Tootfinder

Tor releases WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship by hiding connections in plain sight (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels, citing government notices (Raksha Kumar/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politic…

Tor releases WebTunnel, a new type of Tor bridge that mimics HTTPS traffic to help users bypass censorship by hiding connections in plain sight (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Big platforms banning honest discussion is damaging.
When all the major media promote one side of the story and actively ban people telling the other side of the story, content consumers will get a *very distorted* view of the world around them.
https://rumble.com/v1myhv4-censorship-

😡 Brazil’s dictatorship: Repression, torture, slaughter of Indigenous people and censorship
https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-01/brazils-dictatorship-repression-torture-sl…

Brazil’s dictatorship: Repression, torture, slaughter of Indigenous people and censorship
Sixty years have passed since the 1964 military coup, an event that current President Lula would rather not mark with any ceremony so as not to further strain his relationship with the military

Some Indian journalists who turned to YouTube to dodge censorship say the company is banning or demonetizing their news channels citing government notices (Raksha Kumar/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics…

"#Jack recently deleted his account on #Bluesky, once pitched—by him—as #socialmedia’s decentralized solution to censorship, and left the company’s board. I reached out and asked him why, which is where our c…

An Interview With Jack Dorsey
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending

disclaimer: i did watch #eurovision. so i am, in some way, complicit with its (in)action towards israel and the censorship of pro-palestinian voices.
that said: it feels incredibly hollow to see how The Gays are celebrating their win in the face of this monstrous inequality. holding a pride parade for all the people who Just Wanna Have A Party while out in front people are getting arrested for speaking up about the grotesque injustice that's being entirely ignored throughout the evening

Meta Refuses to Answer Questions on Gaza Censorship, Say Sens. Warren and Sanders #Meta

Don’t Say Rape: How the Book Banning Movement Is Censoring Sexual Violence - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2024/03/04/book-bans-censorship-rape-porn/

Don’t Say Rape: How the Book Banning Movement Is Censoring Sexual Violence - Ms. Magazine
The book-banning movement is efficiently eradicating an already narrow space to learn about sexual violence in public schools.

Do you think all people deserve a level of life that affords them human dignity? Are you not a fan of fascists? According to the UK government, you could be…
A TERRORIST!!!
#prevent #uk #ukpol

Have I just been spammed by an #llm pretending to be a developer?
"In the age of EVM Blockchains and massive geographically distributed, decentralized, networks already aiming to realize web3 with the core values of #censorship

Strong Cosmic Censorship in Kerr-Newman-de Sitter
Alex Davey, Oscar J. C. Dias, David Sola Gil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03724 https://

Strong Cosmic Censorship in Kerr-Newman-de Sitter
Christodoulou's formulation of Strong Cosmic Censorship (SCC) holds true for Kerr-de Sitter black holes. On the other hand, Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter black holes violate SCC. We do a detailed scan of the parameter space of Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black holes between these two limiting families, to identify the boundary that marks the transition between solutions that respect and violate SCC. We focus our attention on linear scalar field perturbations. SCC is violated inside a (roughly) `spher…

"#Jack recently deleted his account on #Bluesky, once pitched—by him—as #socialmedia’s decentralized solution to censorship, and left the company’s board. I reached out and asked him why, which is where our c…

An Interview With Jack Dorsey
jack dorsey on his exit from bluesky, how twitter lost its way, jack’s strategy for ending

Concern about the “inflammatory” use of the term “Cop City” was one reason behind Georgia Tech’s censorship last month of a student journalist’s first-person account of critical reporting on Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center, internal emails reveal.
The emails read like a script for a sitcom about self-important bureaucrats and butt-covering bosses screwing up the earnest work of a college department’s staff.
Some of the officious officials are seen scrambling …

Georgia Tech emails about ‘Cop City’ post censorship read like an unfunny sitcom
Read Georgia Tech emails about ‘Cop City’ post censorship read like an unfunny sitcom by John Ruch for SaportaReport here.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01068 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Unbreakable and breakable quantum censorship
A protocol for regulating the distribution of quantum information between multiple parties is put forward. In order to prohibit the unrestricted distribution of quantum-resource states in a public quantum network, agents can apply a resource-destroying map to each sender's channel. Since resource-destroying maps only exist for affine quantum resource theories, censorship of a nonaffine resource theory is established on an operationally motivated subspace of free states. This is achieved by usin…

成都ワールドコンのHugo が候補者リストから中国政府を刺激しそうな作家を外した件に関する、現時点で最も詳細なレポートが公開されました。
https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censorship-and-exclusion/

France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics https://jacobin.com/2024/04/france-insoumise-hassan-panot-palestine-censorship/

France’s Justice System Is Cracking Down on Israel’s Critics
France Insoumise election candidate Rima Hassan has received a police summons over possible “apology for terrorism” charges. She’s the latest of a string of pro-Palestine activists to face inquiries, in a blatant judicial offensive against Israel’s critics.

Meta is accused of censoring a non-profit newspaper and an independent journalist who criticized the company | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/05/tech/meta-nonprofit-newspaper-independent-journalist-alleged…

The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Studios Are Going After Piracy Again, Potentially Reigniting Fight Over Free Speech
The Motion Picture Association said it will work with Congress to enact an anti-piracy law similar to legislation that failed to pass more than a decade ago for potentially promoting censorship.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12553 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

I still know it's you! On Challenges in Anonymizing Source Code
The source code of a program not only defines its semantics but also contains subtle clues that can identify its author. Several studies have shown that these clues can be automatically extracted using machine learning and allow for determining a program's author among hundreds of programmers. This attribution poses a significant threat to developers of anti-censorship and privacy-enhancing technologies, as they become identifiable and may be prosecuted. An ideal protection from this threat wou…

Libraries are enjoying a renaissance in usage. They're also battling book bans and bearing the brunt of a host of societal issues — from caring for unhoused people and migrants to distributing COVID tests and Narcan for drug overdoses.
#libraries

Libraries are on the front lines of America's problems
Books? Sure, but also free legal help, "digital navigators" and "sensory rooms."

> I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial.
#ChinaMiéville
#FreePalestine

'What you are seeing is done in third-world countries': Librarians, schoolteachers could become felons as censorship law advances (Brandi Buchman/Law & Crime)
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/what-you-are-seeing-is-done-in-third-world-countries-librarians-schoolteachers-could-become-felons-as-censorship-law-advances/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240220/p63#a240220p63

Unveiling Internet Censorship: Analysing the Impact of Nation States' Content Control Efforts on Internet Architecture and Routing Patterns
Joshua Levett, Vassilios Vassilakis, Poonam Yadav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19375

Unveiling Internet Censorship: Analysing the Impact of Nation States' Content Control Efforts on Internet Architecture and Routing Patterns
Heightened interest from nation states to perform content censorship make it evermore critical to identify the impact of censorship efforts on the Internet. We undertake a study of Internet architecture, capturing the state of Internet topology with greater completeness than existing state-of-the-art. We describe our methodology for this, including the tooling we create to collect and process data from a wide range of sources. We analyse this data to find key patterns in nation states with high…

Have I just been spammed by an #llm pretending to be a developer?
"In the age of EVM Blockchains and massive geographically distributed, decentralized, networks already aiming to realize web3 with the core values of #censorship

Freedom. 👀
https://mas.to/@sarahc/112222688223061413

“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.
Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”

Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate chang…

The MPA announces plans to work with US Congress to enact a SOPA-like anti-piracy law; SOPA was fiercely opposed by the tech industry and failed to pass in 2012 (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Studios Are Going After Piracy Again, Potentially Reigniting Fight Over Free Speech
The Motion Picture Association said it will work with Congress to enact an anti-piracy law similar to legislation that failed to pass more than a decade ago for potentially promoting censorship.

New Work in Philosophy || J.P. Messina (Purdue University), "Private Censorship"
https://newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/jp-messina-purdue-university-private

‘What you are seeing is done in third-world countries’:
Librarians, schoolteachers could become felons as censorship law advances
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/w

Librarians, teachers, could soon be treated as felons as controversial censorship bill advances
As book bans continue to sweep the United States, public librarians, educators, schools and museums could soon be exposed to criminal prosecution for showing children "obscene" material in West Virginia after state lawmakers advanced a controversial bill.

Opinion | Deborah Plant: Censorship in prisons is a throwback to slavery - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/21/prison-censorship-slavery-deborah-plant/

My brother isn’t permitted to read his own story. That’s a remnant of slavery.
Prisons censor what inmates can read, a throwback to when it was a crime to teach enslaved people to read.

Left silences right, right silences left. But censorship stops us pushing for change https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/21/left-silences-right-right-silences-left-but-censors…

Quem se interessar pela confusão Š volta dos #hugos tem aqui uma coisa que promete sumo com fartura.
Quem nem sabe o que são os Hugos (são prémios de #FicçãoCientífica) também pode ler, que isto tem tudo a ver com as influências das ditaduras sobre coisas que, em princípi…

"So, yes, the [article] acknowledge #RFK’s propensity for conspiracy theories and do say “#censorship, as he calls it.” But you know what the best way is to [say] that RFK is full of shit and spewing #conspiracytheories

Let Me Rewrite That For You: NY Times Misinforms Readers About RFK & Biden
It’s been a few years since I last did a “Let me rewrite that for you” post. This idea was first suggested by the brilliant press critic Dan Froomkin. Basically, when he finds a bit of journalistic…

ヒューゴーの検閲は日本語のメディアにも出てきましたね。
メールのやり取りは、自主的な検閲がどのように始まるのかを生々しく伝えています。
委員たちとは話したことがあり、こうやって実行されたコンベンションに招待されてもいるので、自分がこの輪にいた時にどんな行動が取れただろうと毎夜考えてしまいます。
https://gigazine.net/news/20240220-hugo-awards-censorship-exclusion-china/

SF分野の権威ある「ヒューゴー賞」の審査委員会が中国で問題になりかねない作家を最終選考から除外していたことが判明
ヒューゴー賞は世界で最も歴史の古いSF・ファンタジー文学賞であり、世界のどこかで毎年開催される世界SF大会(ワールドコン)で受賞作が発表されます。2023年のワールドコンは中国の成都で開催されましたが、審査委員会がヒューゴー賞の最終選考作から「中国で問題になりかねない」として複数の作品や作家を除外していたことが判明しました。

Wow
Worth to watch
https://x.com/robertkennedyjr/status/1762361063276986382?s=61

Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) on X
Now you see why they tried so hard to silence me through smear campaigns and censorship. Accountability begins as soon as I’m sworn in next January.

“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.
Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”

Facebook is Censoring Stories about Climate Change and Illegal Raid in Marion, Kansas
It is, sadly, not entirely surprising that Facebook is censoring articles critical of Meta. The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate chang…

The US adds internet censorship tech provider Sandvine to its entity list, banning it from obtaining US tech, for supplying equipment to the government of Egypt (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

US Blacklists Sandvine for Censorship, Web Monitoring in Egypt
The US Commerce Department is adding computer networking company Sandvine Inc. to a blacklist that will effectively ban it from obtaining US technology, according to a government disclosure.

Secret files reveal in detail how the Kremlin is pre-rigging Putin's reelection, funds & creates propaganda networks, internet censorship, pays Solovyov €30m, Lvova-Belova €432k
https://vsquare.org/kremlin-leaks-putin-elections-russia-propagand…

Kremlin Leaks: Secret Files Reveal How Putin Pre-Rigged his Reelection - VSquare.org
Kremlin Leaks: secret documents reveal how the Kremlin is working to ensure Putin's victory, building a pan-Russian propaganda network

"In the ongoing battle for genuine freedom of expression in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s relentless attacks on journalists and democratic institutions have reached alarming heights, posing a severe threat to press freedom and democracy in the country."
https://www.<…

Mexico: Obrador's attacks on freedom reach new heights - Index on Censorship
The Mexican president is attacking independent institutions and publicly shared a critical journalist's telephone number

> I stand in solidarity with the countless German workers and activists within institutions such as yours who are appalled by and fighting against the current climate of racism, censorship, rising authoritarianism and atrocity-denial.
#ChinaMiéville
#FreePalestine

Know Your Rights: Protesting at Texas Colleges & Universities | ACLU of Texas https://www.aclutx.org/en/events/know-your-rights-protesting-texas-colleges-universities

Know Your Rights: Protesting at Texas Colleges & Universities
Students have a right to freely express their political opinions without censorship or violence. Legal and policy experts at the ACLU of Texas will explain how the First Amendment protects student protest, which state laws impact speech rights on campus, and what to do if approached by law enforcement.This webinar is open to all but tailored to students.Register Here

Calling a lie a lie ≠ censorship. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112117424589771542

So far, the only negative side effect I have seen of #threads supporting ActivityPub has been the whining and demands for preemptive censorship (from people who have more in common with the book burners than they realize).
I haven't seen a single objectionable post from Threads.
My hope is that I'll be able to delete my Threads account and follow those I care about from my…

am-AMM: An Auction-Managed Automated Market Maker
Austin Adams, Ciamac Moallemi, Sara Reynolds, Dan Robinson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03367 https://

am-AMM: An Auction-Managed Automated Market Maker
Automated market makers (AMMs) have emerged as the dominant market mechanism for trading on decentralized exchanges implemented on blockchains. This paper presents a single mechanism that targets two important unsolved problems for AMMs: reducing losses to informed orderflow, and maximizing revenue from uninformed orderflow. The "auction-managed AMM" works by running a censorship-resistant onchain auction for the right to temporarily act as "pool manager" for a constant-product AMM. The pool ma…

Left silences right, right silences left. But censorship stops us pushing for change https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/21/left-silences-right-right-silences-left-but-censors…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03425 has been replaced.
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Cryptographic Censorship
We formulate and take two large strides towards proving a quantum version of the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. We first prove "Cryptographic Censorship": a theorem showing that when the time evolution operator of a holographic CFT is approximately pseudorandom (or Haar random) on some code subspace, then there must be an event horizon in the corresponding bulk dual. This result provides a general condition that guarantees (in finite time) event horizon formation, with minimal assumptions a…

“[The Republican] effort has eviscerated attempts to shield elections from disinformation.
It tapped into—and then, critics say, twisted—free speech and the government’s role in policing content.”
Republicans are weaponizing speech. We shouldn’t give in.
https://www.

How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

Random thought: are the 58 “Winnie the Pooh” models accessible on the China version of Bambu’s “Maker World” site? #3DPrinting #Bambu #geopolitics

I might like this better than the "Snow White pricked her finger" argument against censorship. Language is hard.

Meet the Press on X: "WATCH: Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges reflects on book bannings, as her own work has faced censorship in some schools. "I think that's ridiculous. I mean, most of my books have been banned. … It's just an excuse not to share the truth, to cover up history.” https://t.co/HyvS2j3yR9

Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) on X
WATCH: Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges reflects on book bannings, as her own work has faced censorship in some schools. "I think that's ridiculous. I mean, most of my books have been banned. … It's just an excuse not to share the truth, to cover up history.”

Counterspeakers' Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate
Jimin Mun, Cathy Buerger, Jenny T. Liang, Joshua Garland, Maarten Sap
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00179

Counterspeakers' Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate
Counterspeech, i.e., direct responses against hate speech, has become an important tool to address the increasing amount of hate online while avoiding censorship. Although AI has been proposed to help scale up counterspeech efforts, this raises questions of how exactly AI could assist in this process, since counterspeech is a deeply empathetic and agentic process for those involved. In this work, we aim to answer this question, by conducting in-depth interviews with 10 extensively experienced c…

It might be a tempest in a teacup to some over a really inconsequential photo published by a student-run news outlet but I am definitely siding with TomasinoWeb and its advisor that the censorship and strong-arming by the university administration is intolerable.
(Streisand effect, anyone?)

What you need to know about the UST OSA, TomasinoWeb, and 7-Eleven photo issue
There have been jokes that 7-Eleven employees’ uniforms are similar to the CICS uniforms.

As "censorship free" social network Parler returns to the iOS App Store, CEO Ryan Rhodes talks new features, moderation, and building "a true open platform" (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/parler-app-store-free-speech-censorship/…

Parler's New Owners Swear This Time Will Be Different
The “free speech” social media alternative is back on Apple’s App Store ahead of its official relaunch.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11482 has been replaced.
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Preventing the Destruction of Kerr Black Hole Event Horizons with Cold Dark Matter
Since the proposal of the Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture, research on this conjecture has been abundant. Therefore, investigating this conjecture in black holes that are closer to those existing in the real universe, namely rotating black holes enveloped by dark matter, holds greater physical significance. Additionally, for a black hole that exists in the universe, it serves as a natural laboratory where we can verify the conjecture by absorbing particles through accretion disks. In this pap…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.14821 has been replaced.
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Mysticeti: Reaching the Limits of Latency with Uncertified DAGs
We introduce Mysticeti-C the first DAG-based Byzantine consensus protocol to achieve the lower bounds of latency of 3 message rounds. Since Mysticeti-C is built over DAGs it also achieves high resource efficiency and censorship resistance. Mysticeti-C achieves this latency improvement by avoiding explicit certification of the DAG blocks and by proposing a novel commit rule such that every block can be committed without delays, resulting in optimal latency in the steady state and under crash fai…

PRH, Hachette, S&S, Others Flag 'Trashed Books' in New York
https://publishingperspectives.com/2024/03/prh-hachette-ss-others-flag-trashed-books-in-new-york/

PRH, Hachette, S&S, Others Flag 'Trashed Books' in New York
Publisers in New York City request action following what may be an incident of censorship at a school on Staten Island.

Supreme Court to decide if White House went too far fighting social media misinformation (Maureen Groppe/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/17/supreme-court-social-media-disinformation-censorship/72936443007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240317/p2#a240317p2

Censorship is a very lefty business
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/03/25/harvard-study-misinformation-experts-a-bunch-of-leftists-n3785263

Harvard Study: Misinformation 'Experts' a Bunch of Leftists
 

Tangentially: it is not unreasonable to cite the invention of the printing press as a critical contributor to the 30 Years War and other political turmoil of the 15th & 16th century.
Not sure if the Papacy ever decreed printed matter in general anathema, but they did invent the whole structure of what was to be centuries of religious censorship in response to the disruption of their power in the Reformation being fueled & spread by the proliferation of printed matter.

Sequencer Level Security
Martin Derka, Jan Gorzny, Diego Siqueira, Donato Pellegrino, Marius Guggenmos, Zhiyang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01819 https…

Sequencer Level Security
Current blockchains do not provide any security guarantees to the smart contracts and their users as far as the content of the transactions is concerned. In the spirit of decentralization and censorship resistance, they follow the paradigm of including valid transactions in blocks without any further scrutiny. Rollups are a special kind of blockchains whose primary purpose is to scale the transaction throughput. Many of the existing rollups operate through a centrally operated sequencing protoc…

"When #socialmedia platforms get as big as #Instagram—more than 2 billion monthly active users—a huge majority of content moderation is automated. Earlier this week, The Markup published an investigation into how Instagram’s

Weekend Reads
* DNS message truncation #DNS #RPKI #Android #FreeBSD #TCP #Censorship

I read an artilce about Hugo censorship writen by Japanese blogger and found that they think CPC promoted WorldCon.
No. National government mosty ignored SF convention.
WorldCon had held in the same weekend of the Belt and Road Forum 2023. And BAR had only a few report about the convention and vise versa. I didn't see BAR banner in the venue of worldcon.
Chengdu city and Sichuan province may fought to get intiative of the convention, but CPC seems not owe it.

Charting Censorship Resilience & Global Internet Reachability: A Quantitative Approach
Marina Ivanovi\'c, Fran\c{c}ois Wirz, Jordi Subir\`a Nieto, Adrian Perrig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09447

Charting Censorship Resilience & Global Internet Reachability: A Quantitative Approach
Internet censorship and global Internet reachability are prevalent topics of today's Internet. Nonetheless, the impact of network topology and Internet architecture to these aspects of the Internet is under-explored. With the goal of informing policy discussions with an objective basis, we present an approach for evaluating both censorship resilience and global Internet reachability using quantitative network metrics, which are applicable to current BGP/IP networks and also to alternative Inter…

Russia’s The Insider is caught between censorship and tech platforms - Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2024/exporter-platforms-censor-russian-opposition/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04301 has been replaced.
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The appearance of the regular black hole with a stable inner horizon
The strong cosmic censorship conjecture, which states that the evolution of generic initial data will always produce a globally hyperbolic spacetime, is hard to be tested by astronomical observations. In this paper, we study the appearance of the regular black hole without mass inflation, which violates the strong cosmic censorship conjecture. Since the inner horizon is stable, the photons entering the two horizons of the regular black hole in the preceding companion universe can come out from …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11484 has been replaced.
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Entanglement as a resource for naturalness
A novel approach to understanding the hierarchy problem is presented making use of topological aspects of the renormalisation group and the ER-EPR interpretation of entanglement. A common discussion of the renormalisation group, the black hole horizon and the expected entanglement between outgoing Hawking radiation and the interior, the cosmic censorship mechanism and the cosmological constant problem is envisaged.

I support WorldCon being held in everywhere, even if those cities or country has censorship or publishing control.
When fans needed democratic convention, acted bid, and won, conventinon must be held. They need Con.
If we refuse it because their countries political style, we SFF readers only consums situation of authoritarian countries as a spice for their drama.
Of course we can’t be illegual then we should add several terms to the constitutions for acting against publishing…

Weekend Reads
* DNS message truncation #DNS #RPKI #Android #FreeBSD #TCP #Censorship

Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
Projects to combat #Disinformation that were once bipartisan,
-- including one started by the Trump administration,
-- have been recast as deep-state conspiracies to rig elections.
Facing legal and political blowback, the Biden administration has largely abandoned moves that might be construed as stifling political speec…

How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

DistriFS: A Platform and User Agnostic Approach to File Distribution
Julian Boesch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13387 https://arxiv.org…

DistriFS: A Platform and User Agnostic Approach to File Distribution
In an age where the distribution of information is crucial, current file sharing solutions suffer significant deficiencies. Popular systems such as Google Drive, torrenting and IPFS suffer issues with compatibility, accessibility and censorship. This paper introduces DistriFS, a novel decentralized approach tailored for efficient and large-scale distribution of files. The architecture of DistriFS is grounded in three foundational pillars: scalability, security, and seamless integration. The pro…

"The #Taibbi/ #Shellenberger interpretation of the #TwitterFiles is an attempt to shut down the rights of private companies to enforce their own rules and cultivate their own communities, by launderi…

‘Twitter Files’ Hucksters Are Cosplaying as Free Speech Martyrs in the Westminster Declaration
Matt Taibbi and other Elon Musk-favored journalists published “The Westminster Declaration”—their latest attempt to spin a non-story into dire censorship.

Revisiting Seismicity Criticality: A New Framework for Bias Correction of Statistical Seismology Model Calibrations
Jiawei Li, Didier Sornette, Zhongliang Wu, Jiancang Zhuang, Changsheng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16374

Revisiting Seismicity Criticality: A New Framework for Bias Correction of Statistical Seismology Model Calibrations
The Epidemic-Type Aftershock Sequences (ETAS) model and its variants effectively capture the space-time clustering of seismicity, setting the standard for earthquake forecasting. Accurate unbiased ETAS calibration is thus crucial. But we identify three sources of bias, (i) boundary effects, (ii) finite-size effects, and (iii) censorship, which are often overlooked or misinterpreted, causing errors in seismic analysis and predictions. By employing an ETAS model variant with variable spatial back…

In the years since Trump was booted from Facebook and Twitter after Jan. 6's Capitol attack, he and his allies have beaten down efforts to filter election lies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-disi…

How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation
Their claims of censorship have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04962 has been replaced.
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Scalar fields around a loop quantum gravity black hole in de Sitter spacetime: Quasinormal modes, late-time tails and strong cosmic censorship
Loop quantum gravity, as one branch of quantum gravity, holds the potential to explore the fundamental nature of black holes. Recently, according to the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model in loop quantum cosmology, a novel loop quantum corrected black hole in de Sitter spacetime has been discovered. Here, we first investigate the corresponding quasinormal modes and late-time behavior of massless neutral scalar field perturbations based on such a quantum-modified black hole in de Sitter spacetime.…

E-DoH: Elegantly Detecting the Depths of Open DoH Service on the Internet
Cong Dong, Jiahai Yang, Yun Li, Yue Wu, Yufan Chen, Chenglong Li, Haoran Jiao, Xia Yin, Yuling Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12363

E-DoH: Elegantly Detecting the Depths of Open DoH Service on the Internet
In recent years, DNS over Encrypted (DoE) methods have been regarded as a novel trend within the realm of the DNS ecosystem. In these DoE methods, DNS over HTTPS (DoH) provides encryption to protect data confidentiality while providing better obfuscation to avoid censorship by multiplexing port 443 with web services. This development introduced certain inconveniences in discovering publicly available DoH services. In this paper, we propose the E-DoH method for elegant and efficient DoH service …

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The doomsday of black hole evaporation
By assuming simultaneously the unitarity of the Hawking evaporation and the universality of Bekenstein entropy bound as well as the validity of cosmic censorship conjecture, we find that the black hole evaporation rate could evolve from the usual inverse square law in black hole mass into a constant evaporation rate near the end of the Hawking evaporation before quantum gravity could come into play, inferring a slightly longer lifetime for lighter black holes.

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The Interiors of Singularity-Free Rotating Black Holes
General Relativity provides us with some solutions for rotating black holes. However, there are some problems associated with them: the appearance of singularities, the possibility of violations of the cosmic censorship conjecture, the existence of regions where the mass acts repulsively and the violation of causality. Many authors consider that these problems reveal the existence of certain limits in the applicability of General Relativity. For instance, it is believed that the same existence …