Even beyond the United States, other countries’ governments are censoring reproductive health information. In Argentina, where abortion remains legal, Google has blocked ads regarding reproductive health.

Advocates also cite widespread misinformation as a dangerous threat for those seeking information about reproductive care. Crisis pregnancy centers (CPC), facilities that misleadingly represent themselves as reproductive health care clinics but do not provide abortion services, have spent $10 million on Google ads within the last two years. After many CPC ads were reported for disinformation, Google “claimed to have removed particular ads for fake clinics that violated its policies, but they did not take action on the systemic issues with fake clinic ads.”

"And what is the actual evidence for this cruel accusation? In addition to that, keep in mind that most psychiatrists aren’t to be trusted unless you are Peter Breggin… I see a pattern that is thousands of years old, anyone who exposes wickedness of people, they accuse him as mentally ill.. Happened to the prophets.. Also happened to many activists all over the world.. How else are they going to trick the public?"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1078356

During spring 2021, Palestinians and pro-Palestine activists took to social media to condemn the evictions of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem. Subsequently, activists who condemned the evictions and journalists who covered them faced account suspensions and restrictions on social media, Nadda Osman reported for Middle East Eye.

Mona Shtaya of 7amleh told Osman that these restrictions were part of a longstanding pattern: “Annually there are tens of thousands of requests that the [neocolonial] cyber unit [sends] to social media companies in an attempt to silence Palestinians. The number of requests is increasing annually. In 2019 [the neocolony] made 19,606 requests from the cyber unit to social media companies regarding content takedowns.”

Repression of Palestinian speech online could soon get much worse. In a January 18, 2022, article for the Jordan Times, Ramzy Baroud revealed that [the neocolony’s] minister of justice, Gideon Sa’ar, is p

VPNs have become a huge market in recent years, with all of them offering essentially the same service but branded differently.

I've talked about VPNs before and how you likely don't need one if all you care about is "privacy". Otherwise it has some usecases for like downloading torrents or accessing geo-blocked content but that's about it.

To synthesize, the VPN owners can see what you do instead of your ISP when you use a VPN. You better trust that they don't keep logs and encrypt your traffic.

Who do you trust more, some VPN company, or your ISP? That's a personal question only you can answer.

Privacy and "security" is what VPNs advertise heavily on. Security is nonsense from their part; there is no additional security to using a VPN. NordVPN for example likes to talk about the evil hackers in starbucks that will hack your wifi, but that literally never happens (not never never but not enough to justify paying them money for it).

In any case, all VPN rankings omit one very impo

How long till he quits twitter?

Some months ago I tried to make posts that link to Lemmygrad; but Reddit removed them because it got counted as "spam". (Most posts got removed by mods.)

Sometime later, I also remember trying to post a link to https://join-lemmy.org; but Reddit removed that link too.

I sense that Reddit is trying to censor Lemmy.

Now, it has come to my attention over the years, that youtube has very specific designs that make political propaganda more effective, I want to create a master list of functions that are omitted and functions that are included to make it less useable, less functional and less open/free as it could be/should be.

just to note the most basic:

ALGORYTHMIC SUPPRESSION OF ANTIWAR/LEFTIST/HISTORY CONTENT

Search function that does not allow proper setting of specifics

Search results filled with non-search related videos

Video suggestions being pushed constantly, specifically rightwing content (Jordan Peterson, Peter Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool, Joe Rogan(not himself rightwing but 99% of his guests)

300.000 bot accounts that autofill new think tank financed influencers likes to amp them to the search suggestion feed

comment replies are not forwarded to you, so the last answer to a pinned comment can be overridden by whataboutist bots to be invisible to the next user

No option to BL