"US science after a year of Trump. A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"US science after a year of Trump. A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce."
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html

#Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

#Snowflake should trend on the #Fediverse now I think.

Is there only little discussion and support going on or am I not seeing it?

→ https://snowflake.torproject.org

EN: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship by @eff

DE: https://www.nextpit.de/news/proteste-in-iran-browser-kann-menschenleben-retten

#Iran #IranProtests #Internet #Starlink #Tor #TorProject #censorship

#Snowflake should trend on the #Fediverse now I think.

Is there only little discussion and support going on or am I not seeing it?

→ https://snowflake.torproject.org

EN: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/snowflake-makes-it-easy-anyone-fight-censorship by @eff

DE: https://www.nextpit.de/news/proteste-in-iran-browser-kann-menschenleben-retten

#Iran #IranProtests #Internet #Starlink #Tor #TorProject #censorship

"Trump’s #USDA Is Hiding the #Data on #FoodStamp Cuts."
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01/trump-rollins-usda-snap-food-insecurity/

"In normal conditions, said Tufts University food economist Parke Wilde, policymakers and government workers would ask, 'What are the consequences of policy changes…so that we can calibrate and improve the program in the future?’ We won’t be able to do that this year."

#Agriculture #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #SNAP #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

It looks like Iran has successfully built a national 'walled garden' to control internet connectivity - both halting outsiders from communicating with those in Iran who are protesting, but also halting Iranians' ability to access the world wide web's myriad resources.

How well this 'wall' can be maintained remains to be seen but authoritarian regimes around the world will be watching, that's for sure.

#internet #censorship #Iran #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/17/iran-plans-permanent-break-from-global-internet-say-activists

It looks like Iran has successfully built a national 'walled garden' to control internet connectivity - both halting outsiders from communicating with those in Iran who are protesting, but also halting Iranians' ability to access the world wide web's myriad resources.

How well this 'wall' can be maintained remains to be seen but authoritarian regimes around the world will be watching, that's for sure.

#internet #censorship #Iran #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/17/iran-plans-permanent-break-from-global-internet-say-activists

A billionaire landlord is attempting to censor the media, to cover up his crimes

https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/16/this-billionaire-landlord-bullied-journalists-into-deleting-negative-coverage-of-him/

#landlordism #censorship #oligarchy

A billionaire landlord is attempting to censor the media, to cover up his crimes

https://novaramedia.com/2026/01/16/this-billionaire-landlord-bullied-journalists-into-deleting-negative-coverage-of-him/

#landlordism #censorship #oligarchy

It should be impossible for the ITU to deny that internet shutdowns in Iran demonstrate fundamental flaws with digital sovereignty rhetoric for human rights in both policy and global internet governance https://www.techpolicy.press/irans-case-should-put-an-end-to-illusions-about-digital-sovereignty/

#civilrights #censorship #democracy #votingrights #DemocracyNow #equalrights #humanrights #humanrightswatch #abortionrights #socialjustice

@evacide @mshelton

Signal is centralised and was attempted backdoored by the uks online safety bill and saved by signal threatening to walk. Simplex is open source and quantum resistant e2ee like signal and also has its secret group chats and metadata protection like Signal but SimpleX is also decentralised with ip protection, tor support, no persistent id basically "a burner phone for every contact"
Signals centralisation also makes it more vulnerable to total censorship, all you need to do is block signals domains, being a decentralised network SimplexChat has no single point of failure to censor and anyone can run their own relay node

#PSA #E2EE #Privacy #Encryption #Anonymity #Signal #SimpleX #UnitedKingdom #OnlineSafetyAct #Censorship

ICE is a slave patrol powered by tech. Violence is all that is on the 24 hour news cycle and yet just weeks ago WIRED ran a feature that humanised Palantir’s Alex Karp.

#civilrights #censorship #democracy #votingrights #DemocracyNow #equalrights #humanrights #humanrightswatch #rohingya #yemen #socialjustice #civilrights #socialjustice

Iran’s move to cut internet access during ongoing mass protests, along with Uganda’s Tuesday ahead of controversial elections, are the latest examples of how some governments use digital blackouts to muzzle dissent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/14/world/politics/countries-internet-blackouts-dissent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #afghanistan #sudan #ethiopia #myanmar #kasmir #iran #nepal #tanzania #internet #censorship

Looks like the #government of #Iran manages to enforce #censorship even beyond landlines and cell connectivity. They managed to render #Starlink terminals useless by jamming #GPS signals:

https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-starlink-internet-shutdown/

Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/2010750871274160361

#HackerNews #Iran #Offline #Internet #Shutdown #Censorship #Cybersecurity

🛰️ ‘Kill Switch’—Iran Shuts Down Starlink Internet For First Time

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/01/11/kill-switch-iran-shuts-down-starlink-internet-for-first-time/

#iran #starlink #censorship

Iranian regime tries to shut down Starlink

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-appears-to-jam-starlink-after-shutting-down-comms-networks/

#HackerNews #Iran #Starlink #censorship #communications #freedom #technology

Not sure why we, in Australia, can access child sexual abuse material on X/Twitter, but can’t hear from a Palestinian writer at a writers festival.

#auspol #csam #writersfestival #adelaide #adelaidewritersweek #censorship