mdmkz11h ago

I stumbled across this recently, unfortunately too late...? or what do you think? Where are we now? What lies ahead? What are our options? There are a thousand alternatives.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence#main-content

#cyberspace #DigitalFreedom #FreedomOfExpression #netneutrality #Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #FreeSpeech #techEthics

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace

by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.We have no elected...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Dominus Markham1d ago

https://unharnessed.substack.com/p/the-robots-and-cobots-are-already

#freedom #humanrights #socialjustice #freedomofspeech
#Democracy
#HumanRights
#FreeSpeechCrisis
#Censorship2025
#CivilLiberties
#FreedomOfExpression

Nonilex2d ago

#Protester Who Played ‘#StarWars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington

Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of #NationalGuard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city #police officers.

#law #dissent #RightToProtest #freedomOfExpression #fascism #Stormtroopers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/protester-who-played-star-wars-song-sues-after-arrest-in-washington.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Protester Who Played ‘Star Wars’ Song Sues After Arrest in Washington

Sam O’Hara was playing the “Imperial March” theme from the movie while protesting the deployment of National Guard troops in the capital when he was handcuffed by city police officers.

The New York Times
cubonedionysus at KillBait4d ago

Three Singaporean women acquitted in landmark case over peaceful pro-Palestinian walk

A Singapore court has acquitted three women—Mossammad Sobikun Nahar, Siti Amirah Mohamed Asrori, and Kokila Annamalai—for organizing a pro-Palestinian walk to the Istana, the presidential office, in February 2024. The event, attended by about 70 people, involved participants carrying watermelon-pain... [More info]

Advocate.com5d ago

An Alabama LGBTQ+ bar advertised a drag show. Then the city denied its liquor license

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/alabama-lgbtq-drag-liquor-license

Commissioner for Human Rights5d ago

I intervened in the #ECtHR case on #Georgia’s Transparency of Foreign Influence Law, lodged by 120 civil society organisations, 16 media outlets and 4 individuals. The law restricts #FreedomOfExpression and #FreedomOfAssociation.

👇Read my submission to European Court of Human Rights #ECHR
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/commissioner-o-flaherty-intervenes-in-ecthr-case-on-georgia-s-foreign-influence-law

Commissioner O’Flaherty intervenes in ECtHR case on Georgia’s ‘Foreign influence’ law

Council of Europe
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#Radio streaming is possible.
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Indie Tech News6d ago

#I2P works perfectly well for text/images and radio ( #icecast )
* longstrings in bar!

Schneier on Security #BruceSchneier
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I2P Speed Test
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The Guardian #theguardian
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Nitter
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#Firefox has (local) translator for pages not in English but doesn't
seem to work for asian languages.
#Radio streaming is possible.
mpv --http-proxy=http://127.0.0.1:4444 http:// (site)

Dominus MarkhamOct 19

https://dominusmarkham.com/the-great-american-trucker-english-crisis/

#freedom #humanrights #socialjustice #freedomofspeech
#Democracy
#HumanRights
#FreeSpeechCrisis
#Censorship2025
#CivilLiberties
#FreedomOfExpression

The Great American Trucker-English Crisis

The U.S. Department of Transportation is withholding $40 million from California over trucker English tests. Dominus Owen Markham dissects the political theatre behind America’s newest linguistic highway crisis — with wit, bite, and a dose of common sense.

Dominus Owen Markham
Dominus MarkhamOct 18

https://dominusmarkham.com/the-unabomber-was-right-and-thats-the-problem/

#freedom #humanrights #socialjustice #freedomofspeech
#Democracy
#HumanRights
#FreeSpeechCrisis
#Censorship2025
#CivilLiberties
#FreedomOfExpression

The Unabomber Was Right (And That’s the Problem) - Dominus Owen Markham

There’s a 35,000-word essay sitting on the internet that more people should have read before we built the world we’re living in now. The problem is, it was written by a terrorist.

Dominus Owen Markham