When do we get the bread, 'cause here's the circus.

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

OK ramblers, let’s get rambling

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

Government officials do not get to decide that your rights have become inconvenient or problematic. They are your rights. They are not privileges provided by the government and revocable at will.

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

This is what happens in an oligarchy where a few control the platforms of communication and the media.

It was never about “freedom.” It was always about who was in control.

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?

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"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...

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.

"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear." ~ George Orwell

white-on-white violence is out of control

If you don’t want to be called N*azis, don’t compare yourselves to N*azis. I don’t make the rules.

"For me, pornography did what no sociology textbook could do. It told me that I was OK, and gave me hope I might one day find a partner who’d think my tastes were OK, too. It followed that one day I might be able to have a sex life in which I could be honest about my desires after all."

Not sure I want to know what this is all about

Per my skeet about porn censorship yesterday. This addresses the gaming restrictions BUT it's the same censorship bullshit that the porn industry is putting up with. We were just attacked first. Quit complaining to me, I can't do anything. But YOU can send these pricks as many letters as you like.

Bluesky says it will now require users in Wyoming and South Dakota to verify their age or identity in order to comply with those state's new online censorship laws. Both states allow for prosecution of sites that allow any amount of "harmful" or "obscene" material.

Fear and over-compliance are central to these laws. Bookstore owners, websites are encouraged to self-censor broadly to avoid potentially devastating litigation and prosecution. Want to stand up for yourself? It’s going to take $250k to even get in a court room. Legal threats are censorship.

Starting later this month, companies like X, Discord and Netflix will be legally required to use a face scan or other method to verify Ohioans age and/or identity before allowing them to go online They passed it by claiming it was just about porn.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

Well said.

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That’s the spirit!

Thank you, Mayor Frey 💔

Friends and fans, if you do watch pirated porn (with the increase in government regulations it's the only option in some places), do the right thing and send the creator who made it a couple of bucks.

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I love my Stanley, even when it looks like he's wearing underwear on his head! Hang in there big guy, it will be off soon. And he is a very good boi!

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.

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This guy, I swear.

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Know your rights, Chicago. Ask for a warrant. Record the goons from a safe distance. We don’t want or need them here.

The Mississippi law requires social media age-verification — in addition to porn. The state argued that the precedent set in FSC v. Paxton gives it the power to require AV for just about anything online that a minor might see. So many people thought a law about “porn” wouldn’t affect them.

Imagine if we proposed closing churches to protect kids from predators.

"Censorship begets censorship ... We've reached the dystopian stage of the internet." This piece is a vital accounting of how we got where we are and where it's going if more people don't push back against what @ericgoldman.bsky.social calls age-verification's "segregate-and-suppress" laws.

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