Posts for 2019-04-04

Reasons To Be Cheerful: The Bigots and Xenophobes Don’t Have Any Good Tunes

Written by Boff Whalley of Chumbawamba, who knows a thing or two about protest songs. Needless to say, they took a dim view to the right using the song Tubthumping.

After Christchurch, we need more than digital-security theater

If Germany has to pass a law to stop your company from creating the next Hitler… I can’t think of a clearer sign saying you’re doing something very, very wrong.

Written by Violet Blue for Engadget.

Welcome To The Prude Internet: No More Sex Talk Allowed

However, with last year’s passing of FOSTA beginning to eat away at CDA 230, we’re actually moving back to a world described in the original CDA — where plenty of “sexual” content is being barred, in part out of a fear of getting sued under FOSTA. Take for example, the writer Violet Blue, who we’ve linked to many times in the past. Last week, she revealed that Amazon has now cut off her Associates’ account, which she had been using to support herself for years.

Most likely, what the supporters of FOSTA wanted all along.