Others described “soft” or “indirect” pressure being brought to bear, leading academics to #selfcensor & risk-averse universities to avoid research that could bring them into conflict with China
Unless I'm in a serious work or business meeting or medical other essentially important meetings - I'm not going to #SelfCensor myself for the comfort of mostly stranger folks who aren't able to handle my humanity in its full, passionate, naturally born ways.
I won't lower my authenticity volume to make anyone else more comfortable.
You have the option to scroll past or mute or block me, instead. Use those options, if my genuine nature leads you to discomfort & you're unable or unwilling to learn how to grow from those uneasy feelings.
🤔 I'm in type, edit, type, edit, press se-...delete mode lately. Not sure if I'm realising replies don't need to be self therapy, that my shitposts are shit, I'm worried about releasing too much info, or 500 char. 🤷♂️
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I'm getting some dead trees lopped, but one holds an old, apparently empty brushtail possum box. I expect the box to break if moved.
So I'm making a new box - maybe 2, a ringtail visited the other night (needs a smaller box). That'll be good for me. 🙂
@jaycech3n given #GAFAMs like #Google have shiwn willingness to #SelfCensor and "comply" way beyond #CloudAct & #DMCA, I'd consider it "lost" at this point!
@woe2you @miah unless they #SelfCensor their #DNS again...
@[email protected] never did! I use #OpenNIC: https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/dns.servers.list.tsv
@leonid If Apple meant that, they'd not #SelfCensor their #AppStores, rat out their chinese buyers and allow #Govware like #Absher in the #AppStore!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absher_(application)
After all, people living under dictatorships know that spouting off about their discontent and desire for change is a risky business, so they will #SelfCensor on social media. That's true even if a person isn't afraid of retaliation: if you know that using certain words or phrases in a post will get it autoblocked by a censorbot, what's the point of trying to use those words?
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Why hello there, good people of the Purple Elephant.
Tinu is one of my favourite people. She is a #disability activist whose life has been threatened a few times because of #SevereIllness and #ChronicIllness. She is a proud Black Woman who DESERVES to be proud.
Never. Ever. EVER. Ask Tinu or any other #BlackWoman to #SelfCensor herself. This is especially for us #whites. Asking that people coddle our comfort levels is BS. There are ZERO appropriate #TriggerWarning|s for white comfort. /FIN.
@klardotsh
To those who have been following, the #InformationWar has *actively* led to current problems.
Please don't express that we should #selfCensor because a nation has been forced into a corner and has finally after years of being ignored, belittled, dismissed suppressed, deplatformed, now is countering aggression with what they obviously perceive as the necessary force.