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NEWS: Continuing to Protect our Users in Kazakhstan – Open Policy & Advocacy
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2020/12/18/kazakhstan-root-2020/
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Humans Being Creative Bros
2/2 "…blew them up to poster-size, and decorated the patients' rooms, so that as they came back to consciousness, they'd be comforted by seeing the faces of loved ones." There's still more love than hate out there. Merry Christmas… — Now JonRauch on ? (@jon_rauch) December 23, 2020
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RECOMMENDED: “Senator Tillis Releases Massive Unconstitutional Plan To Reshape The Internet In Hollywood’s Image” by @mmasnick
Mike Masnick is one of the rare voices of sanity in the digital rights space. For this post I’m going to focus in on the most problematic idea in the bill: the notice-and-staydown provision. We’ll discuss other problems at a later date. The notice-and-staydown provision has many, many problems. To be fair, Tillis tried to
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FOOD: Espresso FoodPorn HD Closeup (May 2020)
Looking back: one of my more successful YouTube videos of the year, fun to make, but required an insane amount of lighting to make everything visible. Not slow-motion. From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-npuBaTZSY
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NEWS: “Twitter’s policy that deals with the infringement of copyright is increasingly being used to maliciously target accounts run by Tanzanian human rights activists in order to silence them, internet rights campaigners allege.”
Check my twitter timeline where you will find any number of arguments with (especially: music company executives, or former ones) people who call for more and pre-emptive copyright filtering of user-generated content, often pooh-poohing or ignoring the issue that would provide illiberal governments with censorship capabilities. Turns out: it’s happening. See this page from AccessNow: