Chat Control and Age Verification laws aren't about protecting the children. They're about mass surveillance and rising authoritarianism.
These laws endanger everyone,
including the children,
and including democracy.
It sometimes surprises me to learn that there are people who don't know that one of the first really big datasets used to train and evaluate computer language and social models was (and still is) a bunch of internal emails from Enron.
Yes, that Enron. Collected as part of the investigation into its collapse.
Gotta be honest, it absolutely sucks watching the same people who call me a groomer just for being trans say that Epstein did nothing wrong because his victims were teenagers.
PEOPLE WOULD RATHER THEIR KIDS BE RAPED THAN BE TRANS.
And it is INFURIATING.
Did you watch the unfuckingbelievable interview that 60 Minutes aired last night on Trump? The travesty is that the edited version should never have been edited, as we can see from viewing the transcript of the entire batshit crazy interview. Wherein Trump contradicts himself many times and claims he had no idea who Binance founder Changpeng Zhao even was before pardoning him for billions in crypto money laundering. The president even bragged that he got 60 Minutes' parent to pay him $15M, then suggested they could edit that out of the interview (which they dutifully did), even though he sued Paramount for editing out unflattering parts of an interview w/ VP Kamala Harris last year, and they caved because they wanted a merger to go through.
Mike Masnick at Techdirt has an excellent breakdown of the lunacy. I've been waiting to see how 60 Minutes was going to handle its next interview with the POTUS, and they didn't fail to disappoint.
60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is currently being described as “nuts.” There are…
Tonight, I really wish I was super rich or organizationally gifted. If I was either, I'd be setting up "Teen Rogue" right now, and figuring out how to structure it something like @ProPublica
I'm neither, so I'm keeping an eye out for momentum that I can support in what little ways I can.
I saw one of the fired Teen Vogue writers mention something about possible crowd-funding for possible new ventures of the fired journalists.
I'd love to see them form something and call it "Teen Rogue" or something like that. And I'd absolutely contribute to the crowd-funding efforts.
AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.
Let us play the forgotten music...