Ramblings of a Mistwraith

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This campaign will fully launch in about 14 days

They point out the many problems within the internet and how they have been ignored, even abused

“For two decades, the problems of an entire generation have been ignored. The problems of the internet were left to rot.

When the YouTuber who exposed predators on Roblox brought them to light, the response was not to go after the predators, but to go after him.

We know these problems.

If a YouTuber can find them, why can’t a company with billions of dollars, armies of engineers, and full control over their platform?”

DO NOT CLAIM TO SPEAK FOR CHILDREN WHILE IGNORING THEM EVERYWHERE ELSE.

They point out that talking about young people is becoming the standard instead of talking to them

“In the UK, the timing is particularly concerning.

With a by-election approaching, children’s protection is being used as a political weapon; a way to look tough, moral, and decisive.

Meanwhile, the views of young people who say a ban would mean a loss of connection are ignored.”

“And this is no longer just one country.

Canada is moving with its own new bill.

The United States is trying to revive the same on the federal level.

The European Union is pushing age verification across the bloc.

Everywhere, the same pattern is appearing; children’s safety is invoked, but the people most affected are still not at the table.”

“And now, suddenly, governments are willing to threaten CEOs of some of the largest companies on the planet with arrest.

Not to give users control over algorithms.

Not to empower people.

Not to address systems that affect adults and children alike.

No.

Instead, the answer is curfews, time limits, and locking off access to YouTube, Twitch, parts of Discord, Reddit, and many more. And guess what you will need ID to access?”

age verification data always gets leaked

They bring up discord and how they had their age verification data leaked, leaving thousand of IDs out in the open

“So, do not tell us this is just about safety. When you force people to hand over identity documents to access public life online, you create new targets, new risks, and new harms.”

“It does not stop there. First, they ask for your ID. Then, they ask to monitor the device in your pocket and your private messages.

That is something police can only do with due cause and a court order. This effectively inverts the presumption of innocence and puts a policeman in your pocket.”

They compare it to a town hall, pointing out that you can’t ban a town hall

“For two decades, experts, children, and parents alike have argued for solutions. People have exposed the problems, documented them, and pointed directly at the failures.

Yet still, Governments have failed to tackle the root causes, failed to adopt policies that protect rights, and failed to adopt a public health approach that looks at mental well-being holistically.

The answer does not have to be control. It does not have to be your data turned into currency. It can be so much more, so much better.”

The organization wants to have a public conversation and proposal on how to keep the internet safe

The sixteen original shards of Adonalsium

Whimsy, Mercy, Endowment:

Cultivation, Honor, Odium:

Virtuosity, Ambition, Reason:

Autonomy, Invention, Valor:

Preservation, Ruin:

Dominion, Devotion:

It didn’t work. It didn’t save her. But it’s so very possible that he spent his last moments alive trying to save someone else, one of his crew, and they probably both knew that it wouldn’t work, that there wasn’t a lot of hope in a blizzard on the lakes in November, but he tried … he tried anyway. Even if it did nothing but maybe make her body easier for her family to find.

You know that Mr Rogers thing of ‘look for the helpers’? How many times has someone, facing the end, done something tiny and fragile and maybe hopeless just to try and help someone else? Whether it works or not. How many people went to their graves at least trying?

That has to say something about us. As a people. As monstrous as we sometimes (perhaps often) are, so many times we were also …

Whoever saves one life, saves the whole world.

And sometimes you can’t save one life, sometimes it doesn’t work, sometimes there’s no getting out of this for anyone, but … try anyway. Because it matters anyway.

Not every white person dating a POC is fetishizing. White people can be respectful and responsible when it comes to culture and relationships and not everyone has bad intentions.

Asian people can date Black people without you saying shit like “your kids will be so pretty” they’re not dating for pretty kids. They’re dating bc they like each other.

Someone can dress their partner in clothing from their culture if they want. Someone can take their partner to cultural events if they want.

People in relationships can share cultures, experiences and love without it being toxic or skin deep.

Their partner isn’t culturally appropriating. Their partner is being shown the ultimate form of love, bc their partner trusts them and loves them enough to share their history and heritage.

Yeah, dating someone from your culture is nice bc you automatically have similar experiences. But you’re not limited to dating people with the same experiences. Loving someone is sharing and growing and being together.

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of these childhood protective things, we were smart enough not to do stupid shit on our own!” Except your little neighbour, who got the funniest idea at the age of seven, and got his skull pierced when he slipped?

“Back in my day nobody got divorced, we stuck together and fixed our problems!” What about your cousin, who was slowly killed by her husband because she had nowhere to escape him?

“Back in my day nobody had ‘mental problems’, we didn’t whine, we just toughed it out and endured life!” Hey remember that guy you used to work with, who seemed really friendly and normal, and then suddenly hanged himself ‘for no reason’?

“Back in my day we didn’t have any of this ‘gay’ or ‘transgender’ thing.” You did, but your family cut all ties with her before you were born.

the reflecting pool in Washington DC is is green for Pride Month

then I looked in the notes and y’know.

some people seems confused.

Why a shopping cart with stained glass? 

or This would be cool to shop with

or something about religion and NO

NO

THIS. Is about HOMES.

That style stained glass? Those diamonds? They speak to me, and they say “Townhouse”. and FANCY townhouse, at that. They say “City home, old home, a home that is RICH, a shelter from the storm and a safe place for a family”.

But on! a! shopping cart!

That evokes - to me - Homelessness.

The person on the street who had no other choice but to steal the best cart they could from a store’s corral just to have a way to transport the meager belongings that are all they fucking have in this world. And it’s NOT a home or a safe place or a shelter but it’s all you fucking have!

And this piece goes and puts them fucking together! AND NAMES IT.