Shufflecake talk at CAW 2026 last May - video now available online!

https://clip.place/w/d7Anz5jbsMCZo1HBg8JkES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21LjKFBIwwY

#shufflecake #caw #eurocrypt #eurocrypt2026 #cryptography #crypto #truecrypt #veracrypt #security #Privacy #infosec #hacktivism #censorship

EU Chief: We “Need” to Embarrass Ourselves Further With Age Verification

Ursula von der Leyen continues to double down on failed age verification laws, vaguely pointing to "predatory algorithms".

https://www.freezenet.ca/eu-chief-we-need-to-embarrass-ourselves-further-with-age-verification/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #EU #Europe #SocialMedia

When We Create a Hostile Offline Environment for Teens, They Take Refuge Online

One of the things people talk about with age verification is that teens are sucked in and need to get off. That's not what's happening.

https://www.freezenet.ca/when-we-create-a-hostile-offline-environment-for-teens-they-take-refuge-online/

#Censorship #Editorial #News #ChatRoom #Internet #kids #social #SocialMedia #teens

A quotation from Salman Rushdie

When censorship intrudes on art, it becomes the subject; the art becomes “censored art,” and that is how the world sees and understands it. The censor labels the work immoral, or blasphemous, or pornographic, or controversial, and those words are forever hung like albatrosses around the necks of those cursed mariners, the censored works. The attack on the work does more than define the work; in a sense, for the general public, it becomes the work.

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/84903…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #art #censorship #defamation #filter #framing #label #literature

Australia’s Age Verification Laws Notches First 100% Failure Rate

The studies are piling up and they all keep pointing to the same conclusion. Australia's age verification laws have failed.

https://www.freezenet.ca/australias-age-verification-laws-notches-first-100-failure-rate/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #study

@Murga
Your test was helpful. It appears we found a case of #censorship.

https://www.experte.com/internet-censorship/russia?url=http:%2F%2F141.98.154.239:8090%2FBlogComments.html%3Fpage%3D770

#VPN #Прокси #РКН #Цензура #Блокировки #ЗапрещенныеСайты

Two More Studies Show that Australia’s Age Verification Laws Have Failed

Research in one analysis show that 7 in 10 teens still have accounts on Facebook. Another shows 60% are still on social media.

https://www.freezenet.ca/two-more-studies-show-that-australias-age-verification-laws-have-failed/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fail #research #SocialMedia #study

"Professor fired over #CharlieKirk post could receive $1.9M in settlement."
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5948386-professor-fired-over-charlie-kirk-post-could-receive-1-9m-in-settlement

This is just the latest in a series. Universities that disciplined professors for criticizing Charlie Kirk knew or should have known that they were violating those professors' free-speech rights. But they did it to align themselves with the Trump admin, even on the wrong side of the law. Consider these settlements and damage awards to be a cowardice tax.

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #FirstAmendment #Trump #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics

@fdroidorg Please include the onion link in your post

http://fdroidorg6cooksyluodepej4erfctzk7rrjpjbbr6wx24jh3lqyfwyd.onion/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html.en

If this is the official f-droid floss.social account then I know you care about tor onion servers because the official fdroid website has an onion link

Tor onion links provide greater anonymity to tor users than simply accessing the clearweb site through tor

And the more people use tor and tor onion addresses for uncontroversial browsing the easier it becomes for people to hide in the traffic when it can be a matter of life or death what websites you are accessing

#Tor #Censorship #FDroid #Privacy #Anonymity

A quotation from E. B. White

When liberty’s position is challenged, artists and writers are the ones who first take up the sword. They do so without persuasion, for the battle is peculiarly their own. In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into a panic. His is a double allegiance to freedom — an intellectual one springing from the conviction that pure thought has a right to function unimpeded, and a selfish one springing from his need, as a breadwinner, to be allowed to speak his piece.

E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178

More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/84790/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #artist #censorship #control #freethought #freedomofexpression #freedomofthought #liberty #tyranny #writer

A quotation from Salman Rushdie

The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will not be determined by his talent, but by fear. If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

More about this quote: wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #salmanrushdie #pen #art #artist #censorship #creation #creativity #fear #freedom #selfcensorship #subjectmatter #worry #writer #writing

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Salman Rushdie quotation

Faced With Age Verification Failure, Australia Doubles Fines for Social Media

Age verification was always an impossible to comply with law, but Australia is doubling fines on social media for failing to do the impossible.

https://www.freezenet.ca/faced-with-age-verification-failure-australia-doubles-fines-for-social-media/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #fine #legislation #SocialMedia

Interior Department memo revealed, advising national parks to not confirm injuries and deaths that occur in the system. About 350 people die in national parks every year and there are thousands of injuries.
#departmentofinterior
#nationalparkservice
#censorship

https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/26/national-parks-staff-should-not-confirm-deaths-memo-says/

Mainstream Media Tries Blaming Social Media for Exposing Youth to Violence

As the mainstream media scrambles to justify age verification laws, one outlet is arguing that young people are exposed to violence.

https://www.freezenet.ca/mainstream-media-tries-blaming-social-media-for-exposing-youth-to-violence/

#Censorship #News #broadcasting #CTV #journalism #research #SocialMedia #study

Woah

Take a look at this freaking library

😲😍

'The #ManifestoLibrary will be located in #LivrariaLello’s new cultural auditorium, designed by #PritzkerPrize-winning architect #ÁlvaroSiza. The #library has also been conceived “as a living cultural space for reading, debate and public reflection,” per a press release.'

#Books #Portugal #DuaLipa #censorship #Porto

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A gorgeous set of stairs in a library, organic in shape and deep red

Study Confirms that Australia’s Age Verification Law Was a Failure

More than 85% of Australian teens that are supposedly "banned" from social media are still using it according to the BMJ.

https://www.freezenet.ca/study-confirms-that-australias-age-verification-law-was-a-failure/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #Australia #BritishMedicalJournal #science #SocialMedia #study

Please come back...

There are two stellar accounts that hurt a lot when they departed Mastodon for Bluesky in 2023, @Popehat and @emptywheel.

Both left due to frustration with what we now call HOA behavior, and in particular people demanding CWs for politics related posts.

Now, apparently Popehat has been banned on Bluesky. Don't know the details, but even if the ban is lifted, the key take away is that the ban hammer is being used on #Bluesky to censor users free expression.

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#censorship

RE: https://ieji.de/@GalacticGoddess/116805746344900569

Update: It also looks like members of the Senate are trying to put together their own packages as well:

-One package would bundle Senate KOSA, the NO FAKES Act, and the App Store Accountability Act together in a compromise with big tech regarding GenAI regulation

-Another is Hawley and Durbin trying to slip the DEFIANCE Act and STOP CSAM Act into a must pass bill (NDAA). They've tried this several times before but failed. Still it has a possibility of succeeding.

Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #ClientSideScanning #Encryption #UnitedStates #USA

Privacy and Surveillance boosted

Space Queen Enthusiast » 🌐 2026-06-24
@GalacticGoddess@ieji.de

RED ALERT! The KIDS Act (H.R.7757) is being teed up for a vote in the House next week! This bill is an omnibus style package which includes horrible bills like the Kids Online Safety Act and the SCREEN Act! Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

Reading the latest version of the bill and it seems like House is sticking with their version of KOSA. This will set up a showdown between the House and the Senate as both chambers have dug in their heels regarding their version of KOSA. I doubt either chamber will fully get their way.

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #Internet #SocialMedia #UnitedStates #USA #US

A quotation from Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist / Unitarian, Irish / Italian / Octogenarian / Zen Buddhist, Zionist / Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib / Republican, Mattachine / Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
Fahrenheit 451, “Coda” Afterword (1979 ed.)

More about this quote: wist.info/bradbury-ray/46602/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #raybradbury #fahrenheit451 #bookburning #bowdlerize #censorship #editing #editor #offense #pabulum

RED ALERT! The KIDS Act (H.R.7757) is being teed up for a vote in the House next week! This bill is an omnibus style package which includes horrible bills like the Kids Online Safety Act and the SCREEN Act! Call your Senators and Representatives ASAP!

Reading the latest version of the bill and it seems like House is sticking with their version of KOSA. This will set up a showdown between the House and the Senate as both chambers have dug in their heels regarding their version of KOSA. I doubt either chamber will fully get their way.

#Privacy #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #Censorship #AgeVerification #KOSA #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #Internet #SocialMedia #UnitedStates #USA #US

#ABC viewers across the country are getting a message from the network—If you like your #local stations, or #TheView, help us get the #government off our backs.

ABC on Monday launched an on-air campaign asking viewers to send comments to the #FCC’s website pushing back on the agency & its chairman, #BrendanCarr.


#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FourthEstate #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda

Since February, the #FCC has been investigating whether ABC’s #TheView violated the commission’s equal-time rule, which guarantees equal airtime to all candidates running for the same public office. #ABC has maintained that “The View” qualifies as what the commission calls a “bona fide” news program & is exempt from the rule, accusing the FCC of violating the #FirstAmendment in a legal filing.

#law #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FourthEstate #Trump #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #censorship

In April, the #FCC also ordered an early review of ABC’s 8 #local stations over its diversity, equity & inclusion [ #DEI ] practices. The review was announced just days after #Trump & #Melania Trump intensely criticized ABC late-night host #JimmyKimmel, though the FCC maintained that the timing was *purely coincidental* 😉.

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FourthEstate #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda

Nice

A new #ABC campaign urges viewers to push back against #FCC pressure

The #federal regulator is “investigating” the #Disney-owned television company on two fronts, with “#TheView” & ABC’s #local stations targeted [Ostensibly for airing #JimmyKimmel].

#law #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #FourthEstate #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #censorship #propaganda #trumpaganda
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/22/new-abc-campaign-urges-viewers-push-back-against-fcc-pressure/

New blogpost:

"Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK because of the direction of UK online safety policy"

No decisions yet, just some thinking.

(As always, this blogpost - warts and all - is all mine, with no "AI" involved.)

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/06/pondering-routing-more-of-my-traffic-via-nodes-outside-the-uk-because-of-the-direction-of-uk-online-safety-policy/

#blog #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship

The doctor was pregnant. (Sara Beltrán Ponce)

14 weeks into pregnancy - took COVID shot - told others to do the same
https://archive.is/vPBCQ

A few days later - baby died - a miscarriage
https://archive.is/KyXCw

Today, the doctor's X/Twitter account is not available for public viewing. Same for her instagram account. They work so hard to cover the truth!

https://medicalkidnap.com/2021/02/10/wisconsin-resident-doctor-has-miscarriage-3-days-after-being-injected-with-experimental-covid-mrna-shot/

#COVID #pregnancy #conspiracy #censorship #SaraBelPonMD

First time I have seen the Wayback Machine say they excluded a URL....

I guess that means they know of the web page, but for some reason blocked it, deleted it, or silenced it.

#archive #censorship #COVID

UK’s Failed Age Verification Law is Becoming A Political Scandal

The UK's failed age verification law is becoming the latest sign of political failure with the UK prime minister.

https://www.freezenet.ca/uks-failed-age-verification-law-is-becoming-a-political-scandal/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #KierStarmer #politics #UK #VPN

"This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in Spring 2027.

The UK government continues to falsely characterize this policy as a necessary response to growing concerns about online harms for young people. In reality, much like the Online Safety Act, it will cause more harm than it will prevent.

Users of all ages are burdened with proving their age before accessing content, with social media platforms such as Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X included in the ban. There remains no reliable, privacy-preserving method of verifying the age of every internet user and methods vary from one platform to the next.

Young people will not simply be protected from being contacted by adults or endlessly scrolling—they’ll also lose access to educational videos on YouTube, local events on Facebook, and potentially cut off from distant friends and family.

Public policy must be effective, proportionate and respectful of fundamental rights. Young people deserve better than a policy built on panic, and all internet users deserve a safe and free internet. A social media ban generates headlines, but it will not solve the problem."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents

#UK #SocialMedia #DigitalRights #AgeVerification #Privacy #Censorship

Don't vote for #AndyBurnham

> In late 2008, Burnham announced government plans to tighten controls on internet content in order to "even up" what he described as an imbalance with TV regulations.[26][27][28] The announcement was followed by a speech to the music industry's lobbying group, UK Music, in which he announced "a time that calls for partnership between Government and the music business as a whole: one with rewards for both of us; one with rewards for society as a whole. (...) My job – Government's job – is to preserve the value in the system."[29]

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

#UKpol #censorship

Still can't quite believe that @taylan got banned from @bsky.app but "@fascipedia.org" is still happily up, albeit not posting anymore.

#Bluesky #censorship #doublestandard

Why the Inquisition Built the Surveillance State

https://clairesalerno.substack.com/p/why-the-inquisition-built-the-surveillance

The real motive behind web 2.0, web 3.0, the cloud, AI, and panopticon nonsense is to identify and isolate heretics.

"They began with the network. If you can find one suspected heretic and interrogate them about their associations, who they speak to, who they share meals with, whose homes they visit and which neighbours are sympathetic, you can build a list of names."

"Then, you visit each of those people on the list and ask them the same questions. From this you can build a map of the entire community, identifying relationships and flagging suspects."

"They used the social fabric of communities and rewarded those who denounced others. They reduced penalties for cooperation, and built the assumption that staying silent is itself suspicious."

"They made it so the rational choice for any individual in the community is to inform on neighbours before neighbours inform on them. This creates a self-policing community. The community does the work, with the institution as the receiving authority."

"Think about that for a moment, because it describes the current digital surveillance apparatus exactly."

#Inquisition #Surveillance #Panopticon #Privacy #Cathars #Censorship

#dictatorship #DictatorTrump #censorship #ai #politics

“The White House and Congress are working on a deal to clamp down on what US citizens are allowed to say online. According to new reporting by Axios, the Trump administration is negotiating with key senators in an effort to shoehorn a massive legislation package which would limit states’ abilities to regulate AI in exchange for placing broad federal limits on digital speech.

Plenty of ink has been spilled about the Trump administration’s push to revoke AI regulation from individual states. Though the White House and its allies frame this as a matter of “safety” and “national security,” the timing is telling, coming as progressive state governments move to restrict the building of AI data centers and hold tech companies liable for harms their AI systems cause.

What makes this deal particularly insidious is the trade-off at its core. Per Axios, congressional lawmakers lead by Republican Marsha Blackburn are essentially offering to surrender their ability to regulate AI in exchange for three federal censorship bills: the Kids Online Safety Act, the NO FAKES Act, and a federal age verification mandate.

While the language around these three measures suggests common-sense cyber regulation, activists say they really amount to a massive censorship regime that is fundamentally anti-democratic.

In a blistering statement, the first amendment group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) warns that “taken together, these bills would fundamentally change the internet as we know it.”

https://futurism.com/future-society/trump-moves-to-deeply-censor-the-entire-internet

I offer some linguistic clarification on the misogyny implied in the image.

https://substack.com/profile/43480121-bry-willis/note/c-277455068?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=masto

Spoiler alert: there is none. Whether this is language-splaining or mansplaining is up to you.

NB: Evidently, LinkedIn already censored this image, but in a new context, we'll see what happens.

#philosophy #language #linguistics #pangolins #musk #misogyny #substack #response #note #censorship #speech #blog