#internet goverance

[commiepinkofag]

Forced Consent

[master-jarrus]

They are still trying to pass KOSA

Please reblog so we can get this passed around

Remember they say it's for the kids but it isn't

[sherlock-is-ace]

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[gamer2002]

“In 2020, the FCC secured a commitment from Starlink to offer high-speed Internet to 640,000 rural locations for $1,300 per location in federal support.

After revoking that award in 2023, the government is now spending in the ballpark & upwards of $100,000 per location in cases.”

The government is about wasting money on overpriced solutions to line the pockets of their friends

[jewishdainix]

Goyim are insane did I actually see someone say that the growth of antisemitisism is because of israel. What

[yamnbananas]

Down the 🐇🕳️🧑🏿‍💻

[us-the-voices-and-more-voices-2]

tbh, KOSA will honest to god bring about not 15, not 20.

but 100s of data breaches, I don't think people understand how genuinely horrible most people are with cyber security.

like RIP to all government people and like whatever because that's how the post privacy world happens lol

listen I do not care about losing fandom spaces I do not care about not being able to read fanfic. what I AM worried about is having to Give A Fucking ID to access the internet. That is an INSANE, APOCALYPTIC breach of privacy and arguably a way bigger problem than losing TikTok. idk that’s just my opinion maybe some people can’t live without their a03. fuck kosa I’m gonna go live in the woods alone where the government will not be able to find me

[archivist-the-knight]

every single time someone treats anime and manga as some sort of magical different "other" type of fiction in the precipise that its from japan and thus should not be held to basic writing standards due to that another bullet gets loaded into my revolver and once its fully cocked, i'm giving you the old yeller treatment.

[shame-kink]

realizing its probably better for me to admit i have no clue how to determine whether a fundraiser (for Gaza/Gazans) is legitimate or not, no clue how to tell what vetting to trust, and some sort of pathological desire to avoid doing it “wrong” even if that means i feel negligent, because if i at least just fucking say that outright i can reblog fundraisers without feeling like i’m giving away how much of a clueless chump i am. because i already damn well admitted it and want to be able to treat shit in good faith anyway, & because to avoid supporting the domestic homeless just incase a couple of them might be less-at-risk-to-not-at-risk scammers would be rightfully seen as complete fucking cowardice by myself by that same token

[bamsara]

Totally ignore me if this is a personal question, but how exactly do you do your taxes as an artist? More so with commissions and kofi

I dont know

i mean like I do know i've watched videos and read up on how to do it but i dont know. this would be the first year i actually made enough to be required to do taxes on my own. i even enrolled in a free online class for it and some help groups to help me know what to mark off and what not, but its a lot of calculating im doing on my own and some small print that i cant figure out. There's a lot of specifics. Like if I work from home, do I write off my electricity and internet bill as business expenses?? The cost of my desk? The sticker cutter machine when the other one broke?

I'll be looking for an actaul tax person to help me with it later, but more than likely I'll owe money to the goverment somehow im sure of it

[velvetvexations]

im on this teeny tiny little app thats exclusively for trans people (literally just "t4t" and i really do like it. after ive blocked all the idiots lol. very old internet feeling) and i made this post that got a lot more attention than my posts normally did. which means i got more people looking at my profile than i normally do. this is relevant bc it doesnt function like tumblr it functions like lex, so theres an endless feed filtered by distance and theres no following feature. so like, lot easier for me to see random strangers vagueposts about me.

several months ago i had made a post about voting as harm reduction -- and it's ok to me if people disagree with that general statement! i can understand if youd rather "harm reduction" remain used solely for drug use! i can understand that! that doesnt mean im stupid and dont know what the term means if i apply it in other ways!

and this random stranger that had never interacted w me ever before this had dug so deep into my profile they found this post to vague about it MONTHS LATER on the DAY OF TRUMPS INAUGURATION to say "everyone who voted for kamala should be embarrassed of themselves" like sorry first of all little late for that shit buddy how are you voteshaming on inauguration day. second of all... is that somehow MORE embarrassing than vaguing about a post made months ago? somehow more embarrassing than doing this on the day a trump takes office, already doing immense damage, reversing what good bidens administration has managed to do?

like im not harris' friend. i dont *like* her. and as president she would have always been inherently my enemy. but it is so hard for me to understand these peoples positions. like yea the american government is a cesspool and a mockery of democratism. yeah a fascist goverment is fascist no matter who sits at the head. all of this is true. but how. how on EARTH. can you not see our fight would have been easier with harris? how can you ignore that?

Remember, she would have been 99% Hitler. Basically no difference at all.

[ego-meliorem-esse]

I present to you my years long obsession - female America.

This is not a Nyotalia version it's just a concept of "what if everything is the same but Alfred was born a girl". Like i see so much potential! In a world where all the odds are stacked against her, she despite it all gets to where she is today. Making good and bad decisions along the way.

A lil hc/backstory for my main girl:

• Given name (by dad Arthur) is Elizabeth Felicity Kirkland but during the revolution changes her last name to Jones. Her first name change happens in the 1820/1830s when she changes it to Alexandra, also dropping her second name. (I was young when I came across the name and it means "defender/protector of man" and I was /obessed/ so i just stick to it since she is a loser and just thinks it's a cool sounding name)

• She goes by Alex/Al and I think that's neat :)

• My girl is tall. Like 181 cm tall. Sender but with visible muscles. She does want a bigger behind but her Anglo-Saxon genetics say nah.

• As a child she spent more time in England due to her being a girl so I think even if Arthur was absent he didn't allow her to spend much time alone in the colonies. She resents that ofc

• Just like with Alfred, Alex is very fkn close to Matt even if she forgets to call him or check up on him for months at a time. Al: "Hey man I know I just called a while ago but how've you been? Matt: "you called me 5 months ago..."

• Works at NASA as a part time aeronaitical engeneer. Loves physics, hates chemistry (self projection im sorry)

• During the revolution she dressed up as a boy but the people she worked with knew she wasn't one. People went along with it anyway.

• Other than during the American revolution, she dressed in feminine presenting clothes up until the 1930s. After that it was trousers all the way!

• Alex was never a nurse during wartime but definitely did accountaint work in ww1 and later joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) where she stayed until 1943 when she joined her men fighting on the ground ( Conversion to Army status, Women's Army Corps - WAC). That's when she saw actual combat.

• Isn't fond of birds. Canaries are fine. Eagles are unsettling.

• Obsesses over a certan thing/hobby at a time up to a point where she perfects her skill. When she was about 14 (human years) it was the whole freedom and equality of man and all the politics regarding it. In the 1890s her obession was cars and motor vehicles. The 1910s brought a new obsession on womens rights. 1960s was space exploration where she devoted almost all her time researching and working for NASA, disregarding her goverment/state duties as a country. In the 1980s it was the internet. In 1990s she got really interested in the Balkan wars (self insert >:)) for whatever reason. Today her attention is mostly on social media and her attention span ia short af. Still really likes all things tech.

• Hasn't got many properties/real estate. Al does own a penthouse in Seaport, Boston and a late 17th and early 18th century colonial home in Newbury, Boston (that she needs to renovate asap). The only other real state she owns is in California, though modern and recently buit, it's not big nor does she spend much time there.

• Her personality is basicaly Alfred if he grew up as a woman and had to face opression based on sex and inequality that came with it. So still bubbly, extroverted, a social butterfly but also self-serving, idealistic, manipulative sprinkled in with sarcasm, cautiousness and craftiness. Same feckin sense of humour tho.

• In 1783, at the Treaty of Paris in Versailles both her and her father had to sign the document that started her independence (She herself had a human representitive 'cus of her age/sex bla bla but it was mostly formalities). At that signing Arthur gave her a flintlock pistol that he himself used in the 1640s. Not many words were exchanged, he just put it in her hand to keep. She still has it in her attic. Somewhere. She'd find it if she just takes the time to look for it I'm sure.

• In 1889 she straight up did her first war crime/murder of a fellow nation (if you don't count shooting her pops face off at Saratoga in 1777). After an altrication with Antonio that resulted in him insulting and slapping the girl for her audacity and mouthiness, she punched him straight in the jaw. A fight insued where she got ahold of his belt and straight up strangled him. Took her a while to process that and accept it. On the bright side Antonios scilence was heard around the world and while perplexed and insulted, older and influential (mostly male at that point) nations started to feel a glint of respect forming for the young startup.

• Al was given a family pocket watch by her father in the 90s (No more empire for Arthur so he sad :(((((( ) that was suppoaed to go to a firstborn son of a lord as an inheritance symbol. Everyone thought Jack would get it since Matt is techincally not Arthur's son. But even he would be expected to recieve it before Al. Then in an unexpected turn of events, while visiting her grumpy and nostalgeous empire-missing dad, Arthur pulled out the watch while eating stale kebabs in front of the telly and gave it to her casualy without as much as a word (The empire started with her, it shall end with her). She keeps it in her work desk drawer in a wooden box.

• Al and Zee have an interesting relationship. While being different in almost every aspect, there ia a mutual respect for eachother from eachother. While not really being able to see eye to eye, they are sisters in a certain roundabout and very fucked up way. Girls who learned that they are very much judged by their sex despite being daughters of a high ranking British lord. While aware that she will never be Alex/Elizabeth in her fathers eyes, Zee still gets treated as a treasure by her father. Much to Zee's annoyance.

• It's still Matt who's in Alex's shadow. Despite the dificulties she rises above and is the perfect child of an empire. Smart, intelligent, inquisitive, a fast learner and incredibly aware of the political and historical situation at all times. Even despite being a girl and less than a son in the eyes of a 17th/18th century society, she suceeds.

• Arthur wanted a son to come from his colonial endeavours, as all empires/nobility at the time did. And as all other empires at the time had. But ofc karma is a bitch and he's the only empire with an only child being a daughter. Though at first thougrly dissaponted, when he lays his eyes on his daughter for the first time, the only emotion he can feel is /joy/.

• Instead of sowing/knitting Al's education was very much focused on natural sciences, since that is where Arthur quickly realized she exels at. He swapped her Violin and General History of Music lessions with Astrophysics and The History of Astronomy. All in an attempt to stop her from making his ears bleed from the constant prattling about The Four Square Theorem or The Brachistocrone Curve. It only got worse, but his daughter was happy and content.

I have sooooo many more of these jfc i might do more later but for now this is all I can think of.

TLDR: Female America is great and has so much potential as a character hghhhhhhhh

[radgirl-spray]

Rant.

it always gives me whiplash when gringos call me or other latinas on radblog "Republican" and "nazis".

Because they are so sure they are making such the point about us being nazis and bringing conservative and apocalyptic takes on them because we don't want men in females spaces, and yet from our perspective, they are still thousands of people all across latam who simply dissapeared when the north american goverment decided to interfiere in latam's politics which lead to real, actual genocides based on politic stance. Specifically being leftist.

My country in particular had one of the most brutal dictatorships in latam. Over 40.000 people were killed, tortured or simply dissapeared just to prevent socialism, despite the socialist president at the time being chosen democatrically.

Now, women, mostly college students feminists at the time were systematically tortured. I'm not talking about internet persecution or some horrible missgender crime. I'm talking of whole brigades raping 14 to 21 year old girls. I'm talking of soldiers setting girls on fire. I'm talking about men open pregnant women to dispatch the baby. I'm talking about torture and murder.

Why? because they dared to talk about politics, because they dared to talk about contraceptives. About feminine issues. For being Left.

It was also a time where the wrong opinion could get you killed, could mean your children being killed. For being brown, for being indio, for being poor. Think of you neighbour accusing you of hearing certain music and your house being raded and your teenage children being taken to a camp to never be seen again. I'm not talking 100 years ago. I'm talking my parents and anyone who is 5 years older than me.

To this day we are extremely affraid of police and the military. The levels of poverty Latam has are hardly something people in first world countries have seen in a years, because the poverty itself has been caused for said countries and their progress. I'm talking whole neighbourhoods of houses made of cardboard while some first world country leaves a bunch of chemical wasteland just right up the corner where we live so they live better.

Two years ago there was a breakout in my country, it was quite famous. You know the first thing the police did?

They raped and hanged a girl on the street. In 2021.

And then comes some random USA/Canadian citizen and calls you "a republican" and "a nazi".

Did I mention after II world war many nazis escaped to latam and formed whole german colonies for either experimenting on humans or create pedophile nets and raping centers? the more you know.

But we are nazis, we are republicans. Despite the fact that that our indigenous people recognize women as adult human females, that indigenous women were hunted down and used historically to be bred by whites colonizers just like them. Despite the fact that most of us are mestizos, that color and class go hand in hand in latam, that we have a culture heavily based on religious intakes of what's women's place and that we shut up when the men talk, because that's macho culture. We are nazis and we are republicans, despite the fact that their fucking country killed thousands of us because we wanted to try left and to hope for something more than extreme poverty. Shit, we've even been called colonizer by some chicano who doesn't even speak spanish. I mean, what are the odds.

But the white men need to speak, the gringo has something to say, they need us to respect their pronouns and go along with their progress. So they packed their bullshit religion and ship it right down the frontera, and now we have to swallow too. Because we are latinas, we live in the backyard, right? what do we know about the experiences of american dudes in skirts.

[punkitt-is-here]

hey i just wanted to ask U where do you watch my little pony?? i wanna rekindle my 2012 mlp phase and actually watch more than 1 and a half seasons.. but there's only 4 on netflix!!!! where do you go to watch it? is it a website like internet archive or sumfin?? okay thanx bai i luv ur silly comics (´･ω･`)

fim dot heartshine dot gay has all episodes with subtitles in many video qualities i got u govered :thumps up:

[keshetchai]

Petty, absurd things I was annoyed by on the internet (specifically the religion subreddit):

Someone (making a islam apologetics defense for the young age of Aisha's marriage and subsequent consummation with Muhammad, by way of trying to point out a cultural hypocrisy in what is or isn't seen as acceptable) pointing to a medieval European princess who got married at the age of six, without any understanding as to what that actually meant in reality to the society of that time. And without any awareness of the history in question. Which is that the six year old princess in question (Isabelle of Valois) was used to formalize and secure diplomatic relations, and then she was moved to a new castle where she was given a court of ladies, tutor, and governess to raise her because she was seen as a child. She didn't even live in the same place as her adult husband (Richard II), and only saw him on chaperoned visits because she was legally and socially not yet old enough for consummation under catholic canon law. Also her Kingly husband died by the time she was 11, he spent the last year of their marriage on a military campaign, and he died before they consummated anything. It was a political and diplomatic contract with no adult sexual or romantic interactions before he died. She remarried at 16, and died in childbirth at 19, which is still really young! But she was NOT being coerced as a 7 year old because that was illegal and would've been a diplomatic nightmare! There was literally no reason to do this. An adult King could (and likely would) be far more likely to avail himself of willing courtesans than he would be to spectacularly offend his newly cemented ally who gave him a queen. Terrible comparison. 0/10. No understanding of medieval European royal politics. Most European medieval royalty who married very young didn't have children until they were at least 18 or 19. Augh. Medievalist annoyances!!!

And THEN someone else tried to criticize the BITE model for identifying authoritarian and manipulative groups (destructive cults) but their criticism was entirely based on like....a) fundamentally failing to understand BITE model must be used in conjunction with the Influence Continuum and b) having zero reading comprehension or critical thinking skills whatsoever to the point where they were trying to say that the BITE model considers prayer in general to be a tactic of authoritarian control and is equivalently scored to outright murder. (It absolutely does not fucking say this!! That's devoid of any understanding of how prayer is even being evaluated specifically within the context of BITE!!!)

and then they tried to be like "people use chat gpt to prove how my religion is a cult and they're wrong, so I invite you to also use chat gpt and see how sports teams and schools could be considered cults!" CHAT GPT IS STUPID AND IM NOT GONNA USE THE BAD ARGUMENT MACHINE TO MAKE ANOTHER BAD ARGUMENT.

They tried to argue baseball teams could be considered cults under the bite model because they "restrict sleep" by having dawn exercise drills during training, and "restrict or control diet" by banning junk food or requiring protein shakes for players. Because fuck the part where we evaluate if there was INFORMED CONSENT regarding the restrictions and considering whether or not these requirements or limitations were outlined in a CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT FOR AN ATHLETE'S WELLBEING or if they were MISLED, MANIPULATED OR DECEIVED ABOUT THE RULES AND THEIR PURPOSE???

[that-satireguy]

Hi, I'm not exactly in the safest spot in my country. We can access the internet, but I'm worried that interacting with or consuming anti-government stuff will get me in trouble. What can I do to protect myself?

There are a number of things but the most important thing is to confuse them. Depending on your age/activities its highly unlikely that anyone will be tracking you specifically, or have any interest in you. As long as you don't have like 50 things linking you back to government conspiracies, theres likely no one who will give a shit.

Keep your anti-goverment stuff on a SEPARATE account, with a seperate VPN, under no circumstances do you want those accounts linked in ANY WAY. Preferably you do want a normal account, if you ever get in trouble in real life, they may look through your social media, and having none can be suspicious/raise flags you dont want raised. Again, this won't put you in particular danger because unless there are other problems they won't care to look further, but still, better to be safe then sorry and if you are in a dangerous spot its always better to go under the radar.

Ask around about cheap devices. I would typically avoid phones. Do your stuff on a laptop at home, no public wifi stuff. Depending on your country, I would either go to a local guy, who can usually get you a secure laptop without asking too many questions, or get a branded security one from a second/third hand seller (preferably not on a major website, and definitely don't go for first-hand, because those are really easy to track if need be.)

Generally this device should be different to the rest of your devices, if you can afford such. It should not have any kind of connction to you personally.

The most important thing is to have deniability.

If someone was to go 'hey, thsat so-and-so's computer' you want everyone to go, 'no, so and so doesnt have a computer' or 'so and so doesn't use those kind of devices'.

'Thats so and so's social media' 'No, so-and so's social media is ____'

'So and so did that' 'No it was someone from (country your vpn is set to)'

Again, this will likely no end up being too important, but better safe then sorry.

(Also, something that gets left out, do make it hard. Yes, use passwords, follow typical safety rules, avoid being hacked. Unless you're an actual threat/important, most people, especially members of the goverment won't bother actually doing work to snoop at your stuff.)