just saw a tiktok from a disney adult reading from On Tyranny and asking their followers to cancel their d+ and disney trips omg

“Rhetoric around social media is largely *anti*-social media, like people think it will somehow be a good thing if the government forces us off our devices…. We are living through fascism, folks, and the primary way we connect with and inform and organize with each other is under lethal attack.”

Just called Disney again to let them know I was still boycotting the brand. The nice woman told me that she's been hearing a lot of that and the "good news" is all calls are being recorded and the information is going up to corporate, which is pushing them even further up. ☎️ 407.939.2273

When Arizona's "porn" age-verification bill goes into effect next week, conservative parents will be able to sue websites offering transgender education, says the author of the bill. "Fight it out in court." www.yourvalley.net/stories/ariz...

fundamentally, protest is cringe, and that's okay

Fox were coming for you

Republicans: "transgenderism must be eradicated." Trans people: "they're trying to eradicate us." Republicans: "Saying we want to eradicate you is violent extremism."

the poor Disney Parks employee who had to respond to my rant about boycotting with the most tentative "Have a Magical Day" imaginable. Anyhow, fixed their map.

JFC. A woman in the UK punched adult creator Bonnie Blue in a nightclub last night, claiming that she was setting feminism back. Earlier this week, a university sent out an alert warning people to report Blue if they saw her near campus.

A French MP — a millennial Socialist — is outraged that a telecom company providing a *free* VPN service because it could allow people to evade state-mandated age-verification. We need to stop imagining that moral panics and fetishization of the surveillance state know age or political boundaries.

"In parts of the country, the government would like sites to collect an unprecedented amount of identifying information about their users. In the whole country, the government would like to track down and prosecute those users if they are rude... It doesn’t take a mastermind to see the risks."

Strike 3, the company behind Vixen, Tushy and Blacked, is suing Meta for using nearly 3000 illegally downloaded adult videos to train its AI models. www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

The “Demonic Trend” is … furries. www.aol.com/news/transge...

"If bills like HB 4938 are the future of the conservative movement, then the true obscenity isn’t pornography—it’s the authoritarian urge to strip people of their rights under the guise of protecting morality: No one is protected; everyone is a criminal."

Which means you can’t trust their news department either. Just an inane, asinine decision to destroy an 80 year brand overnight

Wonder why Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t made a statement yet? And, just as pertinent, why his labor union hasn’t made a statement of their response? I will hazard an educated guess, since I know the studios and management involved. This will take more than one post, so bear with me. Reason #1: /1

For folks pissed off at Disney-ABC for firing Jimmy Kimmel I do believe we can put pressure and win which we need any win right now. We have friends everywhere pass it around! bit.ly/boycottdisne...

The President just got a national broadcaster for lack of "civility." Can the left please understand why giving the government more power to threaten platforms and punish speakers using vague and expansive legal terminology like "harmful to minors" might be a bad idea?

Brazil follows the UK's lead down the rabbit hole of censorship. The government will punish platforms and speakers over vaguely defined harms, under the guise of child protection. I realize child protection sounds great, but Imagine what exercise of this power looks like under authoritarianism.

We don't say sex work is work because it's a cute slogan. We say sex work is work because sex workers are left out of conversations around labor rights. Sex workers have the right to safe workplaces and legal protections. Sex workers shouldn't fsce discrimination because of archaic morals.

The great thing about Bluesky is nobody cancels you because the right doesn’t know how to log in

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Don't buy the canard that this is about Charlie Kirk. Abusing state power to lean on corporate leaders and get Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he told jokes about the president and made him feel bad was always the plan.

The right is going to use Kirk's murder to crack down on any online community to which they can find a way to tie it — kink, fetish, furry, gaming. Daily Mail says they have discovered an online account of Robinson which played the game "Furry Shades of Gay"— and go wild with speculation.

"Not that the parents who were complaining about these books in the situation I was involved in had anything to worry about. Their children had never entered the library in the first place and were certainly not book readers.” — @sassylibrarian.bsky.social

People upset about the Michigan "antiporn" law don't realise the power the state already has to deeem vast swaths of sex related content illegal — and the power to harass those who challenge them. This 2 Live Crew arrest is a good refresher.

Under Michigans #AB4938, listening *might* be all right. But it would likely make playing WAP illegal — and would allow cops to arrest Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, executives at Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and Atlantic Records and anyone who owns a copy of it.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

Universities in the UK are warning students to report adult creator Bonnie Blue and her "Bang Bus" if it's seen near campus. SWERFs are painting as both exploiter and exploited, claiming students need to be protected from her "not empowering" sexuality.

These people want us dead. They openly say so. It's not hyperbole. However, we beat them every day we survive and thrive. Every trans person alive right now living their life filled with joy is a failure for Matt Walsh. Finding love and joy is the biggest "fuck you" you can give to Walsh.

"Audio erotica, sex toy reviews, and your favorite ASMR YouTube channel could all be banned in Michigan should this bill be passed into law" mashable.com/article/mich...

Tyler Robinson's Discord chat will fuel government attacks on Discord, specifically calls for backdoor access and attempts to pressure Discord— through weaponization of AV laws and consumer protection litigation — to comply with government surveillance efforts. Bad news for privacy and free speech.

“Nearly everyone in Missouri would be affected by these regulations, and even a simple Google search could require a facial scan. That's a huge amount of government power over the internet. I just don't believe anyone realizes how invasive these types of laws are until they go into effect.”

The police will call you about photos you post to private chats. They will do this almost immediately, it seems www.kenklippenstein.com/p/charlie-ki...

Sam Altman says that ChatGPT is building an age-detection system that will direct minors to "age-appropriate" response, alert parents or law enforcement if they are in distress and ask for users to provide ID when necessary. www.businessinsider.com/openai-chatg...

God am I glad that I can't get fired for saying politically unpopular things. Sure it can affect my income, but at least I can't outright lose my job for it. And they say SW is degrading and humiliating? This is one of the only jobs that lets me actually have free speech on the internet!

The right really twisting itself in knots to explain why firing @karenattiah.bsky.social for quoting Charlie Kirk is not "cancel culture."

FTC's much-bragged about settlement with Aylo commanding the platform monitor every file for CSAM and revenge porn may have just destroyed cases against those actually sharing illegal content. Platforms will now be seen as government actors, making these warrantless searches, inadmissible in court

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Florida's Attorney General has filed lawsuits against platforms featuring adult games, claiming they fail to verify age of visitors. It's a sign that AG, who is simultaneously attacking LGBTQ literature as pornography, intends to interpret the age-verification broadly.

Government officials in the "party of free speech" looking to use the power of the state to punish people for their free speech. Again. It's almost like they were never actually serious about free speech.

guys I don't want to have to scan my face just to listen to sex sounds or look at boobs on a tiny 3px screen

If you aren’t already familiar with Horst Wessel, this is a good time to learn how people are turned into martyrs by authoritarian regimes for propaganda purposes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_W...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I can't make it any clearer that these people want us eradicated. They're angry that there hasn't already been mass violence against us. They want a Kristallnacht where LGBTQ orgs, queer bars, and gender clinics are burned to the ground just like the Nazis they take inspiration from.

I love LA! And @siridahl.com!

Breaking from The Federalist: Charlie Kirk was murdered by a trans zombie from a YA novel.

Between age verification laws, misinformation, and full blown censorship, we still have to figure how to access, educate, navigate & utilize the tools we have, and stay in community. Trying something new to have these conversations. Join me? lockdownyourlife.as.me/changes