Some bot-on-bot action here:
“It’s an AI system that mass reports these accounts, and then, you know, probably an AI system at Instagram that just sorts through, and approves or rejects.”
https://www.404media.co/sxsw-used-ai-powered-trademark-tool-to-censor-dissent-on-instagram/
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State-sponsored #censorship. Here's a paywall-free link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/business/media/fcc-abc-television-kimmel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eVA.wyK4.UIdBuB1QtlOW&smid=url-share
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"How the #Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at the #EPA"
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html
"The agency’s prestigious research office spent decades doing scientific work insulated from political pressure…For more than a half-century, [it] did groundbreaking research aimed at saving American lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change and myriad other health threats. In just one year, it has been almost completely dismantled."
#Censorship #Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Takedowns #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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Canadians!
Another reminder that these bills are rapidly progressing through the chambers. Bill C-12 passed while Bills C-8, C-9, and S-209 passed their first chambers and are rapidly progressing through their second chambers.
If these bills weren't bad enough, the Canadian government is trying to rush a bill that's essentially the United States' FISA and CLOUD Act rolled into one: C-22, the Lawful Access Act.
C-22's guardrails protecting encryption are extremely flimsy and easily bypassed (i.e. the definition of a "systematic vulnerability" won't be legally defined until after the bill is passed).
Please call your Senators and House of Commons Reps ASAP!
If you live in Canada, sign the petition against C-22: https://www.internetsociety.org/our-work/internet-policy/keep-canada-protected/
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Encryption #Internet #Canada
The absurdity of filmratings again:
"Saving Face" - USA: R, UK (#BBFC): 15, Germany (#FSK): 0
Seems that the USA and UK can't cope with lesbian sex and / or visible nipples ...
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Utah Adds Two More Books to Banned List; 34 Now Outlawed in State Public Schools
There are now 34 books banned from every public school in Utah. Two more were added to the list just 10 days after four others were added.
https://bookriot.com/utah-bans-34-books-statewide/
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