If youre in Ohio, you should really take the time to contavt your state and federal level representatives about Age-verification!

i do want to be clear tho: if you are scared, thats ok. if you're frightened and you're not sure what to do, or if you have limitations and want advice on something you can do that is within your means, i will help you. i will suggest options within your means. i want to help you.

i love you all and i am begging you to love yourselves a bit more and stand up and fight, in whatever way is within your means, rather than curl into a ball and wait to die.

i firmly CONTINUE TO BELIEVE we can fight this shit but we will only be able to fight this shit by NOT GIVING IN to dooming, because all dooming does is make you passive. it makes you give up. that is what these fascists WANT. they want you scared and dooming cuz then you dont do anything.

commenting on my posts about how much you "want to kill yourself because its all hopeless and nothing we do will work anyways" sucks. it is energy leech shit. and like, fuck, im a human too, do you think i enjoy seeing comments like that all the time?

i am on my hands and knees actually begging people to stop doomposting on my posts/calls to action/infographics etc not only is it bad for YOUR mental health, its bad for MY mental health, and worst of all it may scare off people who otherwise could have been moved to action. PLEASE STOP IT.

Like, I don't mean to be a prepper and the only kid I have is a aged poodle but I can't imagine a parent would say "the best way to protect my kids from the internet is to let some lurker spy on them when I'm not home"

Of course, that also means you're monitoring and collecting biometrics on children. Which is illegal. So they rationalize by saying well, we won't actually be collecting biometrics on children they just won't match *your* biometrics. Which means they're not deleting *your* biometrics.

Because nothing says "security" like requiring a user to keep webcam and microphone active at all times. No way that that could be abused. I certainly can't imagine any backdoors that could be exploited by bad actors or bad governments. In fact, why not just set up a camera facing my window.

Great way to keep people from adult sites, I guess. "Every stroke is monitored."

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.

You NEED to call your reps and tell them this shit fucking sucks! They literally want to big-brother style waych you at all times, zero privacy, to "protect children"

ive made my calls to paypros and representatives today! have you? stop-paypros.neocities.org

bluesky's rating on the app store in my region has fallen all the way down to ---1.7--- out of 5. insane.

Make sure yall do your calls!

If you are a resident of: GERMANY GREECE ITALY LATVIA SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SWEDEN Your nations are "undecided" on chat control! Everyone in the EU needs to call their MEPs [check link below] but yall in undecided nations really need to hammer your representatives! fightchatcontrol.eu

The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.

Im not saying this to garner sympathy or ask for forgiveness from people i judged unfairly, but to simply be honest about the fact that i was WRONG. I wish i had better educated myself on the matter sooner.

I was one of those people that judged others for making taboo content and didnt defend their right to free expression. It was shithead behavior on my part and i repeated a lot of talking points around that time that i now know dont hold water and only end up empowering fascist censorship.

The priority ratings are based on things like, how far along each bill is in the overall process, number of cosponsors, whether the bill has failed before, the bill's govtrack "likelihood to be enacted" percentage etc KOSA and STOP CSAM act of 2025 are the most threatening by a country mile

#SaveSpeech Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard! www.congress.gov/members/find... www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

EU folks! Contact your MEPs and denand they oppose Chat Control! The link below has a section that lets you find your MEP! fightchatcontrol.eu#member-states

I will say I might hide my identity if I was now claiming that "VPN downloads don't matter" because "we really didn't care about minors who were purposefully seeking it out." If that's an official Ofcom position, it's certainly the first I'm hearing of it.

Maybe they know something I don't.

Ofcom officials wanted anonymity an article about the rollout of the Online Safety Act. Tell me someone sees the humor in government officials demanding everyone sacrifice their privacy to access porn/social media, while asking a journalist not to even share their name.

"hey we're just doing this to get them off our backs" so its hard to discern friend from foe again, I'm not giving bsky a pass over this, absolutely lodge your complaints, but I'm not despairing until I see widespread crackdown

Over here we have an idiom that goes like "law for englishmen to see", meaning it was a law established only to comply with the british empire's regulations and not to be actually enforced. The increase in nsfw censorship scares me as well, but people can't come out and say-

My hot take is that some people are too quick to jump ship or give up hope due to the TOS changes It should absolutely be fought, I've sent emails and feedback already, but what matters is if it is enforced. Twitter has had similar rules and we know that shit don't matter.

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

Yeah, holy shit. I just checked, mine and @shaxbert.bsky.social 's comments calling them out- which have 2.6k and 1.6k likes respectively, are just fucking GONE. Can't even find them by scrolling down anymore, they straight up 'hid' them. Fucking cowards. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I feel like the only time the topic of sex work makes it into mainstream convo is when a celebrity talks about their traumatizing experience with sex work and everyone makes their judgement accordingly without talking to the many folks who enjoy this line of work and actually want it to thrive.

As a porn artist I'm not asking the SFW crowd to be into the freaky shit we're onto. Everyone has boundaries. But an effort to understand this world would be appreciated. Talk to sex workers. ask them about their experiences in the industry. Work WITH us to create a safer internet.

what fucks me up about the Bluesky TOS update is fucking every adult creator i know wants MORE labels and filter options. we WANT more granular control over the labels and spoilers we can put on our work so people who want to curate their timeline to avoid us CAN DO SO

I left a 1 star review on the app store explaining how disappointed i was with their updated adult content policy. I highly recommend doing so yourself too!

Freedom to post porn is also freedom to discuss and educate. If you want to talk about adult topics, you need pornography. Allowing some to be censored or chased out is keeping the door open for all of it to be censored and chased out.

to be blazingly clear fuck the nation state and any rights based model but this what we're working with

I don't care what your personal boundaries are or what you, personally, think is or isn't acceptable speech. Local jurisdictions already have laws to define them! You may disagree with those laws and their selective application—I sure as shit do—but that isn't what we're talking about

We're falling for age-old rhetorical traps by making the censorship of adult games and media about personal degrees of dis/comfort with certain kinks This is about financial discrimination. Everyone should have the right to make money how they see fit as defined by the laws of their province/state

Hey, trying to explain Online Censorship to people who arent in the nsfw scene or who arent as online as you are, and need some help? This video is actually a really great primer on the current situation, and why we have to develop an absolutist stance on free speech for EVERYONE's sake.

i know it feels over sometimes, when we get some bad news like the Bluesky TOS update, it can feel like yet another straw upon the camel's back but i need y'all to trust in each other and work with each other despite that kneejerk feeling. we can do this. we can get there.

i want to stress: i firmly believe that we, just us normal people, can push back against this global wave of censorship. we CAN do this. there may be temporary setbacks, lost battles, but i do firmly believe that with sustained action, we can make our futures better for art and human expression.

tagging/labeling requires trust. If using proper tagging and labeling ends up inviting harassment and bans, then yeah, no amount of finger wagging is going to convince people to do it

#bskycensorship #SaveSpeech Speaking of stuff you can do, ive been made aware of a change dot org petition aimed at Bluesky's policy. Alongside the more ongoing/direct action in the post below, give this a sign, itll only take a few seconds! chng.it/HtXXx9Bf66

Source: tucson.com/news/local/s...

📢 IMPORTANT CENSORSHIP NEWS 📢 Arizona age verification law goes into effect September 25. This one seems to have flown under the radar for the most part. Tell your representatives what you think of it! www.reddit.com/r/phoenix/co...

a fucking posting blackout is the opposite of helpful, it would be actively detrimental. it would make things worse! if i sound angry, its because i actually am! a posting blackout is actually possibly the worst thing you could suggest at a time like this!

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout: -submitting a feedback request -@ing moderation about it -commenting on mods posts about it -making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker) -leaving an app store review -just generally posting about it

“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.”

Lastly, these content restrictions are absolutely part of a larger push for censorship We HAVE to keep working to stop this If free speech is important to you, you can't just stop here Check out the site for more action you can take to support free speech! anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co 4/🧵