@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at the erosion of press freedom and independent reporting in Israel, where journalists report escalating censorship, harassment, and self-censorship (Yael Krifcher/Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/12/under-the-rada
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look at censorship at student papers in Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma; at two colleges, students started independent papers after conflicts with administrators (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/one-battle-after-another-student-news…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialJust one of the reasons I will not use #Meta products.
And why I am so disappointed in the number of good people - people I know and respect, people who are outraged at this #censorship- who still use #Instagram
@paulwermer@sfba.socialJust one of the reasons I will not use #Meta products.
And why I am so disappointed in the number of good people - people I know and respect, people who are outraged at this #censorship- who still use #Instagram
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgHoping to give a "Lectures on Tap" talk (#censorship to get more people helping to end it! We have so many resources for folks to use to
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGood to repeat.
The EU’s Fine Against X is Not About Speech or ‘Censorship’ | TechPolicy.Press
https://techpolicy.press/the-eus-fine-against-x-is-not-about-speech-or-censorship
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. government just banned five people from entering the country -- because it doesn’t like their speech.
This ban, according to the State Department, is necessary to protect free speech.
If that sounds insane to you,
congratulations on your reading comprehension.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s State Department declared the
“Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex,”
which will take
“decisive actio…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alhttps://mastodon.social/@randahl/115507006485634894
This is why @… made the Gaza Verified Archive (e.g., see
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICEBlock app sues Trump administration for censorship and 'unlawful threats' (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/nx-s1-5631826/iceblock-app-lawsuit-trump-bondi
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p67#a251208p67
@johl@mastodon.xyzA UK Foreign Office whistleblower says officials intentionally removed the word “genocide” from an internal Sudan risk report. According to the source, the language was softened to avoid offending the UAE, which is accused of supporting the RSF militia involved in atrocities in Darfur. The whistleblower argues this was not cautious phrasing but deliberate political censorship, influenced by the UK’s extensive arms trade with the UAE.
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialYouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations;
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/yo
@marcel@waldvogel.familySo, #Trump is threatening people that do not like hate speech, claiming this is #censorship. But at the same time, he is restricting the rights to free speech for anyone who doesn't agree 120% with his opinion.
Here's a great Guest Essay by Nora Benavidez in the
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caPart of me wishes I had not deleted my facebook and twitter accounts just so I could go to the border with my 'greatest hits' saying everything that needs to be said to Trump and his band of misogynistic fools... but who wants that hassle?
I'm just glad they appear to be completely ignorant to the fact this privacy-destroying policy will tank their tourism sector.
#Canada #USA #Travel #Censorship #TheAmericanFascist
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo
@adamhotep@infosec.exchangeNew US State Department memo reflects their backwards understanding of freedom of speech (only the government cannot censor speech):
"If you uncover evidence an applicant was responsible for, or complicit in, censorship or attempted censorship of protected expression in the United States, you should pursue a finding that the applicant is ineligible" for a visa.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz @memeorandum@universeodon.comMarco Rubio is using real censorship to fight fake censorship (Mike Masnick/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/opinion/marco-rubio-imran-ahmed-thierry-breton-censorship
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p32#a251227p32
@petaqui@masto.esLamentable... Menos mal que hay quienes guardan todo esto para que nadie pueda eliminarlo
@… https://social.freedom.press/@freedomo
@outer@mas.toA "Warning/Guarantee" on the album Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (1985 Protest against governmental music censorship):
WARNING/GUARANTEE:
This album contains material which a truly free society would neither fear nor suppress.
In some socially retarded areas, religious fanatics and ultra-conservative political organizations violate your First Amendment Rights by attempting to censor rock & roll albums. We feel that this is un-Constitutional and un…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSometimes a piece of writing says exactly what you already know, but says it so well that you relish it from begin to end anyway. This was such a piece for me.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship
@Techmeme@techhub.socialX exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…
@servelan@newsie.socialBig Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime” - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/big-tech-sues-texas-says-age-verification-law-is-broad-censorship-regime/
@jtk@infosec.exchangeEven in spite of the changes in US administration, the digital curtain continues it's slow descent between RU and the west. In addition to many recent reports of censorship and blocks, thisis expected to complete in 2026:
"In August 2022, Citi announced that, as part of its ongoing efforts to reduce its operations and exposure in Russia, it was winding down its consumer banking and local commercial banking operations."
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…
@cdarwin@c.imThey Seek to Curb Online Hate.
The Trump Regime Accuses Them of Censorship.
Five Europeans who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet
were barred from entering the United States
after Secretary of State Marco Rubio labeled them
“radical activists”
who undercut free speech.
@pre@boing.worldPanel asking what nostr doesnt fix?
Relay centralisation could enable censorship, and the UI asking users to manage private keys is tricky.
Could one app become a centralisation choke point? They say no. Agreed. Nostr has very good migration here, if one app goes bad it's easy to move.
Privacy is not solved here, since almost all content is public anyway, by design. But since so users have public keys, it's a step towards enabling privacy. Agreed, and at least clients won't generally spy on every mouse click and scroll pause.
No mention of the thing I think most important, that censorship resistance means poor moderation that means bullying, spam, and harassment. That's tricky to solve I think. The fediverse model seems more suitable for good moderation.
#nostr #nostrshire
@davej@dice.campAmanda carries a taser, mace and a pistol. She’s not a gang member, she’s a US #librarian. Amanda Jones spoke out against #censorship at her local public #library and walked straight into the battle to ban
@fgraver@hcommons.social1960: The Year the Modern Horror Film Was Born https://jacobin.com/2025/10/1960-modern-horror-film/
@anneroth@systemli.socialThe state department has barred five Europeans from the US, accusing them of leading efforts to pressure tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints
“These radical activists and weaponized NGOs have advanced censorship crackdowns by foreign states – in each case targeting American speakers and American companies,” Rubio said in an announcement.
Neben Thierry Breton trifft das u.a. Josephine Ballon und Anna-Lena von Hodenberg von @…
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgFolks in the #SanFrancisco area, I'm giving another public talk (through #LecturesOnTap) on December 9th about U.S. government #censorship and the assault on knowledge. We only to n…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret
@steve@s.yelvington.com
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialCensorship because "national security". Meanwhile, on page 2 of the Epstein files document, "EFTA00020517. PDF":
"Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein."
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usms…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis is just a reminder!
Tails is a portable operating system that protects against surveillance and censorship.
#TailsOS
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldThe Hawaii State Public Library System banned the phrase “banned books week,” in displays at 51 public libraries across the state. #irony #BannedBooksWeek #Hawaii
@nic@geno.socialDas vorherrschende Wissenschaftsmodell ist geprägt von Kolonialismus, Imperialismus, dem Glauben an die Kontrolle des Menschen über die Natur und wirtschaftlichen Zwängen. Es ist weder neutral noch universell.
Wie wäre es mit demokratischeren, bescheideneren und pluralistischeren Wegen des Erkennens und Erforschens der Welt?
Towards Convivial Sciences
Uniting Strands of Critical Inquiry
#OpenAccess
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com…
@kctipton@mas.toWhy Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. https://bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThey Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship. (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/europe-us-online-censorship-free-speech.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p26#a251224p26
@newsie@darktundra.xyzBrazen Censorship Against Student Journalists At Indiana University https://thedissenter.org/brazen-censorship-against-student-journalists-at-indiana-university/
@hakona@im.alstadheim.no#CensorshipIndustrialComplex
If you know any European legislators or govt. officials, check in with them and make sure they are aware of this. https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialX exposing political accounts' location shows why trust and safety teams mattered: to combat coordinated inauthentic behavior, not "censorship" of viewpoints (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/24/xs-new<…
@trochee@dair-community.socialCheck out the nifty article from my (younger, wiser) brother about the oligopoly on smartphones, and what you can do about it.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBlind Russians lose access to accessibility app Be My Eyes as Internet restrictions tighten https://meduza-io.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2025/12/23/blind-ru…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBari Weiss yanking a 60 Minutes story is censorship by oligarchy (Margaret Sullivan/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/23/bari-weiss-60-minutes-cecot-episode-censorship
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p22#a251224p22
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Trump administration orders enhanced vetting of H-1B applicants and their families for past work in "censorship", including fact-checking and online safety (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-adm
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThe Censorship Battle I’ve Been Fighting Against A Suburban Chicago Library https://thedissenter.org/censorship-battle-fighting-suburban-chicago-library/
@cdarwin@c.imDeplatforming Nick Fuentes was what kept him from being mainstreamed
-- it worked.
Elon's replatforming of all of these people
and allowing actual Nazis around
is why the US government is now publishing white supremacist propaganda regularly.
This is not a new debate. Deplatforming works.
https://…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Witch hunt': Ex-EU commissioner Breton denounces U.S. visa ban targeting 'censorship' (Tasmin Lockwood/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/us-bans-visas-for-ex-eu-commissioner-over-alleged-censorship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p47#a251224p47
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/europe-us-onl…
@pre@boing.worldThomas voegtlin talks about nostr spam. It's very censorship resistance means spam can't be stopped by moderators.
One way to stop spam is require proof of work before your client accepts a message. A large difficult hash.
But big hashing machines are more available to spammers than people.
Can't use likes or zaps cuz they can be faked with sybil attacks.
Instead: notaries and proveably burned satoshis.
Your public messages are classified as ham rather than spam if you burn enough money.
Nostr event types to prove it are suggested. Including burning to upvote others messages
Don't think I like deliberately burning the money, and seems to me a web of trust might work without doing that? Pay to post also peanizes there poor.
But it isn't really burned here, it's shaed out to miners to continue a subsidy when the block rewards run out. So paying miners and these notaries rather than really burning. Okay. Maybe better, but still makes messages mostly for the rich?
#bitfest #bitcoin #nostr
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgLooking forward to presenting tomorrow at Government Information Days 2025 with Rebecca Lindsey of Climate.us. We'll be talking about "Defending Public Information: Resisting Censorship, Rescuing Resources, Ensuring Access" #DefendResearch #Censorship
@steve@s.yelvington.comCBS has been converted from a journalistic organization into a propaganda mill. Sad.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/60-minutes-reporter-email-denouncing-030550506.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/imran-ahmed-judge-order.…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social @ubuntourist@mastodon.socialUS artists launch nationwide ‘Fall of Freedom’ protest against rising censorship • FRANCE 24
#FallOfFreedom
@memeorandum@universeodon.comI Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship (Alan Greenblatt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/22/alan-greenblatt-quit-governing-censorship-00617039
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p42#a251022p42
@cdarwin@c.imWhen you're a kid, you want to talk about things without your parents, teachers, principals, or (some of) your peers or siblings listening in.
You want to plan things without these people listening in, because they might try and stop you from doing them, or punish you if you succeed.
So, it's worth figuring out how to use new technologies, because the existing ones are riddled with censorship and surveillance back-doors ("parental controls") that can be deployed …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comKatie Miller Gives '60 Minutes' a Bonkers Lecture After Pro-Trump Censorship (Will Neal/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/katie-miller-gives-60-minutes-a-bonkers-lecture-after-pro-trump-censorship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p101#a251222p101
@pre@boing.worldNot sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from detaining CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed, one of the Europeans the US barred on claims of promoting censorship (Aishvarya Kavi/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/us/politics/imran-ahmed-judge-order.…
@cdarwin@c.im“The assault by the Trump administration on honest history is hitting everyone,”
A. S. Dillingham, a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a historian at Arizona State University, says.
This assault on history is particularly glaring this week,
as repression and censorship push teachers and politicians alike to acquiesce to the celebration of a sanitized falsehood
instead of using the Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity to reckon with the dispossession…
@bobmueller@mastodon.worldThe basic idea of going completely digital is becoming more common these days even with municipal newspapers. But killing an edition 2 days before printing smacks of censorship & looks like IU administration is hiding something.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.orgThere has been no let up in government #censorship, which has just hit another park, Yosemite, where apparently it is now unacceptable to reveal the historic and current stresses on our water resources: https://ww…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTeachers Became Activists, and Censorship Followed (Leighton Woodhouse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/opinion/teachers-activists-censorship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251213/p34#a251213p34
@pre@boing.worldGeyser is a crowdfunding system.
Lots of history of patrons raising funds from the public for art works or public infrastructure.
Kickstarter and the like on the internet made this much easier. But it's all bank money which is conservative and restrictive. Not global. High fees and middle men.
So doing it freely with bitcoin makes some sense. Censorship resistance and global scope.
Geyser has been running and funding projects for a while. Non custodial and money goes to creators only if target reached in time, otherwise returned.
All open source in smart contracts on chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #crowdfunding
@cdarwin@c.imOn Sunday night Bari Weiss,
the editor of The Free Press and the new head of CBS News,
abruptly stopped a forthcoming 60 Minutes report on the torture endured by migrants in the brutal El Salvadoran prison CECOT,
where the Trump administration has sent more than 280 men.
Trump supporters praised the decision from Weiss, who,
notwithstanding her description of conditions at CECOT as “horrific,”
had previously praised El Salvadoran leader Nayib Bukele for ma…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialIndiana University orders school paper to cease print edition and fires director of student media
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/indiana-university-school-paper
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIndiana University reverses course on its decision to stop student journalists from including news coverage in print editions, after accusations of censorship (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/business/media/indiana-u…
@cdarwin@c.imFrom 1977 to 1979,
June Jordan and Toni Morrison were both a part of "The Sisterhood",
a group of Black women writers who met in a New York City apartment to eat and drink together while discussing liberation.
Whether addressing genocide, imperialism or the American literary establishment,
the writers in the group,
which included Alice Walker and Ntozake Shange,
saw their work as a means to make interventions against dominant narratives of colon…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSurveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…
@cdarwin@c.imThrough mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHe Tweeted Charlie Kirk "Won't Be Remembered as a Hero." The State Dept. Revoked His Visa (Shawn Musgrave/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/15/state-department-charlie-kirk-visa-social-media-censorship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251015/p154#a251015p154
@cdarwin@c.imThe State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans
it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress "American viewpoints".
The Europeans, characterized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “radical” activists and “weaponized” nongovernmental organizations,
fell afoul of a new visa policy announced in May to restrict the entry of foreigners deemed responsible for censorship of protected speech in the United States. …
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe spiked “Inside CECOT” 60 Minutes segment aired on the Global TV app in Canada last night!
Someone recorded it bootleg style here! Now we will know if it comes back on air, if they were forced to edit it… and if so, what.
#cecot #60minutes #cbs #bariweiss #censorship #corporatecontrol #media
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMedia Refuse To Sign Up As Propagandists For Trump's Pentagon https://thedissenter.org/media-refuse-to-sign-up-as-propagandists-for-trumps-pentagon/
