Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Literal internet of shit 1292
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝FlokiNET ehf @flokinet.bluesky.flokinet.social · 28/01/2025🔒 Data Privacy Week: Stay anonymous with @torproject.bsky.social! Protecting your privacy online is more important than ever. 📖 Read our guide now: blog.flokinet.is/2025/01/28/w...blog.flokinet.isWhat is the Tor Network? A detailed guide to online anonymityLearn how the Tor network enhances your privacy and anonymity. Discover secure browsing, bypass censorship. 022
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...404media.coWikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His AlliesThe Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely. 3734521460
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Tor Project @torproject.org · 06/02/2025Attending #RightsCon? So are we! Join our full-day event dedicated to online privacy, censorship circumvention, and censorship monitoring, on Feb 23 or any of our other sessions and talks: 🗓️ Sign up here: ooni-research.ocf.tw/docs/en/blog...ooni-research.ocf.twInternet Freedom Workshop: Tor、Tails、OONI - OONI-ResearchJoin us on February 23rd, 2025, in Taipei, Taiwan, for a full-day event focused on online privacy, censorship circumvention, and monitoring. Hosted in partnership with the Open Culture Foundation, OON... 2119
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I've seen people dismiss the Pornhub bans, sometimes couching their dismissal in an anti-porn stance. What I don't think they realize is that the people pushing this stuff conflate porn with LGBTQ people and sex education and are part of Project 2025 mashable.com/article/free...mashable.comWhat the Supreme Court hearing about age verification could mean for youThe court's decision could set a new precedent for free speech online. 9446631400
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝DVD Menus @dvdmenus.bsky.social · 12/09/2024The Matrix (Film / DVD: 1999) 291254288
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back. 103128565046
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15/01/2025FOR JOURNALISTS: SecureDrop provides strong security through its use of offline encryption and the Tor network, but sources still need your help to protect themselves, especially in monitored environments. Find out more:freedom.pressLeaking on the clock: What your sources need to knowLast week, Eric Trump tweeted a screenshot of an email that circulated through the Trump Organization by Washington Post reporter David Fahrentholt. Although the tweet sensationalized Fahrentholt’s em... 12214
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 15/01/2025[There are huge differences between flashing an ID at a brick and mortar location versus an online company storing and processing personally identifiable information associated with your viewing of adult content] 2516
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝paris. @parisinbmore.bsky.social · 14/01/2025sometimes banning things works when it comes to moderation and other related things but history shows us that the #tiktok response is playing out exactly how banning things usually plays out: defiance, hacks, and work arounds. 0104
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 13/01/2025WE’RE HIRING! The Knight Institute seeks a Policy Fellow, Research & Policy Program Coordinator, and Administrative Coordinator. Think you’d be a fit? Read this 🧵 and our website for more info & application instructions. knightcolumbia.org/page/work-wi...knightcolumbia.org | Knight First Amendment Institute 11214
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social · 13/01/2025"Reporters and editors at national newspapers are increasing their reliance on encrypted communications to help shield themselves and their sources from potential federal leak investigations and subpoenas." www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...nytimes.comNews Outlets Batten Down the Hatches for Trump’s ReturnMedia organizations are taking unusual steps to prepare for what they fear will be a legal and political onslaught from the new administration. 374
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 13/01/2025People may have tried to scare you away from the anonymity-preserving Tor Browser. … Use it anyway!freedom.pressAdvice column: Will I face increased scrutiny for using Tor?People may have tried to scare you away from the anonymity-preserving Tor Browser. … Use it anyway! 03811
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Christopher Goyette @christophergoyette.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Seattle in the winter. Photos taken on a Sony RX100 #seattle #pikeplace #sonyrx100 #photography 0101
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025oh boy, some good stuff in here 021
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/01/2025However you feel about TikTok in particular, it seems ominous that SCOTUS is poised to announce First Amendment strict scrutiny can be overcome by a daydream and a sneeze. 39026
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Privacy and agency over our data matters—is one of the forefront issues for online life—because every single corporate owned social platform will make decisions that harm people in the name of money and power. 100
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025New: How advertising on thousands of popular apps is used to fuel location data brokers. Done by @josephcox.bsky.social in conjunction with @wired.com www.404media.co/candy-crush-...404media.coCandy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your LocationA hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. 813255
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Please, science, I *need* to know what my dog is dreaming about. 000
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Media Defence @mediadefence.bsky.social · 08/01/2025#Venezuela: The whereabouts of Carlos Correa, ED of Espacio Público, remain unknown. On 7 Jan, he was allegedly intercepted & forced into an unmarked van by hooded officials. We stand with Espacio Público and strongly urge the State to guarantee his safety and disclose his location. bit.ly/3C0c4gKbit.lyWhereabouts of Espacio Público's Executive Director, Carlos Correa, remain unknown. - Media DefenceThe whereabouts of Carlos Correa, remain unknown. According to witnesses, Correa, was allegedly intercepted by hooded officials on Jan 7, 25. 002
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Wikipedia BADLY needs to revise its position to allow signed-in users to connect from VPNs, proxies, and Tor. Editors are going to be targeted, and being pseudonymous is not enough to protect people who write about some of the most controversial topics. 170
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/01/2025sadly cruel censorship did not allow me to use the best quote I got on background for this, "we're existentially fucked" foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/07/c...foreignpolicy.comSalt Typhoon Stirs Panic in WashingtonThe full extent of the hack is not yet public, but it has hardened anti-China consensus. 29944168
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 07/01/2025So what if we have collected a record of every person's movements and then stored that record online in a database that someone can hack? What's the worst that can happen? www.404media.co/hackers-clai...404media.coHackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak DataGravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, collating smartphone location data from around the world selling some to the U.S. government. Hack... 023
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Internet freedom advocates need to fiercely scrutinize laws that ban/limit access to porn. What we see in practice is that these laws are used to ban everyday LGBTQ content under the guise that being queer or trans is inherently explicit or pornographic. www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...usermag.coInstagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for monthsPosts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content" 032
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Etienne - Tek @tek.randhome.io · 06/01/2025So Bluesky people, I need your help! If you have #Telegram, please contact the Telegram transparency bot t.me/transparency and get data for your country. Please share a screenshot here or as an issue there github.com/Te-k/telegra... Please share!t.meTransparency ReportsGet Telegram transparency reports. 034
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Internet freedom advocates need to fiercely scrutinize laws that ban/limit access to porn. What we see in practice is that these laws are used to ban everyday LGBTQ content under the guise that being queer or trans is inherently explicit or pornographic. www.usermag.co/p/instagram-...usermag.coInstagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for monthsPosts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content" 032
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Reminder: Telegram is an app with encryption capabilities—only if you go through the hoops of turning it on manually for each chat. Otherwise, your conversations live on Telegram's server, and Telegram will hand those conversations over to the cops under pressure. 000
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Color of Seattle @colorofseattle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025The color of the sky in Seattle is dim gray #656760 001
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝The Markup @themarkup.org · 06/01/2025If you are a K-12 student, or have one at home, help extend our internet censorship investigation by connecting to your school’s Wi-Fi and testing whether you can access these popular websites: buff.ly/4a4n751 055
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Every story like this should be 9/10 about the privacy implications of handing our personal, ordinarily HIPAA-protected medical information over to some fucking app company. www.theverge.com/2025/1/5/243...theverge.comThis stick tests your hormones using your phone and salivaIn case you want to test cortisol and progesterone levels at home. 38114
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/12/2024Honestly, the Let's Encrypt folks don't get nearly enough credit for basically protecting the entire fucking internet, by making it absolute bog standard to encrypt everything. It happened so fast and so many people were skeptical. 151247277
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024this has always been the nightmare body worn cameras + facial recognition = a recipe for totalitarian control www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...telegraph.co.ukPolice to wear facial recognition cameras on beat to find criminals and missing peopleAI will be used to match images to a database of wanted individuals 1215053
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide. 973347689373
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Tor is very close to reaching our annual fundraising goal! Can you share to help us get there? 011
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Joey Shea @joeyshea.bsky.social · 18/12/2024This week Saudi Arabia hosts the IGF while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech. Many are charged under the country’s abusive counterterrorism law, and the authorities conduct invasive surveillance of civil society members. www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...hrw.orgSaudi Arabia: Hosting UN Internet Conference Amid CrackdownSaudi Arabia is hosting a major United Nations conference on internet governance while dozens of people remain imprisoned for peaceful online speech. 03119
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18/12/2024Breaking, supreme court grants cert to tiktok for oral arguments on the ban on January 10th. Ban goes into effect January 19th. They did not stay the law and this is lightning fast by SCOTUS standards. I think this is a bad sign for tiktok. 1838285
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I wonder how far the U.S.'s Freedom on the Net score is going to drop in the 2025 report. (Right now it's 76 out of 100, ranked "free".) 100
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Censorship that the U.S. government proclaims to fight in other countries is happening right here, in our own house. 011
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 11/12/2024At 4 p.m. today, the House will be holding a floor vote on a Defense budget that would withhold health care from military families with transgender youth. If passed, it would be the first new anti-LGBTQ restriction to pass through Congress since the 1990s. Please tell your rep to vote against it.act.aclu.orgStop Attacks on Care for Transgender ServicemembersExtremists in Congress are trying to ban life-saving health care for trans servicemembers and their families. We can’t let that happen! 8560314
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 10/12/2024When the police, law enforcement, policy makers tell you they need more tech, more billions — remember. 020
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Color of Seattle @colorofseattle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The color of the sky in Seattle is cerulean frost #7097c4 001
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Harley Laroux @harleylaroux.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Did you know that Seattle Public Library (my local library!) offers FREE Books Unbanned cards? 👀 That means that teens and adults ages 13 to 26 living ANYWHERE in the U.S. can access their entire collection of e-books and audiobooks, FOR FREE! www.spl.org/programs-and...spl.orgBooks UnbannedTeens and young adults ages 13 to 26 living anywhere in the U.S. can access our entire collection of e-books and audiobooks. 25821
Your pal Al 🪴📝 @alsmth.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The next Tor relay operators meeting will feature @susansegfault.bsky.social, author of a new book about the history and use of Tor over time! Cool stuff, here's the link to his book: 021
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Maris Zivarts @emveezee.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Got to walk some places today. 3905
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 03/12/2024Democrats in WA cannot claim they are resisting Trump while also imposing austerity policies. Austerity has been proven to fuel right-wing populism around the world. Incoming governor Bob Ferguson and Democratic legislators need to reject Inslee's austerity proposals and tax the rich instead.seattletimes.comGov. Inslee imposes WA spending freeze amid budget shortfallGov. Jay Inslee declared a spending freeze for Washington state government agencies in response to "a significant operating deficit." 1245
Reposted by Your pal Al 🪴📝Tor Project @torproject.org · 03/12/2024We're a bit more than $158,000 away from our fundraising goal. If everyone in our community gave $2.00, we'd hit our goal in a few hours. If you believe that everyone, everywhere has the right to browse, search & speak with freedom & privacy, please consider making a donation today. #GivingTuesday 0177