This is only the first step #Europe needs to stifle its own citizens!

After losing your right of free speech by basically implementing #chatcontrol people will not feel open to speak freely online #observereffect

Then they will implement a thing called #prebunking and actively start #censorship your chats, or #shadowban your conversation without you knowing.

They will implemend a #cbdc #euro and follow every monetary transaction, they will map your entire life!

When you become a problem to #Europe #dictatorship they can freeze all your assets *without* a legal court order, under the council regulation (EU) 2024/2642 ( October 8 2024) ask former retired Swiss colonel #JacquesBaud

You're unable to chat, unable to travel, unable to afford housing, unable to buy food.

They can basically erase your excistence from society with a click of a button!

You will own nothing and be happy!
#KlausSchwab #wef

"White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US."
theverge.com/policy/961449/whi…
(#paywalled)

"The deletions by the Trump administration are broad and indiscriminate. While pages that would support Mamdani’s request to lower thermostats were deleted, so too were pages about water conservation, types of insulation, and its solar decathlon challenge."

Here are preservation copies of the deleted pages in the Internet Archive.
web.archive.org/web/*/energy.g…*

#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

Please include the onion link in your post

fdroidorg6cooksyluodepej4erfct…

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

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

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

#Tor #Censorship #FDroid #Privacy #Anonymity

"Inside the new political screening that’s stalling #NIH grants."
nature.com/articles/d41586-026…

"Mandatory reviews by [political appointees] and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo."

Here's the Nature list of "disfavored terms" that trigger slow-walking and political scrutiny of grant applications.
media.nature.com/original/maga…

Also see the similar list of "banned words" compiled last year by #PENAmerica (apparently last updated Dec 2025).
pen.org/banned-words-list/

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

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

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

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

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#censorship

“Soon it will be virtually impossible to be online in the UK without handing over identity documents or biometric data to unregulated companies.”

The social media ban means EVERY user has to prove they're over 16. This puts millions at risk of their personal data being hacked.

🗣️ ORG's @JamesBaker.

computerweekly.com/news/366644…

#stopKillingInternet #StopKillingTheInternet #socialmediaban #socialmedia #ageverification #onlinesafety #privacy #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol

A social media ban won't fix online harms.

That's because the business model creating them is left untouched.

It just makes every user do an ID check to prove they’re over 16.

Instead we should tackle the attention capture economy of targeted ads and personalised algorithms.

Sign our petition ⬇️

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#socialmediaban #onlinesafety #socialmedia #stopKillingInternet #ukpol #ukpolitics #privacy #censorship #bigtech

An under-16s ban means making every adult prove they're over 16 for access.

The data shared for age verification can also be used by platforms and the wider data broker ecosystem to send you ads and customised content.

It's a policy that fuels the very business model that generates online harms.

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship

A social media ban addresses the symptoms, not the cause of online harms.

Platforms rely on extensive data collection to target ads and keep users online for longer.

Algorithms prioritise content most likely to capture attention and drive interaction, spreading harmful, polarising and addictive content.

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship

The UK social media ban for under-16s does nothing to sort out the harms caused by platforms.

Harmful content is a product of a business model that uses data to drive engagement and target users with ads.

Digital ID checks feed more data into this system, while leaving the engine for harms unchecked.

Read our response ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #starmer #stopkillinginternet #ukpolitics #ukpol #onlinesafety #ageverification #digitalid #privacy #censorship

Update. After the American Diabetes Association (#ADA) physically evicted five members from an ADA event for peacefully handing out print copies of an editorial from the ADA's own flagship journal, an editorial criticizing the #Trump admin attacks on science…
medpagetoday.com/special-repor…

* two senior leaders resigned in protest -- the new President-Elect and the chair of the Scientific Sessions Planning Committee;
* at least two others might have resigned, but these reports are still unconfirmed;
* dozens of members walked out of the presidential address, holding signs that said "We stand with science"; and
* colleagues launched a "shame on you" petition against the ADA.
change.org/p/an-open-letter-to…

(I just signed the petition and hope you will too.)

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

They didn't glue themselves to anything. Didn't disrupt anything. They just handed out a reprint of a published article (published by the convening organization no less).

Deeply troubling levels of censorship of scientists in the US.

arstechnica.com/science/2026/0…

#censorship #science #USpol #uspol

"It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real. America needs to stand up. Scientists, stand up. Physicians, stand up." - Aaron Kelly, PhD

Members of the American Diabetes Association, one of them a past president of the organization, were shoved, harassed and escorted by police out of a New Orleans convention centre, during the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (#ADA2026), on Friday, as they were handing out copies of an editorial criticizing Trump administration changes to US biomedical research.

The group were threatened to be arrested for handing out the editorial.

medpagetoday.com/special-repor…

#Research #Science #Diabetes #Censorship #Medicine

This is a link to the full version of this article (the below link was a shorter version). This is important: the bigots are winning in the US. Unrelenting censorship attempts are having the desired quelling effect, and the fight for diverse books needs reinforcements.

bookriot.com/queer-books-are-a…

Sixty small actions you can take (many US specific, but some suitable anywhere):

bookriot.com/how-to-defend-the…

This Pride month, if you can, buy queer books and/or ask your library to get them in!

#censorship #lgbtq #BookBans #AuthorsAgainstBookBans

IndieAuthors.Social News

2026-06-02 10:03:05

📚 At a breaking point

Queer books and authors—and the agents and publishers who represent them—are under major strain.
bookriot.com/at-a-breaking-poi…

📚 At a breaking point

^{Community (BOOK RIOT)}

Reminder that Mark Zuckerberg really really really wants you not to read Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

So, obviously, whatever you do, don't read it or little Mark will get upset.

#Censorship

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Ich fühle

s t a r k e ​ ​ V e r a c h t u n g

gegen der Deutsche Bahn wenn ich sowas sehe.

#Verachtung #contempt #DB #deutschebahn #germanrailway #linux #censorship #discrimination #customer #railway

Pay attention to adult industry workers being dropped by payment processors. Not just because we matter (we do) but also because it heralds changes that can affect YOU. Paypros should NOT get to decide to debank people over what they do, much less what they do **separately from their involvement**

It's not a far leap for them to decide to debank you over queer or political content (or eventually just identity) btw

#censorship #stripe #paypros

This series of postings isn't easy to write and I hope it's not all jumbled and hazy. It's hard to write about things that touch the heart at a deep level. Hard for me, at least.

To those who have followed me here: I couldn't be more grateful. You have made me feel I had a place, that my voice and insights count, and that means much.

#Mastodon #censorship
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So, sadly and with much heart pain, I think I should stop posting here and wean myself of trying to keep up with the latest news. I find my focus already waning due to age, which tends to isolate us. And now my husband and I have a medical situation to deal with that hasn't been there until very recently — at least, we hadn't known that some blood irregularities his doctors had been tracking had a name.

#Mastodon #censorship
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I do not mean that I'm inclined to give up. We do not have that luxury, any of us who care. I think I just have to figure out ways to conserve strength for the increasing personal battles I'll have to fight along with my husband on the home front, if his illness progresses more swiftly than his hematologist and oncologist hope will be the case. He already experiences fatigue that's exacerbated by his having to have blood taken routinely as a treatment.

#Mastodon #censorship
/7

Along with my spouse, I am also coping with his recent diagnosis for a serious disease that will, if it follows its expected course, end his life — not soon, we hope, but this is one of the possibilities the disease offers.

A lot to cope with — age, the usual infirmities and challenges of age, and, honestly, I am simply very tired. I'm tired of the issues and topics we all have to confront right now in the political-cultural-economic-ecological sphere.

#Mastodon #censorship
/6

Hence my use of the term "censorship"….

And when no explanations are offered for the censorship and no really transparent vehicle for accountability seems to exist to challenge the censorship….

If I may, at the risk of sharing too much, add some personal pieces of information: I turned 76 in March, and am definitely feeling my age.

In several aspects of my life, I'm being challenged to cut down activity.

#Mastodon #censorship
/5

I'm afraid I have to conclude — I see no other conclusion — that I've been given a strong signal that what I have done here on this instance for some years now is not welcome. By those who have the authority to censor, that is….

And I see no reason to carry on posting when I've been given what seems to me a strong signal of unwelcome. When the postings that have been removed aren't even my own but are excerpts of other people's commentary….

#Mastodon #censorship
/4

A posting in which I shared commentary from a Jewish thinker whom I much admire about the Israel-Palestine situation was removed with no explanation. I contacted the Toad Social administrator and asked for an explanation.

I did not receive one.

That fact leaves me dubious about the effectiveness of contacting the administrator again now. I notice that one of the postings removed recently was an excerpt about the same topics.

#Mastodon #censorship
/3

Rather than add anxiety to a long-expected visit with an old friend for a week, I decided not to do anything in response to this unexpected act on the part of this instance.

Then I returned home and have sat on this issue for a week, because, to be quite honest, I haven't known what to do.

In the years I've posted at Toad Social, I have had I think two previous postings removed. My memory about one of those is clear.

#Mastodon #censorship
/2

I came to Mastodon's Toad Social on 1 December 2002 after deleting my Twitter account the day Elon Musk took over there.

Since that time unti today, I remember receiving notices of perhaps two posts being removed — for reasons never clear to me.

Today, I get a notice of multiple posts being removed all at once.

What's this about, I wonder? Why all at once?

What's behind actions like this?

I'd like to know.

Are others experiencing this?

#Mastodon #censorship

Unfortunately, I think this letter will fall upon deaf ears. As we've learned from their response to the OSA repeal petition, their response to any criticism of these laws is to 1: Glaze said laws 2: Imply critics of the laws are sex pests/pedophiles/etc. and 3: Enact even more fascist legislation.

The UK Government (and I'm sure plenty of other governments) is willing to die on the hill of these thinly veiled mass surveillance/censorship laws. They won't stop unless the courts/a future parliament/a general strike forces them to. Because enacting a fascist police state is just too good to pass up.

I would be glad to be wrong and they actually listen but I don't think that will be the case.

#Privacy #Censorship #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #AgeVerification #Surveillance #Internet #SocialMedia #UK #UnitedKingdom

I suggest adding"❌ Suppression of Tor users (in my opinion by Tuta)"to the right side.

I tried to create an anonymous Tuta account when I was living in a dictatorship and I remember it didn't work.

I was using Tor because I didn't want to be abducted into a concentration camp (euphemistically called "jail") by the dictatorial regime in retaliation for legitimate and legal exercising of my human and constitutional right to free speech I was planning using that account.

I strongly suspect the reason it didn't work was because IMO Tuta was suppressing Tor users.

Due to this,my work in publishing public domain legal norms the regime was trying to hide,was greatly slowed down and made difficult.

When Tuta is writing like this,in my opinion it is hypocrisy.

The following hashtags may be unrelated or only remotely related to the topic of this post:

#hypocrisy #tuta #tutanota #tor #freespeech #freedomofspeech #dictatorship #anonymity #rejection #privacy #encryption #censorship

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"Here’s Who Was Harmed by Trump’s Cancellation of Research Grants."
chronicle.com/blogs/the-trump-…
(#paywalled)

"A year after the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] terminated more than 2,000 research grants, a new analysis indicates that the cuts disproportionately hurt scientists who identify as people of color and LGBTQ."

This article summarizes research forthcoming in The Lancet Regional Health — Americas.
thelancet.com/journals/lanam/h…

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The #WikimediaFoundation is signing a disturbing agreement with #Indonesia in order to allow Indonesian access to #Wikipedia.
france24.com/en/live-news/2026…

A provision in the agreement lets the govt "take down content deemed as 'causing public unrest and disturbing public order'."

Indonesia assured WF that the agreement was merely "administrative" and that "there would be no unlawful content takedown orders." But of course the agreement makes harmful takedowns lawful.

"Last October, Indonesia briefly suspended #TikTok's local operating licence after the social media platform refused to share information sought by Jakarta about violent anti-government protests earlier in the year."

#Censorship

Update. "C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines."
nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/poli…

"The acting head of the #CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter…Former CDC officials said it was unusual for the head of the agency to cancel a scientific publication that had already been cleared by the agency’s staff scientists and had been scheduled for publication."

#Censorship #COVID #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics #Vaccines

The #CDC is sitting on a report showing that the #COVID #vaccine "cut the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half."
washingtonpost.com/health/2026…
(#paywalled)

It was set to be published last month when #JayBhattacharya delayed it because of "methodology" concerns. But it uses standard CDC methodology for evaluating vaccines, and Bhattacharya approved the release of a flu vaccine report using the same methodology the week before the planned release of the COVID report. Bhattacharya reports to #RFKJr.

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

It's heartbreaking to see that there's a growing number of people who no longer feel safe in their own home or country.

Unfortunately, for people in precarious situations, digital footprints of all kind can be enough to threaten safety.

Whether you know someone who is a victim of domestic violence, a queer person living in a hostile environment, or a human rights activist located in regions adverse to their cause, Tails might be able to help.

Here's a beginner-friendly guide on how to install Tails, for yourself or for others.

privacyguides.org/articles/202…

#Privacy #Tails #Tor #TransSafety #DomesticViolence #LGBTQ #Democracy #HumanRights #Censorship

"Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year."
washingtonpost.com/science/202…
(#paywalled)

"A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health [#NIH] is down by more than half compared with the same period last year. Biomedical funding has also undergone a shift, the analysis found, cutting the U.S. research footprint across nearly every major disease area - including fewer grants focused on women’s health, cancer and mental health. Overall, the NIH supported over 2,700 fewer scientific projects in fiscal 2025, about a 15 percent cut in the number of competitive grants compared with the previous fiscal year."

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Medicine #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The English department was "told they could no longer teach texts written by gay authors."

"We have even been told to censor novels with gay characters."

For Texas, it's goodbye Shakespeare & some half of the history of literature.

npr.org/2026/04/08/nx-s1-55616…

#Teaching #Reading #Censorship #Education #Shakespeare #Texas

Disturbing case study in censorship and self-censorship: climate scientists trying to do their work without using the word "climate".
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/to-…

#BannedWords #Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

‼️ #Russia has blocked Telegram, one of the most widely used messaging platforms in the country
explorer.ooni.org/findings/962…

OONI data suggests that many ISPs in Russia began blocking access to Telegram on 20 March 2026.

This follows blocks of other major services, including WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, and numerous independent news outlets.

#ooni #opensource #telegram #censorship

#Mastodon on the #decentralized #fediverse is the only #place in the #world that will #protect you from:

#government #censorship

#age #verification

#privacy #rights #violations

#shadow #banns

#unlawful #targeting

#phishing

#data #mining

#identity #theft

#content #policing

#social #engineering

#tracking

#fingerprinting

#extortion

#cyber #crime

#digital #ID

#wrong #think

#thought #crimes

#state #surveillance

#criminal #activity

#hacking

#security #breaches

#scams

#spam

#mass #lies

#misinformation

#disinformation

#spying

#centralized #control

#algorithms

#ads

#ai #slop

#sensitive #media

#compromised #accounts

#political #domination

#geographic #restrictions

#doxing

#BigTech

It is the most important place to find #friends and talk to loved ones.

Never give up your rights for privacy, #free #speech and #right to live as you are and build a #legacy from that in turn.

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