nunesgh, to random
@nunesgh@mastodon.social avatar

First, is illegal in . You cannot walk around wearing a swastika or be part of a group. You are going to be prosecuted for that.

Then, in November last year, a teenager killed four people and hurt twelve more in a school-shooting. Earlier in April, a man invaded a kindergarten and killed four children.

After the second episode, on April 14, the government released an ordinance for social networks due to school violence.

nunesgh,
@nunesgh@mastodon.social avatar

Do not get me wrong! is bad and I do not support it!

But this is not what is going on in right now. is clearly trying to play the legal system here. "stand(ing) up for our users in Brazil and their right to private communication" is pure bullshit.

infodocket, to random
@infodocket@newsie.social avatar

The Seattle Public Library Joins Brooklyn Public Library’s Books Unbanned to Fight Censorship with Free Card For Youth https://www.infodocket.com/2023/04/27/the-seattle-public-library-joins-brooklyn-public-librarys-books-unbanned-to-fight-censorship-with-free-card-for-youth

KovuCougar, to random

Oh nice. Seattle Public Library has created a membership type for "13 to 26 year olds anywhere in the US" to be able to sign out e and audiobooks as a response to those locales banning books...

https://www.spl.org/programs-and-services/teens/books-unbanned

cyberghost, to random

#Telegram was blocked in my country (#Brazil) yesterday on all ISPs, and soon they will be removed from App Store and Play Store ... that's why decentralized communication apps are so important, apps like #Session and #Matrix are trending here right now.

#privacy #surveillance #censorship #e2ee #decentralized #decentralization

moira, (edited ) to books
@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net avatar

Republicans in Indiana think they've found where to put their BOOK BAN THAT CHARGES LIBRARIANS WITH FELONIES into legislation. Amendment could be popped literally any day.

IF YOU'RE IN DO A THING, outlined here:

https://www.tumblr.com/lakecountylibrary/715232040193228800/bill-criminalizing-librarians-revived-again

If you are NOT in Indiana, but you even might have followers in Indiana, please boost! Thank you.

Additional coverage:

https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/04/21/indiana-lawmakers-suggest-a-likely-revival-of-obscene-and-harmful-library-materials-ban/

notsle, to random
@notsle@kzoo.to avatar

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they
live.
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available."

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94

pbump, to random
@pbump@journa.host avatar

Particularly given the new discussions of budget cuts, pleased to participate in a discussion about my book with the 53rd Street Library on Wednesday.

Will be online, so tune in!
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2023/04/26/torch-has-been-passed-baby-boomers-and-future-our-cultural-institutions

RichStein,

@pbump
Well done! Looking forward to tuning in.

Libraries are awesome! Did you know that for a limited time, individuals in the US, ages 13-21, can apply for a free Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) eCard, gaining access to BPL's eBook collection and learning databases. Great To apply, email:
booksunbanned@bklynlibrary.org

Part of BPL's "Books Unbanned" initiative: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned

Please


itnewsbot, to random
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

China Says Chatbots Must Toe the Party Line - The Communist Party outlined draft rules that would set guardrails on the rapidly growing... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/world/asia/china-chatbots-ai.html

itnewsbot, to random
@itnewsbot@schleuss.online avatar

How China Censored Research About Covid-19 - Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 spotted this story in today's New York Times. (A... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/04/24/0314211/how-china-censored-research-about-covid-19?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Wuzzy, to internet

My core value is personal . I’m strongly for and dream of a world in which free software is the default basically everywhere. I’m for a free and open , against and intellectual monopolies. is better than centralization. I hate of . ✊

I have a low tolerance for and zero tolerance for anti-intellectualism. Critical thinking is important to get things done. If you find bullshit in my posts, tell me. 💩

JaneRLaForge, to random

“…proponents of and repression all had one thing in common: They were on the wrong side of history.…misguided laws that censor ideas and suppress the advancement of knowledge fail, and their architects fail with them.” (There’s a paywall) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

gwfoto, to random

India takes a distressing retreat from democracy

Mr. Modi, now prime minister of India, is attempting to impose a Hindu-led majoritarianism upon the country, including on its school curriculum and textbooks. Two pages about the Gujarat events were slashed, and other events in the long history of India’s 200 million Muslims deleted. India’s schoolchildren and its democracy are the worse for it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/20/india-backsliding-democracy-modi-school-textbooks/

username, to random

Sony abusing promoting censorship over internet, attacking dns service @quad9dns

https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/Sony-v-internet:e

lispi314, to random
@lispi314@mastodon.top avatar

@lauren @SocialistStan @Shachihoko @HistoPol @eff @team Are people really stupid enough to still buy that line?

They're stereotypes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse) for a reason.

HistoPol,
@HistoPol@mastodon.social avatar

@lispi314 @lauren @SocialistStan @Shachihoko @eff @team

If you listen to the new podcast , you will see that people will not see it coming for them until it's too late. Some will protest and quickly be dealt w/. Problem solved.

In particular w/ the integration of into the machine (Episode 4, I think). Their only limitations seemingly are: manpower and global reach

noyovo, to books

  • Use Library Genesis & Anna's Archive
    https://annasarchive.org
    http://libgen.st

  • Help build or support a shadow library that isn't on some white libertarian nonsense
    Then people don't have to use the above two

  • Destroy the multinational corporate behemoths behind the lawsuit
    (Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, and Penguin Random House)

  • Overthrow the illegitimate government which issued the ruling
    Fascist police states built on slavery & genocide are bad, actually

randomcha, to random
@randomcha@mstdn.social avatar

Don't allow anyone to gaslight you. The American Library Association (where I work, by the way) documented 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources in 2022, the HIGHEST NUMBER of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago.

We must not remain silent as a tiny minority of loudmouths attempts to police our , , and public institutions. https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/.

pluralistic, to Signal
@pluralistic@mamot.fr avatar

They’re still trying to ban

https://doctorow.medium.com/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography-33aa668dc602

Call this the “enforcement nexus” — for a government to enforce a law, it needs something to seize. Governments have broad latitude to seize things and people within their territorial borders (though this is not absolute, as I’ll discuss below). But when it comes to conduct outside a government’s territory, enforcement depends upon the cooperation of another government — this is why so many crime dramas turn on a desperate dash for countries that don’t have extradition treaties. Governments can project enforcement power into any territory that will allow it to seize the people or property of its adversaries. When the Argentinian government defaulted on its bonds, it failed to reckon with the fact that its US dollar holdings were stashed in the US Federal Reserve Bank in New York. That meant that the vulture capitalists seeking to squeeze Argentina could argue their case in their home court in the USA, seeking a judgment that could be enforced domestically — that is, by seizing the Argentinian government’s assets held on US soil.
National firewalls are everywhere today. Sometimes, they’re sold as turnkey solutions — by both Chinese and western firms — to poor countries with very little technical capacity of their own. Spy agencies from large, powerful countries love it when poor countries install foreign-made national firewalls, as these are key to “third-party collection” (when a spy agency taps into another spy agency’s files) and “fourth-party collection” (when a spy agency taps into another spy agency that has tapped into another spy-agency’s files). As national firewalls proliferate, so too do enforcement nexuses. After Edward Snowden revealed that US tech giants were allowing US spy agencies to plunder their user data, the EU imposed a (perfectly reasonable) data localization regulation that required US tech companies to keep Europeans’ data on servers within the EU (this regulation remains contentious and fragile). The EU doesn’t have a regional or national firewall, so tech giants who don’t want to comply with the regulation could simply withdraw their sales offices and engineering departments and lobbyists from the EU and ignore the rule — at least to the extent that they could convince US courts not to enforce EU judgments against them. But the EU has other enforcement nexuses it could rely upon. It could order European banks and payment processors to block payments to tech firms that ignore the localization rule. Payment processing remains a
Enter American culture-war nonsense. In Texas, they want to ban websites that explain how to get an abortion, as well as sites that ship the pills for a medication abortion. In Florida, they want to force bloggers who write about the state government to pay a fee and register with the state, prohibiting anonymous commentary about the state legislature and its actions. Florida has also required that online providers cease permitting their users to display pronouns other than the ones they were assigned at birth. Of course, online services have no way to know what pronouns any of their users were assigned at birth, so sites like Github are complying with Florida law by simply not displaying pronouns to Floridian users. The biggest barrier to enforcing these laws is the US Constitution, which these laws assuredly violate. It’s entirely possible that a lower court will uphold these laws. It’s conceivable that an appeals court will do so as well. It’s not outside the realm of possibility that the current Supreme Court — illegitimately stacked with far-right partisan hacks lacking any shred of principle — will follow suit. But it’s far from a sure thing. It’s not even clear whether the legislatures that passed these laws and the governors who signed them want them to be enforced. After all, if these policies do come into force, large numbers of corporations are likely to shutter their offices and move out of state (especially in Florida, an increas

unearth, to LGBT

Malaysia's Home Ministry has banned several books featuring LGBTQ+ characters or themes, retroactively from Jan. 20.

The government says the books promote an LGBT "lifestyle" that is a threat to religious (Islamic) and societal values. Those caught with the banned books could face a prison sentence of up to three years, a maximum fine of 20,000 ringgit ($4,500), or both.

Malaysia has seen increasing religious fundamentalism in recent years with the hardline Islamic party PAS making significant gains in the November general election, and the bans are reflective of the government's conservative attitudes towards the LGBTQ+ community. The ban comes amid ongoing legal action against two LGBTQ+ music videos.

Some of the books banned : Jacob’s New Dress, The Tale of Steven, Jacob’s Room to Choose, Aku

Malaysian human rights activists have criticized the government's decision.

DD, to Hololive

Should've expected that once they caved to China's demands for specific censorship, other countries would happily and successfully petition to do the same.

Apparently Germany has boondoggled Google/Chrome to quietly drop AO3 from search results.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AO3/comments/zsgt6v/is_ao3_blocked_from_being_displayed_in_google_in/

I miss when Google had "Do No Evil" in its mission statement. I really, really do.

Gjallarhornet, to Ukraine

Stand With Ukraine

video/mp4

autonomysolidarity, to random German
@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu avatar

Tails –is a portable operating system that protects against and
(EN/ ES/ ES/ FR/ IT/ PT/ RU)

"The amnesic incognito live system"
Anleitung zur Nutzung des Tails-Live-Betriebssystems für sichere Kommunikation, Recherche, Bearbeitung und Veröffentlichung sensibler Dokumente.

https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/neue-texte/bandi/

https://capulcu.blackblogs.org/ueber-uns/

Download:
https://tails.boum.org/

toplesstopics, to internet
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My main focus in my videos & are topics like , , , , , , and that sort of thing,

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