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Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flaws

Walled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly-designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of Google Drive for the entire country, and how malicious actors could similarly use that unchecked power to shut down critical […]

#agcom #audiovisual #blocking #ccia #computer #copyright #costs #critical #deIndex #dns #DNSs #domains #DSA #elisaGiomi #eu #film #football #google #IP #ISPs #italy #linear #network #piracyShield #reporters #serietv #singleMarket #tris #tv #vpns #wipo

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Why the Fediverse Needs a Connection Between Mainstreaming and Grassroots

One of the best things about the Fediverse is that real people and community's get to choose what kind of digital paths they want to take. Don’t want #Meta snooping around? Join or host an instance that blocks them out. Prefer not to have people search your content? Lock it down in your settings. Want to mediate the strong #blinded flow of “normies”? Close the doors via your instance settings. It’s a "nativist" system that offers a radical degree of agency compared to the […]

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hamishcampbell.comWhy the Fediverse Needs a Connection Between Mainstreaming and Grassroots – Hamish Campbell
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Blocking the shawl! 

Pattern: Octave by Dee O'Keefe. I did the final decreases in yellow gold down to 20 stitches on the needle and then I did a last pattern repeat with bind-off.  I will block it eventually but like it as it is for now.

This symmetrical-enough crescent shawl had 88 repeats worked using a cake of gifted Schoppel-Wolle Zauber Flower Pro in color Kunterbunt (which is very fun to say).

Keeping Conversation’s Open – the Fluffy-Spiky Debate

In activist spaces and grassroots communities, the tension between #fluffy and #spiky approaches is a well-worn dynamic. Fluffy represents a gentler, consensus-driven path, centred on kindness, inclusion, and collective care. Spiky, on the other hand, is sharp-edged, direct, and confrontational, willing to disrupt and break things to push for change. Both paths have their place, but the trouble arises when fluffy turns dogmatic, morphing into a hard passive-aggressive policing that silences […]

hamishcampbell.com/keeping-con

hamishcampbell.comKeeping Conversation’s Open – the Fluffy-Spiky Debate – Hamish Campbell
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The #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media

This has been going on for ten years, at many steps, I meet defeatism and negativity. It’s frustrating, especially now, when the mainstream is visibly stepping away from the #dotcons and looking for a place to land. We should be building that landing space, but instead, we’re tangled in the wreckage of failed ideas and cynical inertia. Yes, stupid fashionable ideas have failed again and again, but that doesn’t mean the basics no longer work. The #openweb grew from simple, powerful […]

hamishcampbell.com/the-fashern

hamishcampbell.comThe #fashernistas poisoned the well of alt-media – Hamish Campbell
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Explainer about #blocking

(a) Blocking a digital social account is not an anti-social behavior, it's a personal choice of mental protection (personal defence)

(b) Blocking media information to the public is not a choice, it's against the freedom of education, and against most existing constitutional laws

(c) Blocking food, water and aid is a crime

I hope, the difference is clear for every human mind now.

@Valent

I have a bucketload of #Kindle books, so not closing my account. That said, I haven't actually purchased anything from an #Amazon-connected anything for several years.

#Unsubscribe from their #emails, or send them directly to your #spam bucket. Delete any #browser #bookmarks.

(BTW, I highly recommend the #VivaldiWebBrowser, which I've been using for awhile.

Aside from #blocking #trackers and #ads, my favorite #feature is a toggle to force #darkMode on every page.

#VPN Providers Consider Exiting #France Over 'Dangerous' Blocking Demands * TorrentFreak

In France, rightsholders have taken legal action to compel large VPN providers to support their pirate site #blocking program. The aim is to reinforce existing blocking measures, but VPN providers see this as a dangerous move, leading to potential #security issues and overblocking. As a result, some are considering leaving France altogether if push comes to shove.

torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers

torrentfreak.comVPN Providers Consider Exiting France Over 'Dangerous' Blocking Demands * TorrentFreakVPN providers see blocking orders as a threat to security and some consider exiting France, if blocking measures are granted.

“Compost tending” the fabric of #openweb

Let's look at what makes sense: it’s about collective dynamics, not individual blame. The focus is on mapping the social landscape, understanding the patterns of dysfunction, and then figuring out how to break through those blockages. The idea of switching between #spiky and #fluffy approaches as needed is powerful, rejecting rigid ideology in favour of practical, responsive action. Making the #blocking visible is essential. So much of the stagnation in #openweb and activist spaces comes […]

hamishcampbell.com/compost-ten

Why are #fashernistas so poisoning?

#Fashionistas chase status and spectacle over substance, co-opting real radical movements for aesthetics. They turn collective struggles into performative gestures, feeding the #mainstreaming cycle. This poisons the roots of change, turning compost into toxic waste, energy that could grow new things instead feeds the system they claim to resist. Why is the #geekproblem such a strong #blocking force? This is rooted in control, a deterministic mindset that values code over culture. It […]

hamishcampbell.com/why-are-fas

hamishcampbell.comWhy are #fashernistas so poisoning? – Hamish Campbell
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just seems kinda off that most people don't consider ideology to be a factor in defederation from kolektiva (or other instances)

like how long would you suppose an anarchist, anti-colonial instance would get along with liberal instances? authoritarian left ones? "apolitical" instances?

not discounting that folks have negative interactions with specific accounts, etc.

look at how many liberals react to calm, polite replies that accurately point to liberal policies and politicians helping to bring us to the current moment.. rage, insta-blocks, tirades against whole instances and ideologies based off a single encounter..