oh nooo quora is catching the #censorship virus!!! #israeli #zionists can ask super bigoted questions and make comments on #gaza and #hamas with n o visible anything but make even a lukewarm critique of the unnamed genocide colony and zapped for spam!!! hasnt ever happened in 11 years now, THRICE IN ONE NIGHT!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

"Existing parental control tools are sophisticated: parents can already monitor and restrict children’s internet use through devices, routers and apps. The push for government-mandated age verification is not about those tools failing; it is about some parents choosing not to use them and governments seizing that negligence as a pretext for surveillance. Rather than investing in education and digital literacy, authorities are expanding their power to decide what everyone can see. The state should not be parenting the public. Yet under the Online Safety Act, every citizen becomes a suspect who must prove innocence before speaking or viewing online. What is framed as “protecting children” is, in practice, the construction of a population-wide compliance system."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/6/britain-calls-it-safety-it-is-censorship
#UKpolitics #OnlineSafety #censorship #tyrrany #identity

« “It is outrageous that YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes from public view,” said Katherine Gallagher […] YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions […] Videos posted elsewhere online, the groups fear, could soon be targeted for deletion because many of the platforms hosting them are also U.S.-based services. The ICC itself began exploring using service providers outside the U.S. […] Whitson warned that YouTube’s capitulation could set a precedent […] “It’s not going to end with Palestine.” » https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship

I'm 95% through a blogpost detailing how I use a really bloody cheap vps and a Piholeto bypass the Online Safety Act restrictions in the UK *without* forcing all my traffic through a VPN. (Just need to work out how much effort I'm willing to put into a script for users on dynamic DNS before I hit publish) and I am frantically trying to work out if I can legally post this. I *believe* I'm in the clear, as AFAICT the current legal state only blocks restricted service providers from providing bypass instructions, but I'm not 100% sure...

What a Wonderful Law this is.

https://declassifiedaus.org/2025/10/31/revealed-secret-plans-media-censorship/

Keep documenting #Israel's crimes and, repost + use small accounts as well to counter increasing #censorship.

2010 example. None of this cruelty is new.

#Gaza #Palestine #genocide #WestBank

https://youtu.be/i0vwrRaZzIo

This season of "South Park" has unexpectedly become a powerful voice of resistance against Trump-era politics, driven by creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s keen awareness of how politics has permeated pop culture. Their sharp, satirical attacks on Trump and his advisers have sparked a surge in viewership—more than doubling ratings from the previous year—highlighting the show's enduring relevance despite its nearly three-decade run. Interestingly, this heightened critique has emerged amid shakeups at Paramount and Disney, with the network's ownership changes and recent cancellations of shows like Stephen Colbert’s and Jimmy Kimmel’s, possibly reflecting broader tensions within the entertainment industry over the political climate. Will "South Park's" bold stance influence public discourse or provoke new censorship debates? More: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/media/south-park-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk8.byy0.L2tBveO8I6ZW&smid=ny #SouthPark #Satire #Politics #Trump #Media #Censorship #Entertainment #CultureWars tcore-android-share

America can’t afford to lose Britain — again

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/america-cant-afford-to-lose-britain-again

The CENSORED VAULT coming very soon!
Click here for details: https://www.banned-it.com/_files/ugd/2684d6_e8a86e2a545747349f354a425880aad1.pdf.
#openzone #bannedit #censoredvault #community #freespeech #censorship #epsteinfiles #ghislainemaxwell #government #princeandrew #news

"Librarians told 404 Media that AI library software like this is just the tip of the iceberg; they are being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books that they need to wade through. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

CLCD and Class Shelf Plus is a small but instructive example of something that librarians and educators have been telling me: The boosting of artificial intelligence by big technology firms, big financial firms, and government agencies is not separate from book bans, educational censorship efforts, and the war on education, libraries, and government workers being pushed by groups like the Heritage Foundation and any number of MAGA groups across the United States. This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise because anything can be learned, approximated, or created in seconds. And with AI, there is less room for nuance in things like classifying or tagging books to comply with laws; an LLM or a machine algorithm can decide whether content is “sensitive.”"

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-supercharging-the-war-on-libraries-education-and-human-knowledge/

From Americans United for Separation of Church and State:

You won’t want to miss the November issue of AU’s Church & State magazine! 

Our cover story offers a historical look at Christian Nationalism's role in censoring books and American culture, and explores how librarians and civil rights activists have courageously fought back.

Link to this issue: https://www.au.org/the-latest/church-and-state/november-2025-church-state-magazine/

Link to AU's website: https://www.au.org

We just published a brief report documenting the blocking of TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and several VPNs in #Cameroon over the last week, amid ongoing post-election protests: https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/393608039300

If you've been curious to try #ProtonVPN, then perhaps you'll like this 75% #BlackFriday offer: https://protonvpn.com/l/bf-vpn-offers-2025

I work with these people and I can tell you first hand that they're cool and working hard to fight #censorship and improve #privacy.

The Burning of Books poem explores the tragic history of censorship and the loss of knowledge through book burnings.

Ein kraftvoller Blick auf die Zerstörung von Kultur und die Gefahr, wenn Wissen vernichtet wird.

Read in DE& EN:

https://abhibhut.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-burning-of-books.html

Commission agrees to advance child safety online with Australia’s eSafety Commissioner and the UK’s Ofcom | Shaping Europe’s digital future
https://alecmuffett.com/article/119578
#AgeVerification #EuropeanCommission #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #australia #censorship #ofcom #surveillance #vpns

Meet the High Schoolers Who Overturned a State Reading Bowl Book Ban: Book Censorship News, November 7, 2025

A Georgia statewide reading bowl banned eight books. These students led the charge to get the bans overturned and succeeded.
https://bookriot.com/teens-who-overturned-reading-bowl-book-ban/

Iran’s “VPN mafia” allegedly profiting from Telegram’s ongoing ban.
$450M+ VPN market may be stalling reform.
90% of Iranians rely on VPNs amid strict censorship.
https://www.technadu.com/irans-vpn-industry-linked-to-delays-in-telegram-ban-lift/612756/

“Ginzburg published his first self-published book,

100 Years of Lynchings

in 1962, a collection of newspaper accounts that directly exposed the history and the status quo of American racism.

Ginzburg's most famous publication, Eros, …was also launched in 1962, and only 4 issues were published before he was indicted on charges of violating federal obscenity laws.

He was found guilty by the Supreme Court eventually and sentenced to 5 years in prison. “

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Ginzburg #censorship