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   Open Rights Group (openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jun-2026 21:58:50 JST Open Rights Group

   Free expression is a human right. This includes the right to receive and impart information.

   Children have this right too.

   As Scotland's Children's Commissioner said, the social media ban “would not currently be a proportionate, effective, or enforceable way to protect children's rights".

   https://uk.news.yahoo.com/scotland-childrens-commissioner-hits-starmer-092635827.html

   #socialmediaban #socialmedia #censorship #freeexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol

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   Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Apr-2026 05:46:46 JST Strypey

   in reply to

   @Deplorable_Degenerate
   > What if they join our instances though?

   Instances are like pubs. People like to hang out in different kinds of pubs, and that's OK. A pub stops being what it is if the social centre of gravity shifts. But that just means it becomes something else, and that's OK too.

   As long as our city has space for many different kinds of pubs, everyone can find 1 or more they enjoy.

   @icedquinn @fish @phnt @sampler @p @silverpill @Eiregoat@nicecrew.digital @light @coolboymew

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   Inscius (inscius@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Jan-2026 17:45:47 JST Inscius

   in reply to

   @nom Well, Denmark has not insulted him. Some Danes may have. I just think it is pathetic. And I say that as not a Trump fan, but still seeing all this trump derangement syndrome. Either everything h does is genius, or everything he does is bad and h is a racist etc. I think he lost sympathy.

   So he wants Nato gone? Create Ocenaia 1984? ;-)

   And he smiling with wahabists, salafists etc is just disgusting. Many European politicians do that too.

   As for earthquakes...

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   Yakyu Night Owl (yakyunightowl@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 09-Aug-2025 07:02:48 JST Yakyu Night Owl

   in reply to

   @steter Good point. Black folks did that in spite of *wide hand gesture* and maybe the rest of the country can sit back down too.

   As a government? They provided the myth that democracy works for the many. Not exactly a triumph.

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   kravietz 🦇 (kravietz@agora.echelon.pl)'s status on Friday, 01-Aug-2025 01:20:13 JST kravietz 🦇

   Traditional shitstorm about #Android device attestation in EU Identity Wallet with Age Verification project:

   https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technical-specification/discussions/19

   Previously, I have commented on the project stating that it’s neither right nor necessary to rely on a single commercial proprietary function (Google Play) for the device attestation and I hold this.

   But in this thread there’s plenty of voices who contest the whole idea of attestation, the argument boiling down to “I own my device and nobody’s going to tell me what to do!!!” which is just as naive as incorrect:

   1. Ownership doesn’t imply 100% control over every single aspect of your hardware. Starting from WiFi hardware enforcing legal transmitting power limits and DFS feature required in your region, because messing with the latter would interfere with tons of other, often safety critical communications, or air traffic safety.
   2. The fact that you own e.g. a car doesn’t mean you are allowed to freely modify its hardware and firmware beyond the legal limits, and this is right because that’s the point where the safety of other road users depends on your brakes, lights etc. So yeah, you can even build your own car from scratch in your garage and control every single bolt in it, but you won’t be allowed to drive it on the public roads - and I’m personally fine with it.
   3. As can be implied from the examples, about the device you own is not always only about you. When you enter mutual legal relationship with another party - be it private individual or the government - both of them want to have assurance about the legal effects of the agreement.
   4. For example, using Polish app mObywatel you can legally sign a binding contract with another private person - and as the other person I don’t want you to sign an intellectual property sale contract with a fake identity from a phone that is really an Android emulator running in China or Russia.
   5. That’s why I, as the other party, I’m interesting in you being forced to use chain of trust as strong as technically as legally possible. If you don’t like it, that’s fine, we can sign the contract in person too.
   6. As far as I’m aware, nobody makes you to “have a phone similar to an ATM”. The argument is that if you want to enter mutually binding legal agreements with assurance higher than today using your phone, then this phone will need to be attested. If you don’t want your phone to be attested, then the status quo remains, you won’t be able to enter these agreements, just like you are today. Sounds fair to me.

   In other words, freedom to tinker - which I generally agree with - ends where other humans are expected to interact and potentially bear consequences of your tinkering.

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   Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 19:26:08 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

   in reply to

   @garrett points about the ways FOSDEM is surprisingly inaccessible to possibly 30 percent of the population is interesting too.

   As are the points about how FOSDEM has been disappointing on a number of fronts for years.

   https://mastodon.xyz/@garrett/113842908118116849