“Politically Correct” is just a quaint way of saying Censorship.
“Politically Correct” is just a quaint way of saying Censorship.
Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.
Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"
Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.
https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730
#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .
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Using #Ubuntu? This is how easy it is to help people in need circumvent #censorship:
1. Open terminal application
2. Enter: sudo snap install tor-snowflake
This will install a #SnowflakeProxy https://snowflake.torproject.org/ which I have packaged as a snap (https://github.com/jadolg/tor-snowflake-snap) for convenience.
Snowflake helps people connect to the #Tor network in places where they can’t directly do it. Share your freedom!
https://www.waterstones.com/book/careless-people/sarah-wynn-williams/9781035065929
Mr Meta-Facebook is throwing his weight around, desperately trying to have this book withdrawn (he is a big supporter of free speech) so obviously it's best others don't read it or share this information... he's already... errrm... 'obtained' an injunction preventing the author from further promoting it herself.
Standalone Snowflake proxy update 11
Uptime: 6d 01:04
Total download bandwidth donated: ~1.03 TB
Total upload bandwidth donated: ~1.08 TB
Back into terabyte territory, baby!
2. Another attack on free speech, this time by Yale
"This is not about me. It's not about Mahmoud Khalil."
This is a "very much coordinated attack on free speech...
"& about how much the government is terrified of not being able to silence the voices that they've been trying to silence for so many years."
~Dr. Helyeh Doutaghi
Jewish Onliner accused Doutaghi of membership of a pro-Palestinian advocacy organization.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/exclusive-banned-yale-law-scholar-helyeh-doutaghi
Another Filipino documentary censored
The film "Food Delivery" tracking the efforts of fisherfolk and authorities to provide food to communities facing Chinese aggression in the West Philippine Sea is removed from the film festival Cinepanalo 2025. The festival is funded by Puregold Price Club, a supermarket chain owned by Filipino-Chinese Lucio Co whose family is among the PH's richest.
#Philippines #Asian #Film #Documentary #PureGold #SuperMarkets #Censorship @pinoy
Give a bully what he demands & he'll demand more.
Report: "White House tells Columbia to sack academic staff over Israel criticism"
Trump is threatening to pull government funding from Columbia & demanding it sack the leadership of the Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies Department & place it under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years”.
https://aje.io/kb975q?update=3579730
#Trump #Columbia #Autocracy #USPol #Censorship #Racism #Resist .
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Interview: “Imperialism & Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand”
M. Gessen on Trump’s Policies at Home & Abroad
"Trump has entered his second term prepared to enact his radical Project 2025 agenda, including a crackdown on LGBTQ rights & dissent.
"While he was something of an accidental president in his first term, Trump has been transformed by power & is now increasingly imperialist & totalitarian.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/m_gessen
#Trump #Autocracy #USPol #LGBTQ+Rights #Project2025 #Racism #Censorship .
Unmitigated Heritage Disaster, Steven Guilbeault, Returns to Heritage
Steven Guilbeault was an unmitigated disaster in his role as Heritage Minister. Now, Mark Carney has put him back in that role as Culture Minister.
https://www.freezenet.ca/unmitigated-heritage-disaster-steven-guilbeault-returns-to-heritage/
@vosje62 @EvertFrieling @opiniedweiler Terug naar de middeleeuwen…? #Censorship #censuur
Update. "The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge. Can #librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from #DOGE.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
(#paywalled)
"Lynda Kellam, a social scientist and data librarian,…who’s served in leadership positions at two Ivy League universities, described the vulnerable data as “irreplaceable.”…Kellam told me that she’d participated in a small data-preservation effort during Trump’s first term, but had never seen anything like the frenzy that ignited in late January, when the #CDC began removing information from its website. Kellam was encouraged, but worried about a lack of coördination. What if the backups languished on private hard drives? What if archivists duplicated one another’s work? She created a Google Doc to centralize information about preëxisting initiatives—an archive of archives, with detailed instructions on how to contribute to each…Kellam met with the heads of other data-librarian organizations, and together they founded the #DataRescueProject."
Update. Survey of US #librarians and #LIS faculty.
https://coloradomesa.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9GjMQWWDpB5zDDg
"Recent weeks and months have brought shifts to the pursuit of research across the United States, including funding freezes and budget cuts, executive orders regarding DEIA (and its variants) and other justice-related topics (e.g., environmental justice)…This survey aims to gather the perspectives of academic librarians and LIS-program faculty about the implications of these shifts (and executive orders) on research initiatives and, more broadly, academic freedom, researchers' freedom of thought/speech/expression within academia, and researchers' overall intellectual freedom."
The US is fucking insane. https://nyti.ms/3FnrLzW #1984 #censorship #erasure
Update. "#APDU [Association of Public Data Users] Statement on #Education Research and #Data"
https://apdu.org/?p=5812775
"On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, over 1,000 staff from the Department of Education [#DOE] were laid off. This includes almost all staff from the Institute of Education Sciences (#IES), which housed the National Center for Education Statistics (#NCES)…NCES is mandated by law to report on the condition of education annually, collect and disseminate key education data, and support state and local education agencies…The [layoffs] make it unclear how NCES will meet its legal obligations under the Education Sciences Reform Act, Every Student Succeeds Act, the Information Quality Act, and other federal laws…Congress and policymakers must act to ensure NCES has the resources to meet its statutory obligations. Stakeholders—including researchers, educators, and state leaders—must demand transparency on how education data will be maintained."
Update. "Joint Statement on Federal Censorship of American History"
https://www.historians.org/news/aha-oah-joint-statement-on-federal-censorship-of-american-history/
"The American Historical Association (#AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (#OAH) condemn recent efforts to censor historical content on federal government websites, at many public museums, and across a wide swath of government resources…Policies that purge words, phrases, and content that some officials deem suspect on ideological grounds constitute a systemic campaign to distort, manipulate, and erase significant parts of the historical record. Recent directives insidiously prioritize narrow ideology over historical research, historical accuracy, and the actual experiences of Americans.
As the institution chartered by the US Congress for “the promotion of historical studies” and “in the interest of American history, and of history in America,” the American Historical Association must speak out when the nation’s leadership wreaks havoc with that history. So, too, must the OAH, as the organization committed to promoting “excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history.” It is bad enough to forget the past; it is even worse to intentionally deny the public access to what we remember, have documented, and have expended public resources to disseminate."
"To date, 11 organizations have signed on to the statement."
#Censorship is spreading on corporate social media, and as usual #ElonMusk is involved.
#Luigi #LuigiMangione
https://slate.com/technology/2025/03/reddit-elon-musk-luigi-mangione-censorship.html
ICE is using a tool called SocialNet to access public data from over 200 platforms, mapping out individuals’ activities, movements, and relationships.
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/
You’ll be shocked to see how many services you trust are on the list.
To name a few: Bluesky, Reddit, Rumble, Telegram, Signal, DuckDuckGo.
Apps that aren’t on the list (for now):
Messenger: WireMin, SimpleX Chat
Mail: Tutanota
Browser: Brave, Tor
Photo: ente, Immich