Censorship

Hrant Dink prominent author was assassinated by a Turkish fascist back on January 14, 2007. Alin Ozinian, another Armenian reporter, wanted to mark the day by sharing his portrait on Instagram. The photo was removed citing "dangerous organisations and individuals" community standard.

I've noticed some occasional, but going to heavy censorship of Gazans accounts on some platforms. Not just Gazans, also accounts of people who are vocally pro Palestine.

Banning Bassem Youssef from Twitter is just another example.

And they say we live in the world of free speech.

My belief is they're doing this to cover the shit in Palestine that's going to be even worse.

Zionists are spinning every goddamn narrative and it's been disgusting for a long time that they can spew hate and lies and nothing will happen to them, but if you point out the truth about them, your online persona is dead.

I'm just waiting for the CIA to knock my doors for everything I said on this topic online, lol.

Or our rights being limited.

Are we terrorists because we're pointing out fingers to real terrorists?

Fuck them. I can't believe where we got as a society at this point.

Backstory: The “RKI-Files”(Robert Koch Institute) are internal protocols of Germany’s Federal Health Agency. They were obtained through legal action under the Freedom of Information Act(FOIA). The files show that politicians ordered the experts to make up stories and narratives so as to support the government’s preconceived measures.

RKI Files: ZDF and Der Spiegel Falsify Their Reporting Ex Post

The RKI Files that Multipolar has obtained via a FOIA request have been the topic of all major media since the weekend.

The breakthrough came with a factual and solidly researched [state broadcaster] ZDF report, which was subsequently rewritten in a misleading manner, although it is still unclear by whom.

A Spiegel article published shortly thereafter was initially worded neutrally, but defamatory false statements [we used to call these lies] were subsequently added without marking them clearly. Meanwhile, [Germany’s biggest tabloid] Bild reports without defamation—and on the front page of its Monday edition.

By Paul Schreyer, Multipolar Magazin, 25 March 2024 [source]

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Today I made a post about an hexbear rule I found strange, many comrades agreed but shortly after a debate ensued, the thread is still up, although locked, so anyone who wants can take a look and judge. One of the people I was arguing with is a moderator of lemmygrad, I got banned shortly after for being "disrespectful" and a lot of my comments were removed. Anyone who wants to judge should look up the post on the community "leftist infighting" they called me stupid, they strawmanned me and yet, who was banned? Me! I will leave some pictures in the comment so you can judge

https://mobile.twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

Time for me to find another search engine. Maybe yandex.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/184431

Version longue en français: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/coupure-russie.html

Several ISPs in France have started censoring rt.com via their DNS resolver.

Why are they doing this? I guess officially they'll say it's because of Russian propaganda about Ukraine, and that's partially correct.

But also worth pointing out is that despite very uncritical propaganda from the regime about what happens in Russia, RT is one of the only mass media (non-independent publication) where you can have decent news about social uproar in France (gilets jaunes, anti-police-abuse riots, etc).

We haven't reached the point where posts to RT are censored on social media (where it's most popular) so i can't exactly say we have "one side" to the news yet but it's getting closer.

This message is both a fuck you to french ISPs engaging in censorship (remember Sci-Hub? TPB?) and a reminder to all the Putin fanboys around here what "there's only one side to the news" really means: Russia is already there (there's a few independent publications but they've been struggling for years with State censorship and journalist assassinations) and France is getting closer (on the other side of the narrative). The rest of you who live in countries with more free speech can't even realize what information control means so please don't take these words lightly.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/103280

Of course, US and EU propaganda accounts have not been suspended :)

The operations used photos and images, shell and potentially automated accounts, and fake Uyghur profiles, to disseminate state propaganda and fake testimonials about their happy lives in the region, seeking to dispel evidence of a years-long campaign of oppression, with mass internments, re-education programs, and allegations of forced labour and sterilisation.

“The target is not actually people who are sceptical of the Chinese government, but is giving content to people who trust Chinese state media and are sceptical of western mainstream media,” said ASPI researcher Albert Zhang. “It’s propaganda appealing to the base.”

ASPI found 97% of the identified accounts had fewer than five followers, and 73% of accounts had zero. While 98% of tweets had no likes or retweets, the remainder were often boosted by Chinese diplomats and officials, spreading the content and giving it legitimacy.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/103276

Across China, queer college societies, which had been rare spaces to safely push boundaries, were being swiftly erased from the Chinese internet. In July, 14 of the largest and most prominent accounts were banned, cutting connections between thousands of members scattered across the country and casting them adrift.

The struggle has worsened. Things that were acceptable to speak about online before can now open you up to attack. It’s not just LGBTQI issues, in Mei’s view. Anything rights-related is now a target.

When the country went online in the 1990s, so did many queer people who wanted to find others like them. Gay sex was decriminalized in China in 1997, but by then, there was already a thriving online community. (...) “Censorship wasn’t as strict,” he said of those early years. “It gave you the false belief that things would get better.”

Though these apps present themselves as allies to the gay community, they have aligned with the censors. Blued assigns each user “rainbow credits,” which they deduct if users violate community regulations. Leo has found this includes trying to organize an activity. When a user loses credits, their profile faces more restrictions, the final stage of which is being frozen. Blued’s parent company is increasingly gathering a monopoly over queer online interactions — in August 2020, it bought the largest lesbian dating app, Lesdo, which it shut down this year.

If Internet algorithms can't tell the difference between criticism and advocacy, what's safe to report? Why one filmmaker believes "YouTube is unfit for the purpose for hosting journalism."

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