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We beat KOSA before, we can beat it again. Contacting your reps matters. Voting matters, especially in primaries and locals. So does being active politically in other ways.
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Just like we beat them trying to take net neutrality, right?
Do you have to pay comcast extra to stream netflix? No? Net neutrality still exists.
This is a bad take. The public wasn't the one that would need to pay Comcast, they would have charged Netflix.
A total breakdown in net neutrality could have very well had that result.
I'm not familiar with American stuff, what is KOSA?
It's the "Kids Online Safety Act". Basically it's using the old "think of the children!" move, but in reality conservatives are trying to push anything queer back into the dark.
Think of the children! Let us scan all of your images, files and messages! For the sake of children of course! Nothing suspicious here...
ahhh, so ted cruz did do something good
Remember, searching for "halo" is banned because it could potentially be linked to pedophilia, but editing a video of the president to look like a pedophile is fine because "it wasnt done with AI."
Oh? I assumed the word "halo" was banned due to its association with the church and their link to pedophilia.
OOTL -- what happened there?
Biden was edited to look like he was groping his granddaughter for an extended amount of time instead of quickly putting a pin above her breast. It was posted to Facebook/Instagram/Meta. AI wasn't used.
You missed the part where Meta reviewed it and didn't remove it because it wasn't done with AI. Created manually so it's fine.
True enough! Even worse
It's dumb, but it's also possible that a combination of those terms hads been adopted by some group distributing CSAM.
At one point, "cheese pizza" was a term they apparently used on YouTube videos etc due to it having the same abbreviation as CP (Child Pornography).
Sick fucks ruining everything for everyone
At one point, "cheese pizza" was a term they apparently used on YouTube videos etc due to it having the same abbreviation as CP (Child Pornography).
This in turn was why the Podesta emails led to the whole pizza gate thing - there were a bunch of emails with weird phrasings like going to do cheese pizza for a couple of hours that just aren't how people talk or write and so internet weirdos thought it was pedo code and then it kinda went insane from there.
I agree with you is the TL;DR, and the rest is just my mad ranting opinions about companies being allowed to just auto-censor us. So feel free to completely ignore the rest. lol.
It is like just banning words and phrases just because bad people use them has just become the norm. I really really can't stand the way that channels on YT constantly have to self-censor basically everything (even if the video is just reporting on or trying to explain bad shit that is or has happened). And it never seems to actually stop the actual issues from happening. Just means the bad people just move on to a new word or phrase that is then itself banned. It isn't about actually stopping fucked-up shit from happening. It is just about making sure advertisers and other sources of money don't throw a fit.
We always hear about how places like China are bad in-part for censoring words and speech. But in the US and other western nations we pretend we are allowed to freely speak uncensored. We have always had censoring of speech, it is just that the real rulers of the country are allowed to do it instead. Keeps the government's hands free from legally being the enforcers of doing it to us. Shit like CP is fucked, and it should be handled for what it is, but allowing for-profit companies and especially their algorithms/AI to decide what we can and can't say or search for without any level of human interactions that very much lead to false bans is also fucked.
It is waaaay too easy for all the mega corps to completely take down channels and block creators from revenue of their own work just completely automated. But the accused channel can't ever get a real person to both get clear understanding of what and who is attacking them, and to explain why their strike/bans aren't valid. I have heard that even channels that have gotten written/legal permission from a big studio to use a clip of music or segment from video (music being the worst) will STILL catch automated strikes for copyright violations.
We don't need actual government censors, because the mega corps with all the money are allowed to do it for them. We have rights but they don't really matter if they can say a private company or org made up of people from various mega corps are allowed to do it for them.
Barely 2 years ago I noticed that people were posting porn on Insta, and it was publicly visible just because they tagged #cum as #cΓΌm. I don't think this is possible now, but basically corporations are dumb and people posting disallowed content can be creative as hell.
basically corporations are dumb and people posting disallowed content can be creative as hell.
I generally get the feeling with this kind of thing that it's not incompetence but either an unwillingness to act quickly or an inability to
ah yes, cumlauts
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