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"Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship"
https://pen.org/press-release/rhode-island-freedom-to-read-act…

Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act is First in Nation with Special Guarantees to Writers and Readers Against Censorship - PEN America
Joining a growing number of states that are passing laws to protect the right to read, Rhode Island’s newly signed Freedom to Read Act provides safeguards for both public and school libraries, protections for librarians and staff and is the first in the nation to guarantee writers and readers a special right of action against censorship.

Leaked docs: Chinese network-monitoring provider Geedge Networks has sold Great Firewall-style censorship systems to at least four countries, including Pakistan (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/

Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
Geedge Networks, a company with ties to the founder of China’s mass censorship infrastructure, is selling its censorship and surveillance systems to at least four other countries in Asia and Africa.

ProtoScan: Measuring censorship in IPv6
Jack Wampler, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Rishab Nithyanand, Eric Wustrow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07194 https://arxiv.or…

ProtoScan: Measuring censorship in IPv6
Internet censorship continues to impact billions of people worldwide, and measurement of it remains an important focus of research. However, most Internet censorship measurements have focused solely on the IPv4 Internet infrastructure. Yet, more clients and servers are available over IPv6: According to Google, over a third of their users now have native IPv6 access. Given the slow-but-steady rate of IPv6 adoption, it is important to understand its impact on censorship. In this paper, we measure…

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/

Pakistan: Mass surveillance and censorship machine is fueled by Chinese, European, Emirati and North American companies
Pakistan’s unlawful mass surveillance and censorship expansion is powered by a nexus of companies based in Germany, France, United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, Canada, and the United States, Amnesty International said today in a new report “Shadows of Control”. The year-long investigation was carried out in collaboration with Paper Trail Media, DER STANDARD, Follow the […]

Very pleased to share that my article on #censorship and federally supported information is out in the Summer issue of "Documents to the People." Much appreciation to the peer reviewers and editor for asking good questions and helping to improve it.

Anyone having issues with Tor for the past few days?
It seems one of the Snowflake bridge is down (but should not impact obfs4):
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40475…

Weekend Reads
* Fingerprinting DPI devices
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09081
* Exportation of China's GFW
https://

Fingerprinting Deep Packet Inspection Devices by Their Ambiguities
Users around the world face escalating network interference such as censorship, throttling, and interception, largely driven by the commoditization and growing availability of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices. Once reserved for a few well-resourced nation-state actors, the ability to interfere with traffic at scale is now within reach of nearly any network operator. Despite this proliferation, our understanding of DPIs and their deployments on the Internet remains limited -- being network i…

Attorney General Bailey Fights To Expose Big Tech Censorship Of President Trump As AI Chatbots Produce Fake News (AG Bailey/Attorney General Office of Missouri)
https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-bailey-fights-to-expose-big-tech-censorship-of-president-trump-as-ai-chatbots-produce-fake-news/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p153#a250709p153

Mind the IP Gap: Measuring the impact of IPv6 on DNS censorship
Ian Martiny, Hammas Bin Tanveer, Jack Wampler, Rishab Nithyanand, Eric Wustrow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07197 h…

Mind the IP Gap: Measuring the impact of IPv6 on DNS censorship
Internet censorship impacts large segments of the Internet, but so far, prior work has focused almost exclusively on performing measurements using IPv4. As the Internet grows, and more users connect, IPv6 is increasingly supported and available to users and servers alike. But despite this steady growth, it remains unclear if the information control systems that implement censorship (firewalls, deep packet inspection, DNS injection, etc) are as effective with IPv6 traffic as they are with IPv4. …

Russia Expands Internet Censorship: Site Blackouts, YouTube Throttling, WhatsApp Replacement | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/08/russia-expands-internet-censorship-site-blackouts-youtube-throttling-whatsapp-replacement/

Over one million people claimed GOG's FreedomToBuy games in protest of ongoing NSFW game censorship.
Because FUCK censorship
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/one-million-people-claim-gogs-freedomtobuy-games…

One million people claim GOG's FreedomToBuy games in protest of ongoing NSFW game censorship row
Over one million people have claimed their freebies in support of GOG's FreedomToBuy.Games initiative. In a limited-tim…

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Domain Name System
Guang Yang, Peter Trinh, Alma Nkemla, Amuru Serikyaku, Edward Tatchim, Osman Sharaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05655 https://…

Blockchain-Based Decentralized Domain Name System
The current Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure faces critical vulnerabilities including poisoning attacks, censorship mechanisms, and centralized points of failure that compromise internet freedom and security. Recent incidents such as DNS poisoning attacks on ISP customers highlight the urgent need for resilient alternatives. This paper presents a novel blockchain-based Decentralized Domain Name System (DDNS). We designed a specialized Proof-of-Work blockchain to maximize support for DNS-…

Extended Version: Security and Privacy Perceptions of Pakistani Facebook Matrimony Group Users
Mah Jan Dorazahi, Deepthi Mungara, Yasemin Acar, Harshini Sri Ramulu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08782

Extended Version: Security and Privacy Perceptions of Pakistani Facebook Matrimony Group Users
In Pakistan, where dating apps are subject to censorship, Facebook matrimony groups -- also referred to as marriage groups -- serve as alternative virtual spaces for members to search for potential life partners. To participate in these groups, members often share sensitive personal information such as photos, addresses, and phone numbers, which exposes them to risks such as fraud, blackmail, and identity theft. To better protect users of Facebook matrimony groups, we need to understand aspects…

Violating Weak Cosmic Censorship in AdS$_3$ via Gedanken Experiment
Masaya Amo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05384 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05384

Violating Weak Cosmic Censorship in AdS$_3$ via Gedanken Experiment
The weak cosmic censorship conjecture (wCCC) might not be as robust as one would expect. We present a potential counterexample to the wCCC in a rotating three-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS$_3$) spacetime. We extend the parameter range of the quantum corrected BTZ (qBTZ) black hole. We examine the infall of test particles with large orbital angular momentum into an extremal black hole. Our findings indicate that, under certain conditions -- such as neglecting the self-force effects -- the even…

"Palestine Action is not arming the genocide and Israel — that’s Keir Starmer and the British government, who should be proscribed,”
'A clear example of political censorship' | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clear-e…

Email: the US Tennis Association requested broadcasters to censor any possible protests or other reactions to Trump's presence at Sunday's US Open men's final (Ben Rothenberg/Bounces)
https://www.benrothenberg…

U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.

Games industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that have forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-ab…

Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back
As industry groups decry censorship, players are flooding Visa and Mastercard with complaints and sharing the titles of delisted NSFW games to support developers.

Rational Censorship Attack: Breaking Blockchain with a Blackboard
Michelle Yeo, Haoqian Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01453 https://

Rational Censorship Attack: Breaking Blockchain with a Blackboard
Censorship resilience is a fundamental assumption underlying the security of blockchain protocols. Additionally, the analysis of blockchain security from an economic and game theoretic perspective has been growing in popularity in recent years. In this work, we present a surprising rational censorship attack on blockchain censorship resilience when we adopt the analysis of blockchain security from a game theoretic lens and assume all users are rational. In our attack, a colluding group with suf…

Network-level Censorship Attacks in the InterPlanetary File System
Jan Matter, Muoi Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06626

Network-level Censorship Attacks in the InterPlanetary File System
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) has been successfully established as the de facto standard for decentralized data storage in the emerging Web3. Despite its decentralized nature, IPFS nodes, as well as IPFS content providers, have converged to centralization in large public clouds. Centralization introduces BGP routing-based attacks, such as passive interception and BGP hijacking, as potential threats. Although this attack vector has been investigated for many other Web3 protocols, such as…

Strategic Analysis of Dissent and Self-Censorship
Joshua J. Daymude, Robert Axelrod, Stephanie Forrest
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03731 https://arxiv.org/p…

Strategic Analysis of Dissent and Self-Censorship
Expressions of dissent against authority are an important feature of most societies, and efforts to suppress such expressions are common. Modern digital communications, social media, and Internet surveillance and censorship technologies are changing the landscape of public speech and dissent. Especially in authoritarian settings, individuals must assess the risk of voicing their true opinions or choose self-censorship, voluntarily moderating their behavior to comply with authority. We present a…

Fascism is once again rising across the world, creeping in through surveillance capitalism, mass data harvesting, chat control laws, UK-style age verification, and endless new tools of digital censorship presented as safety.
Freedoms vanish piece by piece through biometric borders, predictive policing, restrictions on protest, voter suppression, book bans, and the relentless spread of authoritarian policies disguised as order. What seemed impossible a decade ago is now routine.
T…

How Turkmenistan turned censorship into a lucrative extortion scheme by intentionally restricting internet access in order to sell its own VPNs to citizens (Tor Blog)
https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-bus…

Corruption and Control: How Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business | Tor Project
In Turkmenistan, one of the most isolated regimes in the world, internet censorship has evolved beyond surveillance and control. In an Orwellian twist, the people blocking access to the internet are the same ones secretly selling it back, at a price most Turkmens can't afford.

Every day, some 2 billion people around the world use privacy-protection tools supported by the Open Technology Fund.
When people in China escape their government’s firewalls and censorship software
—now so dense that the system has been called the “locknet”
—or when users in Cuba or Myanmar evade cruder internet blocks,
they can access material written in their own languages and read stories they would otherwise never see.
Both the access and some of the informa…

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars
The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

Spontaneous genesis of naked singularities through quantum-gravitational processes: conclusive evidence for violation of cosmic censorship
Yang Huang, Hongsheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22761

Spontaneous genesis of naked singularities through quantum-gravitational processes: conclusive evidence for violation of cosmic censorship
Cosmic censorship conjecture takes a pivotal status in general relativity. We demonstrate that quantum effects, Hawking effect together with Shwinger effect inevitably lead to violation of cosmic censorship. We find that naked singularity spontaneously appears in late time evolution of an isolated large dilatonic black hole. The critical discovery is that the power of Hawking radiation converges to a finite value for an extreme dilatonic black hole, which directly exposes the singularity in fin…

🙈 Valve Blames ‘NSFW’ Crackdown For Why Some Steam Players Can No Longer Use PayPal To Buy Games Like Cyberpunk 2077
https://kotaku.com/steam-paypal-sex-censorship-collective-shout-valve-cyberpunk-2000617819

Sex Game Censorship Campaign Blamed For New Steam PayPal Issues
Only six currencies are currently supported after a sex game crackdown

U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump (Ben Rothenberg/Bounces)
https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-donald-trump-mens-final-attendance-visit-appearance-censorship-tv-booing-protest-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p39#a250906p39

#SanFrancisco and #BayArea folks, I'm going to talk about fighting #censorship at the August 20th Nerd Nite San Francisco! Help spread the word and hope to see some of you there!

Fingerprinting Deep Packet Inspection Devices by Their Ambiguities
Diwen Xue, Armin Huremagic, Wayne Wang, Ram Sundara Raman, Roya Ensafi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09081 https:…

Fingerprinting Deep Packet Inspection Devices by Their Ambiguities
Users around the world face escalating network interference such as censorship, throttling, and interception, largely driven by the commoditization and growing availability of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices. Once reserved for a few well-resourced nation-state actors, the ability to interfere with traffic at scale is now within reach of nearly any network operator. Despite this proliferation, our understanding of DPIs and their deployments on the Internet remains limited -- being network i…

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/mastercard-claims-nsfw-game-bans-arent-from-them-valve-explains-ho…

Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control
This whole attempted censorship of adult games on gaming platforms is becoming a thing. Collective Shout—a group out of Australia that wraps itself in a feminist flag while behaving like the religi…

The upshot is "Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement." #ALPHA aka @Google cloaking #censorship of significant misleading public claims by powerful people as "Copyright infringement."
I wonder when enough people will pitch Al…

The upshot is "Howard’s entire channel has now been deleted by YouTube, which cited copyright infringement." #ALPHA aka @Google cloaking #censorship of significant misleading public claims by powerful people as "Copyright infringement."
I wonder when enough people will pitch Al…

The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and US, who claim it enables censorship (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Cosmic-Quantum Connections: Assessing the Viability of Weak Gravity and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjectures in Kerr-Newman-Kiselev-Letelier Black Hole
Saeed Noori Gashti, Behnam Pourhassan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01487

Cosmic-Quantum Connections: Assessing the Viability of Weak Gravity and Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjectures in Kerr-Newman-Kiselev-Letelier Black Hole
This paper addresses a potential validation of the weak gravity conjecture (WGC) with the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC), as a significant challenge in quantum gravity. We explore the viability of the WGC and WCCC in the context of the Kerr-Newman-Kiselev-Letelier (KNKL) black hole. Although these conjectures appear unrelated, but surprising connection between these conjectures, It establishes a bridge between the quantum and the cosmic. By imposing specific constraints on the black h…

Since the UK and to an extant the EU governments like age verification so much and asking for photo ID from people for using the internet, how long until the provider that handles these verifications has a data breach?
Of course, the politicians will be fine, they probably all have their VPN apps which have likely been filed as an expense somewhere.
#Internet #Censorship #AgeVerification

Regarding Stephen Colbert and censorship... Looking backwards to The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour...
#censorship

An interesting read, but there's one sentence at the end that really kind of stuck with me
But history is starting to rhyme.
It is.
https://tedium.co/2025/07/31/uk-online-safety-ninja-sword-ban/
It's reminiscent of the po…

Thoughts On A Ninja Sword Ban
An understandable decision to bar ninja swords in the U.K. hits differently to me given its somewhat censorship-friendly climate of late.

To assist grant writers of all kinds, PEN America has compiled a list of words and phrases banned as WOKE by the US government. Use of these words can result in automatic denial of your grant applications.
https://pen.org/banned-words-list/

Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.

USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump's attendance at U.S. Open (The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6606515/2025/09/06/us-open-2025-donald-trump-broadcast-restrictions-censorship/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250906/p55#a250906p55

“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
#Palestine
#Censorship

Weekend Reads
* Censorship on IPv6
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07194
* IPv6 scanning dynamics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07506

ProtoScan: Measuring censorship in IPv6
Internet censorship continues to impact billions of people worldwide, and measurement of it remains an important focus of research. However, most Internet censorship measurements have focused solely on the IPv4 Internet infrastructure. Yet, more clients and servers are available over IPv6: According to Google, over a third of their users now have native IPv6 access. Given the slow-but-steady rate of IPv6 adoption, it is important to understand its impact on censorship. In this paper, we measure…

i’m sure U-18s will just give up on music and won’t find creative ways outside the law https://mstdn.social/@DM_Ronin/114942022100067292

ilias :thepiratebay: (@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image no more music for U-18s in UK 🙃 #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA #AgeVerification #Spotify #Tech #Technology #Privacy #Censorship #Surveillance

Sue Parfitt / Palestine Action / UK censorship
"An 83-year-old retired priest has been arrested for defying a newly enforced ban on pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action, just hours after the group was formally outlawed by the UK government.
"The Reverend Sue Parfitt, from Bristol, was detained for holding a placard that read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” She was among more than 27 people arrested on Saturday for acts of defiance against the proscription."
#SueParfitt #PalestineAction #UKPol #UK #censorship

The UK Online Safety Act's approach to keeping children safe online has become a rallying point for the right in the UK and US, who claim it enables censorship (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Podcast: Google Is Exposing Peoples’ ChatGPT Secrets https://www.404media.co/podcast-google-is-exposing-peoples-chatgpt-secrets/

At #IAHR2025, Mustafa Kamal reported challenges of studying Urdu-language data on atheist discourses in Pakistan using LLMs (in a broad sense, from BERTopic to GenAI). This ranges from issues in video transcription to lack of pre-trained models for Urdu, to censorship in LLMs (“I cannot answer this as it would be considered blasphemous”). I wonder how many of these problems are rooted in our curren…

‘Literature can be a form of resistance’: Lea Ypi talks to Elif Shafak about writing in the age of demagogues https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/30/lit…

This Louisiana Librarian Stood Up Against Book Censorship - Magazine
https://magazine.1000libraries.com/this-louisiana-librarian-stood-up-against-book-censorship/

There's a popular "digital rights" perspective that turns "not having kids on social media before 14 or 16" into a binary. That allows to make this a thing about overreach and censorship and all that. In combination with the complexities of ensuring access/restrictions it builds a great straw man.
But I do totally think that just throwing kids into general social media (think Instagram, TikTok but also Bluesky or Mastodon) is harmful to them and is just us older…

Overcharging Extremal Rotating Black Holes
Shauvik Biswas, Amruta Sadhu, Sudipta Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05087 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05087…

Overcharging Extremal Rotating Black Holes
In this work, we use the weak cosmic censorship conjecture(WCC) to constrain black hole solutions in modified gravity theories. While Wald showed that extremal Kerr-Newman black holes in general relativity cannot be overcharged by test charged particles, this protection may fail in theories beyond general relativity. We have considered generic rotating black hole solutions beyond the Kerr-Newman family and examine particle absorption processes that could lead to overcharging and the emergence o…

Supreme Court turns away online censorship claim by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine group against Meta (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-turns-away-online-censorship-claim-rfk-jrs-anti-vaccine-rcna215932
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p71#a250630p71

A partial victory in the fight against #censorship, to protect #PublicHealth, and to #DefendResesarch!!!

It's incredible to me how quickly this age verification censorship push is spreading!
UK: implemented
US: YouTube **is currently rolling it out**
EU: in testing phase; 5 countries
AU: starts for social media in December; expansion to 6 further domains proposed/in consultation

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mus…

I wonder how the #OnlineSafetyAct will try to handle P2P "user-to-user services".
#UKpol #UKlaw #censorship

AI is just a tool, like a pencil. A pencil that can only write and draw what some faceless corporation somewhere allows you to write and draw.
#AI #theMastersTools

State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content
Yusuf M\"ucahit \c{C}etinkaya, Tu\u{g}rulcan Elmas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13375

State & Geopolitical Censorship on Twitter (X): Detection & Impact Analysis of Withheld Content
State and geopolitical censorship on Twitter, now X, has been turning into a routine, raising concerns about the boundaries between criminal content and freedom of speech. One such censorship practice, withholding content in a particular state has renewed attention due to Elon Musk's apparent willingness to comply with state demands. In this study, we present the first quantitative analysis of the impact of state censorship by withholding on social media using a dataset in which two prominent p…

Information Suppression in Large Language Models: Auditing, Quantifying, and Characterizing Censorship in DeepSeek
Peiran Qiu, Siyi Zhou, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12349

Information Suppression in Large Language Models: Auditing, Quantifying, and Characterizing Censorship in DeepSeek
This study examines information suppression mechanisms in DeepSeek, an open-source large language model (LLM) developed in China. We propose an auditing framework and use it to analyze the model's responses to 646 politically sensitive prompts by comparing its final output with intermediate chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. Our audit unveils evidence of semantic-level information suppression in DeepSeek: sensitive content often appears within the model's internal reasoning but is omitted or rep…

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mus…

Emotionally Aware Moderation: The Potential of Emotion Monitoring in Shaping Healthier Social Media Conversations
Xiaotian Su, Naim Zierau, Soomin Kim, April Yi Wang, Thiemo Wambsganss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21089

Emotionally Aware Moderation: The Potential of Emotion Monitoring in Shaping Healthier Social Media Conversations
Social media platforms increasingly employ proactive moderation techniques, such as detecting and curbing toxic and uncivil comments, to prevent the spread of harmful content. Despite these efforts, such approaches are often criticized for creating a climate of censorship and failing to address the underlying causes of uncivil behavior. Our work makes both theoretical and practical contributions by proposing and evaluating two types of emotion monitoring dashboards to users' emotional awareness…

Superintendent Walters and Prager U are not OK. #censorship & #indoctrination instead of #education

Oklahoma Proposes 'America First Test' for teachers from New York and California
Oklahoma requires teachers from NY and CA to pass a test combating "woke indoctrination," ensuring alignment with state values.

Superintendent Walters and Prager U are not OK. #censorship & #indoctrination instead of #education

Oklahoma Proposes 'America First Test' for teachers from New York and California
Oklahoma requires teachers from NY and CA to pass a test combating "woke indoctrination," ensuring alignment with state values.

“It is not out of the ordinary or unexpected in any way for Harvard to crack down on pro-#Palestine or even #Israel-critical spaces on campus. That is part of #Harvard’s legacy,”

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

Important read about the #censorship Columbia has agreed to: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi…

The Indian government says it has not issued any directive to withhold the Reuters X account in the country (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/go…

Government says no order to withhold Reuters handle on X in India
India has denied ordering the blocking of Reuters’ X account, saying no such directive was issued. As per notification on the X account, it was withheld “in response to a legal demand,” sparking criticism from journalists and free speech advocates. An official spokesperson said that the government is working with X to resolve the issue amid growing censorship concerns.

I think everyone needs to see this and understand what is happening with our online privacy #privacy #cybersecurity #censorship

I see that the government that feigns outrage at other governments forcing censorship on to digital platforms, is also forcing games stores to drop NSFW content.

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
KREMLIN TOTAL CONTROL & CENSORSHIP: #PUTIN’S FEAR EXPOSED Vlog 1111: War in #Ukraine
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US warns tech companies against complying with European and British ‘censorship’ laws https://therecord.media/tech-companies-ftc-censorship-laws

Und hier haben wir es: eine logisch-semantische Injektion: unmarkierte Modifikationen der Funktionsweise von LLMs, die unser Denken nudgen und damit unsere logisch-semantische Souveränität untergraben: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113934035009657696
Hintergrund:

From @… 5 Things AM August 20, 2025:
#news #CNN #censorship

Found a new place to play Backgammon online, after the old place went towards censorship and irrational behavior.
backgammonhub.com is a friendly community, with a nice and fast gameplay. Also easy to find competition, rather high level players for the most part.
Recommended!
#backgammon #onlinegaming

I wish DoubleBlind would join the Fediverse, where censorship is much less of an issue compared to platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
It baffles me that they talk about censorship on major platforms but haven’t moved to the free and open world of the Fediverse yet.
https://doubleblindmag.com

Palestine Action / UK censorship
Good article from @….
"While the groups actions may constitute criminal damage, their actions do not represent an attempt to induce fear in the population by creating an imminent threat to life. ...
"Proscribing Palestine Action as terrorists is not about public safety – it is about suppressing protest that we may disagree or agree with, but that stands well short of being an attempt to strike fear into the British public through the use of indiscriminate violence against people. In equating support of damage to military property with support of terrorism, it endangers legitimate debate about the UK-Israel arms trade. ...
"As there is no public evidence of any link to terrorism or support of terrorist groups from Palestine Action, Open Rights Group supports their decision to appeal proscription. While we may have differing opinions on their tactics, we stand against this attack on their right to exist and speak out."
#PalestineAction #UK #censorship #UKPol

Testing the weak cosmic censorship conjecture via test particle induced overcharging/overspinning of Kerr Newman modified gravity black hole
Waqar Ahmad, Abdul Rehman Kashif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17665

Testing the weak cosmic censorship conjecture via test particle induced overcharging/overspinning of Kerr Newman modified gravity black hole
We investigate the weak cosmic censorship conjecture (WCCC) violation through the absorption of a charged, rotating test particle by Kerr Newman spacetime in modified gravity (KN MOG). The result is sensitive to multiple factors, including the sign of the particle's charge relative to that of the black hole, as well as the direction of rotation of the particle and the black hole. Additionally, the combined effect of the MOG parameter, the black hole's charge and angular momentum plays a signifi…

Gave a talk last night about #censorship of #research at the San Francisco #NerdNite! Really fun and a great way to get info out to folks outside the very narrow corridors of

Harvard Divinity School broke precedent
by refusing to publish a video of its commencement speech
after a speaker went off-script to call attention to the perilous conditions in Gaza.
“There are no safe zones left in Gaza after 600 days and 77 years of genocide,” said Zehra Imam,
who graduated from the Harvard Divinity School this spring and participated in the embattled Religion and Public Life program.
Imam, who is Muslim, was speaking with two other students f…

A Harvard Commencement Speaker Mentioned Gaza. The School Refused to Publish Her Speech.
Divinity School insiders said Harvard’s practices are at odds with the public perception that the university is fighting Trump.

"Anna Gomez doesn’t know how long she’ll remain on the Federal Communications Commission under President Donald Trump. But for the time being, she says she’s speaking out against “this administration’s campaign of censorship and control.”
'I have not been quiet': Federal official urges Americans to fight Trump's censorship - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/push-back-against-trump-to-protect-precious-liberties-lone-democrat-on-fcc-urges-kentuckians/

USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump’s attendance at U.S. Open
#Trump #USTA #USOpen #tennis

USTA asks broadcasters to censor reaction to Donald Trump’s attendance at U.S. Open
Trump will attend the U.S. Open final as a guest of a sponsor, marking his first appearance since 2015.

I monitor connections from countries on my #tor snowflake proxy. Here are charts showing selected countries from last 7 days. Guess when Iran cut internet totally for their people.
Interesting thing is that connections labeled as US or DE look very similar, is this related to using VPN by those ppl or something?

«But the cancellation of an entire issue of an academic journal, which has not been previously reported, is a remarkable new development in a mounting list of examples of censorship of pro-Palestinian speech.»
This is just one more example of how the world is turning a blind eye to the genocide the Israeli state is perpetrating against the Palestinian people. It is, in every way, inconceivable (and yes, that word does mean what I think it means) that world leaders are able to defend th…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new
[1/1]:
- Strategic Analysis of Dissent and Self-Censorship
Joshua J. Daymude, Robert Axelrod, Stephanie Forrest

Probing the Weak Gravity Conjecture: Novel Aschenbach Signatures in Superextremal Non-Linear Charged AdS Black Holes
Mohammad Reza Alipour, Mohammad Ali S Afshar, Saeed Noori Gashti, Behnam Pourhassan, Jafar Sadeghi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03185

Probing the Weak Gravity Conjecture: Novel Aschenbach Signatures in Superextremal Non-Linear Charged AdS Black Holes
This study investigates the nonlinear charged Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole solution within the framework of massive gravity, motivated by recent advancements linking the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) to phenomena such as Weak Cosmic Censorship Conjecture (WCCC) and photon sphere dynamics. Building on these foundations, we focus on the Aschenbach effect-a relativistic phenomenon intricately tied to the geometry of photon spheres and known to occur in some special sub-extremal non rotating bla…

Please don't call it "politicized science". What #RFKjr and his ilk are doing is not science. Science does not discard data that disagrees with the researchers desired outcomes.
They are purposefully ignoring and hiding any information that contradicts their beliefs. That is not science, that is censorship and lies in favor of an ideology.

Please don't call it "politicized science". What #RFKjr and his ilk are doing is not science. Science does not discard data that disagrees with the researchers desired outcomes.
They are purposefully ignoring and hiding any information that contradicts their beliefs. That is not science, that is censorship and lies in favor of an ideology.

Over the past few months, we have seen the Trump administration engage not only in medical misinformation, but in active censorship of scientific discourse.
Since he took the helm at HHS, Kennedy’s unscientific views on vaccines and some other medical matters
-- coupled with the agency’s widespread research and staff cuts,
-- have prompted protests from scientists inside and outside HHS plus lawsuits.
Medical experts say Kennedy’s policies are helping “sow distrust in …

Army secretary cancels West Point job offer for Biden-era official accused of censorship (Mike Glenn/Washington Times)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/30/army-secretary-cancels-west-point-job-offer-biden-era-official/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250730/p94#a250730p94

Putting Profits Over Press Freedom: Interview With Jeff Cohen https://thedissenter.org/putting-profits-over-press-freedom-interview-with-jeff-cohen/

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

Excellent piece by a dear friend of mine about #censorship in our national parks. Read her piece and then use the #DefendResearch toolkits to call your elected officials and write a letter to the editor!

Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order (Michael Pooler/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/4a5235c5-acd0-4e81-9d44-2362a25c8eb3

Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts
Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

Quantum Critical Collapse Abhors a Naked Singularity
Marija Toma\v{s}evi\'c, Chih-Hung Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0…

Quantum Critical Collapse Abhors a Naked Singularity
Classical critical collapse yields naked singularities from smooth initial data, challenging cosmic censorship and shaping the spectrum of primordial black holes. We show that one-loop vacuum polarization near the threshold alters this outcome. In analytically tractable Einstein-scalar critical spacetimes, regularity uniquely selects a Boulware-like state whose stress tensor supplies a universal quantum growing mode. Its backreaction competes with the classical unstable mode, producing a shift …

Unveiling horizons in quantum critical collapse
Marija Toma\v{s}evi\'c, Chih-Hung Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03584 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03584

Unveiling horizons in quantum critical collapse
Critical gravitational collapse offers a unique window into regimes of arbitrarily high curvature, culminating in a naked singularity arising from smooth initial data -- thus providing a dynamical counterexample to weak cosmic censorship. Near the critical regime, quantum effects from the collapsing matter are expected to intervene before full quantum gravity resolves the singularity. Despite its fundamental significance, a self-consistent treatment has so far remained elusive. In this work, we…

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/stephen-colbert-says-cbs-ending-235704805.html

Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution in a changing media landscape and removing from air...

The past is prologue: #Censorship & distortion of research under Bush, Jr. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1769461/ A great recap if you weren't around then and for tho…

Iran's Stealth Internet Blackout: A New Model of Censorship
Arash Aryapour
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14183 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

I'm still the only guy using the (#)FediVideo hashtag...I'm assuming nobody else in the fediverse actually prefers seeing embedded videos that are not hosted by censorship-loving sites like (#)YouDumb...sorry I meant (#)DumbTube
#DumbTube #YouDumb

Formation of multiple Black Holes from Cauchy data
Dawei Shen, Jingbo Wan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16117 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…

Formation of multiple Black Holes from Cauchy data
We construct a family of asymptotically flat Cauchy initial data for the Einstein vacuum equations that contain no trapped surfaces, yet whose future development admits multiple causally independent trapped surfaces. Assuming the weak cosmic censorship conjecture, this implies the formation of multiple black holes in finite time. The initial data are obtained by surgically modifying a vacuum geometrostatic manifold equipped with the Brill-Lindquist metric: the data agree exactly with the Brill-…

Replaced article(s) found for gr-qc. https://arxiv.org/list/gr-qc/new
[1/1]:
- Cosmic Censorship near FLRW spacetimes with negative spatial curvature
David Fajman, Liam Urban