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elhopper1sm · 1 month
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If you wanna protect AO3 or character ai. Or Wattpad. Or Tumblr. Or discord. Or even the right for undocumented people and minors to use the fucking Internet reblog this I swear to God. Reblog this and reblog as many KOSA posts as you can go on their website and contact your Representatives. Do it. Do it. Do it.
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sleepy-bebby · 1 year
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I thought comedy and free speech was now legal? Unless it’s a tweet about Elon then I guess jail for 1000 years!!1!!1! >:(
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thelegendofj · 1 year
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I literally posted ONE tweet lightly mocking elongated muskrat in reply to one of his tweets, and my account got locked.
ONE. TWEET.
There's that supposed ""free speech"" he's been babbling about in action!
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Fifteen government departments have been monitoring the social media activity of potential critics and compiling “secret files” in order to block them from speaking at public events, the Observer can reveal. Under the guidelines issued in each department, including the departments of health, culture, media and sport, and environment, food and rural affairs, officials are advised to check experts’ Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn accounts. They are also told to conduct Google searches on those individuals, using specific terms such as “criticism of government or prime minister”. The guidelines are designed to prevent anyone who has criticised the government in the previous three to five years from speaking at government-organised conferences and other events.
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These hidden checks are unlawful, running contrary to data protection laws and potentially breaching equality and human rights legislation. Dan Kaszeta, a chemical weapons expert, was disinvited in April from giving a keynote speech at a UK defence conference after officials found social media posts criticising Tory ministers and government immigration policy. He told the Observer this weekend that he knows of 12 others who have uncovered evidence of similar government blacklisting, most of whom are frightened of speaking out. But he said far more will be unaware they ever failed secret vetting. He said: “The full extent of this is shocking and probably not fully known. I was lucky enough to be given clearcut, obvious evidence. It’s truly awful.”
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whereserpentswalk · 3 months
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Nonsexual nudity needs to be fully accepted in our society. It should be legal in public. It should be allowed in media regardless of rating or target audience. There is nothing about the human body that is inherently harmful to see or inherently sexual. Reblog if you agree.
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drchucktingle · 1 year
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awesomecooperlove · 3 months
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👏🏻🤠👏🏻
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libruhs-unionizing · 1 year
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FYI for the people freaking out over Elon’s “free speech” bs.
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liberalsarecool · 4 months
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Typical white male. Thinks there are no consequences to his actions.
Musk will tank his company, then blame others. Yet another white male response.
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cheshire-j · 8 months
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PLEASE READ BECAUSE THIS WILL AFFECT YOU IF THIS PASSES
The US Government is trying to pass a bill that will censor the Internet under the guise of protecting kids! And it has bipartisan support.
This bill is called KOSA, Kids Online Safety Act. This basically gives government the power to censor anything they deem as "inappropriate" or "harm content" to kids. And if you want unrestricted access to the Internet, the bill stated you will need to prove you are a user over the age of 18, which means you will likely need to give your ID in order to access the web. And there is no guarantee listed that your ID will be safe alongside the rest of your data online, if this passes (think how well Instagram and Facebook and how well they've protected data i.e sold it to Russians).
This bill also includes censoring history as well as websites that could be medically helpful, in ADDITION to restricting or out right banning certain apps and websites like;
- Tumblr
-TikTok
-Wattpad
-Ao3 (Archive of our own)
- Medical Information: for things like Mental Health, Sex Ed, medication
And more
The bill is set for markup on July 27 2023 at 10:00 am.
Also, if this passes it'll be the start of quickly passing other internet acts like the EARN IT ACT and the RESTRICT ACT.
Please call and or email your representatives and senators. You can find the needed contact information on Congress.gov. This is a abuse of power and a violation of our 1st amendment rights to freedom of speech, choice, and press, as well as the 4th amendment that prohibits unlawful searches and seizures, and a violation of privacy.
SIDE NOTE: While I agree that there needs to be protections for kids online, KOSA, as well as the other bad internet bills, is not it. And if protecting kids is really the concern, then why not focus sights on implementing regulations that holds the people who intend to harm kids accountable?
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elhopper1sm · 1 month
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Stop KOSA. KOSA just got passed through the House and More organizations even Twitter and Snapchat. Social media companies it aims to delete are coming out in support of it. This content creator has been covering KOSA for a long time. If you remember when AO3 was down how everyone freaked out. KOSA could take AO3 off the Internet. Could remove queer content online. The ACLU opposes it. It's unconstitutional call your Senators. Call your Representatives. Call everyone you can in power and tell them to oppose this bill. Sign petitions follow the link in that creators bio. Go to bad Internet Bills dot com and get call script or fax script for it. Contact the ACLU about suing states that support KOSA. We can still fight. End KOSA protect online safety!
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sealpup9 · 1 year
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Internet Archive Live Hearing happens tomorrow: March 20, 2023
Here's a link to the Internet Archive's page, describing how you can participate and listen to oral arguments on Monday March 20th at 1pm ET
You may know the Internet Archive because of the Wayback Machine!!
The court case Hachette v Internet Archive is being brought to court and threatens to tear down the Internet Archive as we know it.
"The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, preserving and providing access to cultural artifacts of all kinds in electronic form. CDL allows people to check out digital copies of books for two weeks or less, and only permits patrons to check out as many copies as the Archive and its partner libraries physically own. That means that if the Archive and its partner libraries have only one copy of a book, then only one patron can borrow it at a time, just like any other library. Through CDL, the Internet Archive is helping to foster research and learning by helping its patrons access books and by keeping books in circulation when their publishers have lost interest in them."
This is so important because not only does the Internet Archive provide books that are long out of circulation and copies for people to borrow, they are also used as sources for things like Wikipedia articles! Imagine if suddenly, no one could access sources that someone cites for their information! Having access to information digitally today is a very important thing, and with all of the paywalls people face nowadays for news, imagine if you suddenly had to pay for access to any books. Websites like Amazon already are attempting to replace any sort of ebook rentals with paid services, when we have the right to borrow books online just as we do physically. The Internet Archive is extremely important and one of our rights- access to information- is actively being fought against.
REMEMBER: This will not JUST affect the internet archive. This could change how libraries in general work, and could threaten public access to information. Imagine how many youtube video essay sources would be null and void, imagine just trying to research an obscure topic at 3am-- If all of that was behind a paywall, only those with money would be able to access them! The harder it is for libraries to share books and archive information, the more the public suffers!
Please show your support! Read more about the case here: https://www.eff.org/cases/hachette-v-internet-archive
https://www.battleforlibraries.com/
I'm not sure how quick Tumblr will work on approving this blazed post but if the day/time has passed, please know that you can actively look into more information on this case and other info on the Internet Archive Blogs. You can also add your name to a list of supporters of Battle for Libraries Here.
Let's work together on making sure we have access to information! In this digital age, we deserve to access just as much online as we do offline!
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siryouarebeingmocked · 3 months
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A lot of people can't tell the difference between "a right" and "is right". They think people should only have the right to do Good Things™.
banning hate speech gives minorities more freedom to express themselves
They already had that freedom, same as anyone else, whether or not someone else was a dick about it.
Also, if they're minorities, you're reducing the freedom of the majority of people, which means that there's a net loss in freedom.
Also also, attempts to curb hate speech have also affected minorities. Like when Youtube tried to suppress far right videos, and somehow ended up suppressing LGBT creators.
>countries with HS laws don't rank worse when we look at results
Which I'm sure you're about to provide a citation for any minute now, which will totally not be from a left-wing statist organization that made up definitions to measure.
> banning even the tiniest amount of speech means there's no free speech 
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>if there's any restrictions on free speech, that means the restrictions I want are automatically okay
There's a slight difference between "will directly cause harm to others" (like inciting violence) and "doubleplus ungood crimespeech about certain identity groups".
“Hate speech” is just the latter, and it's been used to censor things which are objectively true.
Also, state censorship has frequently used to shut up minorities, especially political ones.
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tumsuxbigd · 4 months
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queerism1969 · 1 year
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