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As always, Copyright is a global censorship regime. But using it to censor public knowledge of laws is really a next level move.
With #Section230 Repeal, Dems and #Media Offer #Trump New #Censorship Tools
source: fair.org/home/with-section-230โฆ
Dissolving the provision would reassign legal responsibility to websites and third parties, empowering a Trump-helmed federal #government to force #online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech. While the ostensible purpose of the repeal, according to Durbin, is to โprotect kids online,โ itโs far more likely to give the Trump #WhiteHouse carte blanche to advance its ultra-reactionary political #agenda.
#usa #politics #freedom #freespeech #democracy #future #internet #problem #press #journalism #news
With Section 230 Repeal, Dems and Media Offer Trump New Censorship Tools
Dissolving Section 230 would empower a Trump-helmed federal government to force online platforms to stifle, or promote, certain speech.FAIR
Elon #Musk pressured #Redditโs CEO on content #moderation
source: theverge.com/command-line-newsโฆ
It's all about free speech, isnt it Elon? (But only the way you want it ...)
#censorship #freespeech #freedom #usa #politics #doge #news #internet
Elon Musk pressured Redditโs CEO on content moderation
While Elon Musk was publicly calling out Reddit users for banning X links and threatening DOGE employees, he was also privately pressuring CEO Steve Huffman.Alex Heath (The Verge)
โDonโt believe your eyes.โ โ Turkish state TV
Imagine the people who work there; imagine your whole sorry existence being the peddling of lies.
theguardian.com/world/2025/marโฆ
#turkey #tรผrkiye #erdoฤan #insanHaklarฤฑ #demokrasi #humanRights #democracy #sansรผr #censorship
โItโs disinformationโ: Turkish state TV avoids any coverage of mass street protests
News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networksRuth Michaelson (The Guardian)
Musk suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest. Surely there's no way anyone could have seen that coming.
politico.eu/article/musks-x-suโฆ
Muskโs X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.Eliza Gkritsi (POLITICO)
Back in 2020, Reporters without Borders teamed up with Minecraft to build an in-game library of censored books. They call it The Uncensored Library.
My friend @SrRochardBunson just reminded me about it. I forgot all about it, and didnโt even know it was still rolling.
#Censorship #Library #Libraries #Minecraft #Journalism #Guerrilla
Major #web services go dark in #Russia amid reported #Cloudflare #block
source: therecord.media/russia-websiteโฆ
According to data from several internet monitoring websites, the outages were observed Thursday across multiple Russian regions, particularly in the #Urals and #Siberia, affecting platforms such as #TikTok, #Steam, #Twitch, #EpicGames, #Duolingo and major Russian #mobile operators.
#online #www #internet #fail #problem #censorship #politics #test #news
Major web services go dark in Russia amid reported Cloudflare block
Website outages were observed across Russia this week, with regulators attributing them to issues with foreign servers. Observers said the problems might be tied to Russian government moves to block Cloudflare services.therecord.media
This is just straight-up North Korean shit.
Imagine the aneurysms weโd be seeing from the press if DHS did this to critics of a Dem POTUS. I mean, you canโt. Youโre not that imaginative.
#fascism #trump #censorship #tourism
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mโฆ
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
Franceโs research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searchedRobert Mackey (The Guardian)
In film: @josephinelee writes that these librarians are risking their safety and livelihood to speak up for First Amendment rights, intellectual freedom, and, most of all, for the students who tell them โbooks have saved them.โ texasobserver.org/librarians-mโฆ
#documentary #library #books #bookstodon #politics #USpol #censorship #film
These Librarians Wonโt Let Americaโs Fever Hit Fahrenheit 451
A new documentary shows us our local guardians of intellectual freedom in battle.Josephine Lee (The Texas Observer)
Acc/to another informed source of #AFP, "hate & conspiracy messages" were blamed on the French researcher by #US authorities. An #FBI investigation into him was announced, for which "the charges have been abandoned," continues this source.
โฆThis incident comes asโฆ #Trump has increased his shocking announcements targeting the #scientific community (brutal #BudgetCuts, #censorship of certain subjects in subsidized research...).
#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #science #ThoughtPolice
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging โLuigiโ as potentially violent content
A moderator says content mentioning โLuigi,โ even in a Nintendo context, is being flagged as potential โviolence.โ
theverge.com/news/626139/reddiโฆ
#luigi #luigimangione #reddit #censorship
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging โLuigiโ as potentially violent content
Moderators on Reddit say content mentioning โLuigi,โ even in a Nintendo context, is being flagged as โviolenceโ under an automated moderation tool.Mia Sato (The Verge)
Some #Republicans have accused #VOA & other publicly-funded #media outlets of being biased against *conservatives* [liars, criminals & extremists]. Last month, billionaire #ElonMusk, who is spearheading #Trump's government *downsizing* [destruction] effort, called for VOA & #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty to be shut down in a post to social media.
#FourthEstate #law #FreePress #journalism #VoiceOfAmerica #USpol #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
The Paris-based #ReportersWithoutBorders also blasted the move, w/its director general, Thibaut Bruttin, saying that it "threatens press freedom worldwide & negates 80 years of American history in supporting a free flow of #information."
#FourthEstate #law #FreePress #journalism #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USpol #Trump #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
The president of the #NationalPressClub in Washington, Mike Balsamo, released a statement on social media objecting to the moves at #VOA.
"For decades, #VoiceOfAmerica has delivered fact-based, independent #journalism to audiences worldwide, often in places where press freedom does not exist," Balsamo said.
The decision, he said, "undermines America's commitment to a free & independent press."
#FourthEstate #law #FreePress #USpol #Trump #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
On its website, #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty notes that it has been declared an "undesirable organization" by the Russian govt & warns readers in #Russia & Russia-occupied #Ukraine that they could "face fines or imprisonment for sharing, liking, commenting on, or saving our content, or for contacting us."
#FourthEstate #law #FreePress #journalism #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USpol #Trump #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
The #USAGM also terminated funding for #RadioFreeEurope / #RadioLiberty, which broadcasts to countries in #EasternEurope, including #Russia & #Ukraine, as well as for #RadioFreeAsia, which broadcasts to #China & #NorthKorea, acc/to letters seen by Reuters.
#FourthEstate #law #FreePress #journalism #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #USpol #Trump #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
Multiple workers at #VoiceOfAmerica, an international #media broadcaster that operates in >40 languages, shared w/Reuters an email that placed them on administrative leave w/full pay & benefits "until otherwise notified."
The emails, sent by a HR executive at the #US Agency for Global Media, the #VOA's parent agency, instructed them not to enter their work premises or access internal systems.
#FourthEstate #law #FreePress #journalism #USpol #Trump #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
Employees at #VoiceOfAmerica were placed on paid leave on Saturday & funding for 2 US #news services that broadcast to #authoritarian regimes was slashed, one day after #Trump signed an #ExecutiveOrder gutting the govt-funded #media outlets' parent & 6 other #FederalAgencies.
#VOA #FourthEstate #FreePress #journalism #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
reuters.com/business/media-telโฆ
A Florida Cinema Showed a Documentary About Palestine. Now, The Mayor Could Shut It Down
motherjones.com/politics/2025/โฆ
#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Politics #Censorship #Florida #MiamiBeach #Discrimination
This Florida cinema showed a documentary about Palestine. Now, the mayor could shut it down.
โI never expected our local government to enact retribution against an arts organization for extending and fulfilling their artistic license and freedom to show films.โMother Jones
The US is in such deep, deep shit.
"So far, Americaโs leading universities have remained virtually silent in the face of this authoritarian assault on institutions of higher education.
"Autocrats โ both left-wing and right-wing โ always attack universities."
#Trump #Education #Censorship #University #Universities #USPol
thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/โฆ
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.www.thecrimson.com
#Trump Promises To #Abuse Take It Down Act For #Censorship, Just As We Warned
source: techdirt.com/2025/03/06/trump-โฆ
During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: โAnd Iโm going to use that bill for myself too, if you donโt mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.โ
#news #usa #problem #law #justice #president #government #whitehouse
Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: โAnd Iโm going to use that bill for myself too, if youโฆTechdirt
#Military to Remove 'Enola #Gay' #Photos for Violating #DEI Rules
source: newsweek.com/military-remove-eโฆ
The removal effort has sparked confusion, as some images appear to have been marked for deletion because their filenames contain the word "gay," including those of service members with that last name and the #EnolaGay, the #Boeing B-29 aircraft that dropped the first atomic bomb in combat during World #War II.
#censorship #history #problem #trump #politics #news #ww2 #usa
Military to Remove 'Enola Gay' Photos for Violating DEI Rules
A photo of Army biologists was on a list of images to be purged, seemingly because it mentioned they were recording data about fish that included their gender.Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
NeoDB, is that a Chinese floss ActivityPub "product"?
I hope this doesn't sound racist. Nothing wrong with being Chinese or speaking Chinese, we all live on the same planet.
Heck, I might learn Chinese some day or any language for that matter.
Anyway gonna use this for a while now...just to see if I can find stuff blocked there that aren't on NeoDB...
#censorship #FLOSS #Chinese #NeoDB #ChinaFirewall #ChinaFirewallTest
China Firewall Test - Test if Any Site is Blocked in China
Test any website to see if it is blocked in China in real time.www.chinafirewalltest.com
