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...nobody could have forseen the #Chainsaw implementation of #DataRaids throughout #US government agencies in 2025.
Nothing seems to be off limits anymore.
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1) NS-Schrifleitergesetz (German)
taz.de/Presse-im-Nationalsozia…
Presse im Nationalsozialismus: Im Dienste des Regimes
Vor 90 Jahren stellte Goebbels das „NS-Schriftleitergesetz“ vor. Es regelte, welche Journalisten arbeiten durften – und schaffte die Pressefreiheit ab.Christian Walther (taz)
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...licenses to the #WhiteHouse. #Hegseth has already hinted several times that he expects more pro-American stances in the press.
When will they be able to move towards a #Goebbels-style complete #Backgrounders (#Presseunterichtung), or even a NS-styled "Schriftleitergesetz" 1), which determined which journalists were still allowed to work? Even though #Project2025 foreshadowed many actions (originally a #Nazi term in German, as I researched 2day),...
To my followers here, a note of both sincere gratitude and apology for my protracted silence. As I posted on May 3 (see the link below), out of the blue and with no notice or explanation from this Mastodon instance, on May 3, I received a spate of notifications that multiple postings of mine had been removed.
This happened on the eve of a trip I was making to see a friend I hadn't seen in eight years.
#Mastodon #censorship
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William Lindsey :toad: (@wdlindsy@toad.social)
Attached: 1 image I came to Mastodon's Toad Social on 1 December 2002 after deleting my Twitter account the day Elon Musk took over there.William Lindsey :toad: (toad.social)
Stephen Colbert says hello/goodbye - to the core of LateNite #truth #comedy #ContextAndPerspective - a stellar reunion & farewell
Strike Force Five Is And Always Will Be: Kimmel, Fallon, Meyers, Oliver and Colbert
Stephen Colbert reunites with his Strike Force Five podcast co-hosts for a rowdy group interview that went far too long for one broadcast episode. Watch the entire segment here then keep an eye out for a special emergency episode of the Strike Force Five podcast dropping soon wherever you get your podcasts. Special thanks to Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver!
Sweet, hefty, goofy... bittersweet sharing of memories and goodbyes. 
#Colbert #Comedy #StrikeForceFive #LateNightHosts #JimmyKimmel #JimmyFallon #SethMeyers #JohnOliver #Podcasts #LateNight #StephenColbert #TheLateShow #LateNite #comedy #satire #TelevisionHistory #truth #television #censorship #FreeSpeech
Today in Labor History May 10, 1933: The Nazis staged massive public book burnings, beginning in Berlin, with students from Humboldt University, destroying thousands of titles. German poet, Heinrich Heine, said back in the early 1800s, "Where one burns books, one will soon burn people." They burned books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist, liberal, pacifist, lgbtq and sexologist authors. The first books burned were those of Karl Marx and Karl Kautsky. Many of the books that were burned were seized from the library of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, director of the Institute for Sexual Science (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft), which the Nazis raided in Berlin on May 6, 1933.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #censorship #BookBurning #HeinrichHeine #poetry #literature #fiction #books #students #homophobia #transphobia #lgbtq #magnushirschfeld #karlmarx #anarchism #socialism #antisemitism @bookstadon
Unfortunately, I think this letter will fall upon deaf ears. As we've learned from their response to the OSA repeal petition, their response to any criticism of these laws is to 1: Glaze said laws 2: Imply critics of the laws are sex pests/pedophiles/etc. and 3: Enact even more fascist legislation.
The UK Government (and I'm sure plenty of other governments) is willing to die on the hill of these thinly veiled mass surveillance/censorship laws. They won't stop unless the courts/a future parliament/a general strike forces them to. Because enacting a fascist police state is just too good to pass up.
I would be glad to be wrong and they actually listen but I don't think that will be the case.
#Privacy #Censorship #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #AgeVerification #Surveillance #Internet #SocialMedia #UK #UnitedKingdom
I suggest adding"❌ Suppression of Tor users (in my opinion by Tuta)"to the right side.
I tried to create an anonymous Tuta account when I was living in a dictatorship and I remember it didn't work.
I was using Tor because I didn't want to be abducted into a concentration camp (euphemistically called "jail") by the dictatorial regime in retaliation for legitimate and legal exercising of my human and constitutional right to free speech I was planning using that account.
I strongly suspect the reason it didn't work was because IMO Tuta was suppressing Tor users.
Due to this,my work in publishing public domain legal norms the regime was trying to hide,was greatly slowed down and made difficult.
When Tuta is writing like this,in my opinion it is hypocrisy.
The following hashtags may be unrelated or only remotely related to the topic of this post:
#hypocrisy #tuta #tutanota #tor #freespeech #freedomofspeech #dictatorship #anonymity #rejection #privacy #encryption #censorship
This, in a nutshell, is why it is dangerous that all liberal media is now setting up shop on Bluesky.
We have a critical midterm coming up and these important voices are willfully submitting to a censorship regime run by crypto VC tech bros.
This is a very Accelerando-like issue we're up against. I remember when the music copyright mafia busted in and attacked Manfred and how he had a near constant influx of patents and lawsuits coming and going, so much so he required external brain augmentations to process/handle everuthing, and most lawsuits were not even from humans. It's sounding more and more familiar every day. Manfrer was really on to something refusing to deal in money. The future really is a foreign country... 🤷
#accelerando #sciencefiction #solarpunk #futurism #ArtificialIntelligence #technology #copyright #censorship #decentralized #bookstodon
