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Really makes you think

On the fediverse moderator actions are public, so you can see what the moderators are upto by checking the modlogs. I don’t really understand what the context is here though

In essence, where – if anywhere – do people interact with people online?

This is it mate. We’re interacting right now

Case study: almost every other wealthy democracy in the world besides the US and how they deal with insulin. Living in a wealthy democracy and not being able to afford insulin is a uniquely American problem.

To your point, in the UK and Australia you can now literally get jail time for saying some pro-Palestinian slogans. So certainly there has a cultural and sometimes legal shift towards not tolerating opposing viewpoints and it is not healthy. That said this behaviour is not limited the right. The left is not very tolerant of opposing viewpoints either

Yes, actually, I think this law is what is responsible for recent rulings in the US, where it was found that AI generated art is not copyrightable.

Maybe we have this monkey to thank for setting that precedent. Forget Harambe this monkey is our true saviour.

Which birds see large enough for a person to fly on?

Yeah I’ve heard of similar systems in Europe. It’s similar to two factor authentication. Hopefully something like this could also screen out bots, making influence campaigns more difficult. But regardless, however its implemented I hope it will be easy for not-for-profit operating systems (such as linux distros) to operate

Including an age flag field in user data on Linux is fairly trivial, and I’ve seen several proposals for it

What would these systems look like? Im curious.

My concern is that, even if these systems are technically possible, the law will settle on using lucky inefficient methods of age verification such as using AI to scan someone’s face.

OS age verification would effectively make some, if not most, linux distributions (or other less-popular operating systems) illegal. Because many linux distributions are made by small team of volunteers. In some cases a linux distribution might be maintained by literally one person. So these people likely do not have the time or money to include something like age verification into the operating system.

That said, there are some technically possible ways where this could be done to reduce the load on developers (perhaps with access codes, and a government maintained database) but the way age verification had is being done right now (face scanning, etc) would be a real headache to implement and quite possibly cost or time prohibitive.

It would be a shame if age verification laws effectively made open source operating systems illegal. It would suck if these laws inadvertently made it legally required that we need to support big tech companies like Apple or Microsoft in order to use a computer.

Yeah. The DSM isn’t the final word here. Obviously any superstimulus will have extreme addictive potential. There’s no reason why pornography would be any different than, say, junk food in this regard.

Right now it’s monkeys. I used to think monkeys were gross and disturbing in an uncanny valley sort of way, so humanlike but not human at the same time.

I agree with you that it’s monkeys. Thats why this image is my profile pic.

It’s a selfie taken of a monkey. IIRC it became a precedent setting case in copyright law, because the owner of the camera tried to claim ownership over the photo. The issue was that you need to actually take the picture to own the it. But the guy didn’t take the photo; the money took the photo. And monkeys cannot own property, under the law. So the image became public domain. Here’s the Wikipedia page on the case

I deleted this comment because it was kinda mean