tumblr mutuals love getting into the most random esoteric media possible and talking about it in modern fandom parlance they’ll be like “omg guys i’m so obsessed with dagny her relationship with hildr is so doomed yuri ugh they would do numbers on here” then you look it up and they’re talking about an obscure scandinavian folktale that’s only available in the original old norwegian
signal calls out the UK’s idea of content scanning and age verification to protect children, as a horrible idea
signal talks about how children deserve actual protection and not surveillance, cover ups, and funding cuts.
“ The UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the
UK be scanned on the presumption of nudity,
using a dystopian combination of age
verification and content scanning, will not safeguard children.
It endangers us all, whilst
strengthening Apple, Google, and Microsoft's market dominance and their control over our
most personal information.”
They say that giving up your information to be scanned just to do something as simple as communicant is not good for the people
No matter how well meaning those ideas are, they can be expanded into something else and make it into a surveillance state
“We know from history that once in place, there will be an inevitable authoritarian
expansion of the kind of content and people these technologies will be expected to surveil.
We also know such tools will be leveraged to automatically report people to government
authorities.
We have already seen law enforcement agencies ask for similar widely-scoped
powers which are ripe for exploitation in an increasingly tenuous political landscape.”
Signal calls for proper education, good social systems, and actual guard rails that don’t impend on our rights
i’m reminded of the developer of a mapping software who had a variable named ‘legend_handles’ that got refactored into ‘leg_handles,’ ‘leg_hands,’ and finally ‘feet’
FLY is a story about a boy who gets a second chance. Help his story take flight June 9th 11am EST on Kickstarter. Thank you for being the wind beneath my wings I hope this story lifts the world to a brighter place.
A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.
sorry i will never understand cis grief. your daughter is living her best life and going around with friends and feeling like a human being. your son doesn’t feel like he needs to crawl out of his skin anymore and can actually smile. your children are happy and no longer see their existence as the worst thing in the world. why are you grieving this lmao. grow up.
Federal prosecutors tried to gain subscriber data, which was refused by a judge
The protection this judge offered could vanish the moment every account carries a verified government ID.
“Federal prosecutors went looking for the personal details of everyone who subscribed to three YouTube channels and a judge refused to let them.
Newly unsealed court records from the Justice Department’s prosecution of people who disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota show the government reaching for subscriber data that had little to do with the conduct it was investigating.”
“Journalists and commentators Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were charged as part of the disruption, though both allege they were there as reporters rather than participants.”
This happened in February
“prosecutors filed five search warrants. Three of them asked YouTube to turn over the names, mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses for every subscriber to channels run by Lemon, Fort, and activist William Kelly, whose channel goes by DaWoke Farmer.”
“The applications, sworn out by Homeland Security Investigations agent Timothy Gerber, went beyond the journalists and activists running the channels.
They swept toward the audience, the ordinary people whose only link to the case was having clicked the channels’ subscribe button.
Magistrate Judge John Docherty rejected all five, several of them for lack of probable cause.
On the warrant aimed at Kelly’s channel, Docherty pointed to a video that “appears to be paradigmatic political speech protected by the First Amendment.”
A demand that treats a list of viewers as evidence turns watching journalism or activism into a reason to be identified by the state, which is a steep price for pressing play on a livestream.”
They tried again March
“This time they cut the request down to the channel owners themselves, dropping the demand for subscriber rosters and asking only for the same categories of identifying data on the three named people.”
The massive problem that creates is that YouTube is trying to force you to give away your ID or face to them
If a court can just ask for your private information, their gonna be able to see that ID and link that channel to you
It’s the biggest problem with age verification
“Strip away any identity system and a YouTube subscriber list is a loose pile of usernames, email addresses, and IP addresses, the kind of data the government still has to fight a judge for and, here, lost.
Add a mandatory identity system and that same list becomes a register of verified legal identities, pre-collected, standardized, and sitting on a server waiting for a subpoena. The work the DOJ failed to do by warrant gets done in advance by compliance.
The systems being built to answer “are you old enough?” are the same systems that can answer “who are you?” and “what did you look at?” A verifier that confirms your age can log the request.”
I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.
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What if human astronauts visit Erid one day and are doing diplomatic things and whatnot and they learn Ryland Grace is sstill alive and is in a terrarium. One of the astronauts jokingly says “you’re not experimenting on him are you” and the Eridians freeze cause yeah, they totally are. They experiment on him all the time. They’re experimenting on him right now in fact. They read about deep sea diving and are now testing the effects of replacing certain gases in Graces atmosphere. Right now they’re testing helium.
They send someone to stop the experiment but Grace refuses cause they’re so far in already and well that would just ruin the data.
The new humans think this is hilarious and insist on joining the experiment as Grace excitedly yaps about all the cool stuff he’s learned about aliens but he’s still got that high pitched helium voice.
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