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#Microsoft is now allowing hate speech against trans people (https://mastodon.social/@opentermsarchive/114937524218522942).

There are lots of ethical free open alternatives to Microsoft on the Fediverse:

CLOUDS
@nextcloud

EMAIL SUITE
@thunderbird & @thunderbird@tilvids.com

MINECRAFT ALTERNATIVE
@Luanti

OFFICE SUITE (OFFLINE)
@libreoffice & @LibreOfficeEs (in Spanish) & @LaMouetteODF (in French)

OFFICE SUITES (ONLINE)
@CollaboraOffice
@CryptPad
@ONLYOFFICE

SOFTWARE FORGES
@Codeberg
@forgejo

VIDEO CALLING & CONFERENCING
@Jami

Removing sexual content—from games, education, entertainment, overall discourse—is not about making things non-sexual. It's about making everything sexual implicit in the patriarchy, with no conversations about it so people can't explore their own sexuality in an empowering way and come up with something other than a woman's obligation to be penetrated by a man in a way that could lead to pregnancy.

Silencing open dialogue about sexual diversity and individual desire is very bad news for asexual folks. It's not a coincidence that much of our terminology and formation of a community came after the sexual revolution and when sexual content was more accepted in entertainment than it is now. Free sexual expression shows there are options. For some of us we prefer not to take any of them. If we let sex be removed from public society then we're back to never learning about each other, never knowing that we don't need to do things we don't want to.

Diversity is strength and that's why fascists are hell bent on censoring sex.

ganhei um caderno de um amigo e tive q inaugurar com o maioral.

talvez eu pinte depois

recent stuff with payment proccessor censorship of adult games shows why an ideal of free speech that goes beyond the constitution matters. government isn't the only institution that can censor you; any large centralized org, from social media platforms to credit card companies & game storefronts, can do the same with the power they bring to bear over their users & taking down art and opinions they don't like. it should be impossible for cultural & economic plaque like this to develop and clot society's bloodflow.

individuals should have the ability to buy and sell, give and receive, and filter out shit they don't like on their own. giving that away to states and corporations because you're ruled by your gag reflex is wrong.