Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 29, 2024

[thread] Censorship

[thread] Anticipatory obedience
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113618710751701033

Censorship aplenty: Could Trump administration criminalize queer speech online?
https://xtramagazine.com/culture/trump-administration-queer-trans-censorship-269267

* Project 2025 plans for digital communications

“Pornography, manifested today in omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology/sexualization of children … has no claim to 1st Amendment protection” -- Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation

#USpol #GOP #Trump2 #Christofascism #censorship #transgenocide

Could the Trump administration criminalize queer speech online? | Xtra Magazine

ANALYSIS: Here’s what you should and shouldn’t freak out about when it comes to Project 2025’s plans for digital communications

Xtra Magazine
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 29, 2024

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* Kevin Roberts, Proj2025:

“Pornography should be outlawed.
The people who produce & distribute it should be imprisoned.
Educators & public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders.
And telecommunications & technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

* “Project 2025 ... redefines anything concerning sexuality & gender that they say is harmful to children AS pornography”

>> writing about trans issues meets those criteria <<

#transgenocide

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

[censorship] Trump intensifies battle against journalists who cover him
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/09/stopping-the-press
nonpaywalled: https://archive.fo/SkClJ

* spent yrs painting press as “enemy of the people”
* refuge/amplification at: Fox News, Newsmax, JRE, X
* intent on doing battle w. others f. position of strength
* often threatens violence/humiliation
* Project 2025: end fed. funding to NPR, PBS
* SCOTUS could overturn New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #censorship

Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term

The President-elect may use his return to office to pressure, intimidate, and even punish reporters and major outlets, David Remnick writes.

The New Yorker
Nov 30, 2024 at 6:19pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Dec 1, 2024

Book Bans Overwhelmingly Target Children’s Books by People of Color
https://truthout.org/articles/book-bans-overwhelmingly-target-childrens-books-by-people-of-color-study-finds

* books by women of color, often ft. diverse characters
* book bans more common in Right-leaning counties becoming less conservative over time
* political action to galvanize shrinking voting blocs

Book bans in political context: Evidence f. US schools
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/3/6/pgae197/7689238

PEN America Index of School Book Bans
https://pen.org/book-bans/banned-book-list-2021-2022

#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #censorship #antiLGBT #racism #PoC

Book Bans Overwhelmingly Target Children’s Books by People of Color, Study Finds

A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.

Truthout
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 3, 2025

[Canada] Trump2 Civil War incl. Smashing News Media
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/01/03/Trump-Civil-War-News-Media
@thetyee

* Trump2 picks range f. wholly unqualified to dang. deranged
* speak of annexing Canada
* 1/5 Cdn Conservatives support joining USA
* Trump2 nom. FBI Dir. Kash Patel going after media

American Oversight Sues for Kash Patel records
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113765647282235332

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #Trumpism #fascism #authoritarianism #Musk #disinformation #KashPatel
#NewsMedia #censorship #GlobalConservatism

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 3, 2025

/1 [Canada] [2022] Viktor Orbán tells CPAC path to power: Have your own media
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/20/viktor-orban-cpac-republicans-hungary

* Hungarian autocrat
* Tucker Carlson should be broadcast 24/7

Acquisition of Twitter by Musk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk
* paid fortune for Twitter
* hellscape of disinformation
* journalism a nuisance

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #Trumpism #fascism #authoritarianism #Musk #disinformation
#NewsMedia #censorship #GlobalConservatism #SteveBannon #CPAC #ViktorOrban #TuckerCarlson #FoxNews #FakeNews

Viktor Orbán tells CPAC the path to power is to ‘have your own media’

Hungarian leader also tells Republicans at Budapest conference that shows like Tucker Carlson’s should be broadcast ‘24/7’

The Guardian
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jan 3, 2025

/2 Stephen Harper Vows to ‘Strengthen’ Ties Between Conservatives and Hungary’s Far-right, Authoritarian Government
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113130880413142469

#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #Trumpism #fascism #authoritarianism #Musk #disinformation #KashPatel
#NewsMedia #censorship #GlobalConservatism #CPAC #ViktorOrban #StephenHarper #IDU #SteveBannon