewhere for the creeps and such to go other than here, so yeah.

In my experience, #3 tends to factor in the most for civil cases. I would also say that people need to remember that for civil cases, the intent of a lawsuit is to receive just compensation for / rectify a wrong. Looking at the court system as the last step in a long process of trying to resolve the dispute helps people understand why so many cases are settled before court.

1. Discussion between parties
2. (Sometimes) formal arbitration
3. Pre-court settlement discussions
4. Court case

Given the length of the process, the uncertainty of a trial, and the expense… it often makes more sense to settle if one can.

They do not care, they just want to out trans kids because something something parents rights.

Oh no no no, it’s to HELP them you see. They’re just MISGUIDED! /s

Yeah, any time someone says “for the children” or “because of terrorists / criminals” I immediately think “what fuckery are you trying to fob off on us now?”