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“National security” only ever means what the government wants it to mean, without limiting principle – Ari Cohn
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The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 | TechRadar
LOL the European Union has discovered FBI plans from 1999 regarding key escrow: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/the-eu-wants-to-decrypt-your-private-data-by-2030
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Interstellar asteroid inbound
Prepare yourself for the inevitable “it’s a spacecraft” nonsense from the media. https://bsky.app/hashtag/A11pl3Z
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Civil Society: Cloudflare’s latest change {blocks, unblocks} network use by {people, software} that we {hate, love} – {yay, boo} this is {great, terrible}!
Details don’t matter – pick your own headline. I doubt we have heard the last of this, but this, too, shall pass: With Cloudflare’s new setting, websites can block – by default – online bots that scrape their data https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/technology/cloudflare-ai-data.html 2022: cloudflare blocks kiwifarms, but in 2025 it still exists: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/04/cloudflare-reverses-decision-and-drops-trans-trolling-website-kiwi-farms Quote: In a blog…
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Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling | The New Republic
This. https://newrepublic.com/post/197369/supreme-court-elena-kagan-free-speech-logic-porn-ruling
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The Conservatives On The Supreme Court Are So Scared Of Nudity, They’ll Throw Out The First Amendment | Techdirt
This. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/27/the-conservatives-on-the-supreme-court-are-so-scared-of-nudity-theyll-throw-out-the-first-amendment/
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Prof. Goldman’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Demolition of the Internet in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton – Technology & Marketing Law Blog
The United States Supreme Court has done something ill-advised, misinformed and foolish. https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/prof-goldmans-statement-on-the-supreme-courts-demolition-of-the-internet-in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm
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Insane Fake Girl Bot on *Mastodon* takes shots at: William Gibson, Craig Newmark, Jeff “Dark Tangent” Moss, David Preiss, …
I can only think that because it’s such a small community on Mastodon it decided to go with spamming a list and it chose poorly.
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Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”
Who would have guessed? Will Oremus: “Separately and notably, GLAAD — which dropped its opposition to KOSA last year after changes to the bill, easing its path to Democratic support — told me it now wants lawmakers to review the bill in light of “changes in the FTC and other government leadership”
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If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging & content filtering, those things are surveillance & censorship because they are done by the state
The state has a monopoly on violence. The state has a monopoly on censorship. The state tries to have a monopoly on surveillance. If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging and content filtering, those things are surveillance and censorship because [they are] “done by the state”. In reference to: