JoelleJun 2, 2023

Seeing news articles along the lines of "we need to take back pride from radical activists."

Like, dude, we are celebrating the anniversary of when butch lesbians, trans women, drag queens, homeless gay kids, and queer prostitutes chased cops into the Stonewall they were kicked out of -- AND THEN TRIED TO SET THE PLACE ON FIRE. With the cops inside.

I'm trying to figure out how that wasn't radical activism, but trans people asking for human rights is too radical. Fuck that.

Show threadNika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️Jun 4, 2023
@joelle
I find it also concerning that with a lot of laws your senators are now also targeting these communities online. It's easy to call it an extremist content,, and just like with Sesta/Fosta they will now remove lgbt content, climate change or what ever they deem 'dangerus' from teens...
This will be very damaging lgbt+ teens. A lot of them use social media to actually find their community and seek for information.
Show threadAlastair CooperJun 5, 2023
@joelle @Nika2022 As far as I know technologies like VPNs and Tor remain legal in the US (for now) so educating people about those may help a bit. I read the other day that PornHub has an onion site now in part to help LGBTQ people access it in jurisdictions where homosexual content is illegal.
Show threadNika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️
@alastair87 @joelle indeed...but unfortunately the UK and EU also wants to mandate age verification to use social media and one day maybe even wish to change the recomendation engines.
Canada alread may have done just that, but they call it "discoverability of CanCon".
A disturbing trend when gov offices decide what content is worth recommending and which aren't.
And tbe e2e encryption bypassing ideas we didn't even mention.
Jun 5, 2023 at 9:10amWeb
Show threadNika2022 🐶🎶🌐☕️Jun 5, 2023
@alastair87 @joelle a lot of Canadians wanted to vpn into us, guess if these laws pass teens probably wont