Nik Sunil Williams

@nikwilliams
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Free Expression & media freedom activist based in Glasgow. Policy geek at Index on Censorship, Director of The Ferret and advisor at Coalition For Women in Journalism

Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools.

Library is universally available:

https://archive.org/details/menstruation

Menstruation Information and History Library

A collection of materials and media related to menstruation and menopause. Note: Some materials may be out of date or not representative of current medical and educational standards.

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show

MSG Entertainment began using facial recognition at venues in 2018.

Ars Technica

“I hope a lot that government will not only promote the encryption but will make it even more encrypted than it is now.”

Hear from people living in Ukraine, on how end-to-end encryption is vital for keeping themselves and their loved ones safe in times of war. A film by Global Encryption Coalition.

#saveencryption #e2ee #ukraine #encryption

A beautiful and sensitive piece by my Index colleague, Francis Clarke, on the legacy of the Holocaust, the importance of documenting war crimes wherever we find them and the ongoing commitments needed to giving meaning to the phrase Never Again https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2022/12/seeing-auschwitz-is-a-timely-reminder-of-the-importance-of-documenting-atrocities/
Seeing Auschwitz is a timely reminder of the importance of documenting atrocities - Index on Censorship

A new exhibition in London takes a different viewpoint on the horrors of the Holocaust

Index on Censorship
Who Cares Whether Elon Musk Is CEO of Twitter? He OWNS It https://theintercept.com/2022/12/19/twitter-elon-musk-ceo/
Who Cares Whether Elon Musk Is CEO of Twitter? He OWNS It.

In capitalism, managers aren’t in charge. They’re well-compensated employees.

The Intercept
#COP26 was a test for #PoliceScotland to ensure it could police while also respecting the rights to #protest and #FreeExpression. It largely failed with @netpol and the Article 11 Trust reporting widescale failings. A year on we must ensure lessons are learnt https://netpol.org/2022/12/16/respect-or-repression-one-year-on-from-cop26-still-no-closer-to-accountability/
Respect or Repression: One year on from COP26, still no closer to accountability - Netpol

Twelve months since we published Respect or Repression, little has been done about our shocking findings by a number of professional bodies purportedly responsible for oversight of Police Scotland’s activities during COP26.

Netpol
Powerful piece on @globalvoices about the sit-in organised by Rasha Azab, Eman Auf, and Mona Selim in #Egypt to push the Journalists Syndicate to do more to protect #FreeExpression and secure freedom for #politicalprisoners https://globalvoices.org/2022/12/12/rasha-and-her-friends-7-days-off-script-for-three-egyptian-journalists/ #FreeAlaa
Rasha and her friends: 7 days off-script for three Egyptian journalists

Three women journalists staged a sit-in to remind the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate of its role in relation to political discourse and freedom of expression under President Abdel Fattah

Global Voices
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Nicole Perlroth on Twitter

“Obviously.”

Twitter
Ich bin seit Jahren großer Fan der Arbeit von Taylor Lorenz. Jetzt hat Elon Musk sie von Twitter verbannt, weil sie um einen Kommentar zu ihrer aktuellen Recherche gebeten hat, wie journalistisch üblich und vorgeschrieben. Wer ihrer Arbeit folgen will findet sie hier auf Mastodon unter @taylorlorenz und liest ihren Substack-Newsletter: https://taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/elon-musk-banned-me-from-twitter #Pressefreiheit
Elon Musk banned me from Twitter

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