Leslie 🏳️‍🌈

Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication in digital age 🏳️‍🌈 🎓PhD candidate 🍉 for the pod🎙️

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

This is ridiculous because iPhones already have parental controls that make it easy for parents to restrict access to apps and content that's classified as under 18. This has nothing to do with child safety and everything to do with surveillance and control.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

UK went for the whole family

Seriously though this is such an extraordinary sign of weakness from the pro-Israel lobby.

[chai @ChaiDeluxe]

This is a last ditch effort to FORCE people to give in their ID to use ANY social media apps.

A child’s safety shouldn’t be used as a Trojan horse for mass surveillance.

[Leslie 🏳️‍🌈 @leslie]

Thinking about propaganda a lot lately. I've talked about it a few times on the pod: https://t.co/Qaen58Su7g

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down:

https://t.co/n8Az3Tkwmo

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

“People aren’t sure what’s true, and what libraries are here for is to help with that.”

Brewster Kahle, digital librarian of the Internet Archive, discusses the future of the Wayback Machine in ABC Radio National (🇦🇺 Australia)’s “Wayback Machine: The internet’s archive in peril,” a look at how media companies are restricting the preservation of the web itself.

🎧 Listen ⤵️
https://t.co/SylhHctSsy

#ABCRN #WaybackMachine #InternetHistory #WebArchiving #SundayExtra @abcaustralia @abcnews @Brewster_Kahle

[Carlos Perea @CarlosIran1]

Happening now: Garden Grove city council getting hammered by residents after the chemical disaster by GKN’s weapons manufacturing facility, which supplies key components for Israel’s fighting jets.

They are demanding the city permanently shuts down the facility.

[Aidan Mattis @MattisRedacted]

The number of AI data centers currently planned or under construction across this country are not necessary for efficiency tools or even generative AI.

It’s time to start calling them what they really are:

Surveillance Centers

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

KOSA failed to pass once before due to major pushback.

I’m trying to spread awareness of what this bill actually does.

We CAN win but only if we actually do something about it.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Science has shown this for years now

[Michelle (BIRTHDAY TODAY 🎂) @demonbellez44]

KOSA needs to stay fucking dead and stop coming back

[Polly St. George @FringeViews]

Instead of saying "wow, people really really really don't want this" they threaten to metaphorically club those people death

[Leslie 🏳️‍🌈 @leslie]

I moved the day of the week for the podcast to Thu but I ALSO took a little hiatus, back next week. Realizing I should have marketed the hiatus part better :) Catch up on past episodes about why ✨everything✨ is happening and actions you can take: https://t.co/NYfaYYCb4R

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Another example of what I always say “Background checks are only for the poor.”

Buddy became a high ranking CIA official with NOBODY bothering to check into the education and military service he was lying about.

[Leslie 🏳️‍🌈 @leslie]

Exhausting. I've been talking about the harm these pieces of surveillance legislation hidden in the trojan horse of "for the children" propaganda on the pod for ages. Here's just one episode of many: https://t.co/bN6Y0L68Rk

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

🚨BIG UNIPARTY effort for Senate KOSA over KIDS Act.

KOSA is much more invasive, substantial data collection and behavior monitoring of American children…ALL of us.

While KOSA does not mandate age verification, the bill will be difficult for platforms to comply with without knowing the age of every user - easiest way to do that = age verification.

Government surveillance, digital ID, data collection…the issues 90% or politicians agree on. We the people lose.

[Star Seeker @starseeker1334]

Congrats, you all discovered how google AI image generation got so good so quickly,

everyone using a drive, every TB of family photos kept in a cloud for safekeeping, so long promised to be private, is scanned, used and abused by google.

Never believe in anything they say.

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

SHASM passed in South Carolina with a single republican senator voting no (house unanimous). Same thing happened in Texas last year with the App Store Accountability Act.

Stop Harm from Addictive Social Media (SHASM) is another surveillance and data collection policy that promises to "protect kids and empower parents" but it does neither.

The bill is promoted primarily by Alliance Defending Freedom - not sure if their policy folks wrote the bill as well. SHASM was also passed in Idaho this year but with a little more resistance.
https://t.co/r2nxOp2Yrw

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

They literally tried to charge her with a FELONY for making a post on social media about not having clean drinking water. Thankfully, the charges were dropped, but everyone should be extremely concerned about the implications of this. Things are continuing to head in a very dangerous direction. They have made it crystal clear that they will not abide by the Constitution and do not honor the rights that we are supposed to be guaranteed as Americans.

[Lyudmyla Kozlovska 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @LyudaKozlovska]

Age verification for the internet is the end of human rights and freedom of speech for generations to come.

We are watching the freedom values of Western civilization collapse — adopting the same digital cage that others are already trapped in.

Human rights are taken away every single day — all because too many of us are still not ready to defend them, mistakenly believing these rights are simply given.

Generations fought for these freedoms, high standards of values, and paid with their lives so that we could enjoy and live in a free Western society.

Ask yourself: what have you done, and what are you doing every day, to protect this heritage?

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Tell the publishers to stop blocking @waybackmachine 🚫🕳️ https://t.co/VMXFADgTf3