So like, for the sake of general cybersecurity and safety navigating the web, I recommend giving Google and other captcha services a LOT of shit when they do this. Make them roll it back. #stopgoogle #techmonopoly #savespeech #linux

I maintain that the abundance movement is a political project designed by the extraction class to pre-empt authentic populist progressive reform with something akin to 00s era Obama vibes based deregulatory corporatism and I don't love that honest reformers have been forced to adopt the parlance

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

The thing is, I don't want to treat people like machines and machines like people.

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

Canadians overwhelmingly support encryption and reject expanded government access to private messages. New research by CDT finds deep public concern with key surveillance powers proposed in Bill C-22, including risks to privacy, free expression, and online security.

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

The #28thRegime under scrutiny ⚖️ 🔍 ⚠️ The European Commission's recent #EUInc proposal for a new European company law framework could allow companies to circumvent a country's #labour rules by registering in a country with lighter ones 🔗 www.euractiv.com/news/the-key...

It's not age verification, it's only identity verification. The lede here and the article are misleading that there is an age verification option when there is not, it's full identity verification as the only option.

States across the US are advancing laws to restrict youth access to social media through bans, parental consent rules, and age verification. CJ Larkin and Max Morgan map where these efforts are happening, which bills have passed or stalled, and the laws that have been challenged in court.

So like, for the sake of general cybersecurity and safety navigating the web, I recommend giving Google and other captcha services a LOT of shit when they do this. Make them roll it back. #stopgoogle #techmonopoly #savespeech #linux

Not only is it not user friendly (you need you phone available, it requires complex operations like installing a qr code reader) but it goes against the most basic security recommendations we give users to not click on random links.

What the hell is this cancer, reCAPTCHA?

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

Trying to explain an Internet freedom issue to family or friends? Check out EFF's page with a bunch of one-pager handouts to help you learn about different subjects and share with the people around you! www.eff.org/pages/eff-o...

Public Safety urging Canadians to use a VPN to protect their privacy while simultaneously misleading Canadians about Bill C-22, a bill that would drive those same services out of Canada, is peak lawful access.

It's so weird when features are worded as threats. It's not "now you can talk to Gmail!" No, it's "Gmail is going to start talking to you." I don't know if it's reflective of the technology or of The Verge specifically, but it's definitely something matriculating down from AI techbro attitudes.

State media is a component of LLM training data. A new Nature study says this material is laundered into what presents as objective chatbot text. LLMs also give more pro-regime answers when prompted in the official language of low-press-freedom countries than in English.

Apple and Google are rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS between iPhone and Android. Billions get instant security gains — and the "interoperability undermines security" argument both companies pushed for years just got much harder to defend, writes Mallory Knodel.

Dear friends, what a month this has been From the EU's new hobby of ripping up permitting rules and funding dirty infrastructure, to us catching Microsoft literally ghostwriting EU law, we saw it all If you want to know more, subscribe to our newsletter & share it👉 corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter

the fuck it will

🚨 Canada’s Bill C-22 is here &  it’s the same surveillance bill from last year's failed C-2. 🚨 Help us fight for Canadian's privacy & say no to this surveillance bill.   Send a letter to reject Bill C-22 here 👉 www.internetsociety.org/our-work/int...

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

📣 Make America More Polluted Again? The US EPA will repeal limits and delay regulations on PFAS “forever chemicals” in drinking water, putting public health at risk. "This is a handout to PFAS polluters disguised as public protection." www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2026/5/...

#canada #cdnpoli #tech #privacy #politics #c-22 a reminder post, to email and call and sign petitions! oncanadaproject.ca/findyourrep

#savespeech time to get on google's case. Hard.

🚨 Today 35 MEPs are writing to the Commission to scrap unlawful secrecy on data centres' environmental information. A month ago, @investigate-europe.eu revealed that the EU Commission copy-pasted a Microsoft amendment to keep crucial data under wraps. 💥 That secrecy is now being challenged

They aren't walking back their stance on NSFW, they're only walking back the restrictions on "implied" or "artistic" nudity/nsfw. Pornography is still outright banned, which means KS is still a no go for most NSFW projects.

Internet puritans when cartoon woman

Reminder: The TAKE IT DOWN Act’s notice-and-removal requirements take effect today. Covered platforms must provide a process for users to report nonconsensual intimate imagery and remove valid reports within 48 hours, including known identical copies. www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/reminde...

#savespeech #nopornban TN Governor Signs Bill Requiring Warnings on Adult Stores Compelled speech concerns voiced in the article. www.xbiz.com/news/298281/... We all know this is false. Its also unconstitutional. Contact your reps & tell them to scrap this bill. www.congress.gov/state-legisl...

"Now, all that has to happen is for a judge to realize that regulating the Internet by make-believe isn't actually going to work." www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

One of the conservative architects of the UK's Online Safety Act is suddenly shocked — shocked! — to find that it applies to anti-immigrant content she likes. Censorship is a hungry, hungry, profoundly stupid beast.

#savespeech Call your reps, EU cits! Dont let them impliment these types of deportations.

If you don't like what's happening here - Texas courts abusing their authority to oppress queer people who live in New York and Rhode Island - take a look at KOSA, a Democratic-sponsored bull which would explicitly give state AGs more power to oppress queer people in other states.

I have a long fuse when it comes to people who are clearly just having a laugh but I'm getting so exhausted by people constantly calling anything remotely horny "goonerbait" even if they mean it affectionately.

#savespeech #stoppaypros Opposition works. Raising your voices WORKS. We CAN beat back censorship and change minds, but we NEED to keep up the calls and the fighting. stop-paypros.neocities.org

Politicians in Brussels are about to vote on a law that could bring ICE-style deportations to Europe. More than 100,000 people are already speaking out - and the pressure is growing. Add your name and make sure we stop this law. Tell them: Vote No! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...

"[Palantir workers] joined a company that promised to stop abuses of power, and they are watching it build the tools that make those abuses faster, wider, and harder to undo. The question they are left with is ... at what point does building the machine make you responsible for what it does?"

THE REASON WHY THE WEALTHY AND ASCENDANT FAR RIGHT ARE PUSHING NOFAP MANOSPHERE SLOP IS BECAUSE JACKING OFF IS THE LAST ENTERTAINMENT YOU CAN GET FOR FREE GO OUTSIDE? $100! GO EAT FOOD? $100! TRY TO DATE OR HAVE SEX THATS $100+! BUT YOU CAN JACK OFF FOR FREE AND THE ELITES DON'T WANT YOU TO DO THIS

Dont let these fuckers get away with this!! I better see all my fellow eu ppl sign and share this along

#savespeech #notodigitalID #NOTOOSLEVELVERIFICATION IL HB 5511 Update: With its 2nd deadline approaching the 22nd, The bill has gained its first Executive Committee Alt. Chief Co-Sponser: Mattie Hunter. Call your reps. Spread the word. This CANNOT progress further. www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

remaining skeptical but a good sign that being said tho stop-paypros.neocities.org

The apology is here: updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-r...

Rewording my earlier quote post less panicked. Yeah this is basically a porn-ban thing. Depending on how it's done it could target furries maybe. But their plan to bring it to other EU member states is REALLY dangerous and I need y'all to nip this in the bud ASAP #savespeech #furry #nopornbans

Article 3 and Article 8 of the the ECHR are, in particular, ones that can be used to protect refugees, trans people, disabled people, and reproductive rights This should worry all of us given the bigoted direction of Labour and the threat of Reform and the Conservatives in the UK

Upon further reading I've learned article 8 is also what gives us the right to privacy in our lives That wasn't the part targeted right now but jfc this needs to stop. We could lose the ability to fight back against stuff like chatcontrol in the courts if they keep changing our basic rights #privacy

Reminding you all again and again and again that KOSA, repealing section 230, etc will all destroy your freedom of expression, privacy, and basic rights online. Censorship and mass-surveillance is not acceptable no matter how kid-friendly you color it, for fuck's sake. #privacy #savespeech

#savespeech #nopornbanning Ireland seems to be wanting to push to ban "extreme porn" amd possession of "extreme porn"(strangulation, porn with knives, beastislity, necraphilia, etc). We all know it wont remain at that. archive.is/2026.05.17-0...