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Whether it’s dressed up as a ban or a forced sale, the bill targeting TikTok is laughably unconstitutional and an egregious assault on free expression and human rights.

The Senate will vote TODAY.

Sound the alarm y'all we can't let this happen quietly

dontbantiktok.com

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The Canadian *Bill C-26*, which is now with the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (u.fsf.org/433), may endanger the viability of small free software projects as they may not be able to pay the costs to comply with the reforms. u.fsf.org/432

reclaimthenet.org/jp-morgan-ch
"The largest US bank, and the world’s largest by capitalization, JP Morgan Chase, is going forward with another way to monetize their clients – by giving access to their spending data to be used for targeted ads."

To be fair, I think Zuckerberg does get a lot of rap from a few for things he can't do a whole lot about, such as having this content or that content up.

I haven't specifically seen it in a few months, but with each instance, it becomes ever more obvious what the intentions behind it really are.

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When some guy who worked at Facebook casts shade at smaller competitors (~millions of users) for supposedly having far smaller amounts of child porn being posted by bad actors than the company they used to work for.

It's worth remember that some of this "we are concerned" sophistry is just plain old anti-competitive conduct.

Le Chevalier D’Eon is an interesting anime.

As you might guess from the title, it is set in France.

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ICYMI: Le Chevalier D’Eon: Agent Provocateur Vol. #02 Anime DVD Review http://dlvr.it/T5tC1B
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To be fair, Carl Szabo kind of has a point when he points out that technology is not a substitute for parenting (i.e. the curfews).

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theguardian.com/media/2024/apr So many loopholes in these "assurances", and they might try to wash their hands of it, by saying that it was the DoJ which did it, not them.

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This is a good decision. I don't want to see people getting punished for things they haven't done.

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https://reason.com/2024/04/18/u-s-sentencing-commission-restricts-federal-judges-ability-to-use-acquitted-conduct-at-sentencing/ "Federal judges wi...
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Are you bilingual and would you like to see the FSFs #freesoftware resources in more languages? Email campaigns@fsf.org and join the translations team. It's the most effective way to bring free software to the world.

bookriot.com/louisiana-hb-777/ If you're wondering what's going on with anti library bills, this one punishes librarians for joining the Library Association.

The reason I don't put the "suppressing sexual thoughts made them worse" (I suppose moralizing about them) study in with the other ones is because that is more of a *personal well-being* point than something particularly about censorship.

I've been letting this one simmer before commenting on it but it appears APRA might be a bit on the vague side.

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