#paternalism — Public Fediverse posts

@Gardenia @deuza42 @daliarezk @gomli @gazaverified Solène, a few points:

1. This isn’t about you, it’s about our friends in Gaza.

2. Our friends in Gaza are adults like us who can make their own decisions about things like whether they show their faces or share their photos on Mastodon, just like we do.

3. We can inform our friends in Gaza about privacy issues but we cannot tell them to do anything. We are not their parents. And they are not children. That’s a very paternalistic and, dare I say, colonial view.

4. By making it appear that they shouldn’t be sharing any photos of themselves, etc., there’s a very real danger of getting them to auto-erase themselves online while Israel is already trying to do that. There is a balance here that I believe you are missing. Their survival also depends on making genuine connections with people in the outside world. Your constant attempts to get them to stop sharing photos of their lives and experiences is pushing them to use AI-generated images, for example, which is making their accounts look like scammers. They are starting to make their accounts and posts look inauthentic, and helping contribute to their erasure. Which is what the Zionists want.

5. Our friends in Palestine have been living their entire lives under surveillance and know the risks better than we do. Privacy is about threat models. It’s an area I know a thing or two about myself having worked for a third of my life in it. Your efforts, while well meaning, are having a negative effect. Not least of all on our tiny team of volunteers whose limited time is spent dealing with your constant displeasure instead of helping our friends in Gaza.

Personally, I will be muting you as I do not have the time to function as your personal support department. We will also make it very clear that no one has the right to dictate how our Palestinian friends use Mastodon or the fediverse and that any advice is just that: advice.

And for anyone from the West reading this, please be careful not paternalise our friends in Gaza.

We do not know better than they do and we do not have the right to dictate a separate set of rules for them. We can advise them of existing rules and norms if violating them can have a negative impact on them and their accounts and we can try and help if they are persecuted for who they are but we do not get to tell them how to use Mastodon or the fediverse any more than we get to tell anyone from the West.

Gaza Verified simply verifies, via video calls where one of our volunteers from Gaza is present, that they are Palestinian from Gaza. And, if their account is limited or suspended for who they are, we will advocate on their behalf or help them move to a server that isn’t complicit in genocide. That’s it. That’s all we can do with a tiny team of volunteers. Verification is not a character reference. We are not their parents. And it is not our job, or anyone else’s, to tell them how they should be using Mastodon or the fediverse.

CC @fedipourgaza @fabio @casey @joynewacc @aseelfromgz @rania40

#GazaVerified #private #public #paternalism #Gaza #Palestine #mastodon #fediverse

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

Robert Noggle has revised his SEP-entry on The Ethics of Manipulation,

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-manipulation/

What a savoury topic, even without explicit references to sycophantic AI!

#autonomy #coercion #manipulation #ethics #freeWill #decision #deception #lying #marketing #paternalism #filosofia #etiikka #philosophy #morality #oppression #nudges #person #sycophantic #ai #generativeAI #criticism #criticalThinking

Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/

Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency

https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/

Michael Cholbi ja Brent Kious ovat päivittäneet SEP-entryään itsesurmasta, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/suicide/

Historiallisen katsauksen lisäksi mukana on itsesurman moraalisuuden ja rationaalisuuden pohdintaa yhdeksän eri näkökulmia valottavan alaluvun kautta, ja lopussa on myös linkki Robert Youngin 2024 entryyn vapaaehtoisesta eutananiasta, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/euthanasia-voluntary/

#suicide #itsemurha #kuolema #death #eutanasia #euthanasia #filosofia #philosophy #morality #prohibition #law #psychology #sociology #humanity #suicidology #autonomia #authonomy #voluntaryEuthanasia #paternalism #oikeus #rights #wellbeing #paternalism #libertarism #moralPhilosophy #ethics

Is Islam Compatible with Modern Values?

https://wrzky.com/is-islam-compatible-with-modern-values/

The Subtlety of Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.13658
"… optimal utilitarian policy in a heterogeneous population with bounded rationality is highly context specific
…determination of an optimal policy requires the planner to have considerable knowledge of population preferences and behavior. The identification problem is yet more severe when decision makers may be boundedly rational
… utilitarian planners with incomplete knowledge of population preferences and deviations from complete rationality should not seek to optimize policy invoking assumptions that lack credibility
… Planners should recognize their own #boundedRationality, stemming from incompleteness of their knowledge of population preferences and behavior
… pessimistic about the feasibility of credible implementation of optimal #paternalism. Even when heterogeneous agents are completely rational, revealed preference analysis commonly requires unrealistically strong assumptions to point-identify population distributions of utility functions"
#BehavioralEconomics

From: blenderdumbass . org

Child Abuse in on my mind right now. I have written a screenplay for a feature film that I'm already in early talks to produce. The bad guy in the movie is a child-rapist / child-killer. His presence alone justifies the anger of the heroes and creates the tension in the film. Yet I don't think I can make a movie that is a shlocky exploitation film. The subject m...

Read: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/why_are_we_blind_to_99__of_child_abuse_

#abuse #childabuse #politics #freedom #freerangekids #kids #paternalism

From: blenderdumbass . org

When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/the_goodhart_s_law_of_child_abuse

#goodhartslaw #childabuse #politics #paternalism #ageism #education

It should be our duty now to smuggle books about sex to kids in #UK. Becuase otherwise we risk every single one of them be clueless about the stuff until they are 18. ( They will start learning only then, and only under the supervision of the state ).

#ageverification #ageism #censorship #paternalism #privacy

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is quite funny to me that we live in the world full with people that contradict themselves whenever possible. Politically Conservative people tend to always bring up "Free Speech" whenever Liberal-minded people disagree with their opinions. Yet they are also very much in the business of censorship themselves. We s...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/conservative_ageists_tried_censoring_pepper___carrot

#DavidRevoy #PepperAndCarrot #Art #Comics #MastoArt #LGBT #LGBTQ #Politics #FreeSpeech #Paternalism #Ageism

A quotation from Joseph Addison

The truth is, the person who pretends to advise, does, in that particular, exercise a superiority over us, and can have no other reason for it, but that, in comparing us with himself, he thinks us defective either in our conduct or our understanding. For these reasons, there is nothing so difficult as the art of making advice agreeable; and indeed all the writers, both ancient and modern, have distinguished themselves among one another, according to the perfection at which they have arrived in this art.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-10-17), The Spectator, No. 512

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/76869…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #advice #adviser #attitude #comparison #paternalism #perspective #superiority

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

Pari tuoretta OA-artikkelia sosiaalisen epistemologian journaalissa.

Pedro Schmechtig pohtii episteemistä paternalismia ja suojelevaa auktoriteettia, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2025.2453942?src=exp-oa, eli millä ehdoin voisi olla oikein auttaa, jopa ohjata jotakuta "tietämään paremmin".

Mark Coeckelbergh puolestaan tarkastelee tekoälyn vaikutusta episteemiseen agenssiin eli tiedonmuodostuksemme itsenäisyyteen ja kriittisyyteen, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02691728.2025.2466164?src=exp-oa#abstract

#epistemology #socialEpistemology #tieto #tietoteoria #filosofia #philosophy #agency #toimijuus #paternalism #ai #tekoaly #journal #knowledge #belief #new #bubbles #socialmedia

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

The neighborhood where I am working right now is strange when you compare it to the rest of the world. And especially when you compare it to Georgia USA, where a Mother was a arrested for a God forsaken, absolutely unimaginably stupid reason.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/mother_was_arrested_or_what_

#Freedom #Law #Philosophy #Paternalism #Kids #LetGrow #FreeRangeKids

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

From: blenderdumbass . org

The neighborhood where I am working right now is strange when you compare it to the rest of the world. And especially when you compare it to Georgia USA, where a Mother was a arrested for a God forsaken, absolutely unimaginably stupid reason.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/mother_was_arrested_or_what_

#Freedom #Law #Philosophy #Paternalism #Kids #LetGrow #FreeRangeKids

From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

#privacy #surveillance #freedom #philosophy #kids #letgrow #freerangekids #paternalism #MentalHealth

Lovely article pointing out a study about preventing parents from #overparenting and the benefits of giving #kids the damn #freedom that they deserve.

https://letgrow.org/yale-helicopter-parenting/

#freerangekids #letgrow #paternalism #research #respectchildren

"If a barber or a motor mechanic does shoddy work or behaves badly with his customers, he receives immediate critical feedback which forces him to reevaluate and improve either his work or his behavior if he desires to prosper in his trade. Doctors very rarely receive this kind of feedback from their patients because patients feel it may be dangerous or unwise to criticize a person in whose hands they have placed their health."

#Medicalism #Medicalization #SelfControl #Paternalism

With all the #DirectedByWomen films out there, I wonder: When we will start getting films #DirectedByChildren ?

#kids #respectchildren #paternalism #youthrights #film #cinema

It is pointless and counterproductive to put warning labels on social media. Not only will it create warning fatigue, but it'll increase tribal division. Republicans hate such paternalism and it'll be an in-your-face reminder, fueling pointless tribalism.

Find a better way than warning labels, which are too static and too blunt.

Social media is ill-defined and little more than online group communication. It was a key survival mechanism during the peak of the covid pandemic. Is Slack social media? Is Zoom? Are protocol-based tools like web browsers, email (including "listserv" and the like), and Mastodon that are based on SMTP, HTTP, ActivityPub, etc?

There is a risk that the differences between platform-based and protocol-based tech will seem a mere quibble. But look for a parallel in how the discussion went in SCOTUS recently over bump stocks and whether guns equipped with them fell under certain legislative requirements.

Unlike smoking, where the cause of harm is known and measurable, problems in social media arise from specific rules, capabilities, tools, algorithms, monetization plans, and prevailing social attitudes. Would a warning label fairly acknowledge deeply substantive differences? How?

Social media is just life by networked, electronic means. Life does have risks. Would we require warning labels on the front door of a house? Such coarse and ineffective micromanagement sparks tribalism in our society. They'll say that's coming next. Please don't give them ammo.

The details of social media matter a great deal and are worthy of study. But the right answer to everything it's not a static one-size-fits-all warning label. What will be learned will not be caution, it will be to not bother reading meaningless labels.

Let's encourage, even fund, robust public dialog using many metrics, even competing ones, for studying and reporting effects and risks of specific aspects and actions. But social media itself is too broad, vague and integrated to warn against as a whole. That horse has left the barn.

https://apnews.com/article/surgeon-general-social-media-mental-health-df321c791493863001754401676f165c

#SurgeonGeneral #WarningLabels #SocialMedia #politics #paternalism #tribalism #mastodon #http #smtp #scotus #Covid #pandemic #ActivityPub

Note: This essay is an approximate mirror of a rant I posted as a thread on the ex-bird site a while ago today. I did light editing to rework it for this forum. It still reads a bit funny with the paragraphs now unpacked into a coherent whole, but I'm not gonna bother to fix that.

💡 #TIL about the #Heineken World Bottle (#WOBO): In the 60's, dutch brewery tried designing #beer #bottles that could be reused as #bricks

🌐 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/heineken-wobo-brick-bottle-story/
(find photo credits there)

lol, men.

#reuse #recycling #waste #alcohol #colonialism #neocolonialism #antilles #aruba #WhiteSaviour #architecture #design #productdesign #sustainability #bottle #construction #homebuilding #paternalism

HOW THEY MADE FREEDOM ILLEGAL

🗞 Freedom is illegal. There is not a single country in the world that is 100% Free. And it is not a mistake. If a country is 100% Free the government has no control. And therefor why bother trying at the elections. Right? We all are somewhat familiar with the tactics of how governments make sure that their countries are not free. They ...

🔗 http://ttauyzmy4kbm5yxpujpnahy7uxwnb32hh3dja7uda64vefpkomf3s4yd.onion/articles/How_They_Made_Freedom_Illegal.md

ℹ The link requires 🧅 TOR BROWSER.

#freedom #paternalism #kids #safety #thinkofthechildren #privacy

My new #ComplementarySubPodcast #podcast with Raceme on the topic of my last article where I discuss how #psychopathy #paternalism and #Norepinephrine ( Acute Stress Response ) are the 3 problems keeping us from True #Freedom.

https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f/bda-csp-03:c

Big 3 things that damp #Freedom around the world are:

#Psychopathy
#Paternalism
#Norepinephrine

Great introduction to our special issue on COVID19 Collective Irrationalities by Kengo Miyazono and Rie Iizuka #OpenAccess https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09515089.2023.2221929 #paternalism #VaccineHesitancy #ConspiracyTheories #nudges #irrationality #bias @philosophyofmind @epistemology @philosophy @psychology

@lucianofloridi Sounds interesting. Thank you. I'll add the article to my short list and contextualize my reading conceptually with SEP-entries on #Toleration https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/toleration/ and #Paternalism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paternalism/.

One of the most moving #books I have read is 'The Immortal Life of #Henrietta #Lacks' by Rebecca Skloot.
#cervical #cancer #medical #ethics #misogyny #racism #paternalism #HeLa
http://henriettalacksfoundation.org/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/henriettalacks/