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If you've followed me a long time, you've seen my transition from a "#linkblogger" (5-15 short hits/day) to an "essay-#blogger" (5-7 articles/week). I'm loving the new mode but returning to linkblogging is also intensely, unexpectedly gratifying:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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My last #linkblogging foray was so great - and my link-backlog is so large - that I'm doing another one.
Link the first: "Siphon," @xkcd's delightful, whimsical "#physics-how-the-fuck-does-it-work" one-shot (visit the link, the tooltip is great):
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Link the first: "Siphon," @xkcd's delightful, whimsical "#physics-how-the-fuck-does-it-work" one-shot (visit the link, the tooltip is great):
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The classic #trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The #ModeratorsTrilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users - pick any two." 1/
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The Moderator's Trilemma is introduced in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," a superb paper from @ARozenshtein of @UofMNLawSchool, forthcoming in the journal @JournalSpeech, available as a prepub on @SSRN:
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The Chinese state is continuing its crackdown on its Big Tech giants, banning the use of machine learning to set per-customer prices, control search results, or filter content. 1/
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As @willknight and @jenniferconrad write for @WIRED, the regulation covers "ride-hailing, ecommerce, streaming, and social media."
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They invoked the magic words "sex trafficking" & made a special Section 230 carve out....
And most people in media & tech policy were OK with it bc they a) are cowards who will never question anything about "trafficking" & b) don't care about & didn't listen to sex workers
And most people in media & tech policy were OK with it bc they a) are cowards who will never question anything about "trafficking" & b) don't care about & didn't listen to sex workers
There were about six people in tech & media saying HEY FOSTA IS A TEST CASE. BACKPAGE IS A TEST CASE. But even @TechFreedom was like "Well, if we just let them shit on Backpage and on sex workers, maybe they'll leave Section 230 alone otherwise...."
It was a cowardly, immoral bargain and also an incredibly naive & foolish assessment of the gov't & tech landscape. And they were all clearly and very very very very wrong.
When we said that the #EARNITAct is being pushed hard right now? @senrobportman just signed on as a co-sponsor, noting the WILD success of #SESTA #FOSTA - lets look at that incredible success, shall we?
First, if you want to read about tech/trafficking from a human rights perspective, can't recommend the Anti-#Trafficking Review more. Their last issue was entirely on tech, including #SESTA, but also other areas of labor/migration/surveillance antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrj…
Maybe the Senators backing these bills could send an intern to ya know... read up on this stuff before passed bad legislation... but I digress. So the success of #SESTA, shall we?
NEW: We've launched a new campaign to make it super easy for you to tell @AjitPaiFCC and the @FCC exactly what you think about the White House executive order to gut #Section230 and censor the Internet. The deadline is Sept 17, submit your comment at SaveOnlineFreeSpeech.org
DC is in a panic about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Democrats and Republicans have taken aim at this obscure piece of legislation, called the “26 words that created the Internet.” The only problem is that they have absolutely no clue what they’re talking about.
Simply put, messing with Section 230 in the ways they’re suggesting could force tens of thousands of websites to shut down, silence the voices of millions of people, and open the floodgates for widespread censorship of our videos, memes, selfies, blogs, and social media posts.
Press Release: Congress Advances EARN IT, Ignoring Sex Workers’ Continued Concerns
Sex Workers Warned You. You Didn’t Listen.
#section230 #EARNIT #FuckEARNIT #LetUsSurvive
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Sex Workers Warned You. You Didn’t Listen.
#section230 #EARNIT #FuckEARNIT #LetUsSurvive
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Hacking//Hustling, a collective of SWers, survivors, and accomplices working on technology issues, are outraged by yesterday’s unanimous Senate Judiciary Committee vote, which moves #EARNIT (S.3398) towards becoming law.
1/ What might AG #BillBarr say at tomorrow's DOJ workshop on “#Section230—Nurturing Innovation or Fostering Unaccountability?"
Expect him to call for banning strong #encryption, as he did last July—but this time, via amending 230 and focused on "protecting the children"
Expect him to call for banning strong #encryption, as he did last July—but this time, via amending 230 and focused on "protecting the children"
2/ The whole point of the half-day workshop appears to be for Barr to make the case for a bill DOJ has no doubt helped @LindseyGrahamSC & @SenBlumenthal draft—that would empower a commission (stacked with DOJ allies) to effectively ban encryption
My take: techdirt.com/articles/20200…
My take: techdirt.com/articles/20200…
OK...so, I just did this an hour ago.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen....I am now fully #Berned.
(cc: @BernieSanders, @GabbyQuinteros)
Yes, ladies and gentlemen....I am now fully #Berned.
(cc: @BernieSanders, @GabbyQuinteros)
@BernieSanders @GabbyQuinteros How did I get to the point of finally pulling the trigger for the senior Senator from Vermont?
Two years of progress by him, and one night of being pushed over the cliff by his detractors.
An explanation follows.
Two years of progress by him, and one night of being pushed over the cliff by his detractors.
An explanation follows.
@BernieSanders @GabbyQuinteros For the past 3 years, I've been more of an understanding critic of Senator Sanders from the Indy Left. There were things that I liked from him, like his economic populism and his legacy of being a social progressive...
"Kinks and fetishes don't belong at pride" - A thread by me, a kinkster who has been going to pride for years and has a few things to say on the matter. ❤️🏳️🌈
"Why?" is always my first reaction. What do kinks mean to you that you that kinksters don't deserve to be represented when our identities are so entwined with our kinks? Kinksters have been at the forefront of fighting for our rights since the beginning. We have lost people too.
"Kinksters aren't part of the LGBTQ+ community!" - Community is a flawed and overused word, but it's the best we have sometimes. Kinksters teach classes, do outreach, fundraise, and are accepting of all the intersections of identities that exist under LGBTQ+, where's the inverse?
“We’re 5 whores at @Yale -It feels really good! We are used to being excluded from institutions & places of power & being invisible. We think of #sexwork as being totally separate from these kind of spaces & we walk among you every day and everywhere.” #RebLaw25 -@MissLoreleiLee
"We have to convince legislators that we chose this work in a way that no other workers have to." - @MissLoreleiLee #RebLaw25 #sexwork
On Monday, a federal court dismissed our lawsuit against the Justice Department to block enforcement of #FOSTA. (1/5) eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
The case was filed on behalf of two human rights organizations, a digital library, an activist for sex workers, and a certified massage therapist. The court did not reach the merits of any of the constitutional issues, but instead found the plaintiffs did not have standing. (2/5)
We’re disappointed & believe the decision is wrong. For example, the court failed to apply the standing principles that are usually applied in 1st Amendment cases in which the plaintiffs’ speech is chilled. The plaintiffs are considering their options for their next steps. (3/5)
There have been a variety of ways oppression has seeped in since the rise of the Trump administration (and yes, even before), but I want to talk about some specific recent developments.
#FOSTA/#SESTA, a bill supposedly targeting sex trafficking online, passed the Senate and is expected to be signed into law by Trump. Though the bill was opposed by anti sex-trafficking groups as well as the ACLU and the Department of Justice.
The bill passed the senate with a vote of 97-2. The Nays came from Paul (R-KY) and Wyden (D-OR). Yeah, all your favorites including Bernie and Kamala voted //for// this trash piece of legislation that will kill people while infringing on your free speech.
BREAKING: Today is a dark day for the Internet. Congress just passed the Internet censorship bill SESTA/FOSTA.
SESTA/FOSTA will silence online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users. eff.org/deeplinks/2017…
As lobbyists and members of Congress applaud themselves for enacting a law ostensibly tackling the problem of trafficking, let’s be clear: Congress just made trafficking victims less safe, not more. eff.org/deeplinks/2017…
I've been researching the shutdown of sex workers accounts by Google for the last couple of days, and here's what appears to be happening.
Google is shutting down accounts that use Google drive to distribute porn. This means if you're using Google drive and setting up shares for customers to access your content, you need to stop.
Stick your content on a service designed to do what you need like @projectmaenad instead. Yeah, it's not free, but they won't shut down your account.
