Governments are always going to want to silence and hide away cool shit from you.
So you can be sure that if a government says something is 'dangerous', then that is something you are going to want to get, or do, or look into, EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
As I've said before, it's hard not to read this mass surveillance/censorship bullshit as our deeply reactionary governments getting the faintest whiff that an unchecked internet severely interferes with their ability to propagandize and decided the internet had to die.
The UK and US in particular are absolutely speed-running this bullshit (with the EU, Australia, and South America not too far behind).
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #UK #UnitedKingdom
RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/users/openrightsgroup/statuses/116205495518019401
The UK wants to put age verification on VPNs[1][2] I'm looking forward to them going toe to toe with mullvad, or how they plan to ban Tor and I2P and yggdrasil and meshtastic
#UK #UnitedKingdom #FLOSS #Privacy #Anonymity #VPN #Mullvad #Tor #I2P #Yggdrasil #Meshtastic #Censorship #AgeVerification
Emmerich Newspapers wants the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to scrap the Server Test, something that's been legal precedent for almost two decades.
Emmerich Newspapers also argues that altering a URL, via something like a link shortener, should constitute copyright infringement under the DMCA ("Prohibition on changing or deleting copyright management information").
In short, they want to make link embedding and link shortening essentially illegal (or least very legally gray). Copyright maximalists are batshit insane.
#FreeSpeech #Censorship #Embedding #Links #Internet #Copyright #CopyrightNonsense
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/eff/statuses/116196024145324586
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