🧵Thread for crowdfunding in the Indonesian Queer Community 🧵
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This right here was the UN peacekeepers pouring sewage into a river in Haiti which triggered a cholera outbreak in 2010 that killed thousands of people
Australia is planning to implement some of the harshest anti-AI policies in the world.
Under the proposed laws, it will be illegal to train AI on people's work without consent and compensation. They'd also force data centers to produce the same amount of power they use.
Multiple police officers are being removed from their positions across the country after they were caught using Flock cameras to stalk and track their own family members.
American citizens are demanding that Flock cameras be removed by "any means necessary."
"They're unconstitutional, and they have to pay us for our data."
"We're becoming a police state. We've got to stop it."
tw // queerphobia
hi guys, please take ur time to read this.
not too long ago, the president of Indonesia release a statement naming LGBTQIA+ "agenda" as a non-military threat to the nation. in result, queer people in my country are being witch hunted. anarchist cishet men in my country created an organization called "boti hunter" (boti=bottom/twinks) for each city. yesterday they made a move and flex it on social media targetting trans women at night who were working to make ends meet. they brought bottles of alcoholic drinks and smashing it around them, and it resulted around 15 trans women getting beaten, kicked, and doused with urine.
they have been threatening queer people on social media by doxxing and cyber-bullying them with threats, as far as death and rape. there are screenshots of cishet men encouraging their fellows saying "let's beat up lesbians and strip them naked so they can go back to normal".
as you know, i identify myself as a fem-leaning queer (closeted irl) and i have been actively using social media to retaliate against violence targetting marginalized people and i also make my time to speak about political crisis happening in my country. but, as far as my bravery can go, i'm starting to feel terrified, many of us queers don't even feel safe in our social media, which is our only safe space for so long. the government is oppressing us, this is a call for help!!! we really can't do anything to change this situation unless the world listen to us.
people saying he wouldn’t do that for her but the greater injustice is that he wouldn’t have to. men get to keep their royal title when marrying commoners. the system itself is misogynistic, forcing women to choose between love and security in a way that men never have to.
Calling people against your surveillance company “anti-fascists” isn’t the best look for you or the country you work with… but thanks for saying the quiet part out loud, I guess
They want you to believe your voice doesn't matter.
Yet in just the last few days:
-LAPD canceled its Flock contract.
-Meta cancelled Muse Image AI after privacy outrage.
-One of the largest planned U.S. data centers was killed (PW Digital Gateway) by local opposition.
The surveillance state isn't inevitable.
It advances when people are apathetic.
It retreats when people fight back.
Public pressure works. Keep pushing.