btw, this is why they're destroying the books; IP law, idiotic, crass and belligerent. IP law is a maniac concept that allows private enclosure of knowledge, culture and technology. you cannot defeat this without abolishing IP law.

Jeff Smith@sumisu3.bsky.social · last wk.

US Courts… ‘The Anthropic copyright case set the precedent — the US court ruled that by making a digital copy and destroying the physical in a one-for-one transfer, the process is deemed “transformative” and therefore protected by fair use.’ Unbelievable and unconscionable

modern book burning. the information isn't properly preserved, so the information may as well have been lost. infogacha =/= a preserved book

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

bazoing

The new wing of "centrist" democrats that formally organized in response to the New York DSA primary wins supports this btw

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Its all about control. These childfucking nazi shitheads want to cut away venues to organize against them. No criticism allowed, no education allowed. The internet is great for both, so to them, it must go.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

Only thing I know about Sakiko Arknights Mujica is her mission failure voice line and it's so real

I should make a second account exclusively to be able to repost lewd shit without flashbanging mutuals lol

"Together, these bills would allow Trump’s FTC to wipe abortion, sex ed, & LGBTQ resources off the Internet while instating nationwide age verification requirements."

Fight for the Future@fightforthefuture.org · yesterday

‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665

just have to deal with this shit for a couple more weeks and it'll be out of my head and I can be healthy again

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This is basically the same thing that happened during prohibition. Organized crime imported alcohol from bordering countries. It also happened when the first automobile emissions standards were imposed, as foreign-manufactured cars were exempt for some reason.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · yesterday

Great work by @alisonboden.bsky.social: “In each state and country age-verification measures have been enacted, our member platforms have invested considerable resources to comply with the laws, only to lose their customers to noncompliant foreign sites"

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“Care for a game?” Wanted to draw a little something with my kitsune Rin. I realized i haven’t posted any art of her here yet.

wah

Another day, another "woke" youtuber decides to launch a harassment campaign against a trans woman over icky drawings. Anyway, subscribe to Sam Candles.

“Unlike KOSA and many of the other age verification laws that have spread across the country, the SCREEN Act does not have bipartisan support. It’s the latest in Lee’s repeated attempts to criminalize content he and his co-sponsors personally consider immoral.”

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the arc...

404media.co

nocturne II

Luck dragons are powerful beings that can do pretty much anything they believe hard enough they can do, like fly for example. However, Panini's confidence is so low, and her anxiety so crippling, she can just about manage to hover pathetically along the ground.

And for the really bad news? They've put a target on VPNs. Sites are required to identify (and age-verify) any US citizen, regardless of whether they're using a VPN. In fact, the default is to get the ID and biometrics of EVERYONE unless you can somehow prove their not a US citizen.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

"VPNs are a privacy and security tool used by millions of internet users every day, and their use should not be treated as suspect. It is particularly galling that the SCREEN Act forces users who intentionally take steps to protect their privacy to identify themselves."

But I can't stress enough, this is NOT in good faith. "Parents should know if their children are being taught gender ideology, and you can make sure that they do. The government has a profound interest in protecting children from adult content."

Senator Jim Banks Is Pushing the FCC to Flag LGBTQ Content on TV

Senator Banks urges FCC to label LGBTQ content on TV to protect children from radical gender ideology.

townhall.com

The SCREEN Act is not just another age-verification bill — it goes much further than anything passed at the state-level or in other countries. 1. The bill doesn't just target porn sites. It goes after *any* site that allows material "harmful" to minors. You'd have to scan your face to use Google.

anyway, shout out the dude smoking cigs through a jesus-themed face mask and wearing a jesus-themed hoodie, who insisted that "sports physicals" for kids are a normal thing, bro you really clarified the fact that rural Christian communities are hotbeds of child abuse under cover of weird policies

the lesson is clear: absolutely refuse to debate the bullshit upstream hypotheticals about who is or isn't what gender, and only ever "debate" the actual policy fix because they don't have one, the only possible policies are abuse nightmares, and it they get flustered and embarrassed discussing it

the real risk of child sexual abuse isn't trans people using the restrooms or locker rooms that reflect their genders, it's coaches and teachers and youth pastors who you want to give a legitimate reason to be inspecting their genitals in the name of oppressing people who aren't hurting anyone

old watercolor and ink work feat. @ilyayenotka.bsky.social

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i need to draw her shoulderpads bigger

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/how-... Please do share the living crap out of this.

How misinformation and intimidation took down HRT café

HRT Café shared gender-affirming care info until Do No Harm shut it down; FDA records show no investigation took place

yorkshirebylines.co.uk