11/ A recently added piece of my tracking project is this Google doc of public statements supporting research and higher education against threats from the Trump administration.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y5_fjGPNh4_1Hgc0Q68Hr2vJhVIOK1Qc-KynfIG6fZI/edit?tab=t.0

It includes a list of other projects tracking Trump admin actions the same topics.

Please suggest any statements or projects that belong in the doc.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYUnm41fWHH75OQKbvDf7OA-fK3tgZr5h5tnuBKTPZ-CUEWw/viewform

#Academia#Censorship#DefendResearch#Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch#USPol#USPolitics
@academicchatter

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

https://chuffed.org/project/noor-and-her-children

Follow her here and please help if you can:

@Salwa_hassan1982

#Palestine#Gaza#mutualAid #fediverse #mastodon#blueSky #censorship #racism #genocide #complicity

THIS is the shit we're fighting against. If anyone has any suggestions on how to do this within Reddit's "filters" please let me know.

#bigTech #censorship

"But that’s not censorship, right? It’s not like you can’t read the books anymore. You just… can’t own them. They’re not yours. If Jeff Bezos says so, if the government says so, they could all vanish into the ether just. like. that."

#BethanyKarsten, 2025

https://thetransfemininereview.com/2025/05/18/are-we-still-free/

I guess quietly deleting 1984 from everyone's Swindle devices wasn't a clear enough warning of the danger of anyone having that power. People kept buying them anyway.

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#censorship #DRM #Amazon

"As spotted by Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, Deevers said in a press release that the bills 'set a course for pushing back against the moral decay foisted upon Oklahoma by the far-left’s march through our institutions to destroy the moral foundations upon which the United States and Christian Civilization had long rested'.”

#SamanthaCole, 2025

https://www.404media.co/oklahoma-senator-dusty-deevers-porn-bill/

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#censorship #porn#MikeStabile#FreeSpeechCoalition

Gizmodo apparently also picked up on #Bluesky #censorship thanks to the Techcrunch article by @Sarahp breaking the silence first.

They are a little confused though, claiming that Bluesky is part of the #fediverse mitigates this.

https://gizmodo.com/bluesky-just-bowed-to-censorship-demands-in-turkey-but-theres-a-loophole-2000593628

Oh the irony of US liberals finally realising that online censorship is akin to book burning;

https://deer.social/profile/did:plc:x6iwiot43norkasv6mnxvfgs/post/3lo2oza3tzs2v

After a decade of calling for and defending it, and calling anyone who challenged them on it - even from the radical left - a Nazi sympathiser. Fortunately for them, our principled defence of freedom of thought and expression is immune to their shortsighted, partisan hypocrisy.

#censorship #BookBurning #FreedomOfExpression