Irenes (many)Oct 10, 2024

the fucking Salvation Army had the nerve to send us a piece of paper mail asking for donations

so we figure it's time for our annual reminder to please not donate to the Salvation Army because their mission and their services are explicitly hostile to queer people.

Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 10, 2024
the really nice thing about hosting our own infrastructure is that, when somebody really deserves it, we can say "fuck"
Show threadDaniel GibsonOct 10, 2024
@ireneista
there are instances where you can't?
that's cruel
Show threadsnaeqeOct 22, 2024
@Doomed_Daniel
@ireneista
Oh you wouldn't guess all the things you actually can't say in the chat window of a chinese based MMO game (ie personal estimate of 90% of the casual mobile game market by revenue).
Things like Tiananmen Square will show up as asterisks, or somehow the message won't make it through at all.. baad network bois, baad..!
Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 22, 2024

@snaeqe @Doomed_Daniel we would, because we have experience in this topic, but it's upsetting. the one we were shocked to learn about during the Dragonfly escalation[1] was air quality.

[1] https://archive.thinkprogress.org/google-dragonfly-china-censorship-human-rights-fe1fe1ddf55a/

Google’s secret ‘Dragonfly’ project is a major threat to human rights

"This has much wider implications for Google, and for human rights online more generally."

Show threadsnaeqe

@ireneista

When I discovered that, I was just stunned about the depth.. Search engines, news sites etc; I'd expect those to be censored, prohibited from displaying.. "unpleasant" content to chinese residents; I was perplexed though that this would even cover messages in the subordinate chat function of a mobile game, even when neither sender nor receiver were located in China..

Oct 22, 2024 at 7:15pmWeb
Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 22, 2024
@snaeqe a tool of control becomes its own reason for existing. once it's made, if it isn't always growing in scope and power, its existence is under threat....
Show threadIrenes (many)Oct 22, 2024
@snaeqe pardon the excessively philosophical answer but we think that's the more fundamental truth here, more useful to think about than just trying to figure out which specific leaders have what kind of bad intent or whatever