#fuck censorship

[thatsprettylane]

If the writers and the actors both say “this character would have been queer but the censors wouldn’t allow it”, then the character IS queer.

#queer characters #fuck censorship #like this is so… grrr #intent counts in queer content #especially older queer content #any way this is about #elim garak #star trek #julian bashir #gwen stacy #spiderverse #steve rogers #sort of #mcu #marvel

[cherryg]

The internet censorship is coming..(again)

There are two well known censorship bill known as KOSA and the EarnIt act.

These bills both promised that they will protect children but unfortunately these are misguided bills that says they’ll do something but then they will do the opposite or make things worse.

Both of these bills are serious threat to the LGBT community and will censor a lot of content especially there

the EarnItact will also get rid of NSFW content and deem it as illegal, and will also get rid of section 230

The KOSA act will let attorneys from Florida and Texas take control and decide what people could and could not watch and sue websites and anything they don’t like and will not protect children but mostly put many vulnerable teens and children at risk while going as far as to even censor important information like sex education, health issues, suicide prevention hotlines and many more

We have stopped these bills from passing before but the cofounder Richard Bluemenhal is clearly not giving up and trying hard and hard again to push these bills back on congress

Last year more than 90/100 human rights groups urged lawmakers and congress to not pass KOSA in the omnibus bill and it got shelved and the same then happened to Earn it last year on February/March

But now he is trying a third time,using and manipulating grieving parents and young people into supporting and lobbying his bills, whiles even accepting anti trans and LGBT groups into supporting his legislations. He’s trying to find any type of scandal a platform is currently facing and turn and twist it on behalf of his agendas.

He says he supports abortions and the LGBT community but his bills will censor those things he claims to support. He can’t have it both ways.

But he was stubborn enough to ignore every criticism and scrutiny he gets about the legislations, being childish and all.

Not to mention that they are also both privacy nightmares to everyone and globally too

That’s why it’s important that you call and email your representatives and lawmakers and urge them to drop Kosa and the earn it act

Let any human rights group you trust knows and tell anyone you trust about it weather it be a friend or family member.

For more information, click these links below ⬇️

You can also help us by joining our discord server on how to stop internet censorship

There also a petition made from Fightforfuture recently about the KOSA act

(Update # 2)

Hey guys I’m back to warn everyone about yet again another bad internet bill it’s called the safe tech act

This act is supported by 7 democratic senators including bluemenhal which is never a good sign with him when it comes to internet bills.

This is a misguided 230 reform and when reading it, all it shows is that these people have no understanding of 230 whatsoever.

It’s just another dangerous censorship bill that threatens everyone’s free speech. The creators claim that it’s won’t hurt free speech but it actually does and they do not understand how important 230 is in its current form right now!

Here is a good article explaining the safe tech act really well and why it’s dangerous :

Also talk to your representatives about this and why it’s bad and if you can, try to explain to them about why section 230 is important. Support digital advocacy, human rights and any other groups that supports free internet and expression and let them know about these legislators and their bad ideas!

Update 3

The EarnIt act is sadly coming back after failing two times, now they are trying a 3rd time.

This legislation is dangerous for privacy and free expression and speech. It will bring lots of surveillance and is just as bad as the restrict act.

https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

Now it’s being reintroduced by two senators and two representatives if you don’t know what this bill actually does there is more information about it here from these links : https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/earn-it-bill-back-again-seeking-scan-our-messages-and-photos

The second one is called KOSA (KidsOnlineSafteyAct),

now this bill has failed to pass last year because a lot of opposition from 90/100 human rights.

It claims it’s would protect kids but it’s actually has a lot of censorship and is very dangerous to lgbt/trans kids and many other kids that are in abusive households. It will actually hurt them instead of protecting them.

If that’s not bad enough it’s tragically gaining momentum and attraction by these child advocacy groups and being sponsored by Dove and Lizzo. And there has been petitions in supporting this unconstitutional bill, One of them having somewhere around 30k signs…

I really wish I could say I’m joking but this is sadly true.

If you want more info on KOSA here they are:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/censorship-wont-make-kids-safe/

Please everyone call your senators and representatives and tell them to oppose these bills. We really need help into fighting off these bill so we could keep a free opened internet!

#stop kosa #earn it act #im sorry #fuck censorship #net neutrality #lgbt rights #fight for your right #i’m so tired #trans rights #lgbtq #transgender #lgbt #safe tech act #section 230 #important #censorship #technology #politics #stop censorship #anti censorship #antifascism #government #congress #lgbtqia #activism #human rights

[cosmileech]

" We're antishippers, aka NORMAL PEOPLE " Good . I dont want to be normal. I actually aim to be as strange and unimaginable as possible

#cringe culture is dead #This also applies to proshippers. Fuck yeah #dO WHAT YOU WANT FOREVER #FUCK CENSORSHIP #proship #proshipping #pro fiction #ship discourse #anti anti #proship discourse #anti proship #anti ship #antis being stupid

[inkskinned]

but you couldn't, like, see a gay person kissing.

it was alright that i had been catcalled at 12 years old. it was alright that i had been followed and groped at 15. it was okay men were leery and treacherous. it was okay when a man asked me my age and when i said 18, he said, that age is my favorite.

don't you like feeling sexy? i love action movies, but i often have an internal tally of how often a camera will begin at someone's hips and travel to her face only as if by accident. weirdly, you can't show too-much asscrack in the same movie, even if it was the style in the nineties. sort of only apply a tasteful sprinkling of asscrack.

i am wearing a body type that is very easily sexualized. it's a compliment, you'll miss it. it is not his fault, i am told - and then usually with this assurance, someone will compare me to an object. i am, by the way, not using "i become an object" metaphorically. well, you wouldn't wear a precious watch in a dangerous city - i am the watch, in this situation. can you blame a thief for taking a jewel if it was just left out in the open? i think my personhood is the jewel, but sometimes also it is pain. a dog sees a steak. i like this one because it does refer to men as dogs, even if it does literally compare me to a piece of meat (which is, you know, somehow worse than being a dog. at least call me a bitch, babe).

it's inappropriate to show two men kissing, but it's totally normal to hear that "best" age for childbirth is 15. (it's not, by the way. try 20's & 30's. do your fucking reading). and on tv - let's cut from a murder mystery where a woman is shown brutally bloodied, carved into pieces (only pg-13) into a tampon commercial where she runs around, happy and fluttering, refusing to use the word period, white pants abounding. periods: gross, icky. violence, though, is just a gendered currency.

so it's like - you say "can we please treat women like they're people and stop cutting their heads off in advertisements" and then it's like. no actually we needed that woman's bellybutton to sell drain fluid don't like it don't look. and you say "can you please not make every latin person a drug dealer holy shit" and they're like. unfortunately if we don't make the latin person a drug dealer we literally will go rabid. and you say "okay can we at least agree you super don't need to use racist epithets why is this even a conversation we're still having" and they're like. actually my child is a make-a-wish kid and his only wish was that i get to use words that make your skin crawl and if you don't let me use the words it's because you love cancer don't you.

so it's kind of a lost cause. because when something is complicated even a little bit, you find yourself trying to explain that the solution isn't make women cover up, it's that the idea "sexualization of nonconsenting parties is wrong" can also hold hands with the idea "not every expression of fondness is sexual in nature, nor is nonhegemonic sexual expression somehow more inflammatory or inappropriate than its counterpart"- and both of those ideas can also hold hands with "the male gaze is rarely censored despite the massive amounts of societal harm it imposes." but like, that's a big thought. let's just slap "pg-13" on the movie because they actually use the word lesbian. and let's cross our fingers and hope no kid figures out they're lgbt+ before college - otherwise they have access to literally no resources, since even google will censor the results in case they're pornographic. now, if you wanted to know how to hide a body...

when i was a kid i used to keep my eyes on my toes while walking past bra stores, feeling uncomfortable. it was gross to look at ladies, i knew that much. the way the women were posed was... not for me. not even for the people shopping. it was weird. i don't think anyone actually there-for-the-product was like yeah this is inspiring.

and i remember in high school my friends and i were still talking about how uncomfortable we felt in victoria's secret, shuffling our way out into the new england chill. little yellow leaves around our feet. a guy held the door open for us. a few seconds later, he jogged up after us. we were so startled we turned to look. "sorry," he said. "i just wanted to ask how old you all are." we were young then, so we lied and told him we were older. we'd talk about this later - we all thought maybe one of us had dropped our wallet or something. he smiled dolefully. "i just wanted to say you all are fucking beautiful. you have amazing tits on you."

sometimes i wonder. what if one fraction of the effort they put into making sure no gay thing ever occurs onscreen just went into controlling and educating their own fucking population. now wouldn't that be something.

#this is all over the place #im still recovering from nona #this doesn't make sense #i think what im saying is #fuck censorship #friendly reminder the hays code was LITERALLY created to appease nazis :)

[craycraybluejay]

"I don't care about shipcourse, I touch grass hurr durr"

But you do realize that antis are part of a far right push towards wider censorship policies in actual real life. Of actual real art. Right? Right??????

You touch grass but do you ever want to touch a piece of non-corporate-approved not cookie cutter white christian media again? You ever read a book that has been banned and think "well jeez it would suck if I lived in a time when I would get arrested for this."

THE TIME IS HERE. THE PUSH IS NOW. ARTISTS OF ALL SORTS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH FANFICTION OR SHIPPING HAVE BEEN SPEAKING OUT AND WARNING YOU ABOUT THIS FOR AGES. IT IS NOT A "CHRONICALLY ONLINE" STANCE TO THINK CENSORSHIP IS BAD AND ACTIVELY DANGEROUS TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO CANNOT BUY THEIR WAY OUT OF JAIL. THE NAZIS HAD A WHOLE THING ABOUT "GOOD MORALLY PURE ART" AND "BAD MORALLY DEGENERATE ART" TOO. THEY BURNED RECORDS OF QUEER CLINICS. THEY CENSORED ANY NEWS THAT WASN'T WITH THEIR AGENDA. DOES THAT REMIND YOU OF ANYTHING DOES IT.

#moms for liberty #anti anti #these are the same groups #i'll say it again #antis and extremist book banning groups like m4l are the same people #anti censorship #fuck censorship #fuck purity culture #this is not just a fanfiction issue this is a human rights and freedoms issue #and even if it were somehow completely exclusive to fanfiction it would STILL BE VERY FUCKING BAD #how dismal must your worldview be where censorship based on regurgitated fascist ideals is totally normal and okay

[enigma2meagain]

“Stop Internet Censorship” Master List

The following is a master list for all of the major Internet Censorship and Surveillance Bills between 2022 to 2023, with the most major bills that are currently active posted below. They will each link to the Tumblr posts that I have made in the past related to them, with all of the relevant information associated.

This was made because I feel people need to get a sense for just how interconnected they really are, how much Congress and third parties are trying to desperately gain full control and access to our information and silencing anything they don’t want to see and hear, and having a centralized hub of information for them will make it easier for people to find them.

The Major Bills:

EARN IT Act: 2022 version of EARN IT Act

                      2023 version of EARN IT Act (No text yet, but it’s pretending to be about preventing child abuse online this time)

     Enigma2Me Post on EARN IT Act

     fullhalalalchemist Post on EARN IT

     Condemnation of the EARN IT Act 2020 Coalition Letter

     STOP EARN IT Act LINKTREE

     Engadget: EARN IT Act reintroduced for the Third Time

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Kids Online Safety Act: Current Draft of 2023 KOSA bill

     Enigma2Me Post on Kids Online Safety Act

     STOP KOSA LinkTree

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RESTRICT Act: Read Bill Here.

       Enigma2Me Post On RESTRICT Act

      LoganGalbraith’s Post on RESTRICT Act

       Truthout Article 4/02/2023: Restrict Act Critics Call the Far-Reaching “TikTok Ban” Bill a “Patriot Act 2.0”  

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STOP CSAM Act:

      Electronic Frontier Foundation: Take Action on STOP CSAM/EARN IT

      TechDirt Post Against STOP CSAM Act

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So if you’ve seen the above, you’re probably asking: What can we do about it?

1) Spread the Word online!

Twitter Hashtags

For Earn It: #EARNITAct, #STOPTheEARNITAct, #NoEarnItAct

For KOSA: #KOSA, #KidsOnlineSafetyAct, STOPKOSA

For RESTRICTAct: #RESTRICTAct, #STOPRESTRICTAct

2) PLEASE call your Senators.

Find your 2 senators numbers here. Fax them, email them. Tell them they MUST oppose this bill. Calmly make it clear to them that if they support this bill, then you will vote for someone else who doesn’t go along with this blatant act of authoritarian intent.

3) CONTACT any major human rights and cybersecurity related organizations and let them know about this bill. Get this out to any local news groups that you can.

The following Google Doc contains a list of every major organization we could think of to contact, and will be updated as we find more allies in the fight against censorship and surveillance.

ANTI-CENSORSHIP MASTER LIST

Also Contact the organizations on these 2020 letters to get them to publicly speak out against the EARN IT Act like they did back then.

But for those who want to have official organizations to work with (and who usually have petitions except TechDirt), the following usually are up to date on info:

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fight For the Future

Techdirt

#RESTRICT Act #EARN IT Act #Stop Kids Online Safety Act #stop internet censorship #stop restrict act #stop earn it act #FUCK BLUMENTHAL #fuck surveillance #fuck censorship

[themurderofcrowscollective]

Don't let them take your voices.

Yet again the KOSA bill is being spoken about despite being amended, but it is still a censorship bill that can put everyone in danger. Not just us, not just you, but everyone that surfs the web or uses it as a form of escapism. Everything you hold dear including your privacy will be sought after by the government, and there is already a video up by Mutahar on SomeOrdinaryGamers talking about this. We can only do so much due to our current situation but all I can do now is spread the word. I'll be placing in a petition to stop the act from passing, but if you can, do something more about it. Sign petitions, call your representatives, your congressmen, spread the message and whatever you do, do not stop fighting.

And for the video, here's the other link

#fuck kosa #stop kosa #kids online safety act #stop kids online safety act #fuck censorship #Youtube

[mollyjimbly]

I hate to pester you over something you might already know, but a bunch of organizations that are rooting for KOSA and EARN-IT, and all those other awful bills are on their way to DC this weekend. We need everyone to get on the phones with their reps and senators NOW!!!!

right on it!!!

i cannot call state reps about it, since i do not live in the states, but if you are able to please please do!!

some resources for calling;

phone numbers

call scripts

Remember! Be calm and polite to the person on the other end of the line, Good luck everyone!

extra stuff

#KOSA #earn it #earn it bill #stop kosa #stop earn it act #stop internet censorship #fuck censorship #pro privacy #pro encryption #art #lgbtqia+ #gay rights #trans rights #KOSA bill #fuck earn it #fuck kosa

[dntclosemt]

I wonder how many nsfw official arts OldXian has made for themself😭😭

#I NEED TO SEE THEM RN #fuck censorship #19 days #19days #19 days old xian #hetian #mo guan shan #he tian x mo guan shan #naughty hetian #tianshan #19 days update #old xian #zhanyi #zhang zheng xi #zhan zheng xi x jian yi #jian yi x zhan zheng xi

[cormancatacombs]

IDK how people are so surprised that Paul Simms is throwing out flimsy excuses for why Nandermo can’t be canon.

Like do you guys not remember who owns FX and Hulu?

#even if the wwdits cast and crew want it canon they probably can’t press the issue with Business Daddy without risking cancellation #we saw how Disney fucked over Owl House and Strange World #MAYBE if we’re lucky the Mouse will relent in the final season #wwdits #nandermo #paul simms #disney #fuck censorship #fuck corporations #fuck homophobia #owl house #strange world #guillermo de la cruz #nandor the relentless #nandor x guillermo #guillermo x nandor #wwdits nandor #what we do in the shadows #queer #lgbt

[bitchybylershipper]

florida is wildin okay so do you guys know the poem the hill we climb by amanda gorman? if you dont you should read it or listen to it. context: she read it at bidens swearing in in 2021 and it was like this huge thing. i really like the poem and it was very inspirational to many americans. ANYWAY. florida fucking banned it. this is the complaint form

the "indirect hate messages" in question:

florida will literally ban anything this is ridiculous. all of the sources i have are from may and june of last year so i dont know if its still banned (it probably is) but i just wanted to talk about it for a sec because cencorship fucking pisses me off

#banned books #fuck censorship #fuck florida #the hill we climb #amanda gorman #poetry

[csphire]

One big gripe...

Take his pants off here, Larian you cowards! pretty please?

Moments like this I really wish I knew how to mod. Tav wakes up buck-ass naked the morning after and god forbid we see Astarion completely naked too! I genuinely hate it when in moments of cinema there is a nudity imbalance. Full frontal male nudity? *sarcastic gasp* "Oh nos... we can't have that!"

Silly me to think those pants would come off once the game launched. Ha! Hahahaha! Nope! Did BioWare shy from showing us Dorian's ass? No, no they did not! As for the following dialogue with Astarion, after he turns around, they could have adjusted the shot a little so his dick wasn't hovering through it if they felt that was too much. They could have focused closer on both Tav and him a little more. Kept it higher, but no let's keep Tav's butt in the frame instead. Honestly, who wants to see their character's own ass? If we had to choose between Tav's and Astarion's ass obviously we're going to pick his! Right?

#small spoiler #astarion romance #astarion x tav #astarion #baldur’s gate 3 #sunbathing #fuck censorship #gripe #i just needed to rant #calling all modder #take his pants off #I'm too poor to blaze #reblog please #if you agree

[kaydub80]

Hollywood's true colors are on display for everyone to see.

#hollywood #double standards #fuck israel #free palestine #fuck censorship #amy schumer #melissa barrera

[sirenium]

I made these because I hate the censoring of innocent people. Free to use with credit.

[Pt: I made these because I hate the censoring of innocent people. Free to use with credit. End pt]

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[Banner ID: 'Learn who your users are: you're censoring them.' In black fraktur text. The trans flag is featured in a stretch that takes up most of the screen, but in the top and bottom of the banner a black background can be seen. End ID]

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Banner ID: 'End the censorship of trans people!' In white fraktur text. On both ends of the banner, a strip of the trans flag is seen behind the transgender symbol. The rest of the background is black. End ID]

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Now that that's out of the way...

[pt: Now that that's out of the way... end PT]

[Banner ID: There's no DNI for this post. However, there's nothing stopping me from blocking you if you're a weirdo or an asshole. End ID]

#honestly tumblr needs to get their shit together. I've seen multiple people talk about their shit being flagged as 'mature' #and it's happened to me as well. FOR NO REASON other than the fact that the post is trans related. #this is a massive issue and I can only hope it won't happen again with this post #I want to get my content out there and I can't do that when I'm being flagged for no reason #it's disappointing to have this shit happen on a site that's literally flooding with queers. Like bro??? #have you any idea the harm you're causing your own users????? #queer #transgender #trans man #trans woman #non-binary #trans umbrella #trans is beautiful #fuck censorship #lgbtq community #trans community #pro trans #lgbt #lgbtq #trans #lgbtqiia+

[aressida]

#jordan peterson #courage #raise your voice #fuck censorship

[blue-kyber]

I refuse to censor the words 'murder' and 'suicide.'

I will not make them a cushioned playground floor with dumb stand-ins like 'unalive.' I get using that word as a joke, but don't use it to replace the real things because it's "too harsh," or "too upsetting."

Damn right, they're upsetting. They're supposed to be! The sound and form of those words isn't meant to make you feel fuzzy. They're heavy, because what they describe is heavy.

These are real words that shouldn't be buried under the scowls of Karens and their eye-roll-worthy, meaningless "But the children!" excuse to justify their own entitlement and insecurities.

These are real words that should not be hidden.

Fuck Karens.

Fuck censorship.

This follows the line of banning books.

Books should not be banned.

Anyone who hides knowledge from you is attempting to control you, to brainwash you, to infect you with their way of thinking in order to keep you from developing an analytical mind with the ability to question. They want that ability to atrophy. A stupid person is easier to control.

Learn. About everything. Even things you think you already know. Question it. Go back and take a second look from a different perspective. Admit that you might have originally been wrong. Accept what's true. Add to it.

Fail. And then try again.

The saying, "Knowledge is Power" is valid.

"Keep the people stupid," is a motto those with power love to adopt in order to maintain their own status quo. If the people know what was really going on regarding various subjects, those in power would be in a ditch, and they know it.

Don't be stupid. Don't be controlled.

Learn to question.

Question to learn.

It took me a lifetime to learn that it didn't have to take me a lifetime to learn.

#fuck censorship