jdp23

jdp23, 9 months ago

yeah it’s really disappointing.

jdp23, 10 months ago

FYI it’s not directly related but there was a story in the Washington Post today about Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds … of course 90% of it came from a large Japanese site (presumably pawoo) but they also mentioned some originating on big mainstream sites; and some sites don’t block pawoo, so it’s potentially in their federated timelines. Here’s the underlying report, Child Safety on Federated Social Media

jdp23, 10 months ago

Very sorry you and your brother are going through this, and hope things go okay for him.

jdp23, 10 months ago

Totally agree that we need a good privacy bill – and if the proposed ADPPA consumer privacy moves forward again this year, we’ll need to get involved on that to push to strengthen it (because last year’s version had huge loopholes, including some that left LGBTQ+ people’s personal data at risk).

jdp23, 10 months ago

It’s all true. WTF indeed. Here’s a letter from over 90 LGBTQ and human rights organizations with more detail. EFF’s article from in May, which is the one they linked to in the original article, has good info to.

jdp23, 10 months ago

Yeah really. Think of the children!!!

jdp23, 10 months ago

Not exactly. These bills cut across party lines and there’s a lot of desire to be able to pass something – “think of the children!” So if anything the overall gridlock makes it more likely that these bills will pass. So the dynamics that led to stopping the bills last year was a combination of activists making enough noise, and privacy and digital rights groups pressing the case in meetings with legislators (as well as some grassroots groups with good relationships with their legislators). As a result, that Dem leadership decided not to move the bills to the floor, so the vote never happened.

jdp23, 10 months ago

Exactly! Have you considered a career in politics?

jdp23, 10 months ago

Alas, that’s par for the course. But, the email they receive gets counted (and they’ll often run some kind of sentiment analysis software on it) and staffers pay attention to how much mail they’re getting, so it still makes a difference!

jdp23, 10 months ago

Agreed, other laws are needed as well as this – lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1197545 goes into more detail.

jdp23, 10 months ago

I don’t trust them either, and they’re very likely to move ahead with federation anyhow. It still means something that they’re changing the story that they’re telling.

jdp23, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It turns out that crossposting to Lemmy works better from Lemmy communities. So, a Lemmy community is useful. Since I had already crated the kbin magazine and there’s no way to delete magazines (!), looks like we’ll experiment to see whether or not having two of them makes sense. Here’s the Lemmy community I created, I’m using it for now to cross-post from other communities so that there’s a single place to go for everything. !bad_internet_bills