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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it’s actually pretty neat how much researchers don’t care about country of origin.

    What I’m saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punishes both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It’s literally shooting yourself in the foot.









  • Yeah.

    Discord needs to moderate, so they ban and therefore conclude their legal obligations.

    If it was CSAM and discord thinks it’s bad enough, they will probably forward the information to the authorities.

    Now if the authorities think it’s worth an investigation and give it the proper priority, they will start one. If the investigation concludes and they still think you’ve done goofed bad enough, they will persue you under criminal law.

    See how many ifs there are and how many people have to sign off on it? There’s quadruple human review at minimum in there, and there’s no way they think they can win on those charges when the evidence if gd damn popcorn.

    Also, you can appeal a ban. I got auto banned on discord about 2 months ago and I appealed because I know for a fact I did nothing wrong - I was literally asleep and my last messages did not even contain profanity. I was so mad cause that account is important to me. They reinstated it - to their credit - in a matter of hours. Still, could’ve done without the heart attack.

    TL;DR you’re more than safe as long as it wasn’t actual CSAM.



  • What she is requesting is sexual depictions of a minor. Depending on how it’s drawn that is probably illegal in the US.

    She could request anything, but she requests a sexual depictions of a minor, even though she probably knows that it’s most likely illegal.

    If it’s unethical, there’s room for argument I guess. But this goes further, and usually if something violates a law, in most cases we’re past the ethical debate and straight into criminal prosecution territory.

    TL;DR there’s no other way to view this.