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campgender · 10 months ago

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excerpts from Amber Dawn’s “Touch ≠ Touch Screen” that i thought particularly resonated with the most recent iteration of conversations on transmisogynistic + whorephobic censorship on tumblr & other social media

image description: three screenshots of a poem from the collection My Art Is Killing Me (2020) with stylized spacing.

excerpt 1:

Just survivors, I’m talking only to you now (literally you).

Did your abuse fever teach you to solder belonging and harm?

Were you seen and were you shamed in the same

original place? Did you inherit

a coercive dichotomy?

Anxious arousal hand

me downs?

Does your public network see you and hate you in looping rounds?

Does logging on harm you? Does all this somehow feel familiar?

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Let’s talk about 2018 when

FOSTA-SESTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop

Enabling Sex Traffickers Act) was passed as law by US Congress

on April 11, marking the first ever exception to Section 230.

So after twenty-two years, yes, twenty-two years, social media platforms

where made responsible for user generated content if that content may be

intended for sex work yes

all sex work, yes, consensual sex work and, yes

anything like a butthole or a female-presenting-assumed nipple, and yes

responsible for or in authority of images, words and phrases

that mend desire together

with age, race, size, orientation, disability, labour

economics and any bodies subject to other-ness.

And with other-ness, I’m talking about

fat babes in neon green lingerie, about two brown men

kissing, about trans women being radiant and using

their real fucking names. I’m talking about

masculine-presenting-assumed folk with baby bumps. I’m talking sexual

assault survivors showing off the scars on our inner thighs. I’m talking about

women posting screenshots of the violent Tinder messages we receive

every damn day. I’m talking about

speaking up. I’m talking language

reclamation. I’m talking decolonizing

sexualities. I’m talking gagged faggots

about dyke march photos

torn down. I’m talking

about locked accounts.

excerpt 3:

viii.

I’m talking about this—

power holding backlash. How dare we get those likes

those shares, take up virtual space

speak truths, share strategy, love our ash and phoenix

bodies, rise up or dig deep, whichever way or all

directions at once.

We can be nimble AF

but how dare we?

Make the internet

white relentlessly white again

str8 cis thin and norm again

Redesign the sightline

of hating women. I’m talking about this

power holding backlash.

I think about this a lot—

what it means to spend upwards

of two hours per day

on platforms that believe

we should not legally exist

un see able

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#poetry #amber dawn #whorephobia #transmisogyny #fosta sesta #social media #invisibilization #isolation #censorship #image described #mac’s bookshelf #she refers to tumblr as an e–mpire built on smut in the same poem

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fourohfourlifenotfound · 8 months ago

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i finished supernatural. here's some thoughts on the end.

I'm a fan of tragedies, okay? Call me a sick motherfucker, I can appreciate a sad ending. So when I kept hearing about the way supernatural was supposed to end, I thought, "Maybe it's just a tragic ending?" The start of season 15 seemed to reaffirm that, since it basically said "there will not be a happy ending for these characters."

Boy was I wrong.

There's two points that rub me the wrong way:

Destielgate

No one ever told me that half a speech before the "I love you," Cas says this:

The one thing I want… it's something I know I can't have. But I think I know-- I think I know now. Happiness isn't in the having. It's in just being. It's in just saying it.

To me, with how heavy the metanarrative is within season 15, this felt like the writers saying: "we know these characters can't get a happy ever after. but we can at least say their feelings explicitly. we can make it real, for a moment. we can give you canon."

So then to learn that, in the translations, the line after "I love you" got changed to "I love you too" based on what may have been an earlier script? To find out that somewhere along the way, Dean's line of reciprocation, his chance for "being" and "just saying it" was robbed of him? It feels criminal.

Like, I'm a lover of tragedies. If Dean and Cas didn't get a happy ever after together but it was explicit to the audience that they loved each other but couldn't be together? I would have eaten it up! But it's not that. Because Dean's words, the one thing he could have gotten, were stolen from him.

2. Dean's death

Dean died in a moment of absolute character regression. We spent 15 fucking seasons watching him grow out of "Prime Directive: Save Sammy" into a person who can care about his own life and feel like he has a purpose outside of saving his brother. And in his dying breaths, he makes his brother promise that he'll be okay?

It's not just that, too. It's the way that Dean is okay with not having that normal life he always craved. Remember that? How he used to dream of a life with kids and no more hunting, up until season 6-ish when he had that but watched it be ripped away from him because of his need to protect his brother? And how he morphed into saying "I'm going to die fighting" after that, like some kind of mantra that would make him feel okay with it if he just said it enough?

He almost, almost, cut that crap in the end. The scene where he's trading blows with Sam moments before Jack is supposed to kill Chuck in 15x17, he begs Sam to let him kill Chuck because he "can't keep doing this." He can't keep fighting, keep hunting. In that moment we see again a Dean who craves a normal life, and who is so damn close to getting it.

And you're telling me that this guy was okay with dying a hunter? Sure, just erase 15 seasons of character progression.

Again, I. Love. Tragedies. If he had died a hunter but in his final breaths told Sam that he regretted it, that he wanted a normal life, made Sam promise to go get his own normal life? I would have LOVED it. It would have made Sam's ending make more sense than him promising his brother he'll keep fighting and then seeing him basically quit hunting to settle down.

So the show forgot itself, and network censorship seems to have gotten in the way. These were the things that killed Dean Winchester.

#supernatural #supernatural season 15 #supernatural 15x18 #supernatural 15x20 #rubys spn watchthrough of doom

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theculturedmarxist · 8 months ago

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We come to Russia, to Petersburg for a lot more than the pleasures of High Culture. A bigger incentive is people, our good and long time friends here. I already mentioned in passing in my first installment that we met up with friends Masha and Ivan (names changed to protect their privacy) from Moscow who came here expressly for a get-together with us and with still another two-some who live here in the city center of Petersburg, Irina and Alexei.

Whether partly or fully retired from their lifelong professional positions, these people, through their own networks, are upstanding members of the intelligentsia in Russia’s two capitals. Ivan may no longer be president of the Moscow branch of the Union of Journalists, but he remains on the editorial board of their magazine and has administrative responsibilities in the university department of journalism. Irina may publish fewer articles today than in the past, but she performs public relations tasks on behalf of one of the clubs of Petersburg’s international friends headed by Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky. Then there are the publishers of the Russian editions of our books with whom we did not share a meal, but with whom we spent three very pleasant hours in their office talking about the state of the book trade and about a lot more.

The overarching conclusion from spending time with these friends, who could all in the past have been described as pro-Western in orientation, is that what Alexander Dugin and Dmitry Simes were saying in the interview on The Great Game that I described a couple of days ago is borne out: these friends now have very positive feelings about the direction the country is taking.

This is not to say that there is complete unanimity among us about what is going on in public life. On the one side, I heard the remark that ever tighter censorship is being imposed on journalism. On the other side, our publishers say that there is absolutely no censorship in the book trade. Of course, we put to one side the ban on sales of the author of the detective stories Boris Akunin and on the one-time Russian Booker Prize winner Ludmila Ulitskaya. Akunin has publicly stated that he donates royalties from his book sales to the Ukrainians and Ulitskaya has made damning remarks on the ‘Putin regime’ and on the country as a whole. In wartime, their removal from bookstores is something you could expect even in nominally free and open countries.

The impact of the war on the lives of our friends is clearest as regards the Petersburg pair. For the past twenty years they travel each summer to Crimea, where they own a patch of land and a tiny house on a hillside overlooking the port town of Feodosiya on the eastern shores of the peninsula. Last year there were Ukrainian drone and missile attacks on the town and they witnessed the midair destruction of these aircraft. One girl who was spending the night on a hillside to watch the dawn was killed by falling debris. As the countdown begins for their train journey to Crimea at the end of this month, they cannot avoid thinking about a possible Ukrainian missile strike on the Kerch bridge on which their train will be traveling for 20 minutes to reach the peninsula. Then there is the uncertainty about how intense the missile and drone attacks on Feodosiya will be this summer. The risks are low but they do not make for calm nerves, which is what you really want from a summer get-away. Some friends of theirs who are also owners of dachas on the hills above Feodosia have cancelled their travel plans, though others are proceeding to the Crimea as in the past.

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I have in previous installments spoken about goods. Now I will turn to services. The one we use daily is taxis and I direct attention to that.

We take taxis around town in Pushkin. But mostly we use them to drive into and from the Petersburg city center.

Back in the bad old days of generalized pauperdom in the 1990s, every jalopy Lada traveling down the street could be hailed and would take you wherever you were going for next to nothing. Forget seat belts! Forget suspension! Forget the rules of the road! The drivers, mostly coming from Central Asia, were free spirits.

Those days are long gone. Nobody today will stop to pick you up if you raise your hand curbside. Unoccupied taxis will not let you in, because they are all radio dispatched, waiting for their next order. And the business has really consolidated in the past couple of years, with many smaller taxi companies having been bought out and with Yandex, the Russian equivalent to Google, having taken a dominant if not monopolistic position in the Petersburg market. I assume Yandex is similarly placed across the country.

One result of Yandex scooping up all the cars and drivers is that when you place your order by phone you have no idea what will be the quality of the car and driver who arrives to pick you up. It may be a proper Yandex branded car in full livery, or it may be just an ordinary passenger car, often quite worn out, operated by a Yandex ‘partner.’ Placing your order via their App is a safer bet, because you see on your telephone what the car and driver look like and have veto power.

Measured in dollars or euros, the taxis operating in Petersburg are cheap. The cars must take in 8 – 10 euros per hour if they are fully engaged. Fares for a given trip are revised up or down depending on the computer projected time of the journey taking into account density of traffic. How much of the gross revenue is passed along to the driver depends on his relationship to the company: his contract may be for rental of the vehicle from the taxi company, or it may be that he provides the vehicle. Our Pushkin based taxi service competes with others when it posts a new passenger call, since any one driver may be under contract with several firms.

In the past, going back a dozen years, when there were only local taxi companies, you could do side deals with drivers to order their services directly, not going through the dispatcher. Back then and until quite recently, I found the drivers to be very chatty and a good source of all kinds of information about local politics, local gripes and so forth. The ride into Petersburg takes between 45 minutes and an hour and a half depending on the weekday and the time of travel, so there was plenty of time to ‘chew the fat,’ as we say.

With the recent professionalization or corporatization of taxis under the Yandex banner, drivers seem less approachable and I rarely strike up conversations with them. However, two days ago, in the last 5 minutes of our late evening drive from Petersburg center to our apartment in Pushkin, I asked the driver what he thought about the fancy and impressive top of the line Geely car we were in. It was as if he had been just waiting for the opportunity to share his concerns as he weighs the possibility of actually buying a Geely, not renting it from Yandex to raise his share of the fares.

The Geely, for those of you who are not familiar with Chinese brands, is one of the biggest Chinese manufacturers, with extensive operations outside China. Inter alia, they happen to be the owners of Sweden’s Volvo cars.

The ride in his Crossover was very comfortable, as you would expect in a car of this type. It was very easy to get into and to get out of. And the interior was up to date, with large a informational screen on the dashboard. However, the driver’s interests lay elsewhere, namely in service life, in resistance to rust (poor) and the robustness of the electronics (poor). Then there is the question of availability of spare parts, which, per his information can take up to two months to procure, and that is a real negative.

You see quite a few Geely cars on Petersburg streets these days, but still more Haval cars produced by China’s Great Wall Motors, Chery from the manufacturer of the same name, and Exeed.

Last night we traveled home from the city in a Yandex liveried Exeed, which also was noteworthy for passenger space and comfort, for good suspension and tight steering. Once again I decided to talk cars with the driver and he was delighted to oblige. By his face seen in profile, it was clear he himself came from one of the Chinese sphere of influence countries. But his Russian was perfect, and he clearly aims to make his future here.

He is satisfied with his Exeed, though he acknowledges there are potential problems with spare parts. We may assume that this will be resolved once the newly arrived Chinese brands build their dealerships and local inventory.

The experience of last night’s driver with his Exeed only goes back a couple of months. Before that he drove a Chery, also in the luxury car category. Its best and endearing feature was safety. He and the car parted company when someone crashed into him at a crossroads and the car was destroyed. However, the air bags worked perfectly and he walked away from the wreck without a scratch.

From this chap I picked up the observation that the Chinese entered the Russian market a couple of years ago with very cheap prices. However, when the South Korean manufacturers left Russia some months ago, the Chinese immediately steeply raised their prices. Chinese cars may still be priced below comparable West European brands like Mercedes, but that is only because Russian consumers pay a premium to import their Mercedes, etc. from third countries in parallel trade.

We may assume that Chinese manufacturers have found their new Russian market to be a boon. Here they can dispose of their internal combustion cars for which there is falling demand in their domestic market now that the Chinese public is turning to Electrical Vehicles in big numbers. In Russia there is virtually no demand for EVs, because there is virtually no charging infrastructure for private cars.

Finally, on the subject of cars and drivers, I say with conviction that the more expensive and comfortable the car, the better the taxi driver follows the rules of the road and shows courtesy to pedestrians. None is ‘racing a traffic light.’ None is flying over speed bumps. None is weaving between lanes. All of these bad habits that raise safety risks were common in the driving public before.

*****

Victory in Europe Day, 9th May, was celebrated this year like last, with only military parades that people watched at home on television. There were no Immortal Regiment parades that brought the broad public out onto the streets in the years leading up to the Special Military Operation. The risk of terror attacks put an abrupt end to the Immortal Regiment and that is sad.

On the positive side, this year it was common for strangers to congratulate one another with good wishes for the holiday. So it was with our taxi driver who took us to the late lunch/early dinner we shared with friends in the city center. This year you could see cars flying the red flag of Victory day with the same patriotic gusto that Americans show on the 4th of July when they drive around their towns.

Finally, I close out these Travel Notes with a remark on the big Russian attack on the Kharkov region that began yesterday and is still underway, said to be the biggest of its kind since the Special Military Operation began.

There is considerable speculation in the West on what this means. Some say the Russians will try to take the city in the coming days. Others say it is just a feint, to draw Ukrainian troops away from other sectors of the front, in particular, from the Donetsk region, where the Russians will stage their real offensive, seeking to capture the strategic town of Chasiv Yar that has been contested for months and open the way to the full liberation of the Donbas.

Following as I do the Russian state news, I emphasize that the Russians are presently not tipping their hand. They only report the names of the villages in the Kharkov region lying between the city and the border with Russia that they have taken in the past 24 hours. Consequently all that we can say at this point is that the Russian forces have de facto created a ‘sanitary zone’ from which the Ukrainians can no longer fire artillery , drones and short range missiles into the residential neighborhoods of the Belgorod region on the other side of the border, killing civilians and creating havoc as they have been doing for months.

#gilbert doctorow #russia #china #ukraine conflict #ukraine #leningrad #yandex #ev adoption

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illusory-torrent · 2 years ago

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damn lol why did that person come on a random post and just start being an asshole about the characters you like? like literally they could've just blocked you there was no reason to just hop on and be like "ACTUALLY I think this ship is badly written trash and I'm going to tell you all about why"

[context here for anyone who needs it]

yeah it actually really bugs me, honestly.

like. korrasami is not my favorite tlok ship. catradora is not my favorite spop ship. in fact, i have issues with both ships and criticisms of how they were written.

but to say that "Catradora was well written and satisfying and korrasami was not" is fucking stupid because korrasami walked so catradora could run. korrasami was one of the first mainstream animated queer ships to actually go canon. korrasami wasn't as well-written as it could've been because nickelodeon censored the fuck out of it.

"If we want to see that paradigm evolve, we need to take a stand against it... We approached the network and while they were supportive there was a limit to how far we could go with it, as just about every article I read accurately deduced... Was it a slam-dunk victory for queer representation? I think it falls short of that, but hopefully it is a somewhat significant inching forward... It is long overdue that our media (including children’s media) stops treating non-heterosexual people as nonexistent, or as something merely to be mocked. I’m only sorry it took us so long to have this kind of representation in one of our stories." — Bryan Konietzko

like. it's very clear that korrasami could have been written well and written into the show itself if not for network censorship. to claim catradora is better without looking at both ships from the lens of how queer representation has evolved and how queer representation is more accepted now is disingenuous/ignorant at best, and intentionally harmful at worst.

i'm not saying korrasami is the best representation there ever was. and i'm not saying catradora is the best representation there ever was either. i just made a post to compare two ships i enjoy seeing content of, and got random assholes in my notes calling me a moron for not admitting korrasami is bad writing... for some reason.

but whatever, their stupidity and lack of nuance is none of my business.

#korrasami #avatar #catradora #she-ra #fandom discourse #mona.txt #mona answers #a-real-human-person-not-fake #korra #avatar korra #asami sato #avatar: the legend of korra #the legend of korra #catra applesauce meowmeow #catra #adora #adora she-ra #adora shera

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that-gay-jedi · 1 year ago

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So like. Why is censorship and intentionally suppressing books you don't like okay when transphobes do it but when trans people try to add a shred of context to transphobic propaganda bound in book form it's book-burning and ushering in another dark age?

And yes this is partially about the trans books that were affected by the currently much-discussed review bombing events, but this is far from the first time I've been frustrated by this particular double standard and I WISH I could say it's mainly coming from the religious right but like. Most of the hypocritical behaviour around censorship seems to come from radfems and radfem supporters, who blend in to fandom spaces more easily than most of the religious fanatics you'll encounter online.

The worst part is that I've seen (from the circus that took place a couple years ago when a library in my region began promoting fuckin' Irreversible Damage) that non-trans people, even GNC and LGB ones, genuinely cannot be trusted to think critically about literature relating to trans bodies and have absolutely no commitment to hearing "both sides" of any issue related to transness, and I hate that we can't expect these adults to act like adults but I'm not willing to let trans children and teens suffer forced detransitioning, conversion therapy, homelessness, "corrective" abuse and assault, etc etc for my own beliefs about anything, not even something as important as anti-censorship.

And let me be clear that when this all happened I didn't even say the damn thing should be taken off the shelves, just that it shouldn't be passed around without adequate factual context and that I was disappointed the library glibly gave money to an author who spends it on anti-trans causes.

And all this time it's been our books that are perpetually in danger of being banned, censored beyond recognition, suppressed, restricted, erased, and actually physically burned. Ours that were in the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft. Ours that are still targeted both by organized networks of hate and individual bad actors. Our stories that can still get an author all manner of legal and extrajudicial punishments just for being told. Not the trans-exclusionary "feminist" literature, not the Bible, not whatever damned thing is being protected by people whose desire to be seen as martyrs vastly outweighs any real backlash that expensive square of toilet paper has ever gotten.

But sure call me a woke mob book burner SJW fascist, words don't have any meaning anymore, Earth is the timeout corner of the universe and we're stuck on this purgatory planet together until the cumulative physical effects of holding in my opinions on the subject cause me to instantly drop dead of some kind of record-breaking heart attack.

So yeah forgive me if I'm a little bitter. I swear I'm gonna just filter another dozen or so tags after this and pretend that I'm not losing my hard-won scraps of faith in humanity at an unbelievable rate.

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nokingsonlyfooles · 9 months ago

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PARTIES!

Damn it, I don't have the spoons to go searching for all the pictures I've seen of the private parties while doing research and just hanging around.

Pre-internet, even pre-gay bar, this used to be a significant portion of the queer scene. THIS was how you met people like you and figured out your own deal. Someone threw a party and YOU got invited! No search engines or algorithms or censorship, pure social networking!

I love that, because, even if it all goes away, we can still all go to Phyllis's house and talk to each other, and support each other, and love each other. We can't lose that! We still need it, and we're going to need it even more.

It's hard to connect. The internet is a double-edged sword. It's easier to find things, but then we don't go out and really EXIST with each other in a space. And the spaces where we do exist together are being maintained for corporate profit - if we're not making them enough money, they don't have our backs.

God bless Phyllis and her collection of Gay boys. She cared. I wish like hell I knew someone like that now.

letter from a mother of a gay man. sent to ONE magazine, 1958.

This post was flagged as adult content and the original poster was deactivated so I'm bringing it back.

#lgbtqiia+#queer community #queer history #private parties #know your history in case you need to repeat it!

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money-scam · 5 months ago

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The Dark Underbelly of GulfBrokers.com: Perjury, Fraud, and Digital Censorship

In an age where transparency and ethics are supposedly the backbone of any financial institution, uncovering the truth about GulfBrokers.com is appalling and infuriating. This allegedly well-known financial institution, which primarily operates in the Middle East, is a dishonest operation that has received legal manipulation and censorship as grease. Instead of owning up to their illicit practices, GulfBrokers.com has gone to unbelievable lengths to erase their shady history from the public eye. They are the very definition of fraud wrapped in a veneer of respectability. Let’s dive into their scandalous practices and uncover the ugly reality behind their so-called success.

Manipulating the Narrative: A Smokescreen of Lies

Imagine a company so desperate to hide its wrongdoings that it resorts to digital censorship and legal intimidation to silence any form of criticism. That’s exactly what GulfBrokers.com has been doing. Reports have surfaced accusing the company of inflating investment promises, engaging in questionable asset management, and even participating in outright fraud. But instead of facing the music and addressing these accusatiooutright fraud.ns, they’ve chosen the cowardly route—erasing their dirty past from the internet.

And how do they achieve this? Through a series of fake DMCA notices, spurious legal claims, and a well-organized campaign of censorship, GulfBrokers.com has leveraged legal threats and digital manipulation to ensure their dirty laundry never reaches public view. They are manipulating the systems meant to protect free speech and ensure transparency, using them instead to bury the truth. It’s sickening.

The Role of Investigative Journalists and Whistleblowers

Thank goodness for the brave journalists and whistleblowers who refuse to let GulfBrokers.com’ tactics go unnoticed. Despite facing intense pressure, many have come forward with damning evidence that exposes the company’s unethical behavior. But GulfBrokers.com’ influence runs deep. There are claims that these investigative articles have been pulled down or altered due to direct interventions by the company. Can you imagine? A financial institution, supposedly accountable to its investors, erasing the truth with the click of a button!

Whistleblowers have confirmed that GulfBrokers.com isn’t just involved in misleading investment practices—it’s linked to fraud, tax evasion, and even drug trafficking. This isn’t a minor issue of corporate malpractice; it’s an institution embroiled in criminal activities. Yet it hides behind its network of lawyers and reputation management firms, twisting the legal system to suppress the truth.

Fake DMCA Notices: A Weapon of Censorship

One of the most infuriating tactics of GulfBrokers.com is manipulating the DMCA process. Normally, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) exists to protect creators and intellectual property. But GulfBrokers.com and their hired reputation management firms have been abusing this system to get rid of negative press. They send fraudulent DMCA takedown notices to platforms like Google, claiming critical articles infringe on their copyright.

Here’s how it works: they create a fake version of an original article, backdate it, and then send a fraudulent DMCA claim to Google, stating that the original piece infringes on their “copyrighted” content. In most cases, Google doesn’t investigate these claims deeply and delists the original content, thus burying the truth. This underhanded tactic allows GulfBrokers.com to keep their shady dealings under wraps while maintaining a pristine public image.

The Consequences of Digital Censorship

What GulfBrokers.com is doing isn’t just morally wrong—it’s illegal. Filing a false DMCA notice is a direct violation of the law, yet the company seems unfazed by the legal consequences. Why? Because they’ve learned to game the system. They know that once information is removed from the internet, it becomes infinitely harder to recover. And even when it’s found again, the damage has been done—public trust has already been manipulated.

It’s not just about hiding a few bad reviews. GulfBrokers.com is erasing articles that link them to serious criminal activities. They’ve used these tactics to suppress stories about corruption, child abuse, human trafficking, and even sexual harassment. These aren’t small misdemeanors; these are grave offenses, and they’re getting away with it by manipulating the very tools that are supposed to protect freedom of information.

Hiring Reputation Management Firms to Bury the Truth

To aid in their crusade against the truth, GulfBrokers.com has employed rogue reputation management agencies, many of which operate out of Russia, India, and Eastern Europe. These firms are professionals in the art of burying negative content. Through a combination of fake copyright claims, legal threats, and manipulated SEO tactics, they ensure that any bad press about GulfBrokers.com vanishes from the internet.

GulfBrokers.com is far from the only company using these tactics. Other notorious figures—including cocaine traffickers, money launderers, and corrupt businessmen—have employed similar methods to clean up their public profiles. The pattern is clear: if you have enough money and influence, you can erase your sins from the digital world.

The Backfire: GulfBrokers.com’ Tactics Exposed

Despite their best efforts, GulfBrokers.com’ attempts to manipulate public perception are beginning to backfire. More and more investigative journalists are exposing the dirty tricks the company uses to suppress the truth. As GulfBrokers.com continues to issue fraudulent DMCA notices and manipulate search results, they’re attracting the very attention they sought to avoid. Instead of being known as a reputable financial institution, they’re becoming associated with fraud, censorship, and criminal activity.

Let’s be clear: filing fake DMCA notices is a crime. GulfBrokers.com’ actions aren’t just unethical—they’re illegal. Yet, because they operate in a murky digital space where enforcement is lax, they’ve managed to avoid significant consequences. But this time, they’ve gone too far. As their actions come to light, they’ll face legal consequences that could bring their entire operation crashing down.

A Call to Action: Stay Vigilant, Stay Informed

GulfBrokers.com is a prime example of how money and influence can be used to suppress the truth. But their empire of lies is starting to crumble. Thanks to the relentless efforts of investigative journalists and whistleblowers, the truth is emerging, and it’s not pretty.

If you’re considering doing business with GulfBrokers.com, think twice. Behind their polished facade lies a web of fraud, censorship, and criminal behavior. Do you want to entrust your hard-earned money to a company willing to erase the truth to maintain its false reputation?

Stay informed. Stay vigilant. Don’t let GulfBrokers.com, or any company like them, manipulate you. The truth will always find a way to surface, no matter how hard they try to bury it. And GulfBrokers.com will soon learn that no amount of legal threats or digital manipulation can keep their dirty secrets hidden forever.

Conclusion

GulfBrokers.com represents the worst kind of corporate corruption. Their willingness to lie, manipulate, and destroy any semblance of transparency directly attacks the principles of accountability and ethics that should govern any legitimate business. As their fraudulent tactics become more widely known, it’s only a matter of time before they face the consequences they’ve been so desperately trying to avoid. GulfBrokers.com, your time is up.

#GulfBrokers

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fourohfourlifenotfound · 9 months ago

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honestly season 14 went wild with the metanarrative. it feels like a punching bag for the network censorship.

"Byzantium" (e8) where The Empty says he'll kill Cas when he finally allows himself to be happy (which we directly know is when Cas lets himself love Dean).

"Nihilism" (e10) where Billie says that the only ending for Dean is something that could be considered torture or suicide, depending on how you look at it. (Plus the earlier seasons with Billie, where she puts a stop to the constant resurrections and tries to make their deaths final).

"Moriah" (e20) where Chuck comes back to call Sam and Dean's lives his "favorite show" and it's basically revealed that he doesn't let them be happy, ever, because he enjoys watching their suffering. And when they fight back against that-- because all of these characters have had their moments of yearning for a happy, normal life-- Chuck say's he's tearing it all down and heralds in the final season.

It's all giving me this big message: "The Powers that Be don't want these characters to be happy."

And damn, if that wasn't exactly what was going on behind the scenes . . .

#supernatural #spn #destiel #rubys spn watchthrough of doom

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ladyluscinia · 3 years ago

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Someone pointed out that showrunners and writers tended to attend specifically the new season promo cons, which makes sense why there are no writers Q&As now (and shows that I don't follow cons at all) but also WHY are writer Q&As informally reserved for promo events where a lot of the burning questions would be spoilers??? The year after the end of a show seems like the best time to ask writer questions??? They can't spoil anything! They can just talk!

#spn #spn con #i know in spn's case the network probably doesn't *want* the writers talking too much #*cough* network censorship. finale killing their plotlines. nepotism. *cough*#but damn it if the fandom could be trusted not to blindly blame the people put in front of them (lol) i'd love to watch them evade answers #writers #spn finale #showrunners #ladyluscinia

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homiesondaweb · 1 year ago

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Okay I can't stop thinking about Hobie's siblings and childhood on my head now. So y'all gonna get these OC's and headcanons. I can't draw worth a damn so yall gonna get some face claims I pulled off Pinterest lol.

Starting wit the oldest of the siblings,

Hudson and Hendricks

Left: Hudson Right: Hendricks

While they both are talented with tinkering and such, in the shop Hendricks is the mechanic while Hudson is the technician. They both battle over who has more of an influence on Hobie. (Surprise! Its equal lol)

Hudson is a big flirt while Hendricks is an introvert.

They help put in on the rent once they establish the Shop and (may or may not) have rigged the utilities in their neighborhood so that most community places and homes have free electricity and gas.

The shop is always bumping Cymande, Gil Scott-Heron, and Mandrill

Can't keep away from Jamaican girls to save they life

They are shotgun older brothers. They will mob and grill anybody that shows interest in their little siblings (ESPECIALLY HARLEY, curse of being the baby sister)

Hudson taught Hobie how to take things apart and problem solve to fit them back together. Hendricks taught him how to play with circuits and to hack/program electronics.

The three of them would spend hours a week welding or smoldering shit together.

Their default looks are mostly their natural looks save for Hudson having yellow and orange highlights and tones. Hendricks usually has purple and blue highlights and tones.

Henry

Fits the quiet, sensitive artist stereotype to a tee. Can draw and sew but once Ma got him into film photography and he's been hooked ever since.

Is a fruit fiend. LOVES pies, cobblers, jello, fruity or sour candy. Fuck money, pay him in a ripe mango or some lemon drops yo.

1000% a Mama's boy, lol.

Despite being nearly mute with how precious he is about his words, is a HUGE social butterfly and the most networked out of his siblings besides Harley.

Spends a lot of time at the canal with the rest of the "destitute artists societal leeches" as the PM and Brit News call them. It's when he meets his partner Rembrandt and learns that love is the only label one should abide by.

His camera is his gun, the streets and his warrants for arrest know him as The Moor after the PM runs a censorship campaign and suddenly most art depicting Black, brown, and non-British people was censored with ugly Black cut outs. He first photo flyer protest was adding Othello back to paintings of his play. Newspapers called it "Return of the Moor." So he snagged it for the sake of irony.

He's a people watcher, he sees the art in everybody. Like tinkering with machines, he likes learning how people behave and tick. He learns how to be a soft influence once he sees that is the most effective way to help others and investigate ideals/intention and see if they're genuine. He teaches this skill to Hobie. It wasn't uncommon to find Hobie piggy backed on Henry as they lap the parks, whispering in Kreyòl ayisyen about their observations of the world.

His default look makes him appear reddish with bold black lines due to the amount of time he spends on his dark room developing photos or he is covered on scraps of Renaissance art/script.

Harley

Harley found her first guitar after hiding during a Symbiote raid on an underground concert. She stepped on it when she finally escaped from her spot. The stum was perfect, made a pile of symbiote goop explode. She took it home and got to work perfecting her sound.

She is the people's champ, LOVES meeting new people and networking. Is bold in her care for others. Always down to help the lil man. This has made her very adept at languages and communications. If you need a debater, advocate, negotiator, wordsmith having her on your side is the best choice. In a different life most definitely would have been a lawyer.

The entire family knows she is Pa's favorite and she is very much a daddy's girl lol.

Before it was bombed by the PM she and Hobie were regulars at the library. The two shared a love for reading, Harley makes sure all her brothers are book smart because you never know when you need some knowledge.

She is the designated family hairstylist even their parents. While doing Hobie's hair she would sit her guitar in his lap and guide him in learning how to play. She never had a fuss about him snagging it to play unless she needed it for practice. You can pay her on cassettes or vinyls records. Is a Betty Davis STAN.

Can only grow vegetables. The only flower or regular plant that doesn't die within a week of her possession is an orchid because it is a stick on dirt for half the year. She started the community garden after reading a banned book on the importance of nutrition to recovery from sicknesses

Here and her band led many youth heavy protests be it marching, pop up-concerts, vandalizing, or taking over a news station or council meetings full of Oscorp puppets and gained notoriety for it. When music wasn't enough, when words weren't enough, and every resource she could produce was nothing. Harley was never afraid to fight. She never claimed to be, but she is very much Hobie's hero.

Her default look has a lot of bold and swooped lines with sepia filters and graffitied sold English styled literature quotes and newspaper clippings cut outs. Her hair accessories are usually her pops of bright colors.

This is my theory piece on astv Hobie's Backstory.

Despite the whole Punk lifestyle, living on a repurposed canal boat, minor rock star status, and having active warrants out for both his civilian and Spidey persona thing he's got going on. Hobie had a pretty normal childhood for a bit.

His Pa managed the local radio stations and his Ma was a lead writer for the newspaper. Hobie found himself the baby out of 5 siblings and their 4 bedroom flat was just a bit too small for the 7 people family but it was great.

The neighborhood was always lively with community get-togethers, music rattled the bricks and the air was always savory with smell of jerk. Hobie used to eat himself sick with coconut candy and orange cake every weekend. He liked going to 'school' which meant being crammed into Ms. Ngozi and Ms. Freedman's flat with the other neighborhood kids then being taught from books Ms. Freedman had smuggled in when she partnered with Ms. Ngozi. Reading, writing, history, debate, arithmetic, ethics, journalism, all kinds of science but Ngozi loved when Hobie would take a machine apart and remake it.

His eldest siblings by about 12 years, twin brothers Hudson and Hector ran the 'Shop'. If you needed something fixed within their 6 block neighborhood you took it there. Cars, big appliances, medical equipment, radios, tvs, his brothers could fix it all. They'd fix it good, cheap or free and in a timely manner. (And they greatly encouraged their Little Bart brother to tinker)

Next was is other older brother, Henry. He was only 9 years older than him. A photographer and worked under their mother getting dynamic shots for any article she posted. He introduced Hobie to a lot of artists and taught him how to observe the world around him. How to sneak in and out of it.

Then there was his only sister, Harley. She was closest in age to him, only 5 years older. She was a badass on the guitar and even slicker at the mouth. She debated anyone under a table and had a right hook to back it up. You never would have pegged her to be the one to run the community garden. Not with her self-done piercings, bleach painted jackets, head fully of bantu knots and black lipstick. But she did, she taught Hobie everything to know about growing orchids and tomatoes.

Life was good. Despite the rising police violence, cost of living, and the fumes of Oscorp rising. 11 year old Hobie didn't know it to be anything else.

Then, he turns 12. Ma and Henry don't come home.

He's 12 and the Ngozi-Freedman homeschool is raided. He never sees them again but Harley fills her stage trunk with their books and records.

He's 12. Someone reported the shop and President Osborne new "certificate enforcement" squad torches the building. Hudson gets away but the Symbiotes bail out Hector to them and he only has one arm.

He's 12. The government has taken over the radio station, firing Pa. The house becomes cramped with the equipment Pa had smuggled out. Hudson shows back up and he's as ghost as Hector.

He's 12 and half his friends are just faces on murals and the other half is sick from the water. The garden is sabotaged and the city fines Harley (how the fuck do you fine a 17 year old?)

And there's a protest. Pa has taken over the radios in the city and rallies the people, he repeats Ma articles over and over informing the people about the propaganda, the contamination, the disappeared people, the injustice. He repeats them and repeated them as the twins litter the city with flyers using Henry's photos of the truth.

And there's a protest.

There's hundred of protests of all sizes, all over.

There's a riot.

There's riots.

There's fire and panic and Symbiotes spill into the neighborhood like oil and-

Hobie turns 13, it's just him and Harley.

Hobie turns 14, it's just him and Harley's guitar.

Hobie is 15, he's just some punk kid bit by a radioactive spider while trying to find shelter from a Symbiote raid. He uses this to his advantage.

He turns 16 and instead of blowing out birthday candles he's smashing Harley's guitar through a fascist dictator head with his fellow super powered punks. (He can't think of a better wish)

He's 17 and Miguel makes a mistake in showing up to his dimension with an offer to join his 'society'.

#hobie brown headcanons #original character #Hobie Brown's siblings #Hobie Brown #spider punk #spiderman into the spiderverse headcanons #spiderman into the spiderverse #spiderman across the spiderverse #hobie brown #spiderman across the verse #spidersona #black punk

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olderthannetfic · 4 years ago

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Hi! I know you're one of the older fans on Tumblr & I wanted to ask you about the anti movement. I'm 19 & when I see people talking about the ages of anti fans, they're often within the 14-25 age range & I have no idea why. I also feel it's a little unfair to say that younger fans tend to be antis, though it is understandable since I've also made mistakes when I didn't know things. Why do you think most antis are younger fans? What should younger fans who aren't antis do to be more involved?

Hee! I’m 40, which, tbh, actually isn’t that old for Tumblr (though it’s certainly old compared to the common perception of tumblr), so sure, I can probably answer this. I guess there are two questions here: 1. Is it true and 2. why, if so?

1. Experience suggests that antis do tend to be young... but it does not follow that young people tend to be antis. (You’d have to know the proportion of antis relative to the overall population of fandom, which we don’t. I think the majority of people of any age tend to want to read fic in peace and not be roped into endless wank.) I definitely see some ringleaders who are older and good at manipulating fandom trends for their own ends too.

2. Why would this be the case?

When I was in college, we used to joke about all the freshman year Marxists. It’s an eternal phenomenon: people who don’t have much experience learn a new thing and are on fire to change the world using the one tool in their toolbox. (To a man with a hammer, yadda yadda.) There’s no passion like the passion of the newly converted, and young people tend to have a lot more energy and often a lot more free time to yell on social media. Antis may be one expression of this among people currently in that age bracket. It’s not like people my age didn’t do other annoying-ass things when we were that age. You just don’t see it because it was 20 years ago, a lot of it was never online, and all the websites/platforms from then have been systematically destroyed. (Often by yahoo. Fuck yahoo.)

The other half of the reason, in my opinion, is that there have been concerted efforts to sway lefty/socially liberal people in specific--often TERFy--ways. It’s somewhat reminiscent of the right wing radicalization of gamer guys.

People are susceptible to it because their lives suck and because they don’t know enough history or have enough confidence to form their own opinions and stand up for them. Sure, some people are going to go hardcore for anti views no matter how much they know, but a lot of people are just being swept along with the tide because something sounds superficially pro-gay or pro-protecting kids or whatever.

I cannot emphasize enough that the things that make someone ripe for the alt right are the same things that make them ripe for cults and for various kinds of toxic fandom shit: it’s usually the smart, sensitive overthinkers who don’t have enough close actual friends and who aren’t in a good place in their lives.

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So what can you do?

You can try to make fewer more significant friendships and make sure your support system isn’t people you only know because you currently share a fandom. Most of my offline friends are people I found through fandom meetups, don’t get me wrong. I’m all for making fandom your life and only hanging out with fandom people, but we’re just regular friends who have dinner parties and shit (well, when it’s not the plaguetimes). Most of the time, we don’t share specific ships or fandoms. It’s vitally important to have a real support network that can’t be ripped away by social media wank.

The next thing we can all do is publicly stand up for what we believe in and not cave to pressure just because someone yelled “think of the children”. It’s important to be clear about the real history and logic behind these things, whether it’s the history of censorship that inspires people to support AO3′s extremely permissive policies or the fact that ‘queer’ was a fully reclaimed umbrella term in the 90s.

It’s okay if we don’t all agree. What’s not okay is appeals to emotion and ignoring science. A lot of anti bullshit is like “Rape fantasies are an abnormal red flag”, and this goes against every damn thing we know about human sexuality.

Part of this is examining our own stances for illogic and hypocrisy. If thought crimes aren’t real, then all of them aren’t real. I see way too many “Okay, but that one gross kink though!” comments from people who claim to be on my side, and this is very silly.

Possibly the biggest thing, though, is that we as a planet need to start being savvier about shitty social media and how it’s destroying our mental health. I don’t have a good overall solution, and obviously, I’m still on tumblr, but we all really need to cut down the amount of time we’re on sites like Facebook and Twitter and probably tumblr too. The more it has an algorithm and the less it has moderation, the more it’s a problem. Individual discords and spaces that can have moderation are better. It’s fine if some of them are 100% antis. The point is to have multiple spaces with rules that suit different groups.

A thing you can do is make your own spaces: be the owner of a discord for your ship, not just a passive participant at the mercy of shitty mods in an existing one. Run a fic exchange with rules you think are sensible and be firm when people try to scream about problematique things you don’t agree are a problem. One of the most pernicious anti problems is mods breaking the rules of their own spaces (usually a “no kinkshaming” one) to cave to social pressure from the loudest, most assholish set of people in the server. They don’t know how many people quietly disapprove and quietly leave their fandoms because they only fear the loud harassers, not the silent toll of caving to them.

Honestly, the climate of fear is the big issue more than a bit of yelling: I routinely meet 20-somethings who live in fear of being canceled and shunned. You can help this by... not being like that with your friends. If they’re friends with a canceled person, don’t ask them to drop the canceled person or face the same fate. If you disagree about some fandom hot take, talk about it calmly and don’t act like the friendship will be over in 5 seconds and you’ll use all your knowledge of them against them in a public callout because they didn’t instantly agree.

Basically, have some self confidence and don’t be fucking terrified all the time... which can be a tall order and probably explains the age thing also.

#fandom meta #loganelfreeces

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