Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115341
#AgeVerification #CyberFlashing #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #UkLabour #censorship #surveillance #vawg #vpns

Cyber Waffle: “They Changed The Online Safety Act” ; this guy has done several decent videos, I wish he wasn’t doing the hoodie cyber anon-schtick, but the content is mostly sane…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115341
#AgeVerification #CyberFlashing #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #UkLabour #censorship #surveillance #vawg #vpns

@imgur.com blocking the entire UK rather than tack on a "Are you 18 or older?" prompt is further proof that MediaLab's CEO Michael Heyward is a bumbling tool. ca.news.yahoo.com/imgur-blocks... #imgur #uk #censorship #taildropper

@imgur.com blocking the entire UK rather than tack on a "Are you 18 or older?" prompt is further proof that MediaLab's CEO Michael Heyward is a bumbling tool. ca.news.yahoo.com/imgur-blocks... #imgur #uk #censorship #taildropper

"Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/28/energy-department-climate-change-emissions-banned-words-00583649

"The Energy Department has added 'climate change,' 'green' and 'decarbonization' to its growing 'list of words to avoid' at its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy [#EERE]…Other terms officials must ditch include 'energy transition,' 'sustainability/sustainable,' 'clean' or 'dirty' energy, 'Carbon/CO2 "Footprint"' and 'Tax breaks/tax credits/subsidies.'"

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

#Remember boys and girls, #censorship does not protect children, but instead makes it easier for predators to hide their crimes, for cults to groom children, and for parents to abuse their offspring.

So #remind me: who are we #protecting here?

#Remember boys and girls, #censorship does not protect children, but instead makes it easier for predators to hide their crimes, for cults to groom children, and for parents to abuse their offspring.

So #remind me: who are we #protecting here?

'Unhinged!' Staggering amount of public workers fired amid GOP's policing of Kirk comments

#EducatorTerminations #Assassination #Censorship #FreeSpeech #BallStateUniversity

https://www.rawstory.com/unhinged-staggering-amount-of-public-workers-fired-amid-gop-s-policing-of-kirk-comments/

'Unhinged!' Staggering amount of public workers fired amid GOP's policing of Kirk comments

#EducatorTerminations #Assassination #Censorship #FreeSpeech #BallStateUniversity

https://www.rawstory.com/unhinged-staggering-amount-of-public-workers-fired-amid-gop-s-policing-of-kirk-comments/

Pew - 1 in 5 Americans now regularly get #news on #TikTok, up sharply from 2020. TikTok censors the news, all day every day. #censorship #freespeech #facts #truth #lies https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/25/1-in-5-americans-now-regularly-get-news-on-tiktok-up-sharply-from-2020/ #socialmedia

@_elena @Mastodon @news @gotosocial @pfefferle @pixelfed @peertube

my reply to this was censored, then the appeal was upheld.

I'd like to blow a huge fat disrespectful raspberry to whichever empty shell (shill) for Israeli genocidal propaganda tried to take it down.

here it is again.

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AND this entire thing illustrates the point again - a weakness of mastodon is rogue admins and moderators, and their inability to protect against organised take-down campaigns

#mastodon #censorship

Pew - 1 in 5 Americans now regularly get #news on #TikTok, up sharply from 2020. TikTok censors the news, all day every day. #censorship #freespeech #facts #truth #lies https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/25/1-in-5-americans-now-regularly-get-news-on-tiktok-up-sharply-from-2020/ #socialmedia

Kimmel Returns

Trying to silence a public figure can badly backfire: Jimmy Kimmel's ratings averaged 1.6 million viewers. His return on air, though barred from all 30 Nextar and all 40 Sinclair affilate stations, scored 6.2 millions viewers. Not to mention over 15 millions views (and counting) on YouTube. It's not exactly a Streisand effect, and I wouldn't be surprised if from now on we'd start referring to “the Kimmel Effect.”

#KimmelEffect #censorship #television

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-ratings.html