Meta Refuses to Answer Questions on Gaza Censorship, Say Sens. Warren and Sanders
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta dodged questions from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders about censorship of posts about Gaza.
Trump bans CNN, MS NOW and Politico from White House over coverage
US President Donald Trump said the ban is due to reports of 'fiction and lies', and warned that other news organizations could face similar restrictions.
The Faux Free Speech Warriors Attacking Free Speech
There’s a particularly insidious and cynical form of censorship gaining prominence in America: the weaponization of “free speech” rhetoric, combined with abuses of the judicial sy…
Mozilla's Vision for a Healthy, Sustainable Web | The Mozilla Blog
Not surprisingly, the latest discussions around content blocking have resulted in a polarizing debate about the users who choose to block content as a way
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This bot posts the things that get people blocked. For block records, we check if the blockee has recently @'d or replied to the blocker. If it matches, we redact it and post it.
interfluidity » Consensus not censorship
We’ve become obsessed over the past few years with the problem of misinformation. And for good reason. “Flood the zone with shit” is now standard operating procedure for a variety of interests and factions. Groups who pretend to be above that kind of thing let confirmation bias do the same work, elevating conjectures they find convenient to believe far beyond the evidentiary basis for believing them, and transmuting concurrence among prestigious groups whose biases are aligned into “authority” to which they demand deferrence. Casual information consumers become divided into two camps, the “do your own research” types who imagine, mistakenly, that they are capable of seeing through all this (and so succumb to their own confirmation bias), and those who more accurately understand that they cannot reliably distinguish truth from bullshit (and so opt out of democratic deliberation with a shrug, other than perhaps to vote for the candidates whose political party they distrust less).
'We won't be silenced': Meta removes Instagram accounts of pro-Palestine advocacy group
Pro-Palestinian activists have complained of suppression of speech since the war on Gaza began on 7 October
ErgoBlock for Bluesky – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download ErgoBlock for Bluesky for Firefox. Smarter Bluesky moderation: temporary blocks/mutes that auto-expire, Amnesty mode to review past decisions, Mass Ops to clean up block lists, and tools to copy blocks from trusted users.
ErgoBlock for Bluesky – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download ErgoBlock for Bluesky for Firefox. Smarter Bluesky moderation: temporary blocks/mutes that auto-expire, Amnesty mode to review past decisions, Mass Ops to clean up block lists, and tools to copy blocks from trusted users.
A new paper examines blocking on Bluesky: "…blocking does not decrease the popularity and activity of the blocked users and has a limited effect on the social graph." There is a lot more nuance in here. h/t @index.internet.exchangepoint.tech.ap.brid.gy openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/36822/
City Research Online - Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky
openaccess.city.ac.ukA new paper examines blocking on Bluesky: "…blocking does not decrease the popularity and activity of the blocked users and has a limited effect on the social graph." There is a lot more nuance in here. h/t @index.internet.exchangepoint.tech.ap.brid.gy openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/36822/
City Research Online - Open or Blocked Skies? Community Moderation Practices in Bluesky
openaccess.city.ac.ukSomething interesting just happened that brings some questions I know @standard-reader.app respects Bluesky's blocks, and I've just seen it happening not allowing me to open an article from a person that I just found out is blocking me (from a mod list, not a big deal, I don't mind) But...
For our first launch of the year, we're kicking off with more blocking features! Rolling out today: ATProto across Bluesky, Blacksky, and any other PDS can apply domain blocklists to Bridgy Fed. Blocks come with if you Bounce, and we even added a handy list of reputable blocklists to choose from.
Launch: Domain Blocklists
blog.anew.socialSo @safety.bsky.app has no problem with people repeatedly harassing and humiliating trans rape victims, but a blocklist that is helping trans people block people who participate in such behavior is against the rules. Got it. So much for "choose your own moderation."
So @safety.bsky.app has no problem with people repeatedly harassing and humiliating trans rape victims, but a blocklist that is helping trans people block people who participate in such behavior is against the rules. Got it. So much for "choose your own moderation."
