genuinely, who cares? public services aren't businesses. it provides services that should be accessible to the entire population. it should not be expected to make that profitable. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

Every year i lead you further from god's light. Candy corn buttplugs have returned to haunt your timeline. www.funkittoys.com/product-page...

@swaidcollective.bsky.social is a 100% sex worker run collective that takes all funding and redistributes it directly to community members in need. Please make a donation if you're able: SWAidVegas.org/contribute

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates Most notably: 1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon 2) No "dangerous" kink 3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational" So what can we DO about it? #SaveSpeech 1/🧵

Save the date! 🗓️ Oct 2, 12-2pm EST 💳 🎮 🍆 💻 👾 🫦 Panel on payment processors, deplatforming, and sexual censorship in games w/ @jeanketterling.bsky.social @acvalens.net @kenzitronic.bsky.social Ashley Guajardo Caroline Bem & myself - info and registration here: irdl.info.yorku.ca/event/smc-pa...

Please share this upcoming event! #cleanair #covidisnotover #covidisairborne

🚨Job! Center for Intimacy Justice is hiring an Executive Director of Digital Suppression/Women’s Rights. www.intimacyjustice.org/careers This is the group behind a great report on the discriminatory sexual health ad practices of major tech platforms: www.intimacyjustice.org/report2025

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.

If you do find your name, go here to file to get your money! www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Check, then go to the original thread and use the link in the next post to cause OpenAI PROBLEMS.

Australians, spread this petition far and wide. Demands Parliament “open anti-trust investigations and penalize the unregulated monopoly of a key part of everyday infrastructure,” as “payment processors are not there to regulate what legal content people consume.” www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

ICYMI: This is one petition Canadians do NOT want to miss. This is not your average Change-dot-org petition. This is the kind that could lead to serious changes against paypro censorship www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Please join us tomorrow! www.corntelethon.com @siridahl.com

Thank you @apha.org and partners for joining us. Over 1000 current and former HHS employees called for RFK Jr’s immediate removal. Stop the destruction public health NOW! www.saveHHS.org for our statement and calls to action for everyone.

Looking for masks? We've got some! We'll be giving away masks on Saturday, September 6 outside the old Spring Garden Road Memorial Library (5381 Spring Garden Rd) at 12 pm. Check out the Anarchist Bookfair & pick up some sweet respirators! We'll have smaller sizes too, perfect for back to school!

HAHAHAHA UHHHH WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK??????

Corn Telethon is only two days away!!!! I’m SO EXCITED! 💛 like if you’ll be watching ♻️ repost if you’ll be donating 🗣️ quote repost if you’re one of the almost 100 people participating! This Thursday, September 4th, 9am-9pm Pacific (12pm-12am Eastern) corntelethon.com for more info! 🌽☎️ 🌽☎️ 🌽☎️

Corn Telethon is in TWO DAYS! I’m gonna be helping @siridahl.com cohost along with a TON of other really cool performers during this 12 hour fundraiser! I really hope my fans will tune in and donate during the stream! www.corntelethon.com

seen out in the wild, on my usual walking route (i.e. in no way city center). KEEP THE PRESSURE ON FOLKS we are not alone

You can now register for the launch of our report: tinyurl.com/5dsjwews ✨ Come along to hear findings and recommendations on webcamming work! With brilliant discussants @alisonboden.bsky.social and Madelaine Thomas!

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.

Make the calls, write letters, write e-mails, do something before it is *too late* and we lose the right to access the media we want to see. I don't want to see what comes next. Because censorship feels like just the beginning of what might be persecution in the future of NSFW creatives. Fight now.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Kick off at noon! Join us for our first rally, outside the Killam Library. Solidarity will #KeepDalStrong

Posting the feedback I submitted re: the proposed Bluesky community guideline edits, which you can also do here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content. bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... points that need addressing are: [cont]

I’ve signed on. Join me! People should be able to access healthcare without the threat of a COVID infection killing or disabling patients (and providers) or derailing care. Why not use the brilliant technology we have to prevent airborne disease transmission? www.aerosoltransmissioncoalition.ca

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How should Canada regulate AI? We want to know what YOU think! Take our community survey and we'll deliver your thoughts straight to AI Minister Evan Solomon, and shape all our policy campaigning off your input! openmedia.org/AI-survey-2025

FSC's @mikestabile.bsky.social spoke with Aftermath about the ongoing deplatforming of adult games on networks like Steam and Itch, and how censorship groups use bad publicity to get payment processors to do their dirty work. Debanking and deplatforming is not a new fight for us.

🚨 Police recovered stolen personal data from hundreds of adult performers, including SSNs & bank info. Think you’re affected? Take these steps to safeguard your identity ⬇️ www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/fsc-ale...

Coming Soon: Compliance with US Age Verification Laws — the state-by-state guide for adult sites. Clear breakdowns, practical guidance, and easy reference charts all in one place. 📩 Join the waitlist for a free preview: www.freespeechcoalition.com/toolkit

Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music. Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use. www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

"The anti-pornography movement and the financial services sector have long been engaged in a relationship where one uses its morality as a weapon and the other uses virtue capitalism as a means to enforce censorship. All of this is in the name of supposedly protecting public decency."

Herein lies the problem. There is no legal definition of "adult" — it means different things to different people, and different processors. And the right-wing is aggressively pushing to categorize anything LGBTQ+ as "adult." Financial censorship is censorship.

North Carolina has passed a law — buried in a vicious anti-trans bill — that invalidates model releases for adult creators. Creators will now be required to detail consent for every single sex act depicted, on every platform it appears on. Previously signed contracts can be dissolved at any time

Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech

🚨 Shitty Telecom Bill Alert 🚨 Bill C-2 (the 'Strong Borders Act' 🤨) allows for warrantless police seizure & search of people's private data. Sign here ASAP to denounce this dangerous bill: #StopBillC2 @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/Stop-BillC2-bsky

Bill C-2 lets Canadian cops demand users' info without a warrant—and it paves the way for that info to go to U.S. government agencies.

Just a reminder: age verification is a *bad* idea, not a good idea with implementation problems. The trouble with it is inherent, not practical.

New by me -- oh, wait. Sorry. Ten years ago, by me: www.engadget.com/2015-12-02-p...

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

Hey bluesky people… do you know about @swaidcollective.bsky.social? We’re a sex worker mutual aid fund and we could really use funds right now! It’s getting tighter for everyone right now and it would mean a lot if my fans and community folks could pitch in!!

This is no accident. The groups behind age-verification laws have been explicit that they regard "gender ideology" and nearly any representation of LGBTQ+ existence as pornography AV is government censorship. Platforms are either designating LGBTQ+ content NSFW or removing it all together.

Been tagged a couple times so I’m finally catching up on the Steam and Itch. io news. As is too often the case, sex workers have been warning about this for at least a decade: www.engadget.com/2015-12-02-p...

This was predicted of course. Sex workers predicted back in 2021 that these policies works impact all queer content creators www.acceptancematters.org