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cherryg · 1 year

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The internet censorship is coming..(again)

There are two well known censorship bill known as KOSA and the EarnIt act.

These bills both promised that they will protect children but unfortunately these are misguided bills that says they’ll do something but then they will do the opposite or make things worse.

Both of these bills are serious threat to the LGBT community and will censor a lot of content especially there

the EarnItact will also get rid of NSFW content and deem it as illegal, and will also get rid of section 230

The KOSA act will let attorneys from Florida and Texas take control and decide what people could and could not watch and sue websites and anything they don’t like and will not protect children but mostly put many vulnerable teens and children at risk while going as far as to even censor important information like sex education, health issues, suicide prevention hotlines and many more

We have stopped these bills from passing before but the cofounder Richard Bluemenhal is clearly not giving up and trying hard and hard again to push these bills back on congress

Last year more than 90/100 human rights groups urged lawmakers and congress to not pass KOSA in the omnibus bill and it got shelved and the same then happened to Earn it last year on February/March

But now he is trying a third time,using and manipulating grieving parents and young people into supporting and lobbying his bills, whiles even accepting anti trans and LGBT groups into supporting his legislations. He’s trying to find any type of scandal a platform is currently facing and turn and twist it on behalf of his agendas.

He says he supports abortions and the LGBT community but his bills will censor those things he claims to support. He can’t have it both ways.

But he was stubborn enough to ignore every criticism and scrutiny he gets about the legislations, being childish and all.

Not to mention that they are also both privacy nightmares to everyone and globally too

That’s why it’s important that you call and email your representatives and lawmakers and urge them to drop Kosa and the earn it act

Let any human rights group you trust knows and tell anyone you trust about it weather it be a friend or family member.

For more information, click these links below ⬇️

You can also help us by joining our discord server on how to stop internet censorship

There also a petition made from Fightforfuture recently about the KOSA act

(Update # 2)

Hey guys I’m back to warn everyone about yet again another bad internet bill it’s called the safe tech act

This act is supported by 7 democratic senators including bluemenhal which is never a good sign with him when it comes to internet bills.

This is a misguided 230 reform and when reading it, all it shows is that these people have no understanding of 230 whatsoever.

It’s just another dangerous censorship bill that threatens everyone’s free speech. The creators claim that it’s won’t hurt free speech but it actually does and they do not understand how important 230 is in its current form right now!

Here is a good article explaining the safe tech act really well and why it’s dangerous :

Also talk to your representatives about this and why it’s bad and if you can, try to explain to them about why section 230 is important. Support digital advocacy, human rights and any other groups that supports free internet and expression and let them know about these legislators and their bad ideas!

Update 3

The EarnIt act is sadly coming back after failing two times, now they are trying a 3rd time.

This legislation is dangerous for privacy and free expression and speech. It will bring lots of surveillance and is just as bad as the restrict act.

https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

Now it’s being reintroduced by two senators and two representatives if you don’t know what this bill actually does there is more information about it here from these links : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos

The second one is called KOSA (KidsOnlineSafteyAct),

now this bill has failed to pass last year because a lot of opposition from 90/100 human rights.

It claims it’s would protect kids but it’s actually has a lot of censorship and is very dangerous to lgbt/trans kids and many other kids that are in abusive households. It will actually hurt them instead of protecting them.

If that’s not bad enough it’s tragically gaining momentum and attraction by these child advocacy groups and being sponsored by Dove and Lizzo. And there has been petitions in supporting this unconstitutional bill, One of them having somewhere around 30k signs…

I really wish I could say I’m joking but this is sadly true.

If you want more info on KOSA here they are:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/censorship-wont-make-kids-safe/

Please everyone call your senators and representatives and tell them to oppose these bills. We really need help into fighting off these bill so we could keep a free opened internet!

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waolom · 4 months

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 1 year

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#Verbatim #Verbatim the Verbose #Character Design #furry #anthro #kemono #Anti-Virus #robot #totally not a #net navi

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mostlysignssomeportents · 6 months

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Big Telco’s fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts

I'll be at the Studio City branch of the LA Public Library on Monday, November 13 at 1830hPT to launch my new novel, The Lost Cause. There'll be a reading, a talk, a surprise guest (!!) and a signing, with books on sale. Tell your friends! Come on down!

Reality has a distinct anti-conservative bias, but conservatives have an answer: when the facts don't support your policies, just get different facts. Who needs evidence-based policy when you can have policy-based evidence?

Take gun violence. Conservatives tell us that "an armed society is a polite society," which means that the more guns you have, the less gun violence you'll experience. To prevent reality from unfairly staining this pristine ideological mind-palace with facts, conservatives passed the Dickey Amendment, which had the effect of banning the CDC from gathering stats on American gun-violence. No stats, no violence!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment

Policy-based evidence is at the core of so many cherished conservative beliefs, like the idea that queer people (and not youth pastors) are responsible for the sexual abuse of children, or the idea that minimum wages (and not monopolies) decrease jobs, or the idea that socialized medicine (and not private equity) leads to death panels:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

The Biden administration features a sizable cohort of effective regulators, whose job is to gather evidence and then make policy from it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/23/getting-stuff-done/#praxis

Fortunately for conservatives, not every Biden agency is led by competent, honest brokers – the finance wing of the Dems got to foist some of their most ghoulish members upon the American people, including a no-fooling cheerleader for mass foreclosure:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/06/personnel-are-policy/#janice-eberly

And these same DINOs reached across the aisle to work with Republicans to keep some of the most competent, principled agency leaders from being seated, like the remarkable Gigi Sohn, targeted by a homophobic smear campaign funded by the telco industry, who feared her presence on the FCC:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/19/culture-war-bullshit-stole-your-broadband/

The telcos are old hands at this stuff. Long before the gun control debates, Ma Bell had figured out that a monopoly over Americans' telecoms was a license to print money, and they set to corrupting agencies from the FCC to the DoJ:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/14/jam-to-day/

Reality has a vicious anti-telco bias. Think of Net Neutrality, the idea that if you pay an ISP for internet service, they should make a best effort to deliver the data you request, rather than deliberately slowing down your connection in the hopes that you'll seek out data from the company's preferred partners, who've paid a bribe for "premium delivery."

This shouldn't even be up for debate. The idea that your ISP should prioritize its preferred data over your preferred data is as absurd as the idea that a taxi-driver should slow down your rides to any pizzeria except Domino's, which has paid it for "premium service." If your cabbie circled the block twice every time you asked for a ride to Massimo's Pizza, you'd be rightly pissed – and the cab company would be fined.

Back when Ajit Pai was Trump's FCC chairman, he made killing Net Neutrality his top priority. But regulators aren't allowed to act without evidence, so Pai had to seek out as much policy-based evidence as he could. To that end, Pai allowed millions of obviously fake comments to be entered into the docket (comments from dead people, one million comments from @pornhub.com address, comments from sitting Senators who disavowed them, etc). Then Pai actively – and illegally – obstructed the NY Attorney General's investigation into the fraud:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

The pursuit of policy-based evidence is greatly aided by the absence of real evidence. If you're gonna fill the docket with made-up nonsense, it helps if there's no truthful stuff in there to get in the way. To that end, the FCC has systematically avoided collecting data on American broadband delivery, collecting as little objective data as possible:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

This willful ignorance was a huge boon to the telcos, who demanded billions in fed subsidies for "underserved areas" and then just blew it on anything they felt like – like the $45 billion of public money they wasted on obsolete copper wiring for rural "broadband" expansion under Trump:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/27/all-broadband-politics-are-local/

Like other cherished conservative delusions, the unsupportable fantasy that private industry is better at rolling out broadband is hugely consequential. Before the pandemic, this meant that America – the birthplace of the internet – had the slowest, most expensive internet service of any G8 country. During the lockdown, broadband deserts meant that millions of poor and rural Americans were cut off from employment, education, health care and family:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/12/ajit-pai/#pai

Pai's response was to commit another $8 billion in public funds to broadband expansion, but without any idea of where the broadband deserts were – just handing more money over to monopoly telcos to spend as they see fit, with zero accountability:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/26/pandemic-profiteers/#flying-blind

All that changed after the 2020 election. Pai was removed from office (and immediately blocked me on Twitter) (oh, diddums), and his successor, Biden FCC chair Jessic Rosenworcel, started gathering evidence, soliciting your broadband complaints:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/23/parliament-of-landlords/#fcc

And even better, your broadband speed measurements:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#fly-my-pretties

All that evidence spurred Congress to act. In 2021, Congress ordered the FCC to investigate and punish discrimination in internet service provision, "based on income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin":

https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ58/PLAW-117publ58.pdf

In other words, Congress ordered the FCC to crack down on "digital redlining." That's when historic patterns of underinvestment in majority Black neighborhoods and other underserved communities create broadband deserts, where internet service is slower and more expensive than service literally across the street:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/06/10/flicc/#digital-divide

FCC Chair Rosenworcel has published the agency's plan for fulfilling this obligation. It's pretty straightforward: they're going to collect data on pricing, speed and other key service factors, and punish companies that practice discrimination:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/preventing-digital-discrimination-broadband-internet-access

This has provoked howls of protests from the ISP cartel, their lobbying org, and their Republican pals on the FCC. Writing for Ars Technica, Jon Brodkin rounds up a selection of these objections:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/internet-providers-say-the-fcc-should-not-investigate-broadband-prices/

There's GOP FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, with a Steve Bannon-seque condemnation of "the administrative state [taking] effective control of all Internet services and infrastructure in the US. He's especially pissed that the FCC is going to regulate big landlords who force all their tenants to get slow, expensive from ISPs who offer kickbacks to landlords:

https://www.fcc.gov/document/carr-opposes-bidens-internet-plan

The response from telco lobbyists NCTA is particularly, nakedly absurd: they demand that the FCC exempt price from consideration of whether an ISP is practicing discrimination, calling prices a "non-technical aspect of broadband service":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/110897268295/1

I mean, sure – it's easy to prove that an ISP doesn't discriminate against customers if you don't ask how much they charge! "Sure, you live in a historically underserved neighborhood, but technically we'll give you a 100mb fiber connection, provided you give us $20m to install it."

This is a profoundly stupid demand, but that didn't stop the wireless lobbying org CTIA from chiming in with the same talking points, demanding that the FCC drop plans to collect data on "pricing, deposits, discounts, and data caps," evaluation of price is unnecessary in the competitive wireless marketplace":

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1107735021925/1

Individual cartel members weighed in as well, with AT&T and Verizon threatening to sue over the rules, joined by yet another lobbying group, USTelecom:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/1103655327582/1

The next step in this playbook is whipping up the low-information base by calling this "socialism" and mobilizing some of the worst-served, most-gouged people in America to shoot themselves in the face (again), to own the libs:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/15/useful-idiotsuseful-idiots/#unrequited-love

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/10/digital-redlining/#stop-confusing-the-issue-with-relevant-facts

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cali · 11 months

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stone ship launch site in the valley of the splitheaded witches

#art #i usually start all my pics in ms paint and then switch to paint net halfway thru but this time i kept it all in paint #and i used a lot of the shitty paintbrushes they have instead of just staying cozy with my no anti aliasing 4px standard pen #the sun is a hilma dove 14 type situation

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doberbutts · 2 years

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#stolen from fb #in light of the kanye controversy #actually I'll go one further #kanye's been anti-black for years and the acceptance of his anti-blackness has a direct correlation #with the 'sudden' interest in antisemitism #it's not sudden #he has been trending this way for a long long time #this should surprise no one #because these philosophies often go hand-in-hand #if one was accepted you can almost guarantee the other will be close to follow #I have two whole kanye songs both very old #and you can literally hear the difference #one is talking about the plight of being black in america #the other is complaining about his ex and really is the beginning of his antiblack leanings #where he was mostly just antiblack to black women and thus everyone accepted it #his music has shown him worsening for years and years and years #so while his behavior on social media and in the news has certainly reached a new low #it's not at all surprising to me that he's doing this #he's been #it's just that now more people care because it's more public and the targets' got a wider net #it also doesn't help that kanye is a black isrealite #which is an antisemetic group of black people stating that *they* are the *true jews* and *they* should be given isreal #they're basically a cult and they're VERY annoying and their stupid shit is so fucking widespread #big sigh

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toastyghostcriticalblog · 1 month

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Vivzepop when she looking for Broadway actors and celebrities to voice act her characters

#she carries a big net to catch them #anti vivziepop #vivzepop critical

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d-blue02 · 14 days

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We need all the help we can get to put a stop to this bill! Click the link, sign the petition, call your representatives, and donate as much as you possibly can! There’s no time to lose, KOSA must be stopped at all costs!!

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v-arbellanaris · 1 year

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sb commented recently on one of my da metas talking abt how leliana's the left hand of the divine and she's definitely in on everything dodgy af going on with the inquisition and the chantry, but like. leliana also definitely 100% hides the warden (if theyre still alive) from the inquisition -- irrespective of approval in dao. leliana is not the one interrogating varric in da2. leliana is not the one trying to beat the shit out of you in dai's prologue. leliana is relatively cool-headed when she and cassandra are interrogating you.

and sure, it's a good cop/bad cop routine between her and cassandra. but her personal quest in inquisition makes it clear that she's been trying to function based on what she thinks justinia would want, and how justinia would want her to act/how justinia would have wanted her to solve the problem. and over time, she comes to rely on the inquisitor instead, who can ratify what she's been told her whole life or finally, finally let her become someone new.

and the biggest, most massive difference is what happens when she becomes divine. she doesn't keep the system as it is, she uproots it entirely, and faces backlash from it. and still, she continues to do the right thing.

it's not that she's not as culpable or as responsible. it isn't even that leliana is innocent or hasn't done anything wrong. but at least leliana tries to make up for it. she can acknowledge the system is fucked up -- and actually take the steps to change things that she can change, instead of giving a pretty speech about change, and then keeping everything exactly the same as before.

#comparatively. comparatively cassandra's entire personal quest is abt finding out the seekers were dicks #and were ALWAYS pieces of shit. and then we just have to go ''well rebuild if you want cass'' or else she gets pissy #and then she does NOTHING with the knowledge of the cure to tranquility and there's no way for YOU to do anything either #she gets her hands on power and does absolutely nothing to change ANYTHING #net 0 ANYTHING gained with cassandra at all fucking times #anti chantry #cassandra critical #dragon age #leliana

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madmanii · 6 months

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#not disney being a disney villain irl #and anti anti money #this my last net day nd have nothing to post idk #take care #mickey mouse #my art

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the-hydroxian-artblog · 1 year

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Verbatim’s just here to help

#Verbatim #Verbatim the Verbose #Character Design #furry #anthro #kemono #Anti-Virus #robot #totally not a #net navi

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helly-watermelonsmellinfellon · 1 year

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FFN Might be doing another purge.

Been seeing a lot of shit on my Twitter tl from Antis, because I have mutuals who engage and destroy them on the regular and I got a lovely revelation that someone's fic was removed on FFN cuz it was determined to have violated the rules. This Anti doesn't know why because they claim they are a teenager and they don't write 'disgusting kinky stuff' because they 'aren't a creep'.

And then it's revealed that they wrote a fic about 2 boys, one is 12 and the other is 13. And they in fact, ALMOST had sex but stopped because they're 'too mature' or whatever.

Fact is, this person spends their days on Twitter demanding that everything even remotely sexual be banned from fanfiction and all fandom spaces, that AO3 is evil and needs to be stopped. The whole works. But then they are whining because they legit had minors barely into their pubescence, heavy petting each other and almost having sex. And that content was considered a violation by FFN.

Now, this has shown me two things. 1.) They're a hypocrite but we're not shocked. 2.) FFN is probably doing another purge because regardless of the ages of the characters or the fact that both are male, they still technically didn't have sex in 5he writing so how is it in violation of the rules? IDK all the details about the story and I'm not in the fandom either, but it hardly matters because it seems a bit suspicious.

So I'm gonna monitor some things for a bit.

See if any of these big numbers change.

This is not the first time this week I've seen people claim their fic was removed from FFN. I can't be too sure but it doesn't hurt to watch out.

These are the site Ratings involving things such as kissing, touching, and sex. FFN does not allow MA Rating. That's why so many people migrated to AO3 and other places.

Personally... I've noticed my posted number of fics on FFN is smaller than before. It says 155. I have many fics I've posted on AO3 that would never be posted on FFN because they are too MA for the rules. I also have fics on FFN that I never posted on AO3 cuz the fandom presence for them is miniscule so there would be no point in going through all the effort. But now some are missing and I don't even know which ones.

I have also noticed that my Fav Stories which had over 400 the last time I checked, is down to 326 now.

It's been so long that I don't even know what is gone. I did make a post and asked if anyone else noticed something missing and I got many affirming responses both here and on FFN(which reminded me to turn off PMs which I thought I'd turned off already).

So yeah, there might be another purge on the horizon if it's not already here. If the site goes down for any reason in the coming weeks, it'll practically be confirmation.

#FFN #fanfiction.net #fanfiction dot net #fanfiction #antis #puriteens

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merskrat · 6 months

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Tell me why 95,000 immigrants have been sent to NYC in 2023 with no plans to expand on city services like sanitation. The average New Yorker creates 2 pounds of trash a day, and for me it’s definitely more than that. They panhandle, which is something I generally don’t care if people do or not, but they’re not homeless and all of their needs are met by the tax payers, including culturally specific food because what they were getting before was not good enough. Not only that, they panhandle with babies on their backs, babies that often are not even theirs. Homeless New Yorkers are struggling to find spaces in shelters, and it will get worse as the weather gets colder, yet these immigrants are put up in hotels. Their children are allowed to start school without being vaccinated for polio, smallpox, scarlet fever, etc, which is not allowed without a religious exemption for citizens. How is that safe? We’ve already had smallpox outbreaks because of certain populations that will not vaccinate their children, so why do city officials not see the danger in introducing 20,000 unvaccinated children into our schools? Nothing is ever for free, and nothing is ever done out of simple kindness, so what is the actual reason for almost 100,000 immigrants being sent here? And how is it fair that the burden of caring for them is being placed on us? I never considered myself anti immigration but the way they just moved almost 100,000 migrants here with no plans on how to integrate them into the city except “the tax payers will house them” makes no sense to me. 20,000 of those migrants are unvaccinated children. Plus, once these immigrants do start working, which we’re all hoping they will, much of their money will be sent back to their own countries instead of stimulating the local economy, so I don’t buy any arguments of economic benefit. I absolutely do empathize with people who want to come to New York for a better life, but the way the government has handled this is just not the way, and I worry about how the attitudes of New Yorkers opposed to this are going to affect who they vote for, both in local government and in the presidential election. If the idea was to push people further to the right, I believe that they succeeded. Maybe that was the idea the whole time.

#immigration #immigration law #nyc #nyclife #nycc 2023 #new york #new york city #hot take #politics #us politics #not really a hot take because even most leftists like me that I’ve talked to about this feel the same way #none of us are anti immigration at all but this seems really poorly thought out #and the fact that these immigrants have less restrictions and more social safety nets than citizens of nyc is going to create animosity #and before I’m asked about what I’m doing for homeless New Yorkers I work with them every day and have two of them in my kitchen

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