Anyone else read adult books in like middle school? And instead of adults freaking out, they encouraged it? I read horror "early" & everyone from teachers to neighbors were thrilled to recommend more, plenty with sexual content, worried more if the gore/terror would be too much.
@thoughtpunks By the time I was 12 or so I had exhausted the books I was interested in reading in the children's section of the local library and was checking out books from the adult science fiction/fantasy section. I saw Alien when I was 8. We found a box full of Playboys that someone was throwing out when I was 10 or 11. We used to try to watch scrambled porn on SelectTV. This pearl clutching about books in schools has nothing to do with protecting kids and the right wingers know it.
Archived news articles about events from just a few years ago are no longer showing up on internet searches in China, cutting off access to the country's recent history from all but the most resourceful researchers..
Very quickly sketched out #webcomic page idea summarizing the blatantly nonsensical "female nipples are sexual because we treat female nipples as sexual" counter-argument I hear/read so often from #misogynist who want to maintain the #genderbased#censorship status quo established by the #patriarchy.
@protonprivacy@MarkAssPandi I am stealing the meme, but I do not care to engage any further in this discussion. I just wanted to point some things out here. Also, how can you say you didn't come from VC investors when the information is public record? Anyway, have a good day as I have to wrap this discussion up for now.
"The new rule in the GOP-controlled House is that you can’t make mention of Donald Trump’s many civil and criminal trials, but you can simply insult the physical appearance of fellow members."
#China's internet #censors have deleted a video in which #children at a private #PerformingArts school in the southwestern province of #Sichuan dance to British rock band #PinkFloyd's 1979 hit "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" which featured a choir of #schoolchildren protesting overbearing authority & "thought control" in #education.
@maddad Chinese people are still taking great risks to demonstrate against oppression/censorship - knowing the risks.
I'm very grateful for their bravery.
Yes, me too. I had been to HK in 2017 and 2018 for a couple of weeks each time to visit some friends when I was on my way to VN.
My friends were English teachers in a private school there.
They had been there for 10 yrs at least and really liked it, but left a few months after my last visit because they didn't feel safe anymore.
The Chinese censors threw almost everything they were teaching out, and were quite ruthless about it.
"In 2023, the Israeli military censor barred the publication of 613 articles by media outlets in Israel,"
"Even before the war, the Israeli government had advanced a series of measures to undermine media independence. This led to Israel dropping 11 places in the 2023 annual World Press Freedom Index, followed by an additional four places in 2024 (it now sits in 101st place out of 180)."
💻 #YouTube has blocked at least three videos that show viewers how to evade military service after it received a request from the Russian authorities, the investigative news outlet Agentstvo reported Monday.
A #webcomic page I quickly sketched out while I get ready to go visit my dad in the hospital, inspired by some in-shells in my mentions whining out the same nonsensical arguments for why #gender based #censorship against so-called "female npls" should remain the status quo. First of all, "sksual organs" only applies to the parts actually involved in procreation; the term you're looking for is "erogenous zones," which can apply to ANY gender's npl, as well as lips, ear, knee, elbow, foot, whatever... It depends on the person, and is absolutely not limited to "people who look female." in addition to that, the argument that "female npls must remain banned from public and online because men are attracted to them" is the most asinine argument and I don't understand how (besides #misogyny) anyone can say this with a straight face?? You think straight women and gay men aren't equally as turned on by MALE chests?
It continues to amaze me how, for all our supposed progress towards #equality in other regards, especially #lgbt / #queer issues, top free #inequality remains this one US issue that continues unquestioned and unacknowledged by the vast majority of Americans, even so-called leftists. YOU ARE SAYING IF SOMEONE "LOOKS FEMALE," THEN THEY DESERVE LESS RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THAN SOMEONE WHO "LOOKS MALE." HOW ARE YOU OKAY WITH THIS?!?
A French draft law, passed Monday, would let citizens vote in local elections after 10 years' residency in New Caledonia, prompting opposition from independence activists worried it will dilute the representation of indigenous people. The violent demonstrations that have ensued in the South Pacific island of 270,000 have killed at least five people and injured hundreds.
In response to the protests, the government suspended the popular video-sharing app — owned by Beijing-based ByteDance and favored by young people — as part of state-of-emergency measures alongside the deployment of troops and an initial 12-day curfew.
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal didn’t detail the reasons for shutting down the platform. The local telecom regulator began blocking the app earlier on Wednesday."
...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act
"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.
The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
...with Lara Friedman & Rabbi Jay Michaelson on the Antisemitism Awareness Act
"There's something innane about this: in order to engage in criticism of Israel, you have to be an antisemite"
~ Lara Friedman, Foundation for Middle East Peace.
The US Senate is expected to vote soon on the Antisemitism Awareness Act.
@DrALJONES so much this. An important interview I hope more people watch. This Act must NOT go into law it is fundamentally an Antisemitic law, and anti Jewish law, and anti freedom law. It is another right removed using Jews as scapegoats for it, when it really is lack of desire to stop weapons deals or unbridled fascism.
Not exactly clear on your meaning with "Where is this energy with white supremacy?" but a few millennia of history sure seem to be keeping it central to the accumulation of wealth & power. Where would the plutocracy be without it?