RT Mullvad.net (@mullvadnet)An important victory – but we still need to stop Chat Control.The Council of Ministers in the EU has, after three years, now reached a common position on Chat Control. The requirement for mandatory scanning (including end-to-end encrypted messaging services) has been removed, which is a major victory. The EU Council failed to implement mandatory mass surveillance. However, in its proposal, they are laying the groundwork for mass surveillance in the future.What happens now?The Cou ...

RT Apljak-NH🇺🇸☘️✝️ (@apljak6502)Was a great stream @MikeBenzCyberIf you aren’t following Mike Benz,who has this uncanny ability to suspect, investigate and expose the covert spending by the Blob here and abroad that censors our voices and silences anything that they disagree with, then you should immediately start!The absolute best peak behind the Blob curtain on X🇺🇸 ...

X rolling out geolocation of accounts is just as bad as censorship in the sense it causes massive inner fighting between humans and the underlying issues are never solved.Wendy O (@CryptoWendyO):X reinstates location for users when in reality X should be more focused on accounts using AI and label them.We know everyone wants to be from the US, it is the greatest country on earth. ...

The EU's Censorship Law From Hell (and how Stanford helped create it) https://t.co/1tIXosFX72 ...

18-year-old Claudine Henry is graduating high school in just one week. She's got big plans for her last summer in Ohio. A road trip with her best friend Suzanne, nights spent at Hoft parties, and a mission to find out if the rumors are true that Wyatt Jones does like her. And Claudine plans to have sex for the first time. But all of these plans are upended when her father knocks on her bedroom door one evening and through tears tells her that he and her mother are separating. Quote, "All I can think of is h ...

RT Vijay Selvam (@vijayselvam)Been asked for my Legal take on Core v30/Spam/Filters a few times. So here it is.Counterintuitively, filters could INCREASE legal risk for nodes by decreasing plausible deniability IMO. The State says: “If you already censor CSAM voluntarily, surely you can censor XYZ user/transaction when we tell you to.” When you show that you CAN censor via a discretionary filter policy you invite state capture of individual node policies - you show editorial capacity.No filtering = plausibl ...

Opponents of Britain’s Online Safety Act worried that making profit-driven platforms responsible for removing illegal content would result in widespread censorship. That was a valid concern, but it does not seem to have materialised https://t.co/xMj5tVPUIA ...

RT Allum Bokhari (@AllumBokhari)USAID and the BBC: A Transatlantic Censorship AllianceUSAID supplied £2.6 million ($3.3m) to BBC Media Action, the nonprofit arm of the UK state broadcaster.This represented 8 percent of the nonprofit's income in 2023-4.Its goal? Countering "information disorder" 🧵 ...

RT Reclaim The Net (@ReclaimTheNetHQ)Twitch Imposes Face Scans for UK Users to Comply with Government’s Censorship Lawhttps://t.co/XNPzPKXSzc ...

YeahMario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal):ELON: 𝕏 SPARKED A WIDER MOVEMENT AGAINST CENSORSHIP“Once Twitter broke ranks, it became very obvious what the others were doing.And so, they had to mitigate their censorship substantially because of what Twitter did.To give them some credit, they also felt that they had https://t.co/JbEKdI4I9h ...