A horrifying pivot towards Communist Chinese style censorship and tyranny is in progress in Australia, as Aussie politicians threaten Elon Musk with prosecution and jail, for refusing to remove tru…
Fight for your libraries. Don’t let them take away your library by defunding it out of providing vital services. Don’t let them shackle the library with rules meant to prevent the right people from getting the right book to change their life. Don’t let them close the doors, because you know they will never open again. Fight for the freedom to read and explore new ideas. Fight against censorship and denying people the materials their souls need. If a library closes, it will never open again. You couldn’t create libraries today. You want to loan out books? And people will just willingly give them back? Are you mad? Naïve, perhaps? Once a library closes its doors, it’s over. The book banners have won. Do not let them win. Fight for libraries. Fight for library workers. Fight for patrons. Fight for free people reading freely. #libraries #censorship #librarians #LibraryWorkers #LibraryPatrons #BookBans
Proposed bill in Alabama to allow the arrest of librarians.
No one is perfect—not even librarians. But professional #librarians are terrific. They're dedicated public servants, and they know how to library better than politicians do.
"what bothers me about Bluesky. There is implicitly a censorship regime being implemented here, and it must necessarily be centralised. There must be a single set of decisions affecting everyone in the world. Those decisions are being made by an American company bound by American laws, which in turn are decided by the American people participating in American democracy."
Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. Worth noting
also that directory authority running this version will now automatically
reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
o Minor feature (authority):
- Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26):
- New IP address and keys.
o Minor feature (directory authority):
- Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
versions of Tor).
o Minor fea
Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list. Worth noting
also that directory authority running this version will now automatically
reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
o Minor feature (authority):
- Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
o Minor feature (dirauth, tor26):
- New IP address and keys.
o Minor feature (directory authority):
- Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
versions of Tor).
o Minor features (fallbackdir):
- Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.
o Minor features (geoip data):
- Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
retrieved on 2024/04/10.
o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
- Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix
on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
It seems odd for progressive parts of the Fediverse to be celebrating inventing their own digital iron curtains: It (and the colour scheme) makes me wonder: are they keeping “bad” peopl…
It seems odd for progressive parts of the Fediverse to be celebrating inventing their own digital iron curtains: It (and the colour scheme) makes me wonder: are they keeping “bad” peopl…
The last thing I wanted to do today was write about Threads. I haven't been using it much, and the few times I've tried, I haven't liked it much either. For one thing, they're allowing some of the most toxic ...
Meta blocked a story critical of its climate change ad policies on all of its platform. An independent journalist asked permission to repost the story verbatim on her substack. It was blocked too.
Public library staff in an Alabama town have locked up the library and walked off their jobs after the library's director was fired. The director had refused to remove 113 books with LGBTQ+ content from circulation after being ordered to do so by a library board dominated by right-wing Christian fundamentalists.
Hey gang, the channel is in a bit of a tough spot right now. If you're in a position to help keep this operation afloat, please consider becoming a patron on...
