It's official: #Utah is the U.S. state closest to #banning #VPNs - Yahoo Tech
When Utah's Senate Bill 73 goes into force on May 6, websites subject to the state's age verification law will be legally barred from explaining how to use a #VPN to get around age #restrictions. They'll also be liable for enforcing age #verification for any user within Utah's physical borders — regardless of their apparent virtual location.
#ageverification #privacy #security #utah #SB73
New Agenda 100 | Remembering those who were banned
An estimated 1,400 South Africans were banned between 1951 and 1985 when the last person was banned. True numbers will never be known
🔗 Read the article: https://epubs.ac.za/index.php/newagenda/article/view/3415
#banned #banning #history #RSA
Můžete mi dát náhradní kontakt na sebe? Zdá se mi že operátor Mastodonu f.cz @kotelna / @xChaos se mě snaží zablokovat, odhaduju že důvod je pomsta za to, že jsem na Mastodonu Evropské Komise hlasitě (ale slušně) kritizoval porušování lidských práv v ČR citacemi z a odkazem na pořad České Televize, který tyto případy nedávno rozkrýval:
Banning All Anthropic Employees
https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/banning_all_Anthropic_employees/
#HackerNews #Banning #All #Anthropic #Employees #technews #AI #ethics #workplaceissues #Anthropic
The dating app A4A Radar (Adam4Adam) IMO wrongfully suspends my account. Before that, they IMO wrongfully accused me of being spammer, censored all my messaging and then stopped censoring me again before IMO wrongfully suspending me altogether.
IMO The app is bullying me by groundlessly and abusively suspending my account, without me violating any conditions, which ruins my romantic and dating life and causes toxic loneliness which, according to research, has as bad health effect as smoking 18 cigarettes a day. I was communicating respectfully and didn’t send any sexual pictures. Before, the app IMO bullied and harrassed me by wrongful blocking and accusations: I don’t spam and just write introductory messages about my interests (nothing sexual, no sexual pictures) and suddenly a red banner appears at the top of the screen falsely accusing me “Error: you are marked a spammer” and messages stop working, I can’t even read incoming messages (censorship) or communicate with other people. The app is IMO hypocritical because it’s the app which is IMO spamming with adverts, not me.
Also:
"I’ve Been Banned From Almost Every Dating App" -- https://www.vice.com/en/article/banned-from-dating-apps/
"The hidden consequences of being banned from dating apps Thousands say they've been permanently banned from dating apps — and it's affecting their love lives." -- https://mashable.com/article/what-happens-when-youre-banned-from-dating-apps
I feel
e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t
towards the vendor of the A4A Adam (Adam4Adam) dating app which used to be one of the few usable ones.
#abuse #homophobia #homophobicabuse #authoritarianism #contempt #bigtech #censorship #ostracism #digitalostracism #wrongful #wrongfulaccusation #wrongfulban #unjustban #ban #banning #bullying #groundless #abusive #innocent #falseaccusation
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I was pissed off, but being as well-behaved as an outraged 13 yr old can be.
Told my parents that evening.
Next morning they told me to go ahead and check out A Tale of Two Cities from the school library.
(Yes, I've always read, a lot. Book fiend. Bookish. Whatever. That's not the point here.)
Don't be telling people what they can and cannot read.
Book banning is stupid.
Stupid people ban books because they're stupid people.
When I was in Grade 7 (13yrs old), I tried to check out Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities from the school library.
A very stupid teacher (I still remember his name) informed me that it wasn't allowed. It was too much for me. (At the time I was reading Dickens' entire ouvre for my own fun)
Tried logic with him, it's available to me at the public library. No go.
I wasn't used to being told I was too stupid for any book.
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