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On today's episode of #WMPG's #CommunityVoicesForChange, the topic is #FlockCameras, Municipal #Surveillance and #Privacy!
Community Voices For Change
On Mon from 01:00 pm EST to 01:30 pm EST
With: Richard RudolphDescription
"Community Voices for Change is a talk show highlighting the work of individuals and organizations working to enhance the greater good of communities. Producer and Host Richard Rudolph begins each show with music from Sam Cooke’s Ain’t That Good News Album -'A Change is Gonna Come'. The show is also based on the writings of #HowardZinn and other writers who believe if we can get organized '#SmallActs' multiplied by hundreds, thousands of people we can transform our communities, the state and even possibly the world. Our sound engineer is Dennis Kirkpatrick."
Link to show info and archives:
https://www.wmpg.org/show/mon1300/Spreaker link:
https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/community-voices-for-change--6675193#CommunityRadio #MainePol #USPol #Orwellian #SurveillanceState
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#JaredGolden isn't running, so he could give a shit about #Mainers (or anyone else)...
‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House #Democrats Help #GOP Send #Trump Spying Bill to Senate
“It was these Democrats’ responsibility to stand up against this administration, and they voted to stand down instead,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett, Apr 29, 2026
Excerpt: " 'The 42 Democratic votes to advance Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump’s #surveillance agenda are dangerous and shameful,' she declared.
" 'These Democrats defied their constituents and common sense to undercut meaningful privacy reforms in the House and instead voted to hand over sweeping spy powers to the Trump administration,' she stressed. 'This means continuing #warrantless backdoor searches and allowing an increasing number of federal agencies to exploit the data broker loophole to supercharge #AI and fuel mass #DomesticSurveillance.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization#USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #FISA #Section702 #SurveillanceState
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#JaredGolden isn't running, so he could give a shit about #Mainers (or anyone else)...
‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House #Democrats Help #GOP Send #Trump Spying Bill to Senate
“It was these Democrats’ responsibility to stand up against this administration, and they voted to stand down instead,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett, Apr 29, 2026
Excerpt: " 'The 42 Democratic votes to advance Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump’s #surveillance agenda are dangerous and shameful,' she declared.
" 'These Democrats defied their constituents and common sense to undercut meaningful privacy reforms in the House and instead voted to hand over sweeping spy powers to the Trump administration,' she stressed. 'This means continuing #warrantless backdoor searches and allowing an increasing number of federal agencies to exploit the data broker loophole to supercharge #AI and fuel mass #DomesticSurveillance.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization#USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #FISA #Section702 #SurveillanceState
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#JaredGolden isn't running, so he could give a shit about #Mainers (or anyone else)...
‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House #Democrats Help #GOP Send #Trump Spying Bill to Senate
“It was these Democrats’ responsibility to stand up against this administration, and they voted to stand down instead,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett, Apr 29, 2026
Excerpt: " 'The 42 Democratic votes to advance Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump’s #surveillance agenda are dangerous and shameful,' she declared.
" 'These Democrats defied their constituents and common sense to undercut meaningful privacy reforms in the House and instead voted to hand over sweeping spy powers to the Trump administration,' she stressed. 'This means continuing #warrantless backdoor searches and allowing an increasing number of federal agencies to exploit the data broker loophole to supercharge #AI and fuel mass #DomesticSurveillance.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization#USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #FISA #Section702 #SurveillanceState
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#JaredGolden isn't running, so he could give a shit about #Mainers (or anyone else)...
‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House #Democrats Help #GOP Send #Trump Spying Bill to Senate
“It was these Democrats’ responsibility to stand up against this administration, and they voted to stand down instead,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett, Apr 29, 2026
Excerpt: " 'The 42 Democratic votes to advance Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump’s #surveillance agenda are dangerous and shameful,' she declared.
" 'These Democrats defied their constituents and common sense to undercut meaningful privacy reforms in the House and instead voted to hand over sweeping spy powers to the Trump administration,' she stressed. 'This means continuing #warrantless backdoor searches and allowing an increasing number of federal agencies to exploit the data broker loophole to supercharge #AI and fuel mass #DomesticSurveillance.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization#USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #FISA #Section702 #SurveillanceState
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#JaredGolden isn't running, so he could give a shit about #Mainers (or anyone else)...
‘Dangerous and Shameful’: 42 House #Democrats Help #GOP Send #Trump Spying Bill to Senate
“It was these Democrats’ responsibility to stand up against this administration, and they voted to stand down instead,” said one campaigner.
Jessica Corbett, Apr 29, 2026
Excerpt: " 'The 42 Democratic votes to advance Speaker Johnson and Donald Trump’s #surveillance agenda are dangerous and shameful,' she declared.
" 'These Democrats defied their constituents and common sense to undercut meaningful privacy reforms in the House and instead voted to hand over sweeping spy powers to the Trump administration,' she stressed. 'This means continuing #warrantless backdoor searches and allowing an increasing number of federal agencies to exploit the data broker loophole to supercharge #AI and fuel mass #DomesticSurveillance.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/fisa-section-702-reauthorization#USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #FISA #Section702 #SurveillanceState
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Protect #VPN use in the UK
Sign petition:
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk
#privacy #security #Internet #authoritarian #Surveillance #ToxicLabour #Orwellian #Orwell #DemocracyNOW #OpenRightsGroup
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#AndThen? And then #Mullvad was #censored in #UK
#UnitedKingdom is escalating its #censorship & mass #surveillance
When Mullvad tried to address this with #TV #ad “And Then?”, it was banned on British television
Outdoor ad campaign meant to criticise the TV ban was also largely halted
Here, you can watch the banned ads and explore the entire campaign
https://mullvad.net/en/and-then/uk
#authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #privacy #security #ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin #StarmerOut
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#Bipartisan even! #DoublePlusUngood!
Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be #Anonymous Online
The bipartisan push to remove #anonymity from the #Internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented #MassSurveillance and #censorship.
Taylor Lorenz
March 5 2026, 12:20 p.m."In August 2024, the Biden administration hosted hundreds of influencers at the White House for the first-ever Creator Economy Conference. Neera Tanden, a senior Biden adviser, took to the stage and bemoaned anonymity online. The influencers alongside her agreed, pushing the idea that anonymous speech on the internet is harmful, and regulation is needed to force the use of real names on social media. The audience whispered excitedly as those on stage spoke about how proposed laws like the #kidsonlinesafetyact or #KOSA, could unmask every troll.
"This narrative of online safety, particularly in relation to children, has become central to the bipartisan effort to #censor and #deanonymize the internet for everyone. Today, a package of a dozen 'child online safety' bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.
"The problem is that there’s no way to reliably verify someone’s age without verifying who they are. A platform cannot magically discern that a user is 16 without collecting identifying information, whether through government documents such as a passport, payment information like a credit card, or other identity-disclosing data. Whether that data is stored by the platform itself or outsourced to a vendor, the result is always the same: A user’s offline identity is forever linked with their online behavior.
"Stripping anonymity from the internet would constitute one of the most sweeping rollbacks of civil rights in recent history. It would allow for unprecedented levels of mass surveillance and censorship, endangering the most marginalized members of society. #Whistleblowers exposing #corporate wrongdoing could be tracked and fired, #GovernmentEmployees speaking out about illegal behavior or bad policies could face prosecution, and #activists #OrganizingProtests could be identified and surveilled before ever setting foot on the street.
"Already, the U.S. government is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas seeking to unmask hundreds of anonymously run #AntiICE social media accounts. These laws would make it all the more easier for the government to target and prosecute those who dissent.
Vulnerable members of society will suffer most. #TransPeople under attack from the government could be identified and outed without their consent."Undocumented #immigrants could be cut off from the ability to communicate and connect with advocates. Young people seeking #abortions in states with restrictive laws might no longer have the ability to access information safely and anonymously.
"Not only will a de-anonymized internet be valuable to the government as it seeks to tighten control, it will also make it easier for any #corporation or bad actor to intimidate, #blackmail, or exploit people by leveraging their own data against them."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/al8if#USPol #Orwellian #BigBrother #SurveillanceState #Corporatocracy #CharacteristicsOfFascism #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou
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Stop scanning us! #FacialRecognition
Home Secretary Mahmood, revealed her chilling vision of building a “panopticon” where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”
Your #passport photo now being searched by police, even if you have done nothing wrong
#Driving licence photos are next
If we don’t set clear limits now, our rights to #privacy, #FreeSpeech, #protest & access to information are at risk
Sign:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-scanning-us-all-with-facial-recognition -
Scrap #DigitalID cards
#UK Government plan for digital ID cards is £1.8 billion white elephant
It is little more than an echo of the failed Tony Blair ID card scheme, now with an expensive digital element bolted on
We rejected ID cards then and we reject them now.
Despite the government’s partial U-turn on some compulsory elements of the scheme, the huge cost remains – alongside many other problems.
#security #privacy #BigData #ToxicLabour #KierStalin #ID #Orwellian
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Stop #FacialRecognition
This could be the last meaningful chance to push back on 24/7 #facial recognition in #UK
Putting cameras on our high streets, we’re all treated like #suspects in #digital #police #line-up, with our photos taken repeated for identity checks 24/7
We’ve created a speedy tool to help you respond – it takes just minutes but could help protect privacy for a generation.
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/stop-facial-recognition/
#PoliceState #authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian #ToxicLabour #KeirStalin
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#Labour's #jury plans condemned by lawyers across UK, Ireland
UK #Justice Secretary #Lammy wants to limit #JuryTrials
“The Four Bars are deeply concerned that the #UK Govt planning to restrict the right to a #jury #trial in #England & #Wales
- “Being tried by a jury of one’s peers is a fundamental cornerstone of the criminal #justice system in our respective jurisdictions”
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25729633.labours-jury-plans-condemned-lawyers-across-uk-ireland/
#ToxicLabour #DemocracyNOW #HumanRights #authoritarian #Orwellian #1984 #dictatorship
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Is Karoline Leavitt engaging in Orwellian doublespeak? White House claims of 'truth' and 'transparency' increasingly echo the Ministry of Plenty. When political language makes lies sound truthful, it's 1984 all over again.
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@10tothe22 Hey there. I don't mind you sharing a graphic I dug up from my archives, but could you at least copy the alt text I put in there? TY! Also, the quote is from a movie, not Orwell.
Alt Text: An image of a metallic surface, with the letters I R A, and another spot where there is half a Q and half an N. Is the war between us an IRAN? Or us and IRAQ?
There is a quote below the image (misattributed to George Orwell):
"The war is not meant to be won
it is meant to be continuous."
- George OrwellOriginal post:
https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/113771386333904298#EndlessWars #IraqWar #IranWar #Oiligarchy #BigOil #BigOilAndGas #Doublethink
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Yikes1!
https://ahprojects.com/todays-selfie/
#privacy #surveillance #NSA #IRS #DOD #Snowden #CCP #China #FiveEyes #intelligenceagencies #intelligence #FSB #KGB #1984 #bigBorther #Orwell #Orwellian #WinstonSmith #biometrics #profiling #forensics #police #policesurveillance #evidence #courts #CBP #DHS #INS #deportation #lamigre
