autistici.org (the Autistici/Inventati collective) have lost their domain because of #USA sanctions imposing #censorship to silence their speech about #politics, either because they support the PKK or because they are pro-Palestinian activists
on 02026-08-28“The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.” #censorship #search-engine
on 02026-08-12God damn it, docs.nrel.gov no longer exists. But in 02018 utility-scale #solar system costs were US$2.27/W for 500kW to 5MW systems. Cites PVinsights for global module prices dropping from US$0.31/W to US$0.22/W in 02018. Great plot of "PV value chain spot pricing" from 02007 to 02018, and says “global solar investments” were US$132B in 02018, two-thirds in large-scale PV, 26% in small-scale solar. #Trump #USA #energy #politics #censorship #PDF #energy #solar-energy
on 02026-05-30the Trinidad, Texas water quality post that got its author thrown in jail. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23Trinidad, Texas water quality. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23#USA #politics #censorship #human-rights: “Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) sent #Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.”
on 02026-04-15#4chan #Ofcom #UK #censorship #lawsuit filing history. #human-rights
on 02026-04-14football league censors #Docker hub in #Spain. #censorship
on 02026-04-12#censorship on Moscow’s internet service, with an attempted whitelisting regime, trying to move messaging onto VK’s new "MAX" clone of WeChat. Bank cards aren’t working reliably.
on 02026-04-04all the wonderful images we’ve been seeing in the #news of the damage to US bases will be cut off now: “Satellite imaging firm #Planet-Labs said on Saturday it will indefinitely withhold visuals of #Iran and the region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from the U.S. government.” #USA #censorship
on 02026-04-04discussion of #ICE and #censorship in #USA #politics through restrictions on #drones: “[D]rone operators can’t know whether they are within 3000 horizontal feet of unmarked DHS vehicles. Yet the TFR allows the government to capture or even shoot down a drone if it flies within the TFR radius, and to impose criminal and civil penalties on the operator. (...) We don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the TFR was put in place in January 2026, at the height of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, shortly after the killing of Renée Good and shortly before the shooting of Alex Pretti. After both of those tragedies, civilian recordings played a vital role in contradicting the government’s false account of the events.”
on 02026-04-03#Trump #censorship of academics. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02026-03-11#Iran jamming #Starlink to violate #human-rights with impunity. #censorship
on 02026-01-15#USA #immigration #human-rights #news: “Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by #Trump officials: Emmy award-winner Mario Guevara warns administration ‘has the power’ after he was arrested and sent to El Salvador. (...) three days after Guevara’s interview, the British journalist Sami Hamdi was detained by federal immigration authorities.” #censorship
on 02026-01-13#News that #Facebook is shutting down #LGBT and #abortion information accounts, including in countries where they’re legal. #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-12-11January #news about #Facebook employees getting mad because people will be allowed to use Facebook to say LGBTQA+ people are “mentally ill” #censorship #human-rights #LGBT
on 02025-12-11Using a #VPN to escape the #UK #censorship of #Imgur’s geoblocking in response to #Ofcom
on 02025-11-28SaSu (Sanctioned Suicide) is attempting to stop #UK #censorship by IP-blocking the whole country, but apparently that’s not enough. #human-rights #politics #Ofcom
on 02025-11-11#4Chan is apparently in a lawsuit with #UK’s #Ofcom over the new #censorship law
on 02025-10-17“The point of this module is specific to German internet politics. It can be considered an ode to the German Minister for Family Affairs, Ursula von der #Leyen.
Among German geeks, she is known as "Zensursula", a combination of “Zensur” (German for “#censorship”) and “Ursula”. She has been pushing for legislation to force ISPs to censor the web much in the same way that China does.” #Germany #politics #human-rights (note that von der Leyen is currently the president of the #EU)
on 02025-10-02#video of Jimmy #Kimmel’s opening monologue tonight, his first night back on the air. #USA #politics #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-09-23#news #video from #CNN saying #Kimmel is returning to the air, under pressure from people including Ted Cruz. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-22#video #humor #news of last night’s Stephen Colbert show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-09-19#video #humor #news of last night’s John Stewart Daily Show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-19Holy shit, #Trump has gone too far right for the Drudge Report, which leads with a photo of Jimmy #Kimmel and the headlines “ABC MARTYR / NETWORK UNDER GOVT CONTROL / ‘VIEW’ CENSORED / TRUMP ORDERS REMAINING LATE NIGHT HOSTS REMOVED / THREATENS LICENSES”. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news #video of Robert Garcia on MSNBC talking about the #Kimmel #censorship investigation. Also CNN coverage. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news “Top Oversight Dem launches probe into ABC’s Kimmel suspension” today. Reprinting a press release: “California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced Thursday he is launching an investigation into ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy #Kimmel Live!” following the host’s remarks regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
His probe will review the Trump administration, ABC and TV station owner Sinclair amid what Garcia says are ongoing efforts to “censor opposition.”
“Every American has a duty to stand up for our First Amendment values. We will not be silent as our freedoms are threatened by corrupt schemes and threats. Anyone who is complicit will need to answer to us,” the lawmaker said in a statement.” This seems sort of like a ko threat in go: by threatening something defensible but even more damaging, #Trump can divert the opposition’s efforts from releasing the Epstein files. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#CNN #news #video describing the cancelation of #Kimmel as part of #Trump’s “crackdown on dissent”. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#news #video saying Jimmy Kimmel’s nightly comedy show is being pulled off the air indefinitely because of “Charlie #Kirk remarks,” specifically because #Kimmel initially claimed that Tyler Robinson was a MAGA Republican. The FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened Disney and ABC with retaliation on a “far-right webcast” or “podcast”, which apparently is “X/Benny Johnson”. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-17against #CloudFlare #censorship and #signed-agents
on 02025-08-30discussions of #VPN use for #privacy and #censorship circumvention (VLESS, Xray, v2ray, passwall2, etc.)
on 02025-08-28#Indonesia is “in chaos” and just blocked access to Twitter and Discord and #VPN providers. One recommendation if you have a server overseas is to use #Wireguard with #wstunnel to avoid the sort of protocol blocking that, for example, Uzbekistan applies. #politics #news #censorship #privacy #human-rights
on 02025-08-28#Sci-Hub has been blocked in #India today. #censorship #copyright
on 02025-08-27#News #video from #Al-Jazeera about #Facebook #censorship on #Israel, quoting Human Rights Watch, and also interviewing two ex-Facebook workers fired for their Palestinian advocacy (Saima Akhter and one other), as well as Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who says 40% of his #Instagram posts since October 02023 had been censored. Mostly #interview and stock footage. #human-rights
on 02024-10-20#Durov arrest “represents a dramatic escalation in the online #censorship wars.” #politics #civil-rights #France
on 02024-08-27#Facebook #USA #censorship #politics of Hunter Biden’s laptop and #covid
on 02024-08-27#Telegram CEO Pavel #Durov just got arrested in #France for not imposing enough #censorship. #politics #security
on 02024-08-25disquieting #Microsoft #censorship news about the #Gaza war: “Palestinians calling home to Gaza on #Skype have had their digital lives destroyed, after Microsoft closed their email accounts without warning. BBC News has spoken to 20 Palestinians living abroad who say Microsoft, which owns the voice and video chat app, kicked them out of their accounts. The total number affected is thought to be much higher. In some cases, these email accounts are more than 15 years old and the users have no way to retrieve emails, contacts or memories.”
on 02024-07-11another #video on #bootstrapping H₂SO₄ with oxalate and blue vitriol. #materials #scouting Deleted “for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines”. #censorship
on 02024-06-26#EU withdraws #Chat-Control #censorship proposal. #human-rights #politics
on 02024-06-20#Signal will leave the #EU if the #Chat-Control #censorship regime does go into effect. #politics #human-rights
on 02024-06-16#EU #Chat-Control #censorship regime to go into effect on Wednesday. #politics #human-rights
on 02024-06-16extracting sulfur from pyrite #materials #bootstrapping #video #toread. Ugh, now the video’s been taken private! #censorship
on 02024-04-03ACS and Elsevier now exercise pre-publication prior restraint #censorship on ResearchGate as a settlement to their copyright lawsuit
on 02023-09-19“#Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy: Scanning every user’s privately stored iCloud data would create new threat vectors for data thieves to find and exploit. It would also inject the potential for a slippery slope of unintended consequences. Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems across content types. (...) We decided to not proceed with the proposal for a hybrid client-server approach to CSAM detection for iCloud Photos from a few years ago. We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” #USA #politics #censorship #privacy #security
on 02023-09-02circumventing the internet #censorship that has been imposed to stop #Mahsa-Amini protests in #Iran. #politics
on 02022-09-29Eric Hughes’s #Cypherpunks manifesto against, among other things, #censorship
on 02022-08-23EU Commission #Chat-Control #censorship system study
on 02022-08-23“#Gitee, #China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public” #censorship #politics #human-rights
on 02022-05-21#fraudulent #USA #healthcare #pricing #censorship
on 02021-11-10#censorship in #Argentina in 02011 of economic consultancies that measured #inflation. #politics
on 02021-06-05#India #censorship of #WhatsApp for #copyright
on 02021-05-29#Google #censorship of subtitle format names
on 02020-01-25#Pelosi #USA #copyright #censorship
on 02021-01-20#Google #censorship of #LBRY #decentralization
on 02021-01-13#TI #censorship of 1960s datasheets from #Bitsavers
on 02021-01-13Mike Masnick’s #CDA FAQ. #censorship
on 02021-01-13is it possible to avoid big-tech #censorship?
on 02021-01-13vituperative discussion of #Parler #censorship
on 02021-01-13#sci-hub on #handshake to avoid #censorship via #DNS
on 02021-01-13criticism of #YouTube #censorship of protest videos about US #politics and in particular the legitimacy of the 02020 election
on 02020-12-13GPSLogger #censorship by #Google; discussion
on 02020-11-12#ebook of “The Roman Index of Forbidden Books”, a 1908 defense of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by some Jesuit bastard, also listing its contents (in full?) #censorship
on 02020-11-11Singapore orders #Facebook #censorship of blogger Alex Tan.
on 02019-11-28#censorship via #PayPal of heavy metal music for either Satanism, Nazism, or both
on 02019-02-05#Nintendo uses #copyright for #censorship of game ROM sites.
on 02018-08-16Against #censorship of #Alex-Jones by #Facebook and others.
on 02018-08-12#Google #censorship of #Catalonia referendum app from its app store in compliance with a Catalan High Court ruling
on 02017-11-25Alexa O’Brien was threatened with #Google automated #censorship because she published information related to the #Manning case and #al-Qaeda, as part of the “roll out of [Google’s] counter terrorist protocol.”
on 02017-11-25#Cambridge University Press #China Quarterly submits to #censorship by China. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22#China #censorship via side-channel attacks on TLS. #security
on 02017-08-06Freddie de Boer argues that leftist #censorship of mainstream #politics on #USA university campuses is real
on 02017-08-06#China mandates installation of #censorship #malware "Jingwang" on everyone’s #cellphone in #Xinjiang using police checkpoints. #human-rights
on 02017-08-06#Russia bans proxies, VPNs, Tor, and chats that don’t use phone numbers. #censorship #human-rights #politics
on 02017-07-30#Apple #censorship of VPN apps due to #China policy against freedom of speech. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-07-29#Censorship in #China will now remove videos “promoting” “abnormal sexual behaviors” including #LGBT. #human-rights
on 02017-07-11Kamala Harris and Ken Paxton brought an unconstitutional #prostitution lawsuit against Backpage in order to get her elected to the US Senate. #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02017-01-05#Facebook #censorship of medical safety information about breast-cancer checks. #human-rights
on 02017-01-05#China’s “great firewall” or “Golden Shield” uses active probing to discover servers of #censorship circumvention systems like #Tor. (#PDF #paper by Ensafi, ..., and Vern Paxson on annotation site Fermat’s Library.)
on 02016-11-21On freedom of speech, #censorship, #Wikileaks, and #USA #law. #human-rights
on 02016-10-17The Committee to Protect Journalists says #Trump is a threat to freedom of speech. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02016-10-14WaPo argues that #Twitter #censorship of Zeynalov for #Turkey is bad
on 02016-10-10#Facebook #censorship of the #USA Dakota Access protest livestreams. #human-rights
on 02016-10-06on Brian Krebs #DDoS #censorship. “The dystopian cyberpunk future is here. The scary thing about this attack is that a journalist had his website shut down by someone who didn’t like the content.”
on 02016-10-03Brian Krebs, whose site suffered #censorship by #DDoS using #security problems in IP cameras and DVRs, talks about it
on 02016-10-031.5 million, not 15 million, cameras #DDoS Brian Krebs’s web site. #security #censorship #human-rights
on 02016-10-02“Twitter told me that it will block my account at the request of Turkey for “instigating terrorism,” putting an end to my ~7-year reporting,” says journalist Mahir Zeynalov. #Twitter #censorship #human-rights #Turkey
on 02016-09-26today’s KrebsOnSecurity #DoS #censorship via #IoT #malware overwhelmed #Akamai with 620 Gbps. #security
on 02016-09-24apparently 4chan trolls are going to try to troll #Google’s Project Jigsaw AI through #racism: they’ll use the word “Google” as a new racist slur against black people and the word “Skype” as a new racist slur against Jews, echoing the kind of word-replacement games people have been using to escape #censorship in #China for years
on 02016-09-24#pdf transcript of a discussion about whether #Facebook has a legal obligation to use #censorship against #terrorism.
on 02016-09-23why fighting #spam on #social-media is hard and leads to things like the #Facebook #censorship incidents, considered as “false positives”.
on 02016-09-23grauniad comments on #Facebook #censorship of aftenposten’s republication of the famous photo "the terror of war" of kim phúc running naked and burned by napalm in #Vietnam
on 02016-09-23Aftenposten on #Facebook #censorship of their republication of the famous photo "the terror of war" of kim phúc running naked and burned by napalm in #Vietnam
on 02016-09-23More about Douglas #Crockford being banned from Nodevember. #censorship
on 02016-09-04The story of Douglas #Crockford’s mysterious ban from the Nodevember conference. #censorship
on 02016-09-04Brief #Facebook #censorship of #Wikileaks links last week
on 02016-08-01internet #censorship #human-rights #politics #Wikileaks. Also Jaron Lanier being a jackass again.
on 02016-08-01US border patrol detained a US journalist and tried to confiscate her electronic equipment because she had visited conflict zones. #journalism #politics #censorship
on 02016-07-24KYAnonymous, without whom the #Steubenville #rape case would have been lost, is indicted under #CFAA. His name is Deric Lostutter. “I pretty much wanted to be a hacker for the government.” #censorship #politics
on 02016-07-11#Twitter #racism #censorship: former Congressman Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom) says he didn’t delete his Tweet, “3 Dallas Cops killed, 7 wounded.
This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming for you.” until Twitter suspended his account and wouldn’t reopen it unless he deleted it. #politics
on 02016-07-11#Facebook #censorship of a #politics account that posts about #racism
on 02016-07-11#Facebook #censorship of #marijuana #journalism impairs #human-rights. “Your ad wasn’t approved because the body/title text used in the ad promotes the use or sale of illegal #drugs.”
on 02016-07-11#Apple #censorship #patents dramatized as plans for “the new iPhone” #sousveillance #human-rights #phone
on 02016-07-07#Facebook exercised #censorship against the video of the #Philando-Castile #Minneapolis #extrajudicial-execution, temporarily deleting the video and the entire account of his girlfriend, who filmed the #police killing him as his four-year-old daughter was in the back seat. “It’s okay mommy. It’s okay, I’m right here with you,” said the four-year-old. “We’re very sorry that the video was temporarily inaccessible. It was down due to a technical glitch and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” a Facebook spokesperson said. #human-rights #right-to-record #death
on 02016-07-07#DigitalOcean took down surge.sh in response to an illegal DMCA takedown request from the NRA, taking down 38000 web sites. A good example of how privatized #censorship limits #human-rights. As Parker Higgins explains, “Surge hosts user-generated web projects. The NRA took issue with one of them and sent a takedown to its host’s host’s host.”
on 02016-06-29Jillian York’s article about #Facebook #censorship and #outing. #human-rights
on 02016-06-29#Facebook exercises #censorship against English #neonazi anti-Muslim group Britain First.
on 02016-02-01#Twitter #censorship of Milo #Yiannopoulos based on “harassment”. “Twitter is not at all interested in making Twitter a “nicer” place, nor promoting more constructive discourse. Twitter is taking a side in the culture wars, and it has chosen that it will be the destination of choice for the ‘social justice warriors’ echo chamber.”
on 02016-01-13A #paper about exploiting #virtualization to do “off-host” memory-scanning of guest VM memory for #malware. #censorship
on 02015-08-12#censorship in #academia? Professor complains about getting threats for teaching Philip Roth
on 02015-08-05