RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelsandpulse/116179146118132124

KOSA Goes well beyond the realms of just simple censorship. Any individual cares about privacy and anonymity and it's grave implications for our civil liberties should be worried right now. This legislation is simply orwellian in nature. #KOSA #CivilLiberties #onlinefreedom #BigTech #StopKOSA

Dein Browser kann Leben retten. Du nutzt ihn für Netflix.

Über Informationsfreiheit als Menschenrecht, die Brutalität digitaler Zensur, und was du heute noch dagegen tun kannst.

Wir leben in einer Zeit, in der Information nicht mehr nur Macht ist, sie ist Überleben. Und wer über Information herrscht, herrscht über Realität. Das wissen Diktatoren. Das wissen autoritäre Regime. Das wissen auch einige demokratisch gewählte Regierungen besser, als ihnen lieb sein sollte. Die Frage ist: Wissen wir es auch? [Mehr lesen...]

https://www.christin-loehner.de/blog/dein-browser-kann-leben-retten-du-nutzt-ihn-fuer-netflix

#digitaleRechte #Informationsfreiheit #Iran #Snowflake #Antifaschismus #InternetFreedom #Aktivismus #Tor #Meta #Zensur #InternetFreedom #DigitalFreedom #FreeTheInternet #KeepItOnline #InformationFreedom #DigitalRights #CensorshipIsViolence #NoInternetShutdown #InternetForAll #FreeSpeechOnline #DigitalActivism #HumanRights #StandUpToCensorship #DontMuteTheWorld #ResistCensorship #DecentralizeTheWeb #HumanRightsAreUniversal #StandWithIran #FreeIran #StopDigitalRepression #GlobalSolidarity #ProtestSupport #EqualityForAll #JusticeNow #FreedomToSpeak #RightsNotPrivileges #TechForGood #PowerToThePeople #SpeakTruthToPower #RightsMatter #OnlineFreedom #OpenInternet #DefendDemocracy #EndCensorship #PrivacyIsARight #SurveillanceState #NetFreedom

Digital Self-Reliance: News & Information

The freedom to share information world wide is what made the internet great. So, why do we allow tech bros, social media, and AI to limit or even control what news and information see. It's time to we rely less on these predatory platforms and curate our own news and information experience with RSS.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026/01/31/digital-self-reliance-news--information/

#tech #technology #rss #indieweb #blogs #blogging #personalsites #news #socialmedia #DigitalSelfReliance #OnlineFreedom #freeweb

A court has blocked a Texas law that would have required age verification for almost every app. Social, messaging, even basic tools.

This matters. Mandatory ID checks online often lead to mass surveillance and censorship, not safety. Once normalised, these laws spread fast.

Watch and decide where you stand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWIglwHLE7w

#Privacy #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #Surveillance #OnlineFreedom

Why the open social web matters now

https://werd.io/why-the-open-social-web-matters-now/

#HackerNews #openSocialWeb #socialMedia #digitalPrivacy #webCommunity #onlineFreedom

Corruption and Control: Turkmenistan turned internet censorship into a business

https://blog.torproject.org/Corruption-Control-Turkmenistan-internet-censorship-business/

#HackerNews #Corruption #InternetCensorship #Turkmenistan #DigitalRights #OnlineFreedom #BusinessEthics

It’s always a good time to donate to the Tor Project, but especially in light of increasing efforts by governments around the world to control and monitor online activity. These actions threaten fundamental rights – the right to online privacy and internet freedom.

I just donated, consider donating if you can. https://donate.torproject.org/

#OnlineFreedom #Privacy #DigitalRights

So I've just migrated all of my (admittedly entirely uninteresting) #GitHub repos to my own #Forgejo installation. I have no illusions that anyone will actually care about this move, but at least it removes one of the many pebbles in my stomach.

I did not need convincing that using and relying on centralised services run by large, non-European companies is bad; that has been clear for decades. Dependency, privacy concerns, legal implications and the general issue of "being the product" are all well-known and not-so-well-aged problems.

So what's new? Well that's easy: Most - or even all - the companies and services that fall under the umbrella loosely defined above have turned into outright Trump-apologists and bona fide supporters of fascism. Oh and they steal everyones stuff and feed it to their LLMs.

I should have done this a long time ago, and even so I'm keeping my presence on GitHub simply because it's pretty much a necessity to be able to contribute to other projects. And doing that is still more important than "sticking it to the guy": The positive impact of contributing (and maintaining a low bar for me to do so) still seems too important to outright deleting me account.

I'm willing to hear arguments to the contrary, though. #SelfHosting #Independence #EU #DigitalFreedom #OnlineFreedom