#France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of #NewCaledonia after clashes broke out between authorities and pro-independence protesters. At least four people have already been killed. Three of whom were Indigenous people, and the fourth was a French gendarme.
Protesters have been seen carrying heavy firearms, with reports of live rounds being fired at police.
Multiple buildings have been set on fire, and several supermarkets have been looted. White French residents have also formed armed groups to confront the Indigenous protesters.
Under the state of emergency, French authorities have imposed a curfew, banned #TikTok, closed schools, and placed restrictions on movement.
They have also deployed an additional 500 police officers, adding to the 1,800 police and gendarmes already on the island.
Protests erupted after French President Emmanuel #Macron introduced plans to reform New Caledonia’s electoral system, which would grant more French residents in the territory voting rights. Protesters believe this would unfavorably shift political representation in the country. The Pacific archipelago, home to the Indigenous #Kanak people, is rich in minerals and has been under French control since 1853.
Niepokoje wybuchły z powodu nowej ustawy, przyjętej we wtorek przez praelement w Paryżu, która pozwoli francuskim mieszkańcom, którzy mieszkają na Nowej Kaledonii minimum 10 lat, głosować w wyborach prowincjonalnych.
Pour avoir déjà vu des entreprises se précipiter à couper l'accès à des sites sans informer (nous ou les utilisateurs), sans informations et certains un peu arbitrairement. Je sais par expérience que les gens trouveront une solution pour contourner le blocage et ça ne fera qu'empirer les tensions.
Par ailleurs bloquer un moyen d'expression c'est démocratique / 20...
Hundreds of French police deployed amid #NewCaledonia riots. A state of emergency has been imposed for 12 days and authorities have banned the video app #TikTok.
Could Temu kindly F Off. no I am not collaborating with you for shit. I don’t care how much you offer me. I’m about to set my Avanan email security suite to just quarantine anything from temu.com.
I will NEVER promote or recommend anything I personally wouldn’t use myself. Plain and simple. My audience knows this and I ain’t in it for the money. I’m in it for the community. Any money goes right back to tinkering and content. My audience knows this.
Attal annonce le déploiement de l'armée pour sécuriser ports et aéroport de Nouvelle-Calédonie, un classique de l'occupation coloniale et… l'interdiction de Tik Tok sur l'île. Probablement pour tenter de contrer les fake news ou considérées comme telles par le gouvernement. Décidément, la censure des réseaux sociaux c’est une obsession...
Frank McCourt, the billionaire real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is currently working on a bid to buy TikTok, according to reports.
While it remains to be seen whether TikTok’s parent company ByteDance will agree to a sale to anyone, @Gizmodo reports that “McCourt’s background in utopian tech advocacy makes him an interesting figure to enter the race.” Here’s what we know so far.
A testimony from volunteer doctors who have worked in Gaza recently. They talk about the cases they've seen.
This is Prof Nick Maynard:
"I spent some time a while ago looking up the definition of genocide in a variety of dictionaries and what is going on in Gaza fulfils every single definition of genocide that I have read. So there's no doubt in my mind that's what's going on"
@NotImpressed@palestine Dems like Hillary Clinton & all the GOP politicians will simply say that all these children are regular casualties of war. Anthony Blinken and Mitt Romney complained that social media like #tiktok was making voters emotional & lose sight of the bigger issues. What are the bigger issues that justify this atrocity? US interests in the Middle East? Profits for US weapons industry? More 💰 for them? They are morally bankrupt. #gaza
No. Just, no. Not #VPN, nor any other technology is a solution, because the problem is much deeper than that. The US banning TikTok is just the beginning, they will simply continue expanding #censorship of any content the government finds objectionable. We may soon find governments like the US passing legislation that running an #ActivityPub server of any kind is illegal "terrorist activity" before long, and all NATO countries will follow suit (they must, or else risk losing NATO membership).
And of course the stated reason for the US blocking whole portions of the Internet is for "cypersecurity" reasons. Anyone with half a brain knows the real reason is to try to prevent sharing knowledge across borders, because that is the real threat to the politicians and their bosses.
It is really no different than what countries like China does with their Great Firewall, or what Iran does whitelisting only certain blocks of the Internet that exists outside of their borders, also for "cybersecurity" reasons. Of course the US government will continue to cite censorship of free speech as a reason that countries like China or Iran are inherently evil. This deranged political double-speak is the norm nowadays, as "antisemitism" is used as a justification to arrest Jewish people who protest war at their universities, but I digress.
@ramin_hal9001 I suspect you are right re #activitypub
Anything the US cant control or manipulate is a problem
With #tiktok , foreign ownership provided the "justification",
With activitypub servers i expect they will find something to do with copyright or moderation of illegal content rather than just admit that if an american corp doesnt control it and manipulate it to the satisfaction of the Amerocan government, then it must be banned
Mamma li turchi, anzi li cinesi? No. Il podcast di Walter Vannini aka @dataKnightmare sul bando di TikTok
#TikTok fa le stesse cose che fanno tutti i social made in USA, ed è soggetta allo stesso livello di controllo statale. La minaccia di TikTok è solo al monopolio USA sui social.
My schedule for streaming is going to be weird for the next few weeks as I am taking CISSP classes. So for the time being I will be streaming on Sundays, Mondays, and Wednesdays as I am able to for the time being.
'I just know y'all not raving about a place with only 2 items': Raising Cane's customer questions scarce menu options after pulling up to the drive-thru