Facebook is actively removing postings I'm making today. I maintain a foothold on Facebook, knowing its tawdriness and that it's no friend to progressive politics, because I oversee a family history-DNA project that's housed there. And Facebook is one way I can keep in quick touch with a wide circle of relatives and friends.

First posting removed today: Jess Piper's graphic (below) about white women voting in this election.

https://substack.com/@jesspiper/note/c-72832742

#Facebook #censorship #women #abortion
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Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts

WaPo #tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler investigates how #Meta’s #Instagram, #Facebook & #Threads suppress #content related to the #election. Even discussing how to #vote isn’t safe.

…Fowler shows exactly how #democracy dies on Instagram.

#SocialMedia #internet #censorship #politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/

+ and a journalist. That is the purpose of encyclopedic information. It's an *encyclopedia*.

For specific content deemed illegal, we have the provision to delete and redact specific sentences, images and their edit history from the public and permanent record. It doesn't warrant removal of the full article. Hence, the demand is excessive. It is #censorship.

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Please check for critical security updates.

Details: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1357/

#security #cybersecurity #infosec #privacy #government #censorship #surveillance #freedom #democracy #tor #torbrowser #opensource

New Release: Tor Browser 13.5.7 | Tor Project

Tor Browser 13.5.7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

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This isn't America. This is Sheffield University.

#Censorship #Represssion #Gaza #Universities #UKPolitics

‼️ Russia blocked access to one of our platforms, OONI Explorer: a large open dataset on internet censorship worldwide
https://explorer.ooni.org

OONI Explorer documents the blocking of OONI Explorer in #Russia. 🐙

Learn more through our latest report: https://ooni.org/post/2024-russia-blocked-ooni-explorer/

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#ooni #censorship #opendata