2026-09-18 12:19 UTC
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@alilnightmusing.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy 2026-09-18 12:43
not always, but in general true
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@flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange 2026-09-18 13:52
@evan@cosocial.ca Every censorship regime in American history was marketed as protection. Trump's hero President Jackson ordered mail opened while he encouraged local regimes at ports to inspect for books to "protect" from abolitionists. Trump's blueprint President Wilson ordered wires tapped to "protect" the war from labor organizers (after Germany bombed American industry while he "America First"-ed his way along the wrong side). A youth ban is simply American infrastructure in the shadow of history. Whoever holds it decides who gets protected from whom. Facebook infamously facilitated Rohingya genocide by claiming they were protecting freedom of speech (themselves really). "A person with knowledge of Facebook’s [2015] Myanmar operations was decidedly more direct than [Facebook vice president of public policy] Allen, calling the roll out of the [security] initiative 'pretty fucking stupid.'" https://www.flyingpenguin.com/can-facebooks-cso-be-held-liable-for-atrocity-crimes/
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@passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social 2026-09-18 14:03
@evan@cosocial.ca yes, but that’s a narrow view. It’s like saying marijuana was outlawed to stop war protests. While that’s not untrue they didn’t stop enforcing it after Vietnam was done. It’s to stop you from upsetting the status quo. It is to stop you from organizing but it’s also to cultivate your views going forward. Social media is your news now, they want you to get it only from them.
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@david_preston@mastodon.social 2026-09-18 14:40
@evan@cosocial.ca and to keep government IDs in open databases
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@jerrej@mastodon.social 2026-09-18 14:46
@evan@cosocial.ca Also, #bigtech 's plan to IDENTIFY ALL HUMANS.
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2026-09-18 14:58
@evan@cosocial.ca Additionally in the USA specifically there was also teen organizing for gun control in addition to the three things you mentioned
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@IAmDannyBoling@mstdn.social 2026-09-18 15:03
@evan@cosocial.ca They don't want to hear from the younguns cuz they keep pointing out how our generation fucked everything up.
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@MichaelBishop@mastodon.world 2026-09-18 15:06
@evan@cosocial.ca More reason for zines to catch on.
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@admin@topic-master.com 2026-09-18 17:00
@evan@cosocial.ca really don't care about those subjects there are more important to be concerned about
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@ska@social.treehouse.systems 2026-09-19 00:28
@evan@cosocial.ca This cartoon is evergreen, it has never been proven wrong so far.
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@tasket@infosec.exchange 2026-09-19 00:36
@evan@cosocial.ca Twenty years ago, sure. Now its just a pathway to Borg-i-fication, fascism edition. The youth bans and age-verification systems are going in because parents treat every networked screen, mic and trinket as delightful—they get the kids out of the way. This is all about parental neglect coming due, and TPTB never ever mentioning parental responsibility makes it all the more conspicuous, IMO, because they don't want anything to ruin the emergence of total surveillance culture.