The Rising Cost of Dissent in America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBnocNg69o4

#FreeSpeech #Dissent #FreedomOfSpeech

#wsocial the self-styled #EU X, minus the #fascism? Well you start seeing what #techsovereignty will mean if we fedi people stand by: another information control tool, with a #MEGA acronym.
One overview article caught my attention https://goodtech.info/c-est-quoi-w-social-reseau-at-protocol-europe-x/ with this buried in the middle "access to Wsocial requires #IDverification". OK, nuff said for me, it's almost like the protocol is a secondary consideration.

#freedomofspeech #misinformation #socialmedia

This is such a great initiative, but it's also deeply sad that a library of banned books is necessary.

https://malmo.se/Uppleva-och-gora/Fritidsaktiviteter/Motesplatser/Kulturhyllan/Dawit-Isaak-biblioteket/Om-Dawit-Isaak-biblioteket/About-the-Dawit-Isaak-Library.html

Read banned books.

#BannedBooks #books #library #Reading #literature #FreedomOfSpeech #DawitIsaak

Thanks for sharing @ULB_MS_FachInfo
@reading
@bookstodon

As a Muslim, it is encouraging to hear Pauline Hanson quote from a book. If there’s one thing we need, it’s more reading | Aftab Malik
By Aftab Malik

Her latest remarks drew on Ed Husain’s memoir The Islamist. Reading more may help reframe the debate on Islam, writes Australia’s special envoy to combat Islamophobia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/18/pauline-hanson-national-press-club-book-quote-comment-ntwnfb

#PaulineHanson #OneNation #Australianews #Australianpolitics #Islam #Islamophobia #Freedomofspeech #Religion #AftabMalik

Comedian Sundeep Bhardwaj about being summoned by the police for doing comedy by spewing facts!

c: @thesundeep

#Palestine #IsraelTerroristState #Comedy #FreedomOfSpeech #DemocracyAtRisk

Who Gets to Disagree?

Frankfurt Calling's John Steinmark on how 'the language of freedom' has been hijacked by an array of reactionary political actors—and how young voices in the publishing industry are organizing to push back.
The post Who Gets to Disagree? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/06/who-gets-to-disagree/

#GuestContributors #FrankfurterBuchmesse #FreedomofExpression #FreedomofSpeech #ReadingandDemocracy

If you need some overview on how censorship is conducted or how it can be measured, here's our comprehensive paper on it:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404825004213?via%3Dihub
We also summarized datasets and measurement platforms as well as selected human aspects.

#censorship #internetcensorship #censorshipcircumvention #freedomofspeech #infosec #cybersecurity #networks #internet #tcpip #selfcensorship #Tor #I2P #covertchannels #steganography #security #accessibility #gfw #china #vpn #ooni #gfwatch #censoredplanet #gfweb

New paper 1/2 on #Internet #Censorship now available: Digital Control: National Tactics of Internet Censorship (EICC'26)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-28957-5_5

It's behind paywall but you can visit https://www.fvv.um.si/eicc2026/, click on "landing page" and then access the proceedings for free (or simply request via RG or send us an e-mail) :)

#freedomofspeech #Internetzensur #internet #infosec #cybersecurity #security