Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship: Book Censorship News, June 19, 2026

The rules defining the issuance and use of library cards are important for protecting the freedom to read. Libraries should be taking a second look.
https://bookriot.com/library-cards-and-censorship/

#Censorship #Libraries #LiteraryActivism

Don't vote for #AndyBurnham

> In late 2008, Burnham announced government plans to tighten controls on internet content in order to "even up" what he described as an imbalance with TV regulations.[26][27][28] The announcement was followed by a speech to the music industry's lobbying group, UK Music, in which he announced "a time that calls for partnership between Government and the music business as a whole: one with rewards for both of us; one with rewards for society as a whole. (...) My job – Government's job – is to preserve the value in the system."[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Burnham

#UKpol #censorship

Congress Just Rushed Through A Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul

*from the bad-copyright-ideas dept*

Jun 18th 2026 - Joe Mullin

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/18/congress-just-rushed-through-a-disastrous-copyright-office-overhaul/

> [The] House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than that.

> H.R. 6028 would fundamentally change the U.S. Copyright Office, and not in a good way.

#TrumpVirus #censorship

"OONI data is the world's largest open dataset on internet censorship: billions of measurements collected across tens of thousands of networks from 245 countries and territories since 2012. OONI's data exists because people around the world run OONI Probe and contribute measurements from the networks that they are connected to. Every new measurement adds to a shared public record.

Both its scale and methodology contribute to OONI's impact. Internet censorship often works by making interference hard to see. It can make a blocked website look broken, a throttled app look unreliable, or a shutdown look like a technical failure. OONI helps expose these tactics through open measurement methodologies, peer review, expert feedback, and comparison against control measurements, so that censorship claims can be tested, challenged, and verified.

To make this dataset user-friendly, OONI launched thematic pages in OONI Explorer focusing on the areas most frequently targeted: social media and messaging apps, news media, and circumvention tools. Each page includes short reports, longer research reports, and charts with the latest OONI data."

https://blog.torproject.org/Defending-the-right-to-know/

#OONI #OpenData #InternetCensorship #Censorship #InternetShutdowns #DigitalRights

Your Question: Will Bill C-34 Affect Mastodon?

One of the questions we got is whether or not Mastodon is affected by Bill C-34. We'll make an attempt to answer that today.

https://www.freezenet.ca/your-question-will-bill-c-34-affect-mastodon/

#Censorship #News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #BillC34 #Canada #Mastodon #OnlineHarms #SocialMedia

Instagram now has a preemptive censorship feature that warns users about making comments before they submit them. Because they want a "supportive place" i.e. you're not allowed to talk about anything controversial.

In this screenshot is a comment that "both the Dems and the Rs are corrupt" and that "if Dems are okay with genocide, what else are they okay with?"

Whether or not you agree with the statement, they are silencing trivial dissent, and that in-itself is revealing about our present and future.

I want folks to understand content moderation can be and is weaponized, and that content moderation is not a solved problem even on the #fediverse

#Instagram #meta #censorship #ContentModeration #Democrats #genocide #butchware

Can't afford stable vpn in russia, my usual free options is just a gamble - you can open twitter but not youtube or vise versa, or just nothing works. Instead of actually doing useful stuff online I constantly search among free vpn options working ones, so tired of this :(

(and no, wireguard, openvpn and such don't work for a long time now)

#cybersecurity #vpn #russia #censorship #internet #online #it #world #web