Correct, that was decided in a court case in the US. I'm not sure that was a good decision, but you are right that is the legal precedent.

But that case was about pornography; there is no allegation that TikTok is pornography, only that is addictive. Who is going to be next? Is my or your Lemmy instance admin going to be sued because people like using Lemmy too much and one of its users or a government claims that it's addictive? You can see why that thought process is dangerous for the entire free and open Internet.

Freedom of speech covers all government action, including by the judicial branch by holding people or organizations liable for speech.

This article is about American Tiktok and the court case is in Alabama. Ginsberg v. New York gives the government authority to restrict speech that is harmful or obscene to minors, even if that same material might be protected under the first amendment for adults

Also, freedom of speech doesn't protect you from freedom of repercussions. Even if you are allowed to distribute something you may still be liable for any harm or damages it causes.

Free speech includes the right to receive others' speech.

Yes children have the right to free speech. But that's not relevant here because Tik Tok isn't run by children. Additionally, even if it was, they still would not be able to show violent and sexual material to other children because it is harmful

In most countries that recognize a right to freedom of speech/expression/opinion, it applies to children too - at least for the most part. Certainly so in the US, which this thread is about. The Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international convention that makes this explicit.

The government has the authority to protect children from harmful content. It's not protected by trying to assert the right to free speech.

Huh

Drink you can of coke to certify.

Yet again, surveil and data-mine the victims, give all that power to the perpetrators. Maybe we acknowledge that section 230 doesn't protect the algorithms that feed the addiction machine, rather than throwing our hands up and pretending that there's nothing we can do since all the content is user created?

I mean it literally is. Free speech is the right to distribute information of any kind to anyone.

Larry Ellison & fam are showing sexual and violent content to kids on their addictive app- But that's free speech, yo!

Larry Ellison & fam are showing sexual and violent content to kids on their addictive app- But that's free speech, yo!

How to shut down the First Amendment without shutting it down.

Eternal Tinkerer 🔧

• Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting
• My MVPs: Authelia, Vaultwarden, Caddy, frp, Forgejo

Yeah sounds about right. Also in the process of switching to running an IncusOS cluster from a single machine docker compose.

Since the vast majority of my storage is for digital backups of my media collection, I'm considering getting some white label drives. I've got some old white labels from over 20 years ago that are still kicking (I use them on my DOS machine) so I know they can last quite a while before failing. I suppose a few of those in RAID60 should be more than sufficient to guarantee my storage barring divine acts.

Self-Hoster 🏡

• Fleet: 2–3 devices · 5–10 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control
• My MVPs: Jellyfin, Forgejo, Navidrome, Syncthing, Chhoto URL

(Also, Immich is another MVP.)

Badly

Yeah I've been bordering on expanding storage for like a year or so. I should have just pulled the trigger when I was at like 50% capacity before the spike in prices when I first thought about upgrading

Why would EU fabricate chips for MPPA?

Why would you use phonetic alphabet?

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• Fleet: 1 device · 5–10 TB
• Motivation: Privacy & data ownership, Learning & experimenting, Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions
• My MVPs: freshrss.org, Continuwuity, Caddy, Jellyfin, wordpress.org

I haven't spent a dime on tech services since I started selfhosting, and I spend less than is often implied I will on electricity. Storage on the other hand, I need more of. I've only got a TB free right now, and I desperately need more storage. Planning to build an expandable NAS soonish.

I highly doubt that.

Maybe some really, really shitty Samsung with a backdoor. But I don't think that would work with any AOSP, non corporate OS install

Its a federal offense in the US to shoot any aircraft.

I hate this timeline....