#coercion — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #coercion, aggregated by home.social.
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10240/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #arendt #hannaharendt #coercion #control #domination #fear #internalization #terror #terrorism #totalitarianism #violence
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
If you wish a man to commit some abominable crime, from which he would naturally recoil in horror, you first teach him loyalty to a gang of arch-criminals, and then make his crime appear to him as exemplifying the virtue of loyalty. Of this process, patriotism is the most perfect instance.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Social Order [Education and the Modern World], ch. 1 “The Individual vs. the Citizen” (1932)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/855…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #virtue #coercion #conscience #influence #loyalty #patriotism #wrongdoing
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And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/and-then-the-men-with-guns-tell-you-to-do-it-anyway/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49348912
#HackerNews #menwithguns #ethics #compliance #coercion #societalissues
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The paper "Perceptions of Coercion and Vote Buying in Remote Voting Across Four Countries" by Christina Nissen, Oksana Kulyk, Jurlind Budurushi, and Melanie Volkamer was accepted for presentation at the International Conference for Electronic Voting (#EVoteID2026). The #paper reports on a #study with 178 participants to evaluate how voters from four countries perceive the threat of voter #coercion and vote buying through different scenarios. It was found that participants from Kenya and Mexico perceive the threat of vote buying as more effective in altering election outcomes than those from Finland and Sweden.
💬 EVote ID takes place October 6 to 9, 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia.
🔗 Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000195524
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In the US, prisoners are often charged room and board in prison, whilst also being pressed to work for little or no money, meaning they come out in debt, making them either be indentured to a job (which is hard to find with a criminal record) or return to a life of crime.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/24/trump-tariffs-forced-labor-us-prisons
#usa #us #america #prison #jail #labor #labour #forcedlabor #forcedlabour #coercion #slavery #money #debt #crime #punishment #rehab #rehabilitation
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CW: "Survey: Masks, Protest, and Public Life" (UK)
"Survey: Masks, Protest, and Public Life
"This survey is open to all Clinically Vulnerable people, those in their families, and also people who wear masks in the UK. It asks about your experience of mask-wearing, the new protest law, and how these affect your daily life. Some questions ask about your health, or the health of a Clinically Vulnerable person in your household.
"What the new law does: From 29 June 2026, under the Crime and Policing Act 2026, police in England and Wales can designate an area around a protest for up to 24 hours (extendable to 48). Inside a designated area, wearing anything that conceals your identity — including a face mask or respirator — is a criminal offence, punishable by up to a month's imprisonment or a fine. There is a health provision, but it works as a defence, not an exemption: a person wearing a mask in a designated area commits the offence, and must then prove their health reason afterwards — potentially after being stopped or arrested.
"It takes about 4 minutes to complete.
"Who is collecting this information: Clinically Vulnerable Families (CVF), registered with the Information Commissioner's Office as a data controller [ZB887575]."
I've done the survey! It genuinely didn't take very long.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2MjV9Nj4iwXnhCg_rsc941hKvEAFJJ9BV5NSgF53_-CeBSA/viewform
#masks #UKLaw #protest #coercion #health #CivilRights #CovidIsntOver
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"Inside the horrifying online network where children extort others to commit violence and self-harm" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/jul/21/764-network-gamification-of-harm-the-com-cybercrime-ntwnfb
#exploitation #childabuse #coercion #online -
3) I was so terrified during the 'interrogation' eg. when the men asked me 'who would come after you if you disappeared'? that I invented family links to a terrorist organisation. I think that's what saved me from being abducted. Due to the extremely sexual overtone to their questions, I believe that the leader's objective was sexual exploitation or sex trafficking.
#SexualExploitation #Sextrafficking #Abduction #Coercion #SaintJohnNB #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #Canada #MeToo
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2) I think I was targeted in advance because my fiancé was a weak man who was very much in awe of the leader of these men and tried to impress him. He'd previously been a drug mule for the leader, who had a grow op (illegal back then). Afterwards, I'd asked my partner why he'd set me up like that and he said 'I wanted to give you the choice'. He looked extremely guilty & then cried.
#SexualExploitation #Sextrafficking #Abduction #Coercion #SaintJohnNB #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #Canada #MeToo
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Over 15 years ago I visited Saint John, NB to get married to a man from there. At our wedding reception, he persuaded me to go to a private area with his criminal friends. They held me there for hours while they threatened & terrified me, insulted me, then pretended to befriend me.
They told me they wanted me to go to a secret location 'in the woods' & I could never leave.
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#SexualExploitation #Sextrafficking #Abduction #Coercion #SaintJohnNB #SaintJohn #NewBrunswick #Canada #MeToo -
Democratic countries need to push back against the Chinese party-state's efforts to exclude Taiwan from participating in international events, writes Nathan Attrill
"Beijing wants governments and institutions to see engagement with Taiwan as a source of trouble to avoid. Democracies should do the opposite. They should make routine engagement with Taiwan normal, more resilient and harder for Beijing to disrupt."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/beijing-is-testing-who-will-stand-by-taiwan/
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Now that we have universal AI translators and knowledge at our fingertips, the world's next great experiment should be post-nationalism, where everyone is given the freedom to live anywhere on Earth according to any culture. Ethnic and cultural coercion are wrong.
#freedom #coercion #ethnicity #racism #culture #nationalism #ai #translation #linguistics #language #knowledge #internet
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I see that anti-AI people need to be hostile towards and harass those who use AI so that people will join them to not use AI. I have survived many people's harassment attempts related to people noticing my AI usage. Please read my pinned post; you are free to leave me respectfully if you do not want to see my AI content.
#AI #harassment #toxicity #community #choice #autonomy #bullying #tactics #awareness #truth #solidarity #respect #dignity #freedom #coercion #activism #gatekeeping
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A quotation from Hannah Arendt
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
The Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 10 “A Classless Society,” sec. 1 (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/arendt-hannah/10240/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hannaharendt #arendt #coercion #control #domination #internalization #terror #terrorism #totalitarianism #violence
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Agents, Agile, Communism, Coercion
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Four New Zealand legislators who visited Taiwan in May have been banned from visiting China. The foreign ministries of New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan all expressed concern about the ban
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https://www.contrariannews.org/p/terrible-and-inhumane-delaney-hall
#delaneyhall #ice cream#fuckice #homaqn #tomhoman #mullin #markwayne mullin #inhumane #inhumanity #cruelconditions #racist #racism #unsanitary #dhs #ice #fuckice #icedetention #concentrationcamps #newarknj #geogroup #detainees #foulconditions #rottenfood #poorventilation #illness #medicalcare #coercion #deportation #forcedlabor #slavelabor #overcharging #taxation #broadview #horror #sleepdeprivation #amoral #unethical #ethics #maga #trump #trumpstein #trumpcrimefamily -
Stop Applauding the Forced Apology
There is no such thing as a sincere statement made with a boot on the neck, and we have built a culture that pretends otherwise.Watch what happens now when someone steps out of line. A demand goes up for a statement. The statement arrives, in the approved shape, full of the approved words, and a crowd gathers to judge whether the sorrow inside it looks real enough to accept. We have a name for that performance when a dictator stages it. We call it a show trial. What we have not admitted is that we run a softer version of the same machine every week, on our phones, for sport. […]https://bolesblogs.com/2026/05/31/stop-applauding-the-forced-apology/
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#OnThisDayInHistory: May 28, 1830, #AndrewJackson Signs #IndianRemovalAct
by Levi Rickert May 28, 2026
"On this day in 1830 — 196 years ago — President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act into law.
"The Act created a process that allowed the president to exchange lands west of the Mississippi River for the homelands of Native tribes in the eastern United States. In return, tribes were promised financial assistance, supplies for relocation, and the guarantee that they could live on their new lands under the protection of the United States government “forever.”
"In practice, however, the Indian Removal Act became a tool of #coercion and #dispossession. Under Jackson and his supporters, #NativeNations were pressured, bribed, and forced into signing #RemovalTreaties that stripped them of their ancestral territories across the Southeast.
"By the end of his presidency, Jackson had signed nearly 70 removal treaties, leading to the forced relocation of approximately 50,000 #NativeAmericans to what was then called #IndianTerritory, in present-day #Oklahoma. Entire nations were uprooted from lands they had inhabited for generations and pushed into unfamiliar territory designated by the federal government.
"The policy culminated in the Trail of Tears — one of the darkest chapters in American history. Thousands of Native people died from disease, #starvation, and exposure during the forced marches west, including nearly one-quarter of the #CherokeeNation.
"Because of his central role in Native removal and the suffering it caused, many Native Americans remember Jackson as the '#IndianKiller' president and continue to oppose efforts to honor him, including his image remaining on the twenty-dollar bill."
#USHistory #USPol #Genocide #TrailOfTears #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ForcedRelocation #HumanRightsViolations
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@zackwhittaker The app includes a helpful one-click "Greet the Dictator" feature.
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#EUCommission’s malignant tactics exposed:
“The seeming attempt to limit the ability of the co-legislators to make changes to the text also limited the Parliament’s and Council’s democratic right to scrutinise and amend the Commission’s proposal – which seems to have been a key factor in what went wrong.”
#ChatControl #Coercion #AntiDemocratic #EU
https://edri.org/our-work/did-the-eu-parliament-really-vote-not-to-protect-children-online/ -
James #Talarico addresses the cruelty of #Capitalism in his commencement speach:
50 years of trickle down economics = #CorporateGreed #neoliberalism
#EpsteinClass #corruption #Coercion #Abuse
#HumanRightsViolations
Lock them up.
https://youtu.be/yEgjjBPFzNA?is=r -
Policy changes that will be implemented by your government.
Why is #TonyBlair attacking sick people?
#coercion #abuse #neoliberalism
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/29/why-is-tony-blair-attacking-sick-people/ -
Congrats UK #HouseOfLords for blocking #AssistedDying Bill. 👍
I strongly support the principle of right to die, but I oppose legalisation without strong protection against #coercion. #KimLeadbeater's botched bill was opposed by every disability group. It's a scandal that her liberal supporters allowed this disgrace to pass the #HouseOfCommons.
I am unpersuaded that any safeguards could ever be adequate. But a #PrivateMembersBill will always be under-prepared.