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#censoring β€” Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #censoring, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Before #MissKitty gave up on #AI #research, at least for now due to the #censoring, she had determined that every human problem could be ended in 50 years if we opened up education all the way through #PhD. 10 years to implement. 10 years to learn. 20 years to resolve. 10 years to implement. #Cycle

  2. Before #MissKitty gave up on #AI #research, at least for now due to the #censoring, she had determined that every human problem could be ended in 50 years if we opened up education all the way through #PhD. 10 years to implement. 10 years to learn. 20 years to resolve. 10 years to implement. #Cycle

  3. Before #MissKitty gave up on #AI #research, at least for now due to the #censoring, she had determined that every human problem could be ended in 50 years if we opened up education all the way through #PhD. 10 years to implement. 10 years to learn. 20 years to resolve. 10 years to implement. #Cycle

  4. Before #MissKitty gave up on #AI #research, at least for now due to the #censoring, she had determined that every human problem could be ended in 50 years if we opened up education all the way through #PhD. 10 years to implement. 10 years to learn. 20 years to resolve. 10 years to implement. #Cycle

  5. From Bluesky: seems the #BBC is #censoring statements 'critical' of #potus.

    Seems to me to be an accurate and factual statement.

  6. #Trump says #TikTok should be tweaked to become β€œ100% MAGA”

    Fresh off #JimmyKimmel returning to TV to warn that Donald Trump's attacks on free speech would not end with #censoring #comedians critical of his administration, Trump signed an executive order to "save" TikTok, while supposedly joking that he'd like to #censor #influencers by tweaking the #algorithm so that content is "100 percent #MAGA."
    #freespeech #1stAmendment #eo #executiveorder

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

  7. Companies Must Provide Accurate and #Transparent Information to Users When Posts are Removed

    Imagine sharing information about #reproductive health care on #SocialMedia and receiving a message that your content has been removed for violating a policy intended to curb online #extremism. That’s exactly what happened to one person using #Instagram who shared her story with our Stop #Censoring #Abortion project.

    eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/comp

  8. Our Stop #Censoring #Abortion Campaign Uncovers a #SocialMedia #Censorship Crisis

    We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts.

    eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/our-

  9. Every time I think the vastly misnamed #Republicans can't get any lower, they have to go and prove me wrong. They are now #censoring the #Constitution.

    BTW, the pages aren't only missing from the direct links, e.g. constitution.congress.gov/brow , they're also missing from the index of Article I, constitution.congress.gov/brow . There's no possible way this is a glitch.

    The phrase "foreign and domestic" popped up in my head for some reason.

  10. US-American #puritanism & puritanist US AI is #censoring written human thoughts and destroying personal data:

    "#Erotica writers! Some folks have reported having their Google accounts terminated and losing their Google Docs files because of β€œsexually explicit content.”"

    [insert arse img] #censorship #google #USA

  11. CW: WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT

    Tags by us:

    > The report revealed that five secretive government units, including #CounterDisinformationUnit based in the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Cabinet Office’s #RapidResponseUnit, have been surveilling and #censoring scores of high-profile individuals who were critical of government policies. #MailOnSunday journalist #PeterHitchens, Conservative MP #DavidDavis, and members of staff of Big Brother Watch were all targeted by this shady unit.

  12. KimberlΓ© #Crenshaw – the scholar who gave us #intersectionality – discusses the recent decision by the #CollegeBoard to water down its #AP African American studies coursework following attacks by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

    She argues that the College Board's watering down of African American studies is actually proof of critical race theory in action.

    "Contemporary aspects of the past that continue to shape the life chances of African Americans cannot be taught if they hurt some feelings or they make people feel bad,” she says.

    #Censoring information that challenges the mythical retelling of the past is a hallmark of @authoritarian-leaning regimes.

    msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/sch

  13. Bleep Remover Censors Those **** Bleeps - One of the more interesting cultural phenomena is the β€˜bleep’ that replaces certai... - hackaday.com/2023/10/04/bleep- #softwarehacks #videohacks #censoring #ffmpeg #bleep

  14. Democrats flip social media β€˜censorship’ complaints on Musk & GOP

    Republicans have spent the better part of a decade accusing social media companies of β€œ#censoring” conservative viewpoints and #skewing their platforms to benefit Democrats.
    
Now Democrats are turning that complaint around, questioning whether X
    β€” owned by an outspoken GOP ally in Elon Musk
    β€” is #suppressing content favoring Vice President Kamala Harris to help former president Donald Trump’s reelection bid.
    
On Monday, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) called on House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to πŸ”Έβ€œinvestigate political censorship” on X, πŸ”Έ

    citing reports that the company’s #chatbot, ♦️Grok, falsely told users Harris was ineligible to appear on the 2024 presidential ballot. ♦️

    The chatbot shared the false information for more than a week until it was corrected in late July.

    In addition to the apparent restriction on the Harris campaign account and erroneous Grok replies,
    ♦️some pro-Harris accounts have been labeled as spam, ♦️including ones called β€œWhite Dudes for Harris” and β€œProgressives for Harris”

    Nadler’s office cited πŸ‘‰Jordan’s β€œextensive focus on allegations of censorship on social media this Congress.”
    
Nadler voiced similar concerns in a letter last month
    after some users reported
    πŸ’₯temporarily being unable to follow an X account for the Harris campaign. πŸ’₯

    Nadler wrote that if X was β€œintentionally throttling or blocking” the account, it would β€œamount to #egregious #censorship"

    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  15. CW: references to alcohol, slang for genitalia, (1300+ chars)

    So, lately I've been watching a bunch of #HowToDrink, a show on #YouTube where the host mixes (mostly) alcoholic beverages, as well as describes interesting historical things about the drinks.
    As per usual, I watch the show with closed captions on. I think it's mostly auto-generated captions unfortunately.
    I've started to notice that it kept censoring 'jigger' or 'jiggers' in it though, which in the show is meant to be a measuring tool, which is pretty clear from the context.
    At first I thought it was just the auto-generated captions mishearing the word (though apart from 'frigger', I couldn't really think of what possible 'vulgar' word it could've thought it heard), but it happened so frequently that I decided to look up the word 'jigger' on Wiktionary, and sure enough, under the third #etymology I found a reference to it being a euphemistic slang.
    Apparently it can be a reference to either form of genitalia, with it referencing the masculine genital at least being in use since 1931, and the feminine one was quoted in a book from 2002 (though set in 1842).
    So, #TheMoreYouKnow. Another example of how #censoring something for possibly being #lewd has resulted in the lewd meaning being looked up where otherwise it had remained hidden.

    #TodayILearned #TodayILearnt #TIL #jigger #jiggers

  16. #Facebook Is #Censoring #404Media Stories About Facebook's #Censorship

    β€œOur findings suggest that although Meta has the tech to automatically detect #pornographic content, it does not apply it to enforce its community standards on #ads as it does for non-sponsored content,” #AIForensics said in its report. β€œThis double standard is not a temp bug, but persisted since as early as, at least, Dec 2023.”

    404media.co/facebook-is-censor

  17. The only way to end VISA and MasterCard censorship is basically create a payment network that charges less.

    Banks will happily switch to something that makes their line go up by simply costing less.

    #VISA #MasterCard #Videogames #Gaming #Games #Censorship #Censoring #Censor #CreditCards #DebitCards #PlasticCards #Financing #Finances

  18. @[email protected]

    This is why you should not use
    @mas.to as it is using the #mitm network of #cloudflare to #censoring the internet and deny free access to the #walledgarden

    That you are using a MITM affected network also means that every single byte that is send to the
    #MITM network is #decrypted to a #insecure #piidata harvester.

  19. This is what happened when MAGA people at CPAC thought I was one of them.

    Exiled from the press pen, I was just part of the audience, a space previously off-limits to reporters.
    To say the least, it was enlightening.
    On Friday, for instance, I listened to a main-stage speech from Chris #Miller, a Republican running for governor of West Virginia.
    Because of its tax-exempt status, CPAC bans speakers from openly campaigning there, so he was listed on the program simply as β€œbusinessman.”

    Like virtually every other speaker at the event, Miller devoted several of his allotted five minutes to railing against #transgender #healthcare.
    β€œWoke doctors are literally making boys into girls,” he declared.
    β€œThey’re practicing #mutilation, not medicine. They should be in prison.”
    At that point, a burly man in a giant black cowboy hat sitting next to me leaned over conspiratorially and proclaimed,
    β€œI think we should #hang them all! I really do.”
    And he laughed like we were in on the same joke.
    I confess that I was too cowardly to tell him I was with the left-wing fake news

    Later, during a speech by South Dakota Governor Kristi #Noem, I was sitting next to a woman in full-on MAGA gear.
    When Noem declared, β€œThere are some people who love America, and there are some people who #hate America,” my neighbor gave me a small heart attack.
    β€œGet the FUCK OUT!” she yelled furiously, ready to rumble. β€œGet the FUCK OUT!”
    Meanwhile, the old man in the camo Trump hat next to her had somehow fallen asleep.

    In the hotel lobby outside the CPAC main stage, the right-wing cable network Real America’s Voice had set up a studio.
    #Bannon spent most of the conference holding court there and interviewing various MAGA celebs like Kash #Patel, who President Donald Trump had once put in charge of counterterrorism at the National Security Administration, or Rep. Byron #Donalds (R-FL), the rare Black conservative in the mix.
    The studio often drew a crowd that rivaled that of some of the speakers on the main stage. It certainly rivaled the convention in volume.

    While I was taking in the spectacle, a middle-aged man in a gray suit came up to me and pointed to a nearby 7-foot-high poster of Tucker #Carlson’s face.
    β€œDo you know why that’s here?” he asked.
    I explained that it was an ad for Tucker: The Biography, a book written by Chadwick Moore, a gay journalist and former liberal.
    β€œOh, I see,” he replied. The man clearly wanted to keep talking, asking me what I was here for, which was unusual since in the past my press badge said it all.
    My inquisitor had come to #CPAC to see what people were saying about school choice and was disappointed to discover that the answer to that question was nothing.
    Education policy, he lamented, was nowhere to be found at this event. Indeed, what passed for policy discussions at CPAC this year was largely limited to mass #deportations and attacks on #trans athletes.
    The sober panels about the national debt, balancing the budget, or Social Security reform that once commanded top billing were a relic of another era before CPAC became an extension of Trump Inc., devoted to all the MAGA grievances like racial #equity, the evils of #windmills, or bans on gas #stoves.
    When I finally was able to explain that I was a reporter who’d been denied a press pass, the man launched into an earnest yet incomprehensible spiel about how the government is #censoring people. Politely, I fled into the crowd watching Bannon. 
    motherjones.com/politics/2024/

  20. #BrendanCarr Is Turning the #FCC Into MAGA’s #Censoring Machine

    Under its new chairman, the #FCC is threatening #broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
    #Trump

    wired.com/story/plaintext-fcc-

  21. The national assessments are more useful than international #climate reports put out by the #UN every 7 or so years because they are more localized & more detailed, Hayhoe & Jacobs said.

    The national reports are not only peer reviewed by other scientists, but examined for accuracy by the National Academy of Sciences, federal agencies, the staff & the public.

    Hiding the reports would be #censoring #science, Jacobs said.

    #law #EnvironmentalLaw #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Trump #USpol

  22. #Editorial : #Censoring the #scientific enterprise, one grant at a time

    Over the last two weeks, in response to #ExecutiveOrder 14035, the National Science Foundation ( #NSF ) has discontinued funding for research on #diversity , #equity , and #inclusion ( #DEI ), as well as support for researchers from marginalized backgrounds
    #eo24035

    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

  23. #Trump admin accused of #censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods - arstechnica.com/health/2025/04 " Kevin Hall claims an aide for Kennedy edited his written responses to a reporter. " #jfk

  24. A pic I took on the streets of #Portland
    # 363 days ago, area within walking distance of #Revolution Hall.

    I've remained publicly silent on my #WriteTheDocs conference attendance last year because it was .... a shitty conference.

    And today I'll tell you why it was a shitty conference.

    There was a self-proclaimed "extrovert" who got up on stage and vomited bullshit about how she was representing #Nginx.

    I did not plan to give a talk, but when I woke up the last day of the conference, I really had this pressing intuition that I should speak up for the talent that was maybe intimidated ... that NO, you don't need a fucking Macbook to be a technical writer... not all technical writing is about computer-related things.

    But then did I find out ... what that Nginx "extrovert" was really there to do was be the shithead #censoring the indigenous voice that wanted to get on stage and tell everybody that not all #TechnicalWriting has to be about #technology.

    But that snooty white supremacist bitch rejected this talk.

  25. 'Neural Bayes estimators for censored inference with peaks-over-threshold models', by Jordan Richards, Matthew Sainsbury-Dale, Andrew Zammit-Mangion, RaphaΓ«l Huser.

    jmlr.org/papers/v25/23-1134.ht

    #censoring #likelihoods #models

  26. #Trump & Co are all about instilling and sustaining #fear, making average #Americans #suffer to feed the #rich and #censoring #threatening and quashing #journalism. For Those Deemed Trump’s Enemies, a Time of Anxiety and Fear. Donald Trump is returning to the White House vowing to seek #retribution. Those in his sights are worried both about him β€” and his supporters. nytimes.com/2025/01/18/us/poli #politics #tactics #corruption #constitution #government #congress #law #legalresearch

  27. Amazon: Stop censorship of LGBT+ books!
    Amazon censors LGBT+ books in several regions, hiding them from customers. Sign the petition to demand an end to this harmful practice!
    action.allout.org/en/m/ac41035
    I say: if you can, cancel your Prime and Amazon accounts!
    #AllOut #LGBTi #Amazon #censoring

  28. @everton137 if parties decide not to leave at the moment the must make a start with develop and try out the alternatives. And make other media more important your followers on #x twitter to simple message a short one and give the alternative link. Also must be understand that #musk uses his algorithm to put left or green messages at the bottom of the timeline . Or even block you. Lot of journalists are blocked on #x #censoring

  29. The fact that #Meta is stopping with fact checkers on #Facebook and #Instagram together with changing their #ToS is worrisome. Due to their societal impact, also for non-users of their platforms.

    The fact they haven't made the changes in the #EU is also telling. But then, if we're to believe them, we're just #censoring and blocking #innovation . Well, I don't think that's "innovation" we want.

    I hope the EU is ready for some rough political fighting from the #US , 'cause this is just the start

  30. #Meta Follows #Elon Musk’s Lead, Moves Staffers to Billionaire-Friendly #Texas

    According to Mark #Zuckerberg , Meta trust and safety workers will be relocated to Texas to prevent them from β€œcensoring” users. Experts point to other advantages.
    #censorship #censoring #musk

    wired.com/story/meta-elon-musk