"They can simply yell “tyranny,” even as the bureaucrats and #politicians responsible for the #policy rarely spend time clearly articulating its purpose. As a result, the #publicconversation is dominated by those most invested in misrepresenting it."
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/regulation-or-repression--how-the-right-hijacked-the-dsa-debate
#DigitalServicesAct
#EUregulation
#Disinformation
#RageBait
#protectingdemocracy
#socialmedia
#badActors
Reddit, assholes, meet pi-hole.
Whew, that was lucky.
I just saw that Tom Cruise is releasing another Mission Impossible movie in May.
Thank God, I was afraid I was going to run out of things to hate this spring.
I understand from the teaser the U.S. gifts him an aircraft carrier in this one. I'd like to say that's a patently ridiculous premise but then I remembered who's in charge of the DoD these days.
I'm slowly moving my cloud data to my Desktop PC. Much of my cloud data can easily reside on my Desktop.
The data I need to reside in the cloud seems to be data that the #BadActors in the #USgovernment and their non-governmental entities (like Twitter DOGE SpaceX Theil conglomerate) probably wouldn't care about.
Obviously, YMMV.
1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.
2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.
3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.
4. Another report without any basis or #justification.
5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.
So here's what's going to happen....
The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.
Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.
No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.
But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.
You have to give us proof and evidence.
This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.
But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!
#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin
"bird.makeup is a Twitter to ActivityPub bridge."
At least 4 different users of this service came across my feed today. It seems to be used by a lot of creeps, liars, #grifters, and far-right folks, so beware. I guess that's not super surprising, considering the increasing percentage of Twitter that is pure 💩
Blocking them, and recommend others do the same.
#BadActors #Blocked #Instances #Fascism #ThatsNotWelcomeHere #TheBadPlace
I'm grateful for listening to an interesting podcast and for people that research important topics.
It was an old episode but it's about bad actors use social media to control what the public are aware of online.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3r6gz9KWPt1L1bsAIlJyQC?si=O6NKKEnMRxiYBvcgUo34KQ 📻 👫 👬 #importanttopics #badactors #badactor #gratitude
This is an ad served by Google Ads. It appears superimposed on a (legitimate) web page, with the rest of the page blurred out. I didn't check to see where clicking the Open button would take me, but I doubt it's anywhere good.
Google does allow users to give feedback on this ad, but the only option is "Seen too many times”. There is no option to flag it as the blatant cross-site scripting/probable #phishing attack that it is.
#BadActors
听黛安娜训斥手下笨蛋间谍真的太好笑了，不过Lamb可要比黛安娜高明多了。
#BadActors
好离谱，新人居然是上本书被扭断胳膊的姑娘，真是倒了八辈子霉才遇到Lamb啊！
"Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine" https://www.wired.com/story/perplexity-is-a-bullshit-machine/ Ignoring robots.txt files and pretending to look up answers? I bet they'll have to overpay humans to help them spin their way out of this. #LLMs #Perplexity #BadActors
an entire group, political & social of #badactors want your KID'S FUTURE! #GOP https://www.salon.com/2024/05/29/an-end-run-around-democracy-red-state-hack-the-system/
Please welcome the ultimate #SPAM mail text:
> Dearxyz@whoEver.com
Due to new updates on our server, your email account:
Dearxyz@whoEver.com will stop receiving emails if not verified within 24hrs starting from today
To keep your account with us, kindly verify below
Could you have a #union representing #OpenSource maintainers? How would that work?
Would a #nonprofit (or several of them) be a replacement for a union: doing both maintainer #verification / #clearance, and simultaneously representing #developers and #maintainers for good #sponsorship/ #funding?
How could #politics and #badactors be avoided?
Just wrote a blog post about #spotify’s habit of condoning #badactors here at https://jaypeachproductions.com/index.php/2024/03/26/spotifys-bad-actors/
A #Conservative #Parent Got 444 #Books #Removed from a #Wisconsin #SchoolDistrict
This #story illustrates how #badactors #manipulate #bad #policy to create #chaos, while #wasting significant amounts of #time, #money, and #energy for #publicinstitutions and #taxpayers
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Racism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://bookriot.com/one-parent-got-444-books-removed-from-a-wisconsin-school-district/
尋找Blur在香港的回憶 ︱
Blur稱來港演出遭拒批簽證
入境處表示從未接獲申請：
不能接受散播誤導資訊 須予譴責
“I got away, for a little while/ But then it came back much harder.”
(Blur《Ghost Ship》, 2015）從九龍去大嶼山搭纜車到寶蓮寺， #Blur 只是離開了一回，回來後卻更加嚴峻。樂隊bass手 #AlexJames 在BBC Radio 6節目接受Lauren Laverne訪問，談到原計劃以香港為世界巡迴終站，“apparently, the Chinese government consider us to be #badactors （不良分子） , so we’re not allowed back in Hong Kong sadly.” 他也不禁苦笑。
Hong Kong Free Press最先報道事件，網上迅速擴散，入境處始回覆 #HKFP ，表示處方未有接獲...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzadMVJty7j/
7/n Today sharing this #DeepStateRadio podcast, with host David #Rothkopf and @MichaelEMann, about #OurFragileMoment. It’s about much more than #COP28 but provides good context - in particular the role of #BadActors like #Murdoch and the #Koch brothers
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/deep-state-radio/id1245002955?i=1000630044822
American media sure is good at turning really small men (and a few women) into larger than life bad actors and then ignoring that their performances suck.
