Literal internet of shit

🔒 Data Privacy Week: Stay anonymous with @torproject.bsky.social! Protecting your privacy online is more important than ever. 📖 Read our guide now: blog.flokinet.is/2025/01/28/w...

Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

Attending #RightsCon? So are we! Join our full-day event dedicated to online privacy, censorship circumvention, and censorship monitoring, on Feb 23 or any of our other sessions and talks: 🗓️ Sign up here: ooni-research.ocf.tw/docs/en/blog...

I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025 mashable.com/article/free...

The Matrix (Film / DVD: 1999)

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

FOR JOURNALISTS: SecureDrop provides strong security through its use of offline encryption and the Tor network, but sources still need your help to protect themselves, especially in monitored environments. Find out more:

[There are huge differences between flashing an ID at a brick and mortar location versus an online company storing and processing personally identifiable information associated with your viewing of adult content]

sometimes banning things works when it comes to moderation and other related things but history shows us that the #tiktok response is playing out exactly how banning things usually plays out: defiance, hacks, and work arounds.

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"Reporters and editors at national newspapers are increasing their reliance on encrypted communications to help shield themselves and their sources from potential federal leak investigations and subpoenas." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

People may have tried to scare you away from the anonymity-preserving Tor Browser. … Use it anyway!

Seattle in the winter. Photos taken on a Sony RX100 #seattle #pikeplace #sonyrx100 #photography

oh boy, some good stuff in here

However you feel about TikTok in particular, it seems ominous that SCOTUS is poised to announce First Amendment strict scrutiny can be overcome by a daydream and a sneeze.

Privacy and agency over our data matters—is one of the forefront issues for online life—because every single corporate owned social platform will make decisions that harm people in the name of money and power.

New: How advertising on thousands of popular apps is used to fuel location data brokers. Done by @josephcox.bsky.social in conjunction with @wired.com www.404media.co/candy-crush-...

oh boy, some good stuff in here

Please, science, I *need* to know what my dog is dreaming about.

#Venezuela: The whereabouts of Carlos Correa, ED of Espacio Público, remain unknown. On 7 Jan, he was allegedly intercepted & forced into an unmarked van by hooded officials. We stand with Espacio Público and strongly urge the State to guarantee his safety and disclose his location. bit.ly/3C0c4gK

Wikipedia BADLY needs to revise its position to allow signed-in users to connect from VPNs, proxies, and Tor. Editors are going to be targeted, and being pseudonymous is not enough to protect people who write about some of the most controversial topics.

sadly cruel censorship did not allow me to use the best quote I got on background for this, "we're existentially fucked" foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/07/c...

So what if we have collected a record of every person's movements and then stored that record online in a database that someone can hack? What's the worst that can happen? www.404media.co/hackers-clai...

Internet freedom advocates need to fiercely scrutinize laws that ban/limit access to porn. What we see in practice is that these laws are used to ban everyday LGBTQ content under the guise that being queer or trans is inherently explicit or pornographic. www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...

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So Bluesky people, I need your help! If you have #Telegram, please contact the Telegram transparency bot t.me/transparency and get data for your country. Please share a screenshot here or as an issue there github.com/Te-k/telegra... Please share!

Internet freedom advocates need to fiercely scrutinize laws that ban/limit access to porn. What we see in practice is that these laws are used to ban everyday LGBTQ content under the guise that being queer or trans is inherently explicit or pornographic. www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...

Reminder: Telegram is an app with encryption capabilities—only if you go through the hoops of turning it on manually for each chat. Otherwise, your conversations live on Telegram's server, and Telegram will hand those conversations over to the cops under pressure.

The color of the sky in Seattle is dim gray #656760

If you are a K-12 student, or have one at home, help extend our internet censorship investigation by connecting to your school’s Wi-Fi and testing whether you can access these popular websites: https://buff.ly/4a4n751

Every story like this should be 9/10 about the privacy implications of handing our personal, ordinarily HIPAA-protected medical information over to some fucking app company. www.theverge.com/2025/1/5/243...

Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical.

this has always been the nightmare body worn cameras + facial recognition = a recipe for totalitarian control www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

Tor is very close to reaching our annual fundraising goal! Can you share to help us get there?

This week Saudi Arabia hosts the IGF while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech. Many are charged under the country’s abusive counterterrorism law, and the authorities conduct invasive surveillance of civil society members. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...

Breaking, supreme court grants cert to tiktok for oral arguments on the ban on January 10th. Ban goes into effect January 19th. They did not stay the law and this is lightning fast by SCOTUS standards. I think this is a bad sign for tiktok.

ONLINE RISK MGMT : While intended for journalists, the risk assessment tools (below) for your digital presence are highly recommended reading. 👇🏻

I wonder how far the U.S.'s Freedom on the Net score is going to drop in the 2025 report. (Right now it's 76 out of 100, ranked "free".)

Censorship that the U.S. government proclaims to fight in other countries is happening right here, in our own house.

At 4 p.m. today, the House will be holding a floor vote on a Defense budget that would withhold health care from military families with transgender youth. If passed, it would be the first new anti-LGBTQ restriction to pass through Congress since the 1990s. Please tell your rep to vote against it.

When the police, law enforcement, policy makers tell you they need more tech, more billions — remember.

The color of the sky in Seattle is cerulean frost #7097c4

Did you know that Seattle Public Library (my local library!) offers FREE Books Unbanned cards? 👀 That means that teens and adults ages 13 to 26 living ANYWHERE in the U.S. can access their entire collection of e-books and audiobooks, FOR FREE! www.spl.org/programs-and...

The next Tor relay operators meeting will feature @susansegfault.bsky.social, author of a new book about the history and use of Tor over time! Cool stuff, here's the link to his book:

trans people rock

Got to walk some places today.

Democrats in WA cannot claim they are resisting Trump while also imposing austerity policies. Austerity has been proven to fuel right-wing populism around the world. Incoming governor Bob Ferguson and Democratic legislators need to reject Inslee's austerity proposals and tax the rich instead.

We're a bit more than $158,000 away from our fundraising goal. If everyone in our community gave $2.00, we'd hit our goal in a few hours. If you believe that everyone, everywhere has the right to browse, search & speak with freedom & privacy, please consider making a donation today. #GivingTuesday