#internet-freedom — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #internet-freedom, aggregated by home.social.
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There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
https://weirdgloop.org/blog/google-jail
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604870
#HackerNews #GoogleJail #independentWikis #techNews #internetFreedom #onlineCommunity
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The Real Reason Behind Online Age Verification Laws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZTeEN2HT0
What does online age verification laws actually have to do with the ENABLING of collecting data from children, China's surveillance and censorship laws, and the profits of companies like Facebook, Apple, and Google? A lot more than you think.
In this episode of Plain Meaning, I break down the real agenda behind the push for operating system age verification. From California's Digital Age Assurance Act to federal proposals in Congress, they have come from the same source. I trace who benefits, what laws get quietly gutted in the process, and why the timing lines up suspiciously with China's own digital surveillance rollout.
What you'll learn:
— Why Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Meta all win if these laws pass
— How age verification effectively nullifies existing laws that protect you and your children like COPPA and the Privacy Act of 1974
— What already happened in the UK under the Online Safety Act — and why it matters for America
— The striking parallels between Apple's product rollouts and China's surveillance
— Why this isn't about protecting kids at all but more about removing the remaining barriers SO THEY CAN TRACK THEMThis is Part 1 of the Plain Meaning 12-part Plain Meaning Special Report. Links to all episodes will appear as they're released.
The Real Reason Behind Online Age Verification Laws
The rest are coming soon...California's law takes effect January 2027. There is still time — but not much.
#AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafety #COPPA #BigTech #ChildOnlineSafety #Surveillance #Apple #Google #Meta #Facebook #DigitalID #PlainMeaning #PrivacyRights #ChinaTech #InternetFreedom #DataPrivacy #OperatingSystem #TechPolicy #ParentsRights #China #PrivacyAct
#AgeVerification #DigitalPrivacy #OnlineSafety
#AgeVerification #NationalID #Surveillance #Censorship #PlainMeaning
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Ich freue mich sehr, bei der #MRMCD2026 dabei zu sein! 🚀
Gemeinsam mit Okay Suna spreche ich über „DW Access – eine App gegen globale Onlinezensur“ Wie lässt sich der Zugang zu freien Informationen auch unter Zensur, DPI, Blocking und Internet-Shutdowns möglichst resilient gestalten?
📅 13. September, 13:40 Uhr
📍 Weltraum – C205Ich freue mich auf den Austausch und spannende Gespräche!
https://talks.mrmcd.net/2026/talk/QUAA9W/
#InternetFreedom #Censorship #Circumvention #DeutscheWelle
https://chaos.social/@dw_innovation@mastodon.social -
NEW ZINE: THE SERVER CALLED PARANOIA
Comrades with The BlackWave Collective in Italy have transformed Sabot Media’s reporting on Autistici/Inventati into a beautiful 21-page English-language zine.
It traces A/I’s history from a recycled server assembled in a Milan hacklab to the U.S. government’s attempt to make an entire communications collective economically and technologically untouchable.
This is what movement media can become when it moves: reporting passed between comrades, translated, redesigned, printed and carried into places an algorithm cannot reach.
The standard reading PDF is available now through our Autistici/Inventati campaign page:
https://sabot.media/campaigns/autistici-inventati
A properly imposed version for folding and printing as a physical zine is coming tomorrow.
Text by Sabot Media.
Layout and design by The BlackWave Collective.Download it. Read it. Print it. Pass it along.
Communications infrastructure is not terrorism.
Sabot Media is an independent publication and is not affiliated with or acting on behalf of A/I.
#AutisticiInventati #Zines #IndependentMedia #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #Antifascism
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NEW FROM SABOT MEDIA:
A NETWORK CALLED “RESISTANCE”: AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTISTICI/INVENTATI
Days after the United States placed the twenty-five-year-old Italian communications collective on its terrorism blacklist, A/I spoke with us about what happened next.
Their PayPal account was terminated. Their autistici.org domain disappeared from normal internet resolution. Their bank relationship came under threat. Ordinary users were forced to reroute email accounts and mailing lists—all because the U.S. government decided to collapse the distinction between communications infrastructure and the people who use it.
“The United States—and Trump specifically—destroyed multilateralism and international diplomacy,” A/I told us. “They are saying they own the infosphere and all networks.”
We asked about encryption, antifascism, financial isolation, autonomous infrastructure, the danger this creates for other providers and what meaningful international solidarity could look like.
A/I’s answer: “Let us have a thousand servers, a thousand networks.”
And when we asked what the network created around a server called Paranoia should be called now, they answered with one word:
“Resistance.”
Read the complete interview:
https://sabot.media/post/a-network-called-resistanceAn audio edition—with Ash Budding reading the questions and a Sabot Media comrade reading A/I’s written responses—is coming soon. Stay tuned.
Sabot Media is an independent publication and is not affiliated with or acting on behalf of A/I.
#AutisticiInventati #DigitalRights #FreeSpeech #InternetFreedom #Antifascism #IndependentMedia
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What happens when you submit:
✅ You officially become a member of Mata Asia
✅ You gain opportunities to represent us in leadership fellowships, programs, and forums
✅ Together we advance our core advocacies: protecting people in our digital age
Your voice matters — and it deserves a platform. Join us in shaping how Asia navigates AI, rights, and freedom. 👁️
📌 Submit your work to [email protected]#MataAsia #CallForWriters #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom #AIEthics TechForPeople
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Ah yes, a classic 2002 manifesto from the folks at autistici.org who apparently want "everything"—because why settle for less when you can demand the universe? 🤯 Apparently, the solution to world domination is... setting up an "independent server" and offering email services. 🖥️📧 Who knew saving the Internet could be so... nerdy? 😂
https://www.inventati.org/who/manifesto #classicmanifesto #independentserver #emailservices #internetfreedom #nerdculture #HackerNews #ngated -
New FreeSocks features are live!
- You can now report issues in the UI and provide us with valuable telemetry to determine where issues are happening
- Anyone can now donate bandwidth, even without an account (every $1 = 1GB of bandwidth for all free users)
- A better donation graph and description of donation durations
- A condensed and simplified connection mode picker
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Hello #Fediverse! 👋 We are Jaguar VPN.
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Explore our mission for internet freedom:
🔗 https://jaguarvpn.com#Introduction #Privacy #CyberSecurity #VPN #OpenSource #InternetFreedom
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The Ad Blocker You Chose is Being Removed for You
On 31 August 2026, the Chrome Web Store removes the last extensions built on Manifest V2, the older rulebook that governed what a Chrome extension was allowed to do. A week earlier, on 7 August, Microsoft announced that Edge is following the same path: the consumer transition starts this month and should be complete by the end of the year, with enterprise customers following in early 2027. Six days after the Chrome deadline, on 6 September, the next Digital Independence Day (DI.DAY) […]https://europeanpirates.eu/the-ad-blocker-you-chose-is-being-removed-for-you/
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Central Asia’s internet can change the moment you cross a border, with censorship ranging from selective blocking to a black market for access to the open web https://ow.ly/k6tr50ZyUIf #InternetFreedom #Censorship #DigitalRights #InternetAccess #CentralAsia
Internet Restrictions in Centr... -
After a grueling 2,000-hour nationwide internet shutdown in Iran, international connectivity has finally returned to the Parch Linux servers.
This prolonged outage completely destroyed our SEO. Searching for our project yielded zero results for months, which took a massive toll on our visibility and progress. Now that we are back online, I am trying to figure out how to rebuild the lost trust of our international users and effectively promote the project again. Unfortunately, open-source news outlets have rarely covered us unless we directly request a feature.
Despite these hurdles, I am incredibly relieved that the connection is restored and people outside of Iran can finally see our work once more.
Hoping for freedom.
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A New Wave of Pressure on Cyberspace and Public Spaces: Blocking Social Media Pages and Sealing Cafés
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Ironic
A website details the blocked websites in #Ukraine.... is itself blocked by #Cloudflare.
An archived copy of the page shows that the government of Ukraine has blocked 48,698 websites, and that number could be greater now.
Should a government be afraid of its people thinking for themselves?
Blocked: https://uablocklist.com/
Archived: https://archive.is/g0J9Y
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Discarded trash from #SpaceX will slam into the #moon, possibly on Wednesday.
I found this story on a banned website. #Ukraine has blocked many, but it can be viewed in the USA.
More about the #censorship:
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🎉【COSCUP 開源政策軌 議程集錦！】🎉
👁️【你的帳號被封過嗎？平台憑什麼這樣做——而且你根本不知道為什麼。】👁️
每天你用的社群平台，有一套演算法在決定你的貼文能不能被看見、你的帳號要不要被封鎖。這套規則是誰訂的？你看得到嗎？你能改變它嗎？🤔
今年，開源政策軌帶來「平台治理 × 數位自由」相關議題，從網路基礎建設到演算法透明化，從年齡驗證到數位人權立法，一次討論你我都關心的問題：
▸ 網路域名基礎建設背後，有哪些你不知道的開源軟體與數位自由議題？
👤 Cui Jia Wei
▸ 平台把審查演算法開源了——把內容治理規則交給社群，會發生什麼事？
👤 Duke Wang + 黃豆泥
▸ 年齡驗證一定會侵犯隱私嗎？歐盟正在開源的年齡驗證 App 告訴我們什麼？
👤 黃豆泥 + Denken Chen
▸ 民間自己來草擬《數位權利基本法》——開源、公共程式、數位公地，能用法律保護嗎？ 👤 司改會數位法小組📅 8/8~8/9（日）10:00 起
📍 研陽大樓 TR209 教室（二樓）
完整議程：https://coscup.org/2026/track/526🌟 如果你關心網路自由、平台治理、隱私權，或想了解公民社會怎麼用開源推動政策改變，這個上午絕對值得你來！💬🤝
#COSCUP2026 #OCF #OpenSourcePolicy #開源政策 #平台治理 #數位人權 #網路自由 #隱私權 #年齡驗證 #演算法透明 #數位權利基本法 #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #開源人年會 #開源社群 #NTUST #Policy #Governance #TechEvent #Taiwan #DigitalRights #InternetFreedom
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Stop Killing the Internet!
For decades, the Internet has empowered people to communicate, organise, learn, create businesses, share culture and participate in democracy across borders. Its openness has been one of its greatest strengths. Today, however, that openness is increasingly under threat. Across the world, governments are responding to concerns about online harms with proposals that risk undermining fundamental rights. Mandatory age verification, device scanning, digital identity requirements: broad […] -
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Turkmenistan is targeting Uzbek SIM cards in border villages where residents rely on cross-border signals for usable internet https://ow.ly/6cBp50ZnRKe #Turkmenistan #InternetFreedom #DigitalRights #Censorship #Connectivity #BorderVillages #UzbekSim #SignalAccess
A Signal from Uzbekistan: How ... -
Between Agency and Determinism, Who Holds the Wheel in Digital Society?
Every morning, before most people have spoken a word out loud, a sequence of decisions has already been made on their behalf, what news surfaces, what products to buy, what version of the world gets presented as the relevant one. It arrives as a feed, a recommendation, a notification. Frictionless. Invisible. User well-being does not enter into the calculation, it is the emotional amplification that is rewarded and it is how engagement incentives can dangerously influence public […]https://europeanpirates.eu/between-agency-and-determinism-who-holds-the-wheel-in-digital-society/