Mastodawn

Saddling small sites with the same duties as huge platforms means many will shut down in a hammer blow to net plurality.

We'll be left with the Sophie’s choice of monopoly services; the incubators of online harms.

URGENT: The UK government must change the Online Safety Act to protect safe, non-commercial blogs, forums and fediverse.

Write to your MP to #SaveOurSites 🌐

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/save-our-sites-write-your-mp

#onlinesafetyact #onlinesafety #fediverse #ukpolitics #ukpol #activitypub #mastodon #netplurality

Save our sites - Write to your MP

Small UK websites, user-to-user services and even computer games that are completely safe and well managed, are faced with difficult paperwork, risks assessments, registration and fines thanks to the Online Safety Act. Even personal blogs with comments are forced to undergo these difficult tests and compliance tasks. Getting it wrong or ignoring them could cost an operator their house – as fines can be imposed for failing to do them. As a result, many small websites in the UK are deciding to close down.

Open Rights Group

Joshua Evan Mar 7

Carly Sagan Mar 7

What is really, really terrifying now is that it simply doesn’t matter how much danger or debris SpaceX makes, E-Mush will get the go ahead to do it again.

He is filling the atmosphere with toxic pollution. So it begs the question - are we sacrificing our entire planet for one man???

Joshua Evan Mar 6

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 6

New Canadian tourism ad just dropped.

Joshua Evan Feb 28

Sarah Dal Feb 28

Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/pride-toronto-loses-funding-trump-dei-purge

The pinkwashing is being hosed off (we all expected this - of course corporations would never actually have our back).

Expect more of this, yes in the UK, including losing workplace protections - join a union if you can!

#lgbtq+

Pride Toronto loses corporate funding as Trump’s DEI purge has chilling effect

Canadian event loses three sponsors who also do business in the US to avoid being seen as supporting LGBTQ+ rights

The Guardian

Joshua Evan Feb 26

Patrick Feb 25

Anyone in the UK (and rest of the world, really), that want their data private and secure, watch this video from @techlore explaining how to use Cryptomator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBFc4wPBO08

#privacy #techlore #uk #apple #security #cryptomator

Encrypt Your Cloud Data with Cryptomator: Security 101

YouTube

Joshua Evan Feb 26

Aral Balkan Feb 26

These assholes should be behind bars where they belong for crimes against humanity. https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/114069490804954687

kcarruthers (@kcarruthers@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image 😠 Bad news: BP to slash renewables investment & ramp up gas & oil production. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3374ekd11po

Infosec Exchange

Joshua Evan Feb 25

kottke.org Feb 25

On the lessons of the rise & fall of the KKK. “Fascism always fails. It is destructive and it is awful and not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work. It takes fighting back.” https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com

Joshua Evan Feb 16

Daniel Supernault Feb 15

20 days to go for our Kickstarter ✨

This will not only fund my full time development for 1 year on Pixelfed, Loops, Sup and Pubkit

But also fund our community CDN, moderation API, contact discovery service, and more!

If we reach the $200k stretch goal, we'll have funding for the non-profit, and at $300k we'll be able to hire a team.

Spread the word.

The future is federated and open source 🚀

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1hx75e

Joshua Evan Feb 16

The Internet is Crack Feb 16

We Must Fight Back!

In this episode, Aral Balkan exposes how billionaire corporations have seized control of the internet, turning us into products, and why reclaiming our digital rights is the fight of our lifetime.

Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/Hr3POZzAH-g
@aral
#theinternetiscrack #podcast #bigtech #smalltech #power #humanrights

Episode#16: Fighting Back Against Big Tech’s Tyranny

YouTube

Joshua Evan Feb 9

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 9

Apple must resist the U.K. government’s attempts to create backdoors in its encryption. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/uks-demands-apple-break-encryption-emergency-us-all

The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All

The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of the best ways we have to reclaim our privacy and security in a digital world filled with cyberattacks...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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