Dys of Silver

she/her 🏳️‍⚧️, 30

Bê trans jiyan nabe!

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

The Royal Society for Blind Children and the National Deaf Children's Society have both come out against the Starmer social media ban.

"Internet bad" is a trendy, upper-middle-class opinion for people with extracurricular budgets that ignores legions of people who rely on it.

[mars de noir 𖡼.𖤣𖥧 #SRM @krecekposel]

EG friends who are still in Prague!!!

if you're able, please do consider showing up at this protest tomorrow to support trans rights in the czech republic. this bill MUSTN'T go through.
🏳️‍⚧️

[PotatoRustler @PotatoRustler]

🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording.

They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing:

A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token.
Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.

It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[BRUCE TUMWESIGYE @BrucewilzUg]

@LBC Can we stop calling it an "under-16 social media ban"?

Call it what it actually is: a ban on anonymous social media for everyone. If you can’t or won't prove your identity, you’re out, no matter how old you are.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

When ID verification inevitably “fails” the government will seek to ban VPNs. This is why we need to reject these authoritarian censorship and mass surveillance policies and the false moral panic they’re predicated on

[Dys of Silver @dysofsilver]

@SamCKx democracy shouldnt be used to control lives of minorities

whats next voting for genocide?

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨 BREAKING: It has been revealed that the public consultation data Keir Starmer is using to promote his social media ban did NOT have an ‘against’ option

[KaLee Vision @KaLeeVision]

traitez moi de complotistes mais comment tous les pays occidentaux font la même chose au même moment avec le même prétexte fallacieux et le même but de surveiller tout le monde et de contrôler internet partout ?

[Emin Uygun @nerdebuemin_]

bana az önce istanbulda şundan çektiler 0 şaka ama 3 saat sonunda tekrar sizlerleyim

[CD PROJEKT RED @CDPROJEKTRED]

The worlds we create are shaped by the people behind them. Bringing together individuals with different experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives helps us in our goal to create memorable stories that inspire gamers.

That's why we're committed to building an environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and able to contribute. We believe this responsibility extends beyond our teams and into the communities around us.

For several years, we've partnered with Kampania Przeciw Homofobii (Campaign Against Homophobia) to support grassroots LGBTQ+ initiatives across Poland. We're also proud that CD PROJEKT RED was recently included in the sixth edition of the Diversity IN Check list, organized by Forum Odpowiedzialnego Biznesu (Responsible Business Forum). And, as in previous years, REDs joined the Warsaw Pride parade. 🏳️‍🌈

Learn more about our approach: https://t.co/DG64BYmJdF

[Embassy of Spain UK @EmbSpainUK]

🇪🇸🏳️‍🌈 Spain has ranked first among 49 European countries for LGBTIQ rights, scoring 89% for legal protection and equality measures.

@ILGAEurope

#PrideMonth #Pride #Orgullo

[T24 @t24comtr]

📌 Adalet Bakanlığı’nın hazırladığı 12. Yargı Paketi’nin LGBTİ+’lar siyasal iktidarın yarattığı kutuplaştırma siyasetinin merkezine mi yerleştiriliyor?

📌 Yargı Paketi’nde LGBTİ+’ları neler bekliyor?

🎙️ 1980’li yılların sonundan günümüze trans kadınların yaşadıkları sorunları Türkiye'nin ilk trans DJ'yi aktivist Ece Devrim T24’e anlattı
https://t.co/CtdA0BXJUf

[Dys of Silver @dysofsilver]

@playboirece @turkcegundemtr en az itici cisgay dayi

[Dys of Silver @dysofsilver]

@meselelgbt telif hakki ile bombalanman dilegi ile

[ESP🇵🇸 @espresmi]

12 Haziran'da Amed merkezli gerçekleştirilen siyasi kırım saldırısında gözaltına alınan yoldaşlarımız Fethiye Ok ve Soner Çiçek tutuklandı.

Ardı arkası kesilmeyen siyasi kırım operasyonları sökmedi, sökmeyecek.

Faşist ablukayı dağıtacak, özgürlüğü kazanacağız.

Fethiye ve Soner'e özgürlük, devrimci tutsaklara özgürlük!

[Öğrenci Dayanışması (YENİ) @ogrnday]

12 Haziran’da gözaltına alınan Devrimci Gençlik Dernekleri (@dgdernekleri99) üyesi 4 arkadaşımız tutuklandı!
Aynı tarihte gözaltına alınan SGDF (@sgdfiletisim11), ÖGK (@ozgurgenckadin2) ve DÖB (@dogrencib74) üyesi arkadaşlarımız ise hâlâ hukuksuzca gözaltında tutulmaya devam ediyor.

Bu sabah İstanbul’da ise DÖB ve DGB (@dgbiletisim) üyesi arkadaşlarımız sabah ev baskınlarıyla gözaltına alındılar.

Yapılan gözaltıların ve tutuklamaların NATO zirvesi öncesinde gençliği ve üniversitelileri yıldırmayı amaçladığı açıkça ortadadır!
Arkadaşlarımızı derhal serbest bırakın!

[Devrimci Gençlik Dernekleri @DGDernekleri100]

NATO zirvesi öncesi yapılan operasyonlarda, Karabük’te mahkemeye çıkarılan 6 arkadaşımız daha tutuklandı.

12 Haziran’da derneğimize yönelik yapılan operasyonlarda Balıkesir ve Zonguldak’ta tutuklanan arkadaşlarımızın ardından, toplamda 10 arkadaşımız hakkında tutuklama kararı verildi.

Bu ülke emperyalistlere dikensiz gül bahçesi olmayacak.

[SGDF @sgdfiletisim11]

İki kişinin ifadesinin bitmediği gerekçesiyle yoldaşlarımızın gözaltı süresi bir gün daha uzatıldı.

Keyfi bir şekilde gözaltı süresinin uzatılmasını kabul etmiyoruz. Yoldaşlarımız derhal serbest bırakılsın.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news and events and more ignorant on what’s going on in the world. This is the goal. Western govts saw the rise of the information age and are seeking to quash it