Posts Tagged ‘censorship’
8chan Is Down…but will it stay down?
As of 5 August, the 8chan site (8ch.net) was gone from the web. Companies which had provided servers and security to the site declined to continue service, and thus the site was silenced. On the one hand, this is a very good thing. 8chan had hosted posts from virulent white nationalists and had tolerated even…
Read MoreRich Brexiter Threatens Netflix
From The Guardian: The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to The Great Hack, a new documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the abuse of personal data. Now why would a wealthy oligarch be concerned about a documentary on the…
Read MoreTumblr: The Purge Continues
Editor’s note: This story is already out of date. It was written yesterday afternoon (17 December). However, by the time it was published, events had already moved beyond it. Specifically, Verizon has admitted that its purchase of Tumblr and AOL was largely a mistake. In fact, it has said that its content creation subsidiary, Oath,…
Read MoreTumblr Update: The Adult Exit
We’ve been reporting recently on Tumblr, the blogging site which has announced that all “adult” material would be removed from its blogs, or at least hidden from users. Today, 17 December, 2018, is the proverbial D-Day. It is on this date that the adult material is to be exiled. The following is the current posting…
Read MoreMy Own Tumblr Story
You’ll recall that Liberal Resistance dot Net has been steadily (some would say obsessively) following the recent affair of Tumblr’s decision to ban all “adult” material. The story means a lot to us because we’re opposed to censorship. Everyone here is a journalist, or a writer, or an essayist, or an artist…and free expression is…
Read MoreMore On The Decline Of Tumblr
As you will recall, we’ve been covering Tumblr’s recent (and unfortunate) decision to ban all “adult” material from its service. We’re appalled because it is pure censorship, and we were stunned that anyone at Tumblr would let it happen. However, we’ve learned that Tumblr has been going downhill for quite some time, now. Bonnie Kristian,…
Read MoreAlternatives To Tumblr
image by Nick Youngson image source and cc license Readers will recall that Tumblr, the popular blogging site, has recently announced that all “adult” material will be purged as of 17 December. This means that a great many communities of marginalized groups have suddenly found themselves without a social median home. Fortunately, there are alternatives…
Read MoreCriminalizing Sex On The Web
Just in case you hadn’t noticed it, the Web is getting slowly, but surely purged of sexuality. Last March, for instance, Craigslist had to close down its personals because of a new and surprising law, the “Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act,” or FOSTA. In theory, it is meant to prevent human trafficking. In practice it…
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