Joshua Casey 😷🎮🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸

the censorship snake has multiple heads:

- AUS: Collective Shout
- USA: NCOSE (formerly called "Morality in Media"), Exodus Cry, Heritage Foundation (and probably others that I can't think of right now)

Reminder that the only time Mastercard has flinched is when outrage was directed at them. Attacking platforms like SubscribeStar for Visa/Mastercard's extralegal censorship is exactly the deflection they want.

Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats In a sensational turn of events in the fight against Chat Control, a majority in the European Parliament voted today to end the untargeted mass scanning of private communications. In doing so, the Par...

Read more at: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-...

Chairman Cruz Announces Hearing to Debate the Future of Section 230 WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Liability or Deniability? Platform Power as Section 230 Turns 30” on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at 10:00 am EST. Thirty years after enactment of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, this hearing will take testimony from legal experts on the role Section 230 has played in the digital era. Witnesses will discuss how Section 230 affects the regulation of online expression and conduct, as well as the constitutional limits on congressional policymaking imposed by the First Amendment. Upon announcing the hearing, Sen. Cruz said: “Big Tech—the most powerful companies on Earth—can exercise monopoly power to make views they dislike disappear and that should scare everyone. When it comes to viewpoint suppression, however, repealing section 230 might increase censorship. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses and discussing possible reforms to section 230 so online platforms are a free and open marketplace for ideas.” Witnesses: Ms. Daphne Keller, Director of Platform Regulation, Program in Law, Science, and Technology, Stanford Law School Ms. Nadine Farid Johnson, Policy Director, Knight First Amendment Institute Mr. Matthew Bergman, Founding Attorney, Social Media Victims Law Cente

Senate Commerce hearing on Section 230. And, uh, this is big. Not giving him any credit, but Ted Cruz was really the first Senator to be vocally anti-230 and calling for repeal a decade ago. And here he is saying "whoa, repeal might be bad." That's big.

www.commerce.senate.gov/2026/3/liabi...

you don't have to cheer for corporate ai, btw. Open source technology is BETTER

It’s hard to see how homelessness isn’t city policy at this point.

The cops haven’t been near enough to ICE in the last 3 months to see them hurt anyone but they’re rounding up homeless people the day before Frey vetoes the eviction pause.

good thing the Millennium Falcon can make the Kessel Run in a little over 12 parsecs!

various distrobutions of Linux also have this, btw

Don't ever stop calling them Nazis! This is quite literally a page straight out of the Nazi Playbook!

Anyway, make fascists dead again 🎉

for not wanting to be called Nazis, they sure do love doing what Nazis do 🤔

this is the kind of content that ends up getting censored with crackdowns on sex and queer content. people trying to help queer (or straight) homeless kids trying to navigate safe ways to get it on--and they will encounter it either way, just like every kid will

the government. taxes are literally supposed to be used to pay for things that make our lives better

#savespeech #fightchatcontrol

If you are in Europe, call your MPs through the template NOW!

Apparently multiple groups are meeting to discuss chat control and are being lobbied by industry & NGOs.

CALL THEM NOW AND TE THEM TO REJECT CHAT CONTROL IN ALL ITS FORMS

cutie patootie

Starting to think there might be a reason that previous administrations tried very hard to avoid war with Iran

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says | TechCrunch A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new...

techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/d...

A reminder to call your reps today! KOSA has been sandwiched into the KIDS Act and is still a huge censorship threat. You can use this tool- it takes just a few minutes:

www.badinternetbills.com

I find religion to be 'obscene' but they'll never ban religion. Interesting 🤔

obligatory: abolish obscenity laws! The concept of 'obscenity' is such fucking bullshit.

to be fair, it's the payment processors (that have WAY TOO MUCH power since they're able to straight-up censor COMPLETELY LEGAL CONTENT) that are killing all these sites

as soon as I see the use of the word "obscene" I know it's some fucking bullshit

fuck capitalism. medicine should be free

also: cars and tvs since cars and tvs often have apps

‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet Automated online ID checking systems add new potential dangers to having a mismatching ID.

‘Age Verification’ will force trans people to out themselves to use the internet. After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples’ licenses, experts warn the discrimination is set to extend to online spaces.

‘Age Verification’ could force trans people to out themselves to use the internet Automated online ID checking systems add new potential dangers to having a mismatching ID.

New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online

This same article features a sex worker making $284k, and I just want you all to know they clearly picked that one highly unrepresentative SWer on purpose to piss everybody off (legit, they count her partner’s contributions to rent as income for some reason???)

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

you're more than welcome to move to a deserted island with no internet access, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

this must be your first day on the internet. Welcome! You can scrape basically any website that ever exists. (even websites that don't have any API whatsoever can be scraped)

TLDR: If you put something out on the internet it's public