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Great conversation with @arzugeybulla.bsky.social @mmichae1sen.bsky.social & Sarah Sheikh Ali @rightscon.org on digital transnational repression and what resistance and resilience mechanisms exist & need to be developed - thank you! For @citizenlab.ca on this issue see: citizenlab.ca/category/res...

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The Democratic Party (Hong Kong) has decided to disband itself. thecollectivehk.com/%E6%B0%91%E4...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Update your iPhones.. again! iOS 18.3.1 out today with a fix for an ITW USB restricted mode bypass (via Accessibility) support.apple.com/en-us/122174

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: Update your Apple iPhone ASAP Our own @citizenlab.ca senior researcher @billmarczak.org discovers an exploit on one of Apple's USB security features on locked phones Details below 👇

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Big ups to @signal.org @meredithmeredith.bsky.social for allowing usernames instead of phone numbers last year (signal.org/blog/phone-n...). Washington basically runs on Signal right now and that one change has made reporting and whistleblowing way more private and secure.

submitted 23 days ago • 50 comments

"if funds are not restored, the US risks ceding ground to adversaries, including China and Russia, at a crucial time for the future of internet governance and efforts to counter authoritarian advances in multiple countries and regions."

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what's the global impact of the US pausing, or giving up, on internet freedom? with quotes from @stevenfeldstein.bsky.social @older.bsky.social by @techpolicypress.bsky.social @justinhendrix.bsky.social @ramshajahangir.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/with-us-comm...

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My latest: With the U.S. funding freeze, an entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis. Dozens of scrappy nonprofits in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US are at risk of suspending their operations, firing employees, and even shutting down. www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-us-fund...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

me shocked, checking to see if the doncic - AD trade is legit news:

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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this is a fantastic piece by @matthewdgreen.bsky.social on the questions we should be asking ourselves when it comes to AI, privacy, and end-to-end encryption. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/l...

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im re-reading graeber's the democracy project, and this part i want to highlight: "but even if it does, even if we never reoccupy, even it all were to end today, as far as im concerned, you guys have already changed everything. really? but how many people has it really reached? ...

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小红书 HQ: “How we will brand our app for international markets so that they don’t notice it’s literally named after a book by one of the 20th century’s most notorious murderous dictators?”

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NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

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There's lots of hot takes on Zuckerberg's content moderation decision, and then there's Julia Angwin's, who uses it to explain that Meta is no longer growing through innovation and is reduced to political groveling. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...

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when even @daphnek.bsky.social cannot make sense of speech regulation, you know it's really, really unclear and messed up.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Regulation matters

submitted 54 days ago • 66 comments

The "telling good Hong Kong stories" 2024 year in review: globalvoices.org/2025/01/06/f...

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

it’s these smaller everyday life stories that really capture the sad state of affairs, that allow you to feel how much press freedom has eroded in hong kong.

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Beijing presents itself as the defender of the Palestinians and a champion of the oppressed. But Uyghurs in China "suffer mass detention, population suppression, and cultural assimilation under a brutal authoritarian regime. How does Beijing get away with it? www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Okay, so you're using Signal for encrypted messaging. Cool. It's a good time to use usernames instead of a phone number to talk to people. That and lots more about how to make the most of Signal's security features in here: freedom.press/digisec/blog...

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@abcnewsbot.bsky.social quotes propagandist from Confucius Institute as ‘China expert’ to argue climate of fear in sino- research in Australia. The entire article failed to mention that Ms Jiang is the Director(UWA) Confucius Institute！ This is Aussie-tax payer money abused for Beijing‘s interest！

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Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 58 days ago • 1093 comments

They taught a bot to do digital blackface. bsky.app/profile/o.si...

submitted 59 days ago • 47 comments

this is a fantastic parable. we make our own shit sandwiches. why?

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[email protected] explaining why they use magic links rather than asking readers for passwords is the start to 2025 that I didn't know I needed. Educative and transparent in equal measure www.404media.co/email/d066bb...

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

This is such bullshit

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

nothing to see here.

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Pakistan has implemented a national firewall to regulate online content and mandated the registration of lawful VPN usage, with a ban on unregistered VPNs set to take effect from December 1.

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