This is local Amsterdam news (in Dutch) about the library putting on a display of books banned from American schools and libraries, in little stars-and-stripes coffins. They say it’s because whatever nonsense America gets up to, the Dutch need to be ready to guard against it being pushed here a few years later. at5.nl/nieuws/234309/wat-je-in…
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"Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP `RST+ACK` packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443"
I don't see it in our logs but then again, we're blocked in China aside from the Military & "elites".
gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditio…
Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) conducted a large-scale, unconditional block targeting TCP port 443 on August 20, 2025. This report documents the measurements and analysis we conducted of that event.GFW Report
And it will encourage more people to seek out alternatives, including #AutonomiDweb
This can't be censored and is end to end encrypted so you don't need a VPN.
Using dweb you can publish websites to Autonomi and view them in a standard browser. This includes dynamic apps storing and fetching data directly on Autonomi.
This will give vulnerable people, including children access to vital information and safe spaces.
codeberg.org/happybeing/dweb/s…
#privacy #p2p #censorship #foss
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Publish and view websites on the decentralised web of the Autonomi peer-to-peer networkCodeberg.org
The UK Online Safety Act has erected an age wall through the Internet 🚧
UK users are forced to accept censorship or hand over sensitive data to unregulated providers.
The government’s response? You’re a predator 🤨
Enough. Tell your MP to fix it now ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tel…
#OnlineSafetyAct #OnlineSafety #privacy #OSA #ageverification #agegate #ukpolitics #ukpol #censorship #spotify #reddit
Tell your MP: The Online Safety Act isn’t working
What's the problem? The Online Safety Act has been a disaster. Rather than protect children, millions of adults are facing widespread censorship, and teenagers are having their freedom of expression restricted.Open Rights Group
I'm your (not so) private dancer 🔞
Spotify users in the UK have to verify their age to listen to Parental Advisory music due to the Online Safety Act.
We're being infantalised for something that's already manageable by parental controls.
It could even end up in accounts being deactivated 🤯
Bad law makes for bad, incoherent outcomes. That's the #OSA for you.
404media.co/spotify-uk-age-che…
#OnlineSafetyAct #ageverification #agegate #ukpol #ukpolitics #spotify #privacy #onlinesafety #censorship
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
Everyone is (rightfully) up in arms about the UK age verification.
But meanwhile the Australian government is banning YouTube for kids under 16. YouTube!
Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
404media.co/uk-users-need-to-p…
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage
“If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
Itch.io has had to shadow ban all erotic and NSFW content after pressure from payment providers itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw… . Payment providers are increasingly become censors of content raising issues around neutrality of banking and payment systems. #censorship #visa #mastercard
Update on NSFW content
We have “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from our browse and search pages. We understand this action is sudden and disruptive, and we are truly sorry for the frustration and confusion caused by...leafo (itch.io)
Pornhub is making bullshit claims regarding the privacy issues of the French gov age verification requirements. There are very real and significant problems with the French gov approach, but Pornhub's approach is significantly worse.
Pornhub wants to put the burden of age verification and enforcement on user devices. They even name the actors that should have to bear that burden: Google, Apple and Microsoft.
First off, this creates an artificial monopoly: three American companies being the judge on who can watch what. Worldwide. I can't wait to have Trump's administration (or whatever jackass the American elect) censoring everything I watch.
Also, Linux users are prayed to go fuck themselves instead of watching porn. Get the real stuff, Linux users (lol).
There is also the issue of the age verification procedure: how do you verify the user's age? Biometrics is the obvious answer on mobile phone, but would there be alternatives? Probably not.
Too bad for people whose face does not match the AI training. Too bad for people not wanting their biometrics verified/leaked to a provider of the operating system vendor choosing.
If you are using a workstation, please get a webcam if you want to jerk off.
But let's say that you passed the age verification procedure: how do you transfer that knowledge to the website?
A HTTP header could be faked so this is not an option.
A remote assessment using a TPM (a chip on your device that monitors that your system wasn't altered) ? => You can no longer install an alternate operating system and watch porn. Once again an artificial monopoly.
DRM would be probably the preferred solution: let anyone download the porn file, but only display it on devices with the appropriate DRM reader if the age verification test is passed. Once again an artificial monopoly. And this puts an end to piracy in the process. Nobody would ever think about abusing this for other content, right Google WEI?
Once again, the French gov tech and requirements are bullshit. I am not here to defend them, but Pornhub statement is just full of shit.
#porn #pornhub #censorship #infosec #france
I think folks who argue with me when I point out that stories which don't align with the interests of the investor class of rich people who own media companies are suppressed in corporate media, somehow forget that I simply consume so much "news" that I can literally feel a shift in coverage. Which is why this short blog by media critic Adam Johnson, which mathematically confirms, more or less, everything I've been saying about how Gaza has been driven from the mainstream discourse even as Israel's genocide ramps back up and US public opinion shifts against our client state, did not surprise me at all.
columnblog.com/p/as-trump-and-…
As Trump and Israel Escalate Genocide in Gaza, Popular Media Continues to Ignore It
"Nowhere is the absence of urgency any more glaring than the total erasure of Gaza from the “agenda setting” Sunday morning news shows that both reflect and curate Washington political priorities for the week. In the 5 episodes each for the four Sunday News Shows—ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, NBC’s Meet the Press, and CNN’s State of the Union—for the weeks of March 23, March 30, April 6, April 13 and April 20, Israeli’s assault on Gaza, and the Trump administration’s full-throated support for it, has not been discussed or mentioned once. That’s 880 minutes of “agenda setting” debate, discussing, and reporting that did not see fit to mention the US support for what Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch both call an ongoing genocide."
So, just let that set in for a minute. In the time frame listed, Israel has committed a confirmed war crime by murdering 15 medics in cold blood, bombed the last functioning hospital in Gaza, instituted a total blockade on aid designed to starve Gazans to death, and its ministers have on multiple occasions bragged about Trump's support being instrumental for their plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians; and those are just the stories *I* covered but the vaunted "Sunday Shows" couldn't spare a minute for. An ongoing genocide in Gaza being aided an abetted by the US President who is also black bagging anti-genocide protestors in American cities and citing foreign policy concerns to justify it, simply did not come up.
If you're wondering why the "Sunday Shows" matter, it's because while very few people reading this watch them, pretty much everyone with power and influence in American politics does. With that having been noted however, it really doesn't matter because Gaza was barely covered in the mainstream nightly news either.
"Despite Israel killing almost 2,000 Palestinians since they broke the ceasefire on March 18, the subject of Gaza has barely registered a blip in the nightly news coverage as well. In the 78 episodes the three major network nightly news shows have aired, there’s only been two segments about Gaza: one 4 minute 17 second segment I noted in The Real News from March 26 on CBS Evening News, and another 1 minute and 44 second segment about the IDF killing 15 medics that aired on ABC’s World News This Week on April 3. In over 1,500 minutes of evening news from the three major networks since March 19 only 6 minutes, or less 0.4 percent, has been reporting on Gaza. NBC Nightly News has not covered the suffering in Gaza at all since March 20, but it did take time out on April 13 to do a 1 minute 46 second profile on an Israeli captive still being held in Gaza."
Surely, the newspapers were better, right? Well, if we're talking about America's paper of record, the New York Times - I wouldn't get your hopes up folks:
"Since March 20, The New York Times has run a total of three front page stories about Gaza out of roughly 220 total front page stories (two on April 6/April 8 about the IDF killing of medics in Gaza and one April 3 about Israel “Initiating Tactics to Hold Gaza Territory”) By way of comparison the Times has run 12 front page stories about Ukraine. “For Ukraine’s Sick Children, a War Within the War,” read one sympathetic front page headline from March 26. “Attack Devastates Ukrainian City,” read another on April 14. Front page coverage of Gaza, when it does exist, does not lead with Palestinian suffering or humanity but instead Israeli denials or sterile coverage of IDF “tactics.”
And finally, while this is just personal analysis, Johnson also thinks the shift has taken us back to pre-2024 media conditions when it comes to the genocide in Gaza; specifically citing the bipartisan support for the US-backed genocide in the American political establishment as the factor that allows the media to simply ignore the situation.
I'm not gonna bother saying I told you so; but I did.
#Fascism #Gaza #Genocide #Media #Imperialism #Trump #Netanyahu #SettlerColonialism #Censorship #Israel #Palestine
As Trump and Israel Escalate Genocide in Gaza, Popular Media Continues to Ignore It
Under Biden, Gaza was excused, downplayed and natural disaster-rized. Under Trump it’s simply not a priority at all.Adam Johnson (The Column)
As an add on to the post above, if you don't think speaking out against Israel's genocide in Gaza and on behalf of the people being slaughtered there matters, then why is the Netanyahu government working so hard with multi-billion dollar social media companies like Meta to suppress pro-Palestinian speech online?
dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-data…
Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram
"A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by Drop Site News. The data show that Meta has complied with 94% of takedown requests issued by Israel since October 7, 2023. Israel is the biggest originator of takedown requests globally by far, and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history.
Government requests for takedowns generally focus on posts made by citizens inside that government’s borders, Meta insiders said. What makes Israel’s campaign unique is its success in censoring speech in many countries outside of Israel. What’s more, Israel's censorship project will echo well into the future, insiders said, as the AI program Meta is currently training how to moderate content will base future decisions on the successful takedown of content critical of Israel’s genocide."
As I've noted elsewhere, it's very clear that the pro-genocide Pig Empire establishment used the sham ceasefire Trump supposedly brokered in Gaza as an excuse to reset the discourse and resume the genocide at pace. We've returned to a pre-2024 media environment of silence and minimization of crimes against humanity, particularly in America, and these folks are working overtime to keep you from talking about, and hopefully (for genocidal monsters) thinking about Gaza while Israel attempts to wipe out the Palestinians there before we wake up and realize what's going on.
The only way to fight this, is to keep talking about it, and resisting both the genocide and the US government's support for it. We've been here before and broke through the cone of silence; in fact that's the whole reason the ruling class establishment is trying to rewind the discourse around the genocide in Gaza to a pre-2024 state. We must not let them get away with it by contributing to that cone of silence.
#Fascism #Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Trump #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Censorship #Imperialism #SettlerColonialism #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Propaganda #Mark Zuckerberg #OnlineCensorship #Zionism #Netanyahu
Email leaked to Ken Klippenstein telling NOAA employees that their course material can’t contain ANY of the following words in order to remain complaint with Trump’s executive order on DEI.
The party than ran on freedom and speech and avoiding censorship now actively censoring people.
Every word breaks my heart… but I want to pause on the inclusion of “empathy”.
The fact that they can’t use the word empathy is a perfect encapsulation of this whole administration.
#uspoli #noaa #trump #dei #deia #censorship#fascism #freedomofspeech #inclusion
Analysis: "Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine"
"Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films."
juancole.com/2024/12/resistanc…
#Palestine #Censorship #NetflixCensorship #USPol .
Reel Resistance: Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine
By Chandni Desai, University of Toronto (The Conversation) - Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian …Informed Comment
C2S server for matrix.org accounts is blocked in Russia using deep packet inspection (DPI). That means people can no longer access their accounts without resorting to censorship circumvention technology.
The website and S2S federation server are still reachable from Russia.
#Matrix #Russia #Roskomnadzor #Censorship
"The majority of ALL book bans in the US were initiated by just 11 people…Book banning is NOT a movement…In most [states] it only takes a single complaint to have a strip a book from the library. Just one…Look at what is happening in St. James, FL where ONE person got twenty three books removed. Or in Clay County District schools where ONE person forced almost thirty books off shelves."
action.everylibrary.org/books_…
I just signed this petition and hope you will too.
#BookBans #Censorship #Libraries
Hundreds of books are usually banned by just ONE person in a community
It only takes a single complaint to strip a book from the library. Just one. That’s it.EveryLibrary Action
#Tor releases WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass #censorship by hiding connections in plain sight.
Dear mastodon.social, why are you hiding/limiting @LALegault’s account?
Is it policy on mastodon.social to hide/limit pro-Palestinian / anti-genocide accounts?
(Someone there wanna check my account also, just in case?)
CC @Gargron
#mastodon #mastodonSocial #israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #censorship liberal.city/@wjmaggos/1119988…
william.maggos (@wjmaggos@liberal.city)
@LALegault@newsie.social what I see from my new MS account is: "This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.social.Liberal City
The #KOSA Bill threatens to censor online content under the guise of trying to "protect the children". 🤔
The bill's vague language opens the door to dangerous legal interpretations that will do more to push censorship on the American public than protect the nation's youth. 🚫
Contact your senators and make your voice heard against this attack on free speech! 👇 tuta.com/blog/kosa-threatens-f…
#freedomofspeech #usa #censorship #lgbtq #senate
Congress, Stop Supporting Censorship! KOSA Threatens Free Speech.
The Kids Are Not Alright and KOSA Will Not Help.Tutanota
Adding some hopefully relevant hashtags for discoverability: #privacy #internet #contentcreator #contentcreators #onlineprivacy #netneutrality #regulation #censorship #bigbrother #restrictact #dataprivacy #bigtech #decentralisation #decentralization #web3 #e2ee #encryption #interoperability #publicpolicy
EFF Analysis: The Broad, Vague #RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive #Data #Privacy Legislation eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/broa… The proposal "authorizes penalties, including 25 years of prison time, for any person who brings #TikTok into the U.S., whether by use of a #VPN or downloading it while in another country." This could potentially outlaw US use of the #Tor Browser that the US helped develop to bypass #censorship in unfree countries.
The Broad, Vague RESTRICT Act Is a Dangerous Substitute for Comprehensive Data Privacy Legislation
This bill is being called a “TikTok ban,” but it’s more complicated than that. The bill would give more power to the executive branch and remove many of the commonsense restrictions that exist under the Foreign Intelligence Services Act and the Berma…Electronic Frontier Foundation
Reason a zillion and one not to use corporate social media as an archive: Google deleted a university library's *entire archive of videos* for posting an interview with the creators of the lesbian magazine "On our backs" susiebright.substack.com/p/ter… #youtube #google #censorship #lesbian
Interesting way of putting it.
Are you the only moderator in that instance? in such a case minimum should be to leave the decision to someone else. If you decide for yourself about the moderation of yourself then I believe its pretty much an autocratic situation.
my 2cts
#censorship #moderation #fediverse #embarrassing
Are you the only moderator in that instance? in such a case minimum should be to leave the decision to someone else. If you decide for yourself about the moderation of yourself then I believe its pretty much an autocratic situation.
my 2cts
#censorship #moderation #fediverse #embarrassing
Somebody reported me to myself, y’all. How’s your day going? :)
Hint: if you don’t like my comparing Israel to Russia, go tell Israel to stop acting like Russia.
(And find out how the fediverse works before you go making an arse of yourself trying to censor me on my own personal instance.)
#censorship #moderation #fediverse #embarrassing #israel #palestine #russia
CZ.NIC, the association managing the #Czech #domain registry just removed .CZ domains of several websites spreading Russian #propaganda.
Without any judicial decision. Just because the government and security agencies asked. That's a slippery slope and not the right way to fight #disinformation, sorry.