What is and isn't consent key in trial for 5 ex-world junior hockey players, Crown tells Ontario jury
The main issue in the trial for five former junior hockey players charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 is whether or not she consented, the Crown said during opening statements Wednesday.
#law #hockey #assault #consent #London #Ontario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/hockey-canada-world-junior-sexual-assault-trial-london-1.7516876?cmp=rss

#Republican senator removes the topic of " #consent " from sex ed curriculum.

#Uber accused of signing up and charging subscription customers without #consent.
« Americans are tired of getting signed up for unwanted subscriptions that seem impossible to cancel » said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson.
https://www.theverge.com/news/652673/uber-ftc-lawsuit-subscription-signup-billing-consent
#personaldata #privacy #dataprotection

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Core Governance document is now ready for wider feedback.

This document describes what JoinJabber does and what we aim to achieve. It also describes what our values are and a way to make proposals to the entire community.

Feel free to share and read/respond to the document.
https://codeberg.org/joinjabber/collective/src/branch/governance/Governance/Governance.md

Hallo zusammen,
Ich bin #neuhier - hab mit meinem "Alltagsaccount" schon ein paar Erfahrungen bei Mastodon gemacht und langsam war die Sehnsucht groß, eben auch mit Themen, die meine Kollegen nicht unbedingt mitlesen müssen, aktiv zu werden.

Freu mich auf den Austausch hier, zu Themen wie #polyamorie #kink und #consent vor allem im Bereich #erotica. Empfehlt mir gern eure Lieblingsprofile!

Ich schreibe und spreche meine Sachen ein, aktuell gibts die auf #Fetlife zu lesen und zu hören. Bald dann ja vielleicht auch hier.

We're trying to promote small instances (increased decentralization) with moderated signups (saver for the wole Fediverse) that opt-in to be added to our list (consent).

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Instances

Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people, most of whom without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Researcher John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war. You can read more about Mead and Bateson’s role in promoting hallucinogens and in collaborating with the military and intelligence communities in Benjamin Breen’s book, Tripping on Utopia.

Just opened up my phone to find some unprintable motherfucking asshole installed four games on it.

I don't know how to even find out if it was Google, Samsung, or Verizon who did that to me. I'm just mad as fuck.

(Yes, I already uninstalled all of them.)

If I rooted my phone, would that stop shenanigans like that?

For anyone saying that we are in a “ #constitutionalcrisis”, I guess your eyes were closed when #Bush & #Cheney flat out lied to manufacture #consent to invade #Iraq or when #Obama was drone striking so many innocent people in the #MiddleEast.

Apparently, #DigiCert thinks we're all speed demons with their new 47-day #TLS certificate sprint. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still wrestling with cookie #consent like it's a foreign language.
https://www.digicert.com/blog/tls-certificate-lifetimes-will-officially-reduce-to-47-days #cookies #speeddemons #techhumor #cybersecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Data Collection on School Kids

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/google-hit-with-privacy-suit-over-data-collection-on-school-kids

Nor for nothing, but this is the same issue some parents in Toronto and I tried to raise against Google years ago -- and Google told me that their relationship was with their clients -- the schools -- and the schools consented. It was up to the schools, they claimed, to seek parental consent.

@douglevin @funnymonkey @mkeierleber

I'm not sure it's fashionable in 2025 to worry about being too reticent in one's courtship practices. In fact, I'm sure it's NOT. Better a "goddamn perfect gentleman" than a douchebag whose name is in the whisper network...

https://www.erosblog.com/2020/03/31/slow-boy/

You have the right to consent to a conversation.

I learned this with my abuser, who didn't think I had this right. I also didn't think I had this right, part of my childhood conditioning, but once I realized I did and started to assert boundaries, I quickly learned that he didn't think I had this right. He accused me of all kinds of things (like abuse, manipulation, avoidance, punishment) when I said things like, "I don't want to talk about this right now. We can discuss it tomorrow when I'm feeling better." I was drinking his kool-aid, so he did manage to pull me back in many times, until I fully absorbed that I DO in fact have the right to withdraw my consent to talk.

You can consent to touch. You can consent to sex. You can consent to being in the presence of someone. You can consent to talk to someone. Anything else is coercion.

If someone does not like you withdrawing consent (for anything), and this is a dealbreaker for them, then the responsible thing for them is to make decisions about their own damn self. Maybe they need more sex, or more talk, or whatever than you can consistently give them. The mature thing is for them to accept the situation and decide their own boundaries. Maybe even, "I need someone who wants the same things I do, so I will find a different relationship." No fuss, no drama.

It's also ok to discuss this with them, not as a threat or as a way to change their behavior, but in order to negotiate the needs of both in the relationship.

That isn't manipulation, so long as you're not trying to *control* someone's behavior... that's just you accepting someone as they are and withdrawing your own consent or setting more distant boundaries of your own.

Ultimately it comes down to: Are you trying to make someone do something or be a way they don't want to be? Or are you accepting themself as they are and making your own choices for your own life?

#consent : to agree in opinion or sentiment

- French: consentement

- German: zustimmen, Zustimmung

- Italian: beneplacito

- Portuguese: conscentimento

- Spanish: consentimiento

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past