“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/mid…
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #Madleen #FreedomFlotila #GazaFreedomFlotilla #GretaThunberg
Admin of todon.nl suggests, and rightly so, that the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:
“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.
The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.
Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/d…
Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”
And this (see screenshot) is what that “choice” looks like.
This decentralisation anti-pattern – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers (as I advised Eugen to do back in the day) – is why there is a flagship instance to begin with when it’s an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.
#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza
Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new ...GitHub
Big thanks to all the useful idiots to helped make this happen. Pat yourselves on the back. You couldn’t even forgo a few hours of your entertainment to boycott a whitewashing event for an ongoing genocide. Go you!
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #eurovision #EU #whitewashing #softPower syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/11456278…
"Daniel Levy, the president of the U.S./Middle East Project think tank, said that Israel’s government was 'desperately trying to find soft power venues' and that Eurovision was one of the few opportunities it had left." https://www.nytimes.Syzito.xyz
Only one thing on everyone’s mind? The genocide being carried out by Israel against the Palestinian people? No? Oh, a song contest sponsored by Israel that Israel is using to whitewash its genocide. Ah, my bad, sorry.
Enjoy your entertainment.
#eurovision #EU #europe #europeanValues #genocide #israel #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #esc2025 en.osm.town/@opencage/11452243…
Attached: 1 image Are you ready for the most fabulous, glitzy, glamorous #geoweirdness thread of all time? 🕺💃🎤 Here in Europe there's only one thing on everyone's mind this week: the annual Eurovision Song contest.OSM Town | Mapstodon for OpenStreetMap
Anyone who supports Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people is a monster. If that’s you, stop and take a moment to really let that sink in. You’re the worst of the worst. You’re the kind of fascist who would have cheered on the Holocaust.
theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…
#israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide
Munther Abed, 27, was in the first ambulance on the scene of an airstrike near Rafah when Israeli soldiers opened fireMalak A Tantesh (The Guardian)
Binance complies with Israeli request, seizes Palestinian funds
cryptopolitan.com/binance-seiz…
Crypto exchange Binance has seized all funds belonging to Palestinians, acting on a request from the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
…the exchange refuses to return the funds. All appeals have been denied. Palestinians affected by this decision have found their accounts frozen with no way to access their crypto assets...
#Binance #Aiding #Apartheid #Genocide #Israel #IDF #Palestine #AssetSeizure
