#censorship

#Politics #censorship #Fascism #ignorance #education #alt

The #Grifters running #Amerikkka are calling public media a grift! Probably because they embrace DEI and aren't afraid to criticize the #Fascist administration! This will not only cripple or destroy #PublicTelevision stations, #CommunityRadio like #WMPG also receives money from the #CPB!!!

White House calls #NPR and #PBS a “grift,” will ask Congress to rescind funding

By Jon Brodkin, April 15, 2025

Excerpt: "In a statement provided to Ars today, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said that 'the effort underway to get Congress to rescind public media funding would disrupt the essential service PBS and local member stations provide to the American people. There's nothing more American than PBS, and our work is only possible because of the bipartisan support we have always received from Congress... Without PBS member stations, Americans will lose unique local programming and emergency services in times of crisis.' "

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/white-house-aims-to-defund-npr-and-pbs-in-move-slammed-as-cultural-sabotage/

#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #NationalPublicRadio #Censorship #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio #AmanpourAndCompany #SesameStreet #EducationalTelevision #MisterRogers #Kindness #Empathy #Truthtelling #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Authoritarianism #IndependentMedia #DemocracyNow #CorporationForPublicBroadcasting

Promising to Use the Notwithstanding Clause is Not Normal Politics

Pierre Poilievre announced that he intends on using the notwithstanding clause. This is not normal politics by any means.

https://www.freezenet.ca/promising-to-use-the-notwithstanding-clause-is-not-normal-politics/

#Censorship #News #Canada #ConservativeParty #PierrePoilievre

#Librarians in #UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads | #Libraries | The Guardian

Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take #books off shelves, particularly #LGBTQ+ titles
#censorship #bannedbooks

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads

#politics #Freedom #FreeSpeech #education #Censorship #alt

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) of colluding with Chinese censors, including the posts of users in Taiwan.

https://youtu.be/7ZzxxLqWKOE

#taiwan #democracy #freedomofspeech #censorship #media #senate #facebook #whatsapp #instagram

Alleging pre-emptive censorship, artist ‘hijacks’ website of Norwegian gallery showing his work https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/15/alleging-censorship-artist-hijacks-website-of-norwegian-gallery-showing-his-work?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Digitalart #Censorship

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove #books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly #LGBTQ+ titles

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/librarians-in-uk-increasingly-asked-to-remove-books-as-influence-of-us-pressure-groups-spreads #libraries #censorship

#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats

by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR

"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.

"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.

"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.

"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.

"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.

" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'

"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'

"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."

https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harvard-aaup-trump-funding-cuts-lawsuit

#SilencingDissent #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Fascism #Authoritarian #Authoritarianism #BibiIsAWarCriminal #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #TrumpIsABully #DEI #Erasure #Censorship

"The Little-Known Bureaucrats Tearing Through American Universities:

A new task force formed to combat antisemitism is using funding threats to force broader changes on campus"

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/anti-semitism-task-force-who-247c234e?st=vzuR1u&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#Trump #Bureaucrats #Universities #Education #FreeSpeech #Politics #Government #FederalFunds #Censorship

Online News Act, Online Streaming Act, Digital Services Tax Listed as US Trade Barriers

The United States has listed the Online News Act, Online Streaming Act, and Digital Services Tax as trade barriers (longstanding trade irritants).

https://www.freezenet.ca/online-news-act-online-streaming-act-digital-services-tax-listed-as-us-trade-barriers/

#Business #Censorship #Copyright #International #News #CUSMA #DigitalServicesTax #OnlineNewsAct #OnlineStreamingAct #USMCA

#MontyPython “Well, I didn’t #vote for you.” – Peasant Woman to King Arthur. But... Every Day we read this - 'This is the crisis moment': Political scientist says Trump crossed a crucial red line (April 14) - No he crossed it on Jan 20 and every day thereafter #media #journalism #corruption #power #blackmail #access #democracy #government #maga #politics #freedom #censorship #deportation #immigration #education #climate #healthcare #measles #economy #finance #insidertrading #wallstreet #markets

#Facebook #censorship #Netanyahu
@palestine
Another quality article by Council Estate Media.
"Meta says it runs free speech platforms" But Drop Site News "have obtained data showing Meta has complied with 94% of censorship requests from the Israeli government"
"Israel has made far more censorship requests than any other country. This is because the most dangerous weapon Zionists face is the truth"
I don't understand how people can be on Facebook. Anything Meta is wrong

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-is-working-with-meta-to-censor

In Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, he bragged about restoring “free speech” to the United States.

Now he has a “hope” for his Federal Communications Commission: that the agency will punish CBS for airing “60 Minutes” reports he doesn’t like.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/14/media/trump-fcc-60-minutes-cbs/index.html

What a hypocrite.

#usa #censorship

Сегодня цензор начал блокировать мой VPN который использует протокол v2ray + vless + reality + xtls-rprx-vision (у клиентов использующих мобильные операторы, Пермский край)

Блокировка выглядит как таймаут соединения при подключении к VPN, при том что IP на котором находится VPN остается доступным

#v2ray #vless #censorship #цензура

Very possible in stupid retrograde #fuckery from TX.

> Is Texas banning anime? Explained https://www.themarysue.com/is-texas-banning-anime-explained/

#PartyOfStupid #censorship #BannedBooks #TexasFriendly #books #reading #anime #manga

1/ Kudos to #Harvard for standing up to the #Trump admin. #AcadSky #AcademicSky #EduSky #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Kudos to #Harvard for standing up to the #Trump admin.

Friday, April 11, the Trump admin expanded its list of demands to Harvard. (Note that Harvard made the govt letter public on the Harvard website.)
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf

Today, Harvard President Alan Garber issued a public letter to the university community, explaining the latest Trump demands and the university's 𝙣𝙤 answer. "The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights."
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/

Also see Harvard's official answer to the Trump admin, through its lawyers. "Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government. Accordingly, Harvard will not accept the government’s terms as an agreement in principle."
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Harvard-Response-2025-04-14.pdf

#Academia #AcademicFreedom #Censorship #DefendResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

In case you need another reason to delete your #meta accounts

@palestine

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#freepalestinr https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-is-working-with-meta-to-censor?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

"In Mathematics censorship and criticism cannot be allowed to everyone as in other sciences [...] ; the speeches of the rhetoricians and the defenses of the lawyers are worthless." – François Viète (1540-1603)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math #sciences #censorship