Dear politicians,

Our wish for #2026: Stop using 'child safety' as an excuse for mass censorship and surveillance.

No one believes you.

And using children is just... sickening.

Something I wrote during some dark times earlier in 2025, and it helped define the way I want to live my life... spreading happiness and light! Hope this makes you smile!

#poem #hope #positivity

Ya know, no one who is even a little bit remotely serious about child sexual abuse believes that the internet is a significant factor in it.

Child abuse, child sexual abuse, child neglect, all of which produce unspeakable trauma, are caused over and over again by a) family members, and b) extended family members, and c) wrongly-trusted community members (coaches, preachers, pastors, friend-of-the-family, and so on).

TIL that Kenyan workers have been used so much to train AI systems, that standard writing by Kenyan people is often flagged as AI generated while it is not (which means that they can get discriminated for jobs / exams etc)
https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

Edit: many people raised below that the article is talking about texts written in very classically trained English detected as AI generated, which is the case for many Kenyans. It is documented that many Kenyan workers have been hired to train LLMs, but I made an assumption that it was the reason for this detection while it may not be. Sorry about that, thanks for the feedback (and feel free to continue the discussion here)