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Uni Warwick Sociology Prof

this is musk’s twitter, a direct attack on the free flow of information ‘regardless of frontiers’
h/t to @sarahemclaugh

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/twitter-takes-down-post-on-home-minister-globally/article66711854.ece

Twitter takes down post on Home Minister globally

In an apparent first, Twitter appears to have withheld a tweet globally in response to a “legal demand” in India.

In 1974, a sovereign Kanien’kehà:ka (Mohawk) community was declared at an abandoned girl scout camp in the Adirondacks. After a tense 3-year stand off, New York State agreed to an unprecedented 600-acre land swap. To this day, Ganienkeh maintains its sovereignty. It isn't a reservation doesn't seek US recognition. It's one of the greatest #LandBack successes in recent history, and yet is also largely forgotten by settlers even locally.
You know we live in a dictatorship of capital when every corporate media outlet is framing the rail strike as one of "workers vs. the economy" instead of "workers vs. rail corporations that reaped $27 billion in revenue last year" - @catcontentonly

calling Arthur to account - hear the living treasure Dr. Abu Sitta! watch on youtube
#balfourdeclaration #centenary #PalestineWillBeFree

Address to Balfour at the University of Edinburgh
youtu.be/YRVMHNTeb58

above report could be read as a follow-up to the August 2020 report on 'Kashmir's Internet Siege' by #JKCCS, whose programme coordinator #KhurramParvez remains detained since Nov 2021.
https://globalfreedomofexpression.columbia.edu/publications/report-kashmirs-internet-seige/
Report: Kashmir's Internet Seige - Global Freedom of Expression

Columbia Global Freedom of Expression seeks to advance understanding of the international and national norms and institutions that best protect the free flow of information and expression in an inter-connected global community with major common challenges to address. To achieve its mission, Global Freedom of Expression undertakes and commissions research and policy projects, organizes events and conferences, and participates in and contributes to global debates on the protection of freedom of expression and information in the 21st century.

Global Freedom of Expression
pls read Uni of Virginia's excellent report on India's '#digital #authoritarianism' in #Kashmir -- the use of social media to threaten or detain #Kashmiri publics, journalists & human rights activists if posts, even indirectly, dissents from Indian govt narratives.
https://kashmir-scholars.org/2022/12/01/digital-authoritarianism-in-indian-administered-jammu-and-kashmir-a-report-by-international-human-rights-clinic-university-of-virginia/
Digital authoritarianism in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir: A report by International Human Rights Clinic, University of Virginia

Kashmir Scholars Consultative and Action Network KSCAN
BREAKING: Democrat and indigenous Alaskan Mary Peltola officially wins race for Alaska’s only House seat, defeating Pro-Trump Republican Sarah Palin.

Recordings of all of the talks from this summer’s #Socialism2022 conference are now available for download here (or wherever you get your podcasts!)

https://soundcloud.com/socialismconf/popular-tracks

Socialism Conference

The Socialism Conference is a four-day conference bringing together hundreds of socialists and radical activists from around the country to take part in discussions about social movements, Marxism, ab

SoundCloud
here's some pretty big news in the #spyware litigation world: USG urges the Supreme Court to deny cert in WhatsApp v NSO Group case. NSO was seeking official immunity as an agent of states it couldn't/wouldn't even identify, and no state piped up in its defense (of course). anyway, decision is here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1338/247116/20221121154250394_NSO%20v.%20WhatsAppp%20CVSG.pdf
finally & properly reading the brill intro to Routledge Handbook of #Critical #Kashmir Studies!!! It is truly inspirational @haley #MonaBhan & #DeeptiMisri