"the #banning of #books, #magazines, #newspapers and #music, the outlawing of the #freedom to read and write and listen, the censoring of educational materials while criminalizing educators and librarians, and repressing speech — have roots in the anti-literacy laws of colonial slaveholding #America...
It depends. Today I've heard about mastodon.social #banning a leftist account just defending #Israel as State is not a good idea (because of #Palestinian#genocide) or myself, banned at todon.nl just because I have not a pro- #ukrainian (pro #war, pro #NATO) point of view.
But, well, here at #Fedivers we can just choose the right instance, and we don't depend on the point of view of a big corporation ;-)
The Medium is The Message is part one of a series (probably). In it, I argue that #Threads is not the assumed victory for the #fediverse it appears to be.
Longterm interpolation with Threads sends the wrong signal— not that Meta and Mastodon use #ActivityPub, a protocol the average user doesn’t understand, but that both share the same beliefs for the #openweb. #PostsFromJason#FediSeriesFJ
Sign the petition today: Plano ISD, in Texas, has recently removed books through an internal review process that overturned decisions made by reconsideration review committees made up of qualified librarians and teachers.
We're seeing more and more accounts on other social media platforms censoring normal anatomical words as if they're dirty - using nonsense terms like "v&g1n@". You'll never catch us doing that. Here's why...
OC Banning spam accounts
Banning spam accounts on kbin.social is a cumbersome affair....