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14 Dec

@nytimes

Today, Pornhub took down all videos from unverified accounts after a @nytimes report documented instances of nonconsensual pornography can child sexual abuse material on the service.

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But the Times editorial isn't what spurred the shutdown: rather, it was the decision by Visa and Mastercard to withdrawn Pornhub's payment processing that prompted Pornhub to take action.

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You may count that as a win. No one with any kind of moral center endorses nonconsensual pornography, especially when it involves children, and the less there is out there, the better the world is. I agree.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

14 Dec

Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Situation Normal; China's best investigative stories of 2020; Where money comes from; Raising money for Chelsea Manning; Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town part 26; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2020/12/14/sit…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338261324879392769

Situation Normal: The long-overdue second Leonard Richardson novel.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338261324879392769

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338521547607134230

China's best investigative stories of 2020: A glimpse into some very brave and dedicated reporters' work.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1338521547607134230

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

14 Dec

As power concentrates into ever-fewer hands, we are increasingly dependent on whistleblowers - insiders who come forward to tell the truth about what is being done in our name.

The powerful know this, and go to great lengths to destroy whistleblowers as a warning to others.

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@xychelsea

When @xychelsea was a US Army Private, she leaked a trove of US government cables to journalists, revealing widespread corruption, from the coverup of the US military's murder of Reuters journalists to cozy deals with the world's worst dictators.

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Manning was betrayed by a journalist she'd trusted and was imprisoned and tortured by the US government. After her sentence was commuted by Obama on his way out of office, she was re-imprisoned for refusing to testify before a grand jury.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

14 Dec

@RichardJMurphy

Accounting prof and #GND cofounder @RichardJMurphy wrote an astounding thread over the weekend explaining where money comes from and what purpose taxation serves.

https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1337737606688333826

He's since published an edited version under the title "Macroeconomics, money and post-Brexit recovery, all in one Twitter thread," saying it "took four hours and 40 years of thinking to write."

taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2020/12/1…

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It's a masterclass in the real world of money creation and taxation, beyond simplistic - and ahistorical - stories about money emerging from barter, followed by confiscation of our money by governments.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

14 Dec

2020 was, obviously, a hell of a year, even by the standards of the decade, whose every New Year's Eve was heralded by some variation on "Thank goodness that's behind us, now we can FINALLY get back to normal."

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The ongoing, accelerating crises of capitalism and climate are attended by a long string of shock doctrine tactics and pathological political outcomes. The covid crisis provided cover for more looting AND provoked more toxic politics.

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In addition to this "normal" drumbeat of scandals, the pandemic also meant a lot of misgovernance: leaders who got out of their depth and, through hubris, panic or disregard, acted in ways that hurt and killed people.

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