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The suit also argues that the #State & #Treasury Depts violated the Administrative Procedure Act, which prohibits decisions that are “arbitrary & capricious.” These #sanctions fall into that category, according to the lawsuit, which argues that the State Dept has not even shown that the #judges fall within the category of people against whom sanctions have been authorized.

#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny



If successful, the lawsuit could curb the #US government’s ability to use #sanctions to punish #judges for making rulings it disagrees with.

Ms. Prost is joined in the suit by Judge Reine Alapini-Gansou from Benin & Judge Solomy Balungi Bossa from Uganda. A copy of the newly filed complaint was provided to The New York Times by one of the judge's lawyers.

#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny



Ms. Prost was at home, standing in her kitchen, when the call came informing she was being sanctioned. It wasn’t a complete surprise, given that many of her colleagues had already been sanctioned, she said during an interview….

Within hours, she said, she had received a message from Amazon canceling her accounts. Before long, Google & her banks got in touch. Over the following days, credit cards ceased to work.

#law #InternationalLaw #ICC #Trump #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny


The #Trump admin imposed #sanctions last year against Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the #InternationalCriminalCourt. Now, she & 2 other judges are suing Trump & his admin, claiming the penalties exceeded his authority.

The case, filed in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday, is the latest effort to challenge what many experts have described as the Trump admin’s efforts to undermine #InternationalLaw.

#law #ICC #imperialism #authoritarianism #tyranny
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It saddens me that many people do not see far enough to understand well what we are losing while losing privacy rights and trivializing data protection. It is so much more than most think. This affects our intimacy, our safety, our social lives, our freedoms, and all our human rights.

It goes well beyond targeted advertising. Attacks on privacy lead to direct increases in authoritarianism and dictatorial governance.

We must care much more about it than we do now. It is critical to ourselves as individuals, but also to democracy and society as a whole.

#Privacy #Authoritarianism


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“In a time of global unrest and revolt against rising #inequality and #authoritarianism, the #Guillotine #Emoji would serve as a reminder to states and elites to not take for granted the Hobbesian #monopoly on #violence they have been entrusted with by their peoples.”

source: carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji

New Emoji

“It is time for our global visual language to leverage the representation of this historic object in the global digital commons, before it is too late and real #guillotines are erected in our public squares.”


#resistance #revolution #frenchRevolution #politics #democracy #protest #history #elite #finance #money #billionaire #eattherich #future #freedom #demonstration #sign #humanity #humanrights #society #people


Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism



Seriously, I cannot emphasize this enough Canadian friends:

Bill C-22 SHALL NOT PASS! ⛔️

If you are Canadian, you must contact your representative ASAP to tell them you strongly oppose Bill C-22.

We cannot have this kind of authoritarianism in Canada (or anywhere else frankly).

More information here: action.openmedia.org/page/1887…

Contact your representative(s) directly without the form by finding their contact information here: ourcommons.ca/members/en/searc…

#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Canada #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #CanPoli #CndPoli


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"In an era defined by #democratic backsliding, #climate crisis, #disinformation, fear-mongering, and the normalization of cruelty, #speculative #climate #fiction plays an active and necessary role in countering #narratives that divide. Where #authoritarianism thrives on inevitability, fear, and historical amnesia, climate fiction can insist on adaptability, memory, and possibility."

#bookstodon #books #book #literature #solarpunk #hopepunk


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A pretty low bar - but #Apple is one of the outliers in the #LLM insanity. And now it is being pilloried by #techbros for trying to address #climatechange

The alignment #oil #gas #fossilfuels #fascism #authoritarianism #billionaires #AI #genAI is complete. All assholes all the time.


Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict content access have been multiplying exponentially.

The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying every user accessing the content, one way or another.

This is bad news for everyone.

If these regulations continue
to proliferate, this could lead to the end of pseudonymity online, and much worse.

I wrote this article last year,
but unfortunately this problem has only become worse, and it is sadly still very relevant.

privacyguides.org/articles/202…

#Privacy #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism


It's ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the
likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein
now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / #VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all in the name of protecting children

It’s also highly suspicious that so many of the world’s biggest countries
are trying to implement this wider #internet control at the same time.

Feels like a major push toward #authoritarianism to me.

#Privacy











>I Asked Germans About Trump. They All Said the Same Thing<

#PoliticalCommunication about
#Authoritarianism & #Trumpism

#Facism

#RebuildDemocracy 🗽
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuilding
#Humanrights vs. #Warcrimes

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>JA ES PASSIERT!!! Trumps Geisteszustand wird geprüft - Amtsenthebungsverfahren folgt<

#PolitischeKommunikation

#RebuildDemocracy
vs
#Authoritarianism

Das #Impeachment ist mit einem ersten Schritt auf dem Weg Realität zu werden

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Simon Rosenberg shares a photo of the anti-Orbán rally Friday night in Budapest.

#Hungary #Orbán #Trump #Vance #authoritarianism
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"It’s a boost to the opposition. Spewing frantically on Truth Social about how important it is that Orban win is, again, a gift to the Hungarian opposition."

#Hungary #Orbán #Trump #Vance #authoritarianism
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"In other words, it’s a MAGA kind of place. It’s what they would like to do to the United States, although with less sophistication and more brutality.

Donald Trump has been frantically trying to keep Viktor Orban in power, largely in ways that demonstrate that he really doesn’t understand how the world views him. Sending JD Vance to campaign for Orban is not helpful to Orban. It’s a boost to the opposition."

#Hungary #Orbán #Trump #Vance #authoritarianism
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"Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, is a central figure in the international far right, and indeed the man, more than any other, who created the networks that normalized what he himself calls 'illiberalism.' Should he lose, as all signs indicate he will, this would be blow to far more familiar figures such as JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are Orbán’s pupils."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Hungary #Orbán #Trump #Vance #authoritarianism
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"Sunday’s vote may well be one of the most important elections in the history of postcommunist Europe. It will test the longevity of a regime that has deviated from principles of democracy and the rule of law that were vindicated by the peaceful revolutions of 1989 and later secured by the European Union, which incorporated Hungary as part of its eastward expansion in 2004."

~ Isaac Stanley-Becker

#Hungary #Orbán #Trump #Vance #authoritarianism
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Die @tagesschau nimmt propagandistische Züge an.

Gut aufbereitet von den #SpaceFrogs

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#massenüberwachung #authoritarianism #freiheit #demokratie


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>#PamBondi raus – jetzt gibt es kein Zurück mehr für Trump<

#PolitischeKommunikation

#EpsteinFiles in Kombination mit einem eskalierenden Krieg lassen das Trumps'sche Machtmodell kollabieren

#RebuildDemocracy vs. #Authoritarianism

#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuilding

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The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.

Some politicians have already stated this plainly.

This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.

This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.

This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.

This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.

This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.

Do not let them do this to us.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights


First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for ...

#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights


The ever prescient @kixes:

“Nobody ever told me that the hardest part of living under authoritarianism—especially Singapore’s insidious, “soft” version that seems to be becoming attractive to other governments around the world—is not what they do to you, but what they make you do to yourself and to the people around you”

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#Singapore #TootSea #Authoritarianism #Government


Whenever you hear "ban for kids" on the internet, read in reality "ID collection by a sketchy third-party company that will definitely use it or leak it or both for every adult."

Because that's what this truly means.
Also, it doesn't even help the kids.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism


A world without privacy is also a world without intimacy, without individuality, without diversity, and without democracy.

Certain politicians have clearly expressed they want a world without privacy.

We cannot let them have it passively. We must fight back for our rights. Now.

Or we will lose them.

#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification


#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).

The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.

Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.

erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-…

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#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx



Signal IMO has bad security because when someone decides they are not interested in an overpriced, underperforming service of "phone number" and stops using their SIM, they cannot deregister the number from Signal and the new owner of the number either can hijack their Signal account, or people may be blocked from using newly purchased SIMs with Signal.

Also, authoritarian regimes IMO can temporarily transfer a number into a provider's internal SIM in order to hijack a Signal account and impersonate a dissident against another dissident, facilitating abduction, torture and murder.

I feel

c o n t e m p t

towards Signal when it is designed this way.

#badsecurity #incompetence #signal #phonenumberasidentity #security #SIM #contempt #securityhole #securityflaw #attack #hijacking #torture #murder #abduction #authoritarianism #regime #authoritarian


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