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🇾🇪 The closure of Yemeni accounts by Platform X is truly strange. The account of the spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces, Yahya Saree, along with other officials' accounts, has been suspended. It seems that Platform X is now owned by Zionists. All Yemeni accounts must be restored and reactivated.

x.com/Yemenimilitary/status/19

#censorship #freespeech
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran
#lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten
#tiktok #cdnpoli #canada #usa #yemen

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I'm sure those people in the category you mentioned will be offended and will try to befriend me, telling me everything to brainwash me into following their identity or ideologies. I had one friend like that. They played the victim and wanted me to vote for ******n *******l. I'm glad I didn't. At that time, I was a novice in politics and I voted for anyone except what my friend requested, ******n *******l. For many reasons, I couldn't be myself with that friend; since then, we have drifted apart and are no longer friends. This is the blessing. #malaysia #politics #censorship #politicalscience #political #democracy #freedom #freedomofspeech

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"Yes, Facebook lied to the press often, about a lot of things; yes, Internet.org (Facebook’s strategy to give “free internet to people in the developing world) was a cynical ploy at getting new Facebook users; yes, Facebook knew that it couldn’t read posts in Burmese and didn’t care; yes, it slow-walked solutions to its moderation problems in Myanmar even after it knew about them; yes, Facebook bent its own rules all the time to stay unblocked in specific countries; yes, Facebook took down content at the behest of China then pretended it was an accident and lied about it; yes, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg intervened on major content moderation decisions then implied that they did not. Basically, it confirmed my priors about Facebook, which is not a criticism because reporting on this company and getting anything beyond a canned statement or carefully rehearsed answer from them over and over for years and years and years has made me feel like I was going crazy. Careless People confirmed that I am not.

It has been years since Wynn-Williams left Facebook, but it is clear these are the same careless people running the company. When I wonder if the company knows that its platforms are being taken over by the worst AI slop you could possibly imagine, if it knows that it is directly paying people to flood these platforms with spam, if it knows it is full of deepfakes and AI generated content of celebrities and cartoon characters doing awful things, if it knows it is showing terrible things to kids. Of course it does. It just doesn’t care."

404media.co/careless-people-is

404 Media · 'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a DecadeI've reported on Facebook for years and have always wondered: Does Facebook care what it is doing to society? Careless People makes clear it does not.
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"When the fed govt starts talking about ppl "hiding behind the #1A," look out."
-W Creeley

"🚨#DHS announced today: it's formalizing the #censorship practices it has engaged in for the past 3 months. By surveilling visa & green card holders & targeting them based on nothing more than their protected expression, the admin trades America’s commitment to free & open discourse for fear & silence. Unfortunately, that chill appears to be the admin’s aim."
-FIRE org

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Update. A statement from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (@americanacad).
amacad.org/news/board-statemen

"Our founders were also the founders of our nation…Current developments, in their pace, scale, and hostility toward institutions dedicated to knowledge and the pursuit of truth, have little precedent in our modern history. We oppose reckless funding cuts and restrictions that imperil the research enterprise of our universities, hospitals, and laboratories…We condemn efforts to censor our scholarly and cultural institutions, to curtail freedom of the press, and to purge inquiry or ideas that challenge prevailing policies…The Academy will continue to…work to safeguard the conditions of freedom necessary for novel discoveries, creative expression, and truth-seeking in all its forms. We join a rising chorus of organizations and individuals determined to…prevent our nation from sliding toward autocracy."

American Academy of Arts & Sciences · A Statement from the Board of Directors - April 2025A statement from the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, approved April 2025.
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Donald Trump Is Doubling Down on All of Joe Biden’s Failures

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-biden-inflation-wars-censorship/

> Wars abroad, the affordability crisis, inflation, censorship of political speech — Donald Trump successfully exploited discontent with Joe Biden’s administration on all these issues and more. Trump is now making all of them far worse.

#uspolitics #uspol #uspoli #trump #biden #inflation #censorship #jacobin
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Update. "Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws"
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/0

"A state commission scrubbed academic research from a database used by #Mississippi #libraries and public #schools — a move made to comply with recent state laws changing what content can be offered in libraries. The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law…One of the now deleted research collections focused on “race relations” and the other on “gender studies.”

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“These demands to remove and restrict books and other library materials are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment,” read the ALA’s 2025 State of America’s Libraries report, published on Monday. “The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.”

#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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"72% of demands to censor books were initiated by pressure groups, government entities and elected officials, board members and administrators, reported the American Library Association (ALA). Just 16% of ban attempts were made by parents, while 5% were brought forward by individual library users."

~ Ella Creamer

#BookBans #libraries #education #diversity #DEI #censorship #schools
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theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

The Guardian · Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups, not parentsBy Ella Creamer
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100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-IDF

thegrayzone.com/2025/04/08/100

Meta's recruitment of vast numbers of former Israeli soldiers raises serious questions about the tech giant's commitment to free speech – and provides a peek into a biased content moderation process that's been heavily censoring pro-Palestinian accounts amid the Israeli siege of Gaza.

#Meta#IDF#Ties
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🚨🚨🚨NEW in #AssociatedPressVBudowich – the federal case regarding #Trump's ban on #AssociatedPress reporters🚨🚨🚨

Federal judge lifts White House ban on #AP

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden found that when rooms in the White House, like the Oval Office or the East Room, are opened to certain #journalists, the admin cannot block others.

#FourthEstate #FreePress #democracy #censorship #StateMedia #Propaganda #Trumpaganda
storage.courtlistener.com/reca

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“They aren’t always moms, they don’t always have kids, and they definitely don’t care about ‘liberty’ for everyone else,”
- Paul Bowers American Civil Liberties Union

theguardian.com/books/2025/apr

The Guardian · Majority of attempts to ban books in US come from organised groups, not parentsBy Ella Creamer