Post A3CWZrPhfUZwMbLchM by mikegerwitz@mastodon.mikegerwitz.com
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(DIR) Post #A3AMKQqAnR5dkNoULI by bigl0af@social.foxfam.club
2021-01-12T15:53:54.415759Z
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Facebook Suspends Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship | Jon MiltimoreHow did we go from banning Alex Jones to Ron Paul in the space of two years? The answer is not hard to find.https://fee.org/articles/facebook-suspends-ron-paul-following-column-criticizing-big-tech-censorship/
(DIR) Post #A3ANMz0UpxGYFJQF3A by cassidyclown@kiwifarms.cc
2021-01-12T16:07:39.335118Z
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@cowanon @bigl0af Sad reality is a lot of people here wouldn't speak a fraction of their mind to their acquaintances and coworkers for fear of raising an eyebrow. Then fear of raising an eyebrow becomes fear of social ostracism becomes fear of losing your job. If we all had a spine as thick as our now-problematic internet history, this all could have been avoided.
(DIR) Post #A3AQfzb9AAdtRaJylc by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T16:45:05.786599Z
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@cowanon @bigl0af because it's a mistake to think this has only been going on for 2 years2 years ago was 2019. There was already mass purges of 100,000s off of twitter by then. I lost my twitter account in 2019 as part of those purges. 2 years before then there was a massive amount of AI-enabled censorship happening on the major platforms like google/facebook/twitter (jigsaw, etc) which reddit had been pioneering for like a decade by that point https://twitter.com/jeffcliff1/status/919077552370733056also for much of the world's population who lived in china/india/pakistan censorship was becoming more and more pervasive https://twitter.com/jeffcliff1/status/9087923272165335042 years before that (2015) australia was building a great firewall https://twitter.com/jeffcliff1/status/609399914884411392 and david icke was the one being targetted https://twitter.com/jeffcliff1/status/574982647354626049 . Sharing information about #popcorntime was a moral panic in denmark and across the EU https://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/08/19/1624220/two-arrests-in-denmark-for-spreading-information-about-popcorn-time2 years before that (2013) here in canada, Rémy Couture was going through his legal court case defending against charges of obscenity. The US deep state was pushing the #TPP on the world, making internet censorship a part of globalist law that trumped national law2 years before that 2011: SOPA was being pushed in the US, pushing internet censorship in the US and was barely stopped2 years before that (2009) the RIAA was pushing for 3 strikes laws in the UK and EU - pirates were the target of the day, and the tools for censorship were being built both into law, our technology stack and society was slowly being forced to a accept the normalization of such censorship http://www.rantmedia.ca/piratepartyradio/2 years before that (2007) livejournal was going through its own censorship scandals, with frank the goat's wife being verbotten to display feeding her young. a hex number starting with 09f9 was attempted to be censored across the internet, and a huge fight between shitposters and the MPAA erupted (shitposters won that one). But people still were threatened by the RIAA/MPAA over *having access to a number*. [1] tools for censoring people in our own lives were being bolted on to livejournal https://themusicgod1.livejournal.com/75316.html2 years before that (2005-6) ...the heyday of sktfm and his getting information out to the masses, and revolting against the war on terror and the restriction of information. Shortly afterwards, and in part out of the same group ...wikileaks would come, as a kind of wall against the pervasive censorship that many understood was cominghttp://www.rantmedia.ca/newsreal/ www.wikileaks.org2 years before that (2003) EFF was on many kinds of censorship, including in schools. 2600 was also fighting against the same. The DeCSS case was still going on...control over the technology stack for playing movies and storing data was at stake, and the ability of normal people to use the still relatively new GNU+Linux operating system was in question - especially on cellphones. The RIAA/MPAA tried to prevent the smartphone revolution from using an open standard like Android, should it ever get createdhttps://www.2600.com/offthehook/2003/0103.htmlhttps://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/net_block_report.pdf2 years before that 2001 was 9/11 - and the whole world reached for censorship options. 10,000s of people got arrested and disappeared in the middle of the night. Many were raped and tortured for the things they said and believed.2 years before that was 1999...teenagers and other troublemakers were having the book thrown at them for playing with computers in a moral panic against people using the technology in their lives for uses other than that which it was intended...https://www.2600.com/offthehook/1999/2 years before that was 1997the idea of an open source mobile operating system was *deeply* seditious.https://www.2600.com/offthehook/1997/2 years before that:part of the long fight, going back miillenia, of the catholic church gradually losing authority to control our lives hits yet another battle there was a big fight over whether moral majority christian puritans would control the internet, and the Communications Decency Act was ruled as at least partly unconstitutional in the US - https://www.2600.com/offthehook/1997/0797.html2 years before that: long before the current generation of SJWs, one of the biggest pushers of censorship on the internet was the church of scientology. They had shut down an anonymous email remailer in 1995, and back in those days there was a huge war between the usenet people and the CoS generally. https://www.2600.com/offthehook/1995/0295.html[1] http://qhtn4w2q36dojls2.onion/googleplus/20170913%20-%20From%20a%20private%20post%20in%202015%20_%20_Since%20w.html
(DIR) Post #A3ARBRJs95TqOhEiZM by Zalzen@neckbeard.xyz
2021-01-12T16:50:46.670187Z
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@jeffcliff @cowanon @bigl0af it's honestly kind of insane when you start realizing how long the abuse of all these systems of power has been going on for and how we've been basically becoming indoctrinated into tighter control mechanisms (for better or worse) for decades now...
(DIR) Post #A3ARwj04E9mUqKWIlM by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T16:59:20.175967Z
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@jeffcliff @cowanon @bigl0af you will like this The surreptitious assault on privacy, security, and freedom:https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/1529/144_7_gerwith.webm
(DIR) Post #A3ASLZvP6cgbw7BpwG by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:03:49.539400Z
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@mangeurdenuage @bigl0af @cowanon who is this? @mikederwitz@social.umeahackerspace.se ?
(DIR) Post #A3ASPbJ5uQaVNhBlw0 by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:04:33.223107Z
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@mangeurdenuage @bigl0af @cowanon @mikegerwitz@social.umeahackerspace.se ?
(DIR) Post #A3ASSfy72AIEhvqDFQ by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:05:04.387875Z
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@bigl0af @cowanon @mangeurdenuage @mikegerwitz ?
(DIR) Post #A3ASXzPSBEeKS0AC2a by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:06:04.217290Z
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@jeffcliff @bigl0af @cowanon @mikegerwitz Eeyup that's him. Thanks for finding him back :) for me, I followed him when I was on LA.org and couldn't remember the instance.
(DIR) Post #A3AScA5YPxcojHqSTw by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:06:49.446045Z
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@bigl0af @cowanon @mangeurdenuage @mikegerwitz maybe
(DIR) Post #A3ATqFH02QXUokThho by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:20:02.019031Z
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CC @maxmustermann @Moon @jeremiah @p@freespeechextremist@freespeechextremist.com @noyoushutthefuckupdad
(DIR) Post #A3ATqFH02QXUokThhp by mangeurdenuage@shitposter.club
2021-01-12T17:20:07.844023Z
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CC @ooignignoktoo @dirb @sjw@neckbeard@neckbeard.xyz @tk
(DIR) Post #A3CWZrPhfUZwMbLchM by mikegerwitz@mastodon.mikegerwitz.com
2021-01-13T03:06:52Z
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@jeffcliff @cowanon @mangeurdenuage @bigl0af Yes, that's my LibrePlanet 2017 talk. You can find the slides, references, and other information here: https://mikegerwitz.com/talks