One of the greatest threats to internet freedom and privacy are these manipulative laws, now spreading, that force people to prove they're of a certain age to use social media platforms and other sites. The UK Government, naturally, is now seeking this.
The defense of these laws is emotionally powerful by appealing to child protection, but the real goal is online surveillance, an end to anonymity, and control over political content that young people can access. Few have done a better job reporting on these tyrannical threats than @TaylorLorenz. Read this:
The Maple has been barred from covering this arms fair and despite multiple follow ups the organizers have refused to provide an explanation.
Are they afraid someone might do journalism?
A woman in Texas was arrested after she made a Facebook post sounding the alarm about the water quality in her town.
The water in Trinidad, Texas, sometimes runs brown, but when Jennifer Combs posted about it, the cops came and took her to jail.
Video via @FOX4
This is just too funny 🤦♂️
Trump's justification for extending his deadline by 2 weeks is that Pakistan's Prime Minister "requested" it.
But when you look at the edit history of the post in question by Pakistan's PM, where he "requests" the extension, it's painfully obvious it was sent to him by the White House since he first stupidly posted it with the mention "Draft - Pakistan's PM Message on X" 🤣
Apropos of nothing, here is Jesse Brown successfully pressuring the Canadian Association of Black Journalists (@CABJMedia) into purging me from the organization, for supporting Palestinian resistance against their genocide at the hands of Israel
Not fucking good enough. They put this poor woman through hell with the stupidest "antisemitism" charges imaginable. She needs massive financial compensation from both the state AND her accuser, and the laws that allowed prosecutors to do this to her need to be repealed.
NEW: I compiled a list of 27 Canadian journalists who have gone on sponsored Israel trips organized by a Zionist group whose co-founder previously worked for an Israeli intelligence firm.
The list includes some of Canadian media’s most-senior editors.
https://t.co/7s0RVUqTFh
@jerryfaust They don't mean the same thing. If you are saying Jewish interests include support for a genocidal ethnostate you are demeaning Jewish people.
Canada PM and ex Bank of England gov Mark Carney admits he & EU leaders knew the US-led “rules based order” was a fraud but went along with illegal regime change wars, sanctions & occupation because they benefitted
He complains now only bc he’s a target!
De-Banked
Today my banking institution of 26 years, Citizens Bank, declared that they were ending their banking relationship with me. My accounts were zeroed out without explanation. While I may eventually see this money returned to me, the question of why this occurred remains unanswered, raising a whole host of issues related to civil liberties.
I’ve been de-banked.
Read more: https://t.co/nYVbuUYIdM