Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.straitstimes.com/business/pay-with-crypto-to-party-and-travel-some-say-younger-consumers-prefer-this-others-say-growth-is-slow
"From buying a phone online to settling a bar tab at a nightclub, consumers and businesses seem to be more open to using #cryptocurrency"
Singapore. #crypto

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-to-ease-internet-restrictions-and-lift-ban-on-whatsapp-google-play
"#Iran said it will start easing some of the world’s tightest internet restrictions by lifting its ban on #WhatsApp and #GooglePlay"
#FreeSpeech

Apparently, people don't like acronyms.

https://apnews.com/article/germany-birkenstock-sandals-verdict-art-e3985066da164cffd2a0248e0c9b6675
"Under German law, works of art enjoy stronger and longer-lasting intellectual property protections than consumer products."
#copyright

While it's technically the TAKE IT DOWN Act, I'm going to write it as Take It Down in the tag to make it easier to read.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/senate-passed-take-it-down-act-threatening-free-expression-and-due-process #TakeItDownAct threatens free expression and due process. #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/senate-passed-take-it-down-act-threatening-free-expression-and-due-process #TakeItDownAct threatens free expression and due process. #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment

https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/weredroppingstripe:e #Odysee dropping #Stripe over financial censorship (and requested data collection). #FreeSpeech #privacy

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-supreme-court-rumble-blocked-c45ab801d5bb23e6d9b2271bdcf7426e
"A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of video-sharing platform #Rumble in the South American nation"
#Brazil #FreeSpeech

#FreeSpeech stories (#FirstAmendment)
https://reason.com/2025/02/24/trump-tries-to-carve-out-a-first-amendment-exception-for-fake-news/
https://reason.com/2025/02/24/florida-sues-target-over-trans-merchandise/
https://reason.com/2025/02/25/d-c-s-u-s-attorney-is-a-menace-to-the-first-amendment/

Someone complaining about "woke" is someone essentially complaining about a vague and amorphous sense of political correctness, not about an actual concrete ideology.

I'd be wary of someone trying to repackage "morality" as "exploitation".

"Did companies removing eye candy do anything for women (feminism)?"
Very unlikely. If anything, it's been used to argue that they are going woke or to complain about women.

"woke" itself is a term which doesn't really have a meaning.

Presumably, becoming woke involves drinking coffee.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://sinverse.com/
SinVerse. A Grand Theft Auto style game with blockchain elements was banned in #Australia. #games #FreeSpeech

I'll look into using Bluesky. I might not do that very soon though.

One reason for this is that I have other priorities, and I don't want to spend a lot of time experimenting with (and posting on) various social media accounts.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
https://egdata.app/offers/e9bd09671131463fa160977c3610a8b4
Brendan Samuel Rose's Luciferianism was banned in #Australia. #games #FreeSpeech

I'm a bit wary of orgs which try to be both a safety and freedom of expression org. It's harder for an org to do multiple things at once, and they might say things which are not good for free expression.

I don't always see an org where defending freedom of expression is one of the main planks and almost the entire team are psychologists.