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mmasnick.bsky.social
Even UNICEF is like "yo, Australia, this social media ban for kids is a terrible fucking idea."

www.unicef.org/press-releas...
“Social media is not a luxury – for many children, especially those who are isolated or marginalised, it is a lifeline providing access to learning, connection, play, and self-expression. What’s more, many children and young people will still access social media, whether through workarounds, shared devices, or turning to less regulated platforms, ultimately making it harder to protect them.
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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alecmuffett.bsky.social
The American Counter-Offensive Against Foreign Censorship Should Be Bipartisan | Preston Byrne
https://alecmuffett.com/article/135200
#4chan #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpns
The American Counter-Offensive Against Foreign Censorship Should Be Bipartisan | Preston Byrne
On the center-left: Reddit, Wikipedia. On the center-right: X, Rumble, Truth Social. On the right: Gab. Somewhere off in the fourth dimension, nowhere to be seen on the map: Kiwi and 4chan. Everyon…
alecmuffett.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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openrightsgroup.org
COMPETITION TIME ⏰

We're giving away a signed copy of Enshittification by Cory Doctorow.

Be in it with a chance to win it. Enter by 5 January ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/win-copy-ens...
Win a copy of Enshittification signed by Cory Doctorow
Enter the Competition!
action.openrightsgroup.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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eff.org
Our new Age Verification Resource Hub is live at EFF.org/Age — and next week (12/15–12/17), we’re hosting an AMA on r/privacy to talk about it. Come ask us anything about what these sweeping laws really mean for your rights and safety.
Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
www.eff.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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eff.org
The internet is essential to how people speak, learn, and participate in public life. When access depends on flawed technology or hard-to-obtain documents, we deepen existing inequalities and silence the people who most need these platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various
www.eff.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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openrightsgroup.org
From dodgy age verification to censorship, the Online Safety Act has gone wrong.

That's why over 500k people have told the government to think again.

MPs will debate this petition on 15 December.

Tell your MP to turn up for our digital rights ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-your-mp...
Tell your MP to attend the debate on the Online Safety Act
Over 550,000 people have petitioned Parliament to repeal or reform the Online Safety Act (OSA), making it one of the largest public expressions of concern about a UK digital law in recent history.
action.openrightsgroup.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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electoralreform.bsky.social
Once the concern was wealthy individuals influencing policy, now the ultra wealthy are in the position to be the sole funder of a political movement.

We can’t let them view political parties like a yacht or island to add to their collection. We need to put a cap on their power.
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
This is neither here nor there, but because this came up in a random conversation yesterday, and sometimes I think everyone could use a distraction of something fun and entertaining mixed in with your doomscrolling, here is the best card trick ever performed on TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Kc...
Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)
YouTube video by dani daortiz
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December 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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geekynekoluv.bsky.social
Even if it were just extreme NSFW accounts, that still wouldn't be okay. As long as it's legal NSFW content, it's NOT. THEIR. JOBS. to police or censor it.
colton-armstrong.bsky.social Colton Armstrong @colton-armstrong.bsky.social · 16d
I keep seeing people trying to play down the payment processor situation, saying it's only the extreme NSFW accounts getting sacked.

Well. One of the cutest SFW furry artist got banned from PayPal. What more proof do y'all need that we need to keep fighting the good fight?

Also go support Nakufin.
nakufin.bsky.social Blu! @nakufin.bsky.social · 16d
I'm devastated, if I don't find an alternative that works with argentinians I'm contemplating the worst, I can't do regular jobs, art was my job for around 15 years
I don't do nsfw even when people insist me to
my life was already crumbling and now I don't know what to do
November 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social
Secondly, sign petitions or spread the word on said petitions. Strength in unity.

#savespeech #StopKOSA #DONOTCOMPLY

US
- www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/dont...
- action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
- www.stopkosa.com
- www.badinternetbills.com

UK
- petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Don’t Let MasterCard and Visa Censor Games
www.fightforthefuture.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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slamcampbell.bsky.social
I truly believe human beings love to be busy, for the most part.
We love to occupy ourselves with tasks, and work on things, and overall contribute to something. Big or small.

This is why I fucking hate people who argue against UBI and welfare, because they believe humans are lazy.
December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.

Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.

resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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fishqueen.bsky.social
Help fight the bill here.

www.badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 AM
mog666.bsky.social
@zackpolanski.bsky.social please dont let let Reform be the only party who shows up on Dec 15 to defend our digital rights.
mog666.bsky.social Morgan Dalton @mog666.bsky.social · 18d
@andrewpakes.bsky.social You didn't reply to my mail in August however on Dec 15 you have a chance to win some good will with your constituent
Age verification exposes us to unacceptable risk of data breaches. Users must often share sensitive personal data, such as government IDs or biometric information, with private third-party age verification vendors and Age verification is usually tied to an account, meaning if you don’t want to have to verify every visit you must now sign up and log in to access adult content. The Online Safety Act effectively encourages creating accounts on multiple porn websites! These records become a liability in the event the website suffers from a hack, potentially exposing the personal information and viewing history for users of that service. This has already happened to data stored with Discord, think centralised government ID solves this? Estonia lost 286,438 citizens data in a breach. https://therecord.media/estonia-says-a-hacker-downloaded-286000-id-photos-from-government-database Facial recognition is proven to be inadequate creating censorship. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8525.pdf This means a significant number of adults attempting to access legal content will be incorrectly blocked and a significant fraction of younger teens could potentially be granted access to adult services while their parents are not watching them because they have been given a false sense of security that the state has their back instead of being encouraged to use the tools that are available to us. Age gates push citizens young and old to risk the least regulated sites, with the fewest safeguards, and therefore the places most likely to carry harmful or even illegal content. Educational and other legal content is already being blocked from citizens who should be entitled to view it. The act contains provisions that will mandate client side scanning of our encrypted communications. This means that big tech’s defective algorithm’s will run on your phone sending your private messages and sext’s to be manually reviewed. Oppose the online safety act if you agree that Police should continue to require a warrant to tap your phone. They call this “chat control” in Europe and they want to bring it here https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ Compliance demands drive out smaller communities and centralise control in large corporate platforms. This doesn’t just effect porn websites, compliance costs are forcing smaller services to shut down and future services will not exist to compete, locking in the internet's current course of enshitification. Privacy features available elsewhere in the world are not being launched in the UK thanks to our unwise approach to regulation. The Solution to protect children is improving sex and media literacy education. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31855489/ A digital bill of rights should give citizens of all ages protection from and control over targeted advertising and harmful algorithms.
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
mog666.bsky.social
@andrewpakes.bsky.social You didn't reply to my mail in August however on Dec 15 you have a chance to win some good will with your constituent
Age verification exposes us to unacceptable risk of data breaches. Users must often share sensitive personal data, such as government IDs or biometric information, with private third-party age verification vendors and Age verification is usually tied to an account, meaning if you don’t want to have to verify every visit you must now sign up and log in to access adult content. The Online Safety Act effectively encourages creating accounts on multiple porn websites! These records become a liability in the event the website suffers from a hack, potentially exposing the personal information and viewing history for users of that service. This has already happened to data stored with Discord, think centralised government ID solves this? Estonia lost 286,438 citizens data in a breach. https://therecord.media/estonia-says-a-hacker-downloaded-286000-id-photos-from-government-database Facial recognition is proven to be inadequate creating censorship. https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2024/NIST.IR.8525.pdf This means a significant number of adults attempting to access legal content will be incorrectly blocked and a significant fraction of younger teens could potentially be granted access to adult services while their parents are not watching them because they have been given a false sense of security that the state has their back instead of being encouraged to use the tools that are available to us. Age gates push citizens young and old to risk the least regulated sites, with the fewest safeguards, and therefore the places most likely to carry harmful or even illegal content. Educational and other legal content is already being blocked from citizens who should be entitled to view it. The act contains provisions that will mandate client side scanning of our encrypted communications. This means that big tech’s defective algorithm’s will run on your phone sending your private messages and sext’s to be manually reviewed. Oppose the online safety act if you agree that Police should continue to require a warrant to tap your phone. They call this “chat control” in Europe and they want to bring it here https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ Compliance demands drive out smaller communities and centralise control in large corporate platforms. This doesn’t just effect porn websites, compliance costs are forcing smaller services to shut down and future services will not exist to compete, locking in the internet's current course of enshitification. Privacy features available elsewhere in the world are not being launched in the UK thanks to our unwise approach to regulation. The Solution to protect children is improving sex and media literacy education. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31855489/ A digital bill of rights should give citizens of all ages protection from and control over targeted advertising and harmful algorithms.
November 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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darwinnernz.bsky.social
The always amazing Cory Doctorow asks ‘Who are we to blame for enshittification?’, when our platforms all decay into worse versions of themselves like, well, take your pick. A thoughtful article at Locus.

locusmag.com/feature/comm...
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome
Who are we to blame for enshittification? That is, who is at fault for the pandemic of platform decay, in which the platforms we depend on, where we congregate, trade, perform, sell, buy, connect, …
locusmag.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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techdirt.com
Defense Contractor Lobbyists Are Trying To Kill Army ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms With A Bunch Of Lies And Bullshit

So we've noted repeatedly how there's a real push afoot to implement statewide "right to repair" laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to…
Defense Contractor Lobbyists Are Trying To Kill Army ‘Right To Repair’ Reforms With A Bunch Of Lies And Bullshit
So we've noted repeatedly how there's a real push afoot to implement statewide "right to repair" laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. Unfortunately, while all fifty states have at least flirted with the idea, only Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, Colorado, California, and Oregon, and Washington have actually passed laws.
www.techdirt.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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bruceduggan.bsky.social
Ah, a boy can dream…
grantbrisbee.bsky.social Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 23d
I heard Zohran said "You know what people would love you for, sir, is universal health care and a basic income. They would build statues for you, and the very nasty people would suddenly be nice to you" and Trump said "wait really?" and now they're writing executive orders together
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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ronwrites.bsky.social
I also like the example that if you had UBI to fall back on, people would be more willing to risk starting a business. I imagine two friends starting a bakery in their kitchen.
November 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
mog666.bsky.social
Anyone know how to get the change app button back on my tablet?
www.reddit.com/r/samsunggal...
From the samsunggalaxy community on Reddit: Where's the "change app" button?
Posted by TimPLakersEagles - 1 vote and 7 comments
www.reddit.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
mog666.bsky.social
Ah man! Microsoft Gameinput is crashing my PC again! It did this a few years ago but I dont remember how I fixed it, I hope it didnt require a full reinstall!
November 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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discord12395.bsky.social
Basically, they're trying to pull another Prohibition on us, but on a larger/stupider level. These age verification and internet "safety bills" won't protect kids. They'll only shred our free speech and privacy, pushing users into dangerous territories. #SaveSpeech

www.cnet.com/tech/service...
New Age Verification Bills Could Ban VPNs, Jeopardize the Privacy of Millions
The proposed legislation claims to protect children, but could prompt people to flock to dangerous apps.
www.cnet.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
“I promise you, NCOSE would gleefully move to silence many RIAA-label supported artists, claiming their music is "obscene" and must be stopped. It would be nice if artists on RIAA labels spoke up about how they feel about the RIAA supporting NCOSE's attacks on speech.”
mmasnick.bsky.social Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Oct 22
Excuse me what? The RIAA is now funding NCOSE to file bullshit amicus briefs before the Supreme Court?!?

That is way more fucked up than even usual RIAA nonsense.

Let me explain...
INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE1 The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) exists to build a world where people can live and love without sexual abuse and exploitation. With roots going back more than 60 years, NCOSE is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian non-profit that is leading the fight against all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation, including sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, and the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).2 Tackling these issues from every angle, NCOSE’s efforts encompass a grassroots network, research institute, training team, global coalition, and embedded litigation center—the NCOSE Law Center. The Law Center promotes and participates in key, precedent-setting cases and advocates in state and federal legislatures to advance policies to prevent sexual harm and aid those who have experienced it. Technological advances have made NCOSE’s work ever more urgent. The modern internet has resulted in an explosion in the amount and brutality of child Footnote 1 No counsel for any party authored this brief in whole or in part. Other than amicus curiae or its counsel, the Recording Industry Association of America made a monetary contribution intended to fund the brief’s preparation and submission.
November 20, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
If you don't know NCOSE actually started as "Operation Yorkville" and then "Morality in Media" an extremist religious org focused on stomping out ALL adult content, which they describe as pornographic. But it includes anything from LGBTQ content to atheism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...
Operation Yorkville Operation Yorkville (OY) was founded by an interfaith group of three New York City clergymen in 1962.[6] Father Morton A. Hill of St. Ignatius Loyola Catholic Church became the public face of the group.[7] The group connected exposure to different types of "salacious" magazines and pornography to atheism, obscenity, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, masturbation, murder, sexually transmitted diseases and "high school sex clubs", but did not provide evidence for its claims.[8] Although the group's actions emphasized the protection of minors, First Amendment Law Review wrote that "at times the organization seemed to be using children as a pretext for a society-wide ban".[9] The group maintained that they were fighting obscenities and not advocating censorship.[10] In 1963, the organization began a long-running effort to ban John Cleland's erotic novel Fanny Hill, which ended with the 1966 Supreme Court decision Memoirs v. Massachusetts.[11] Morality in Media Operation Yorkville was renamed to Morality in Media (MIM) in 1968.[12] Hill, president of MIM until his death in 1985, was appointed to serve on the 18-member President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography by President Lyndon B. Johnson.[13] A report was submitted in 1970 that said all "adult" obscenity laws should be repealed.[13] Hill called the commission's report a "magna carta for the pornographers".[14] After the four justices nominated by President Richard Nixon reshaped the Supreme Court, the Burger Court disregarded the commission's report and upheld obscenity laws in 1973, citing the dissenting reports by Hill, minister Winfrey Link and Charles Keating, the leader of the Citizens for Decent Literature.[15] In 1973, a member of the group complained to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about George Carlin's anti-censorship routine "Seven Dirty Words", leading to the 1978 decision FCC v. Pacifica Foundation.[16] In 1980, the organization launched an unsuccessful lawsu…
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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mikestabile.bsky.social
"Companies will always prioritize their needs and safety over yours, and that uploading sensitive information to the internet will always come with risks and vulnerabilities, no matter how safe these companies claim your data is in their hands."
Give Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are Worried
From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong.
www.pcmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM