“Without #censorship, Hitler never would have achieved his terrible power, nor would he be able to hold it.”
“A #censor tells the #newspapers what to publish, so that in this ignorance the citizen will support the #government in #power."
September 30, 1938 | The Daily Times
There is no #correct #context to deal with censorship, because #it #would #be #censored. I informed you of a censorious attitude that I have suffered and that you too may suffer from some people in the #diaspora. Many #people “talk” #about #freedom but “act” by #censoring. I’m no longer a boy, I’m an adult: if a person deletes what I write just because he is #wrong and what I say clearly #demonstrates it, then the #censor must be pilloried in the streets. Everyone needs to know that that person is not capable of sustaining a #RESPECTFUL comparison. And there is no other way to say that a person is #bullying others (by #deleting posts!) other than as I am doing, that is, by spreading the word. Because #bullies #ERASE #your #arguments, especially when you are right.
The Guardian
Australia is seeking to strengthen ties with Indonesia, despite new reports of brutality by the military — including the torture and murder of civilians — in West Papua. (...)
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Transported by helicopter to the regional military headquarters 100km away, the group were beaten and burnt so badly by their captors that they no longer looked human.
Kogeya says Wity died a painful death in custody. The other five were only released after human rights advocates tipped off the local media.
“The kids had all been tortured and they’d been tied up and then burned,” says Kogeya, who saw the surviving boys’ injuries first-hand on the day of their release.
“[The military] had heated up machetes and knives and pressed it against their skin … They didn’t even look like humans. They were burnt from head to toe. They were in a really bad way.” (...)
Last year UN human rights experts called for urgent and unrestricted humanitarian access to the region over serious concerns about “shocking abuses against Indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement of people.” (...)
The day before the boys’ detention, in the same region of Nduga, soldiers opened fire on a group of women and children returning with string bags filled with food from shopping in a neighbouring village, locals say. (...)
“The military could tell that [the group of women and children] were not combatants,” Kogoya says. “And they still shot them.”
“They know we’re carrying vegetables not guns – so why are they shooting at us and why are they arresting us?” (...)
The former Dutch colony is just 250km from mainland Australia. It’s a short boat ride from the northern islands of the Torres Strait. But most Australians know little about the war that is raging there.
The lack of knowledge is partly by design: very little about West Papua reaches the outside world because Indonesia tightly controls access for foreign journalists and human rights monitors. (...)
When the Netherlands began preparing for withdrawal in the 1950s, West Papuans pushed strongly for independence. As Melanesians, they see themselves as part of the Pacific, not south-east Asia. But their powerful neighbour had other ideas. (...)
A ceasefire was brokered by the United Nations, and a UN-backed ballot was held in 1969, ostensibly to allow West Papuans to have their say on integration with Indonesia.
But advocates say the “Act of Free Choice” was rigged from the start. Just 1,022 West Papuan leaders were handpicked by Indonesian officials to represent the entire population, and they were coerced and threatened at gunpoint to reject independence.
In this environment, support for integration was unanimous. The result was rubber-stamped by the UN.
Indigenous West Papuans continue to demand a real vote on self-determination, mostly through acts of civil disobedience such as raising the banned ‘Morning Star’ flag. They pay a heavy price in police and military brutality, as well as long jail sentences, for their activism. (...)
“We can’t do anything here,” says Nopinanus Kogoya. “People are even dying of hunger in the street because they can’t farm, they can’t go anywhere. We’re just completely, completely under the control of this fierce military occupation.” (...)
Locals say the brutality escalated in February this year, when Phillip Mehrtens, a New Zealand pilot working for Indonesian airline Susi Air, was taken hostage and his plane burned by the rebel army at Nduga airport. (...)
Now, Australia is seeking to forge closer military ties in negotiations on a “defence cooperation agreement” – a “treaty-level instrument” that will be legally enforceable before an international court, says Rothwell. (...)
Australia also provides weapons and other tools of war to Indonesia, including a recent shipment of 15 Bushmaster armoured vehicles, intended for use by Indonesian special forces during peacekeeping missions. (...)
Tags: #new_guinea #dutch_new_guinea #papua #west_papua #papua_merdeka #independence #act_of_free_choice #referendum #human_rights #racism #discrimination #indonesia #media #censorship #censor #news #freedom_of_the_press #press_freedom #nederlands_nieuw-guinea #human_rights_abuse
See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign | WIRED #wired #wiki #wikipedia #virgilgriffith #censor #censorship #diebold #cia #congress #history #usa ">
CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes.
On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines....
♲ Digit - 2022-12-02 07:10:07 GMT
okay, fine, i'm just going to say it.
i hate #mastodon.
because
#characterlimit = #dumb
no adequate means of discourse there. induces #inanity. creates and compounds ambiguities and misunderstandings. many instances try to remedy this, with top-down censorship ... very ugly.
it's nice having the space and time and ample headroom of enough characters/words to adequately explain your meaning.- - - - - -
like i posted after experiencing such nefarious "good intentions" suspension (immediately revoked when i appealed by simply asking for explanation of what was "disinformation" about what i'd posted, but there remained a warning for breaking their disinformation rule, and no explanation),
#censorship is a prison
#freespeech is essential
#NoToCensorship
#Censor = #Criminal
We cant do #Science or #Democracy when #Censored
#StayFree #SpeakOut #ExposeCensors
#Educate them of better ways, and why it matters, even (/especially) when it's something you don't like.
#FreeAndFreeAlike
#IMayNotAgreeWithWhatYouSayButIWillDefendYourRightToSayItToMyDeath
#MoreImportantThings
(image text:
CENSORSHIP IS A PRISON
Online censorship can lead to cruelty and violence in real life
Live free and say #NoToCensorship of free expression online
)
okay, fine, i'm just going to say it.
no adequate means of discourse there. induces #inanity. creates and compounds ambiguities and misunderstandings. many instances try to remedy this, with top-down censorship ... very ugly.
it's nice having the space and time and ample headroom of enough characters/words to adequately explain your meaning.
like i posted after experiencing such nefarious "good intentions" suspension (immediately revoked when i appealed by simply asking for explanation of what was "disinformation" about what i'd posted, but there remained a warning for breaking their disinformation rule, and no explanation),
#censorship is a prison
#freespeech is essential
#NoToCensorship
#Censor = #Criminal
We cant do #Science or #Democracy when #Censored
#StayFree #SpeakOut #ExposeCensors
#Educate them of better ways, and why it matters, even (/especially) when it's something you don't like.
#FreeAndFreeAlike
#IMayNotAgreeWithWhatYouSayButIWillDefendYourRightToSayItToMyDeath
#MoreImportantThings
(image text:
CENSORSHIP IS A PRISON
Online censorship can lead to cruelty and violence in real life
Live free and say #NoToCensorship of free expression online
)
Filep Karma Called for Papua Independence from Indonesia; Spent 11 Years in Prison
Human Rights Watch
Filep Karma, a prominent Papuan activist and former political prisoner, was found dead Monday on a beach in the Papuan city of Jayapura. He had been on a diving trip with his brother-in-law and nephew, and apparently went diving alone after his relatives left the trip early. Karma, a master diver with three decades’ experience, was found wearing his scuba diving suit. (...)
In 2010, Human Rights Watch published a report on political prisoners in Papua and the Moluccas Islands, launching a global campaign to release the prisoners. In 2011, Karma’s mother, Eklefina Noriwari, petitioned the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention for Karma’s release. The working group determined Karma’s detention had violated international law, and called on the Indonesian government release him. The authorities only released Karma in 2015.
After his release, Karma embraced a wider agenda of political activism. He spoke about human rights and environmental protection. He campaigned for the rights of minorities. He organized help for political prisoners’ families. (...)
Filep Karma outside the Abepura prison in Jayapura, Indonesia, December 2014. © 2014 Andreas Harsono.
Tags: #new_guinea #dutch_new_guinea #papua #west_papua #papua_merdeka #independence #act_of_free_choice #referendum #human_rights #racism #discrimination #indonesia #media #censorship #censor #news #freedom_of_the_press #press_freedom #nederlands_nieuw-guinea #human_rights_abuse
As Gov’t Tells Us to ‘Follow the Science’, Remember the ‘Consensus’ Once Rejected Hand Washing…
Since the beginning of the pandemic, a phrase has been thrown around by blowhards in the mainstream media and politicians alike. That phrase is “we follow the science.” However, many of the folks who constantly repeat this phrase don’t seemed too excessively concerned with actually following any science at all.
The World Health Organization and others have come out for months saying that schools are safe and that school closures are leading to a slew of horrifying childhood problems.
“Schools can reopen safely,” said Dr Ruediger Krech, WHO Director of Health Promotion, back in December.
Yet those who claim to “follow the science” continue to keep children locked down and out of school — leading to an epidemic of childhood suicide. This is just one of many examples.
Despite brutal lockdowns, mandates, the complete destruction of the economy, and putting the police state on steroids, cases still shot to record levels through December and early January. Every time they rise, the politicians take to their podiums and blame the citizens for not following their arbitrary and often entirely unscientific dictates close enough. More force is threatened and more arbitrary rules rolled out. Despite the utterly horrifying effects of the lockdowns, politicians across the world keep forcing them on the citizens. Why is that?
Are they really following the science? Does following The Science™ mean that scientists and experts who disagree with The Science™ ought to be banned, silenced, and cancelled? If not, then why is that happening despite many of these disagreements being proven right?
Throughout history, The Science™ has been resistant to skeptics. Anyone who challenges the established narrative is cast out, ridiculed, and shunned. Now, Big Tech has joined in and helps to silence those who are skeptical — even if they are Harvard educated experts.
It has been a week since our @Facebook page was deleted.
This happened after we posted a comment in full support of a voluntary Covid19 vaccine plan.
There has been no option to review this decision.
There is no route to appeal available for @gbdeclaration. pic.twitter.com/yTz0ue2jNk
— **_Great Barrington Declaration (@gbdeclaration) February 7, 2021_**
To be clear, a scientific consensus is not to be easily discounted. Thousands of people all coming to similar conclusions through varying applications of the scientific method is a powerful means of explaining and understanding our environment and presence on this planet and in the universe. Coming to a consensus allows humanity to make better decisions about fostering a more sustainable future and helps us figure out how to progress as a species and deal with the various woes we face — like COVID-19.
That being said, the collective is often dangerously — and deadly — wrong. Do not mistake this for a stance on vaccines, the pandemic, or any health measures. That is a moot point for the purpose of this issue. However, indoctrinating people to unquestioningly accept what The Science™ says as fact, through various means of information manipulation can and will have damning consequences.
Without people questioning our very reality, science would likely still be stuck in the stone ages.
This current method of cancelling, censoring, and banning, sets out to grow the herd of consensus, simply by convincing people that doing anything but unquestioningly accepting the consensus is wrong.
“Consensus messages don’t ask people to change their beliefs — they ask them to change their opinion about what other people believe, so they’re not a direct threat to their identity,” says Sander van der Linden, a psychology professor at Cambridge, who has tested the strength of “inoculation messages” in a program to manipulate people into being less skeptical.
Once people view the consensus as non-threatening, they will readily accept the science on the matter. Seems harmless enough, right?Well, it does if you haven’t studied history at all.
#consensus #eugenics #mainstream #science #lockdown #covid 19 #corruption #genocide #fraud #pandemic #censor #manipulation #disinformation
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/as-govt-tells-us-to-follow-the-science-remember-the-consensus-once-rejected-hand-washing/
The whole thing is pretty ridiculous. Because #pornography is forbidden in China, the censors had problems to get appropriate material. The internet is full of porn but not in China because of the big firewall. For testing, they ended up using material with black bars as shown in the photo above. Only such material can be used legally in China. What they have found out scientifically now is probably that there are people who are attracted to this black and white zebra porn and react accordingly with brain #activity.
#science #brain #censorship #internet #greatFirewall #censor #politics #humanrights #sex #fail #news #technology #autocracy #online #privacy
Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/30/1052879/censoring-china-open-source-backfire/
Li went through the manual review for all his projects on Gitee, and so far 22 out of 24 have been restored. “Yet I assume that the #review process is not a one-time thing, so the question is if the friction of hosting projects will increase in the future,” he says. Still, with no better domestic alternative, Li expects users to stay: “People might not like what #Gitee is doing, but [Gitee] will still be required to get their daily job done.”
China is ruining everything for good with its autocracy. The knowledge transfer of the Linux kernel as free open-source software was the biggest aid ever given to development. Now that they need their own operating system for mobile devices in the trade war with the US, because they are no longer allowed to use Google's software, it is very stupid to scare their own open source developers. Source code should always be apolitical and the fact that so many projects are subsequently released shows that the censors have no idea what they are doing.
#censorship #censor #fail #os #software #opensource #freedom #politics #news #problem #autocracy #system #future #floss
#Lithuanian National #Cyber Security Centre #analysis shows the #Chinese #Communist regime is working with #Israeli #government on #censorship through Chinese #smartphones.
Why would the #CCP want to #censor "The Organisation for the #Liberation of #Palestine" unless it had been requested to do so on behalf of the Israeli state?
For the record, I don't personally take a position on the Israeli / Palestine affair, but I do take a position on censorship, the CCP & the #collusion of #world governments in the imposition of censorship.
#CyberSecurity #lithuania #freedom #freespeech #freedomofspeech #communism #authoritarianism #godgivenrights #naturalrights #humanrights #USA #UK
www.nksc.lt/en/reports.html
www.nksc.lt/doc/en/analysis/2021-08-23_5G-CN-analysis_env3.pdf
The Guardian
Dozens of West Papuans were tortured and thrown into the sea 23 years ago. Days later, Australia knew details of the attack, yet remained silent. (...)
Women and children were cut down before his eyes. Some were singing hymns as the troops opened fire.
Bullets tore through the neck and stomach of two of his friends.
“They were killing like they killed animals,” he says. “They don’t think these are human beings, they are thinking these are animals.”
Korwa’s skull was cracked from the butt of an Indonesian soldier’s rifle and his stomach was bleeding heavily from a machete wound. (...)
In the 23 years since, not one person has been charged with the killings. The massacre is not recognised officially and no government or international inquiry has reported on it.
The Indonesian government has either denied or downplayed the deaths. (...)
Australia has only ever offered a muted response, expressing concern to the Indonesian government but not condemning the massacre.
The true extent of the Howard government’s knowledge of the massacre has, until now, largely remained unknown.
But a newly released, unredacted intelligence report handed to Guardian Australia reveals an Australian intelligence officer provided the government with compelling evidence just 11 days after the killings that Indonesia “almost certainly used excessive force against pro-independence demonstrators”.
The same officer was also handed photographic evidence by West Papuans on Biak, at great risk to their safety. The photos were distributed to his superiors within defence, but never saw the light of day.
New evidence suggests they have since been destroyed by the defence department, despite consistent calls for a proper investigation into the atrocity. (...)
> More on West Papua (formerly Netherlands New Guinea)
Yudha Korwa fled West Papua and came to Australia in 2006 after a massacre by the Indonesian military. Photograph: Christopher Hopkins/The Guardian.
Tags: #new_guinea #dutch_new_guinea #papua #west_papua #papua_merdeka #independence #act_of_free_choice #referendum #human_rights #racism #discrimination #indonesia #media #censorship #censor #news #freedom_of_the_press #press_freedom #nederlands_nieuw-guinea #human_rights_abuse
As Gov’t Tells Us to ‘Follow the Science’, Remember the ‘Consensus’ Once Rejected Hand Washing....
Since the beginning of the pandemic, a phrase has been thrown around by blowhards in the mainstream media and politicians alike. That phrase is “we follow the science.” However, many of the folks who constantly repeat this phrase don’t seemed too excessively concerned with actually following any science at all.
The World Health Organization and others have come out for months saying that schools are safe and that school closures are leading to a slew of horrifying childhood problems.
“Schools can reopen safely,” said Dr Ruediger Krech, WHO Director of Health Promotion, back in December.
Yet those who claim to “follow the science” continue to keep children locked down and out of school — leading to an epidemic of childhood suicide. This is just one of many examples.
Despite brutal lockdowns, mandates, the complete destruction of the economy, and putting the police state on steroids, cases still shot to record levels through December and early January. Every time they rise, the politicians take to their podiums and blame the citizens for not following their arbitrary and often entirely unscientific dictates close enough. More force is threatened and more arbitrary rules rolled out. Despite the utterly horrifying effects of the lockdowns, politicians across the world keep forcing them on the citizens. Why is that?
Are they really following the science? Does following The Science(TM) mean that scientists and experts who disagree with The Science(TM) ought to be banned, silenced, and cancelled? If not, then why is that happening despite many of these disagreements being proven right?
Throughout history, The Science(TM) has been resistant to skeptics. Anyone who challenges the established narrative is cast out, ridiculed, and shunned. Now, Big Tech has joined in and helps to silence those who are skeptical — even if they are Harvard educated experts.
It has been a week since our @Facebook page was deleted.
This happened after we posted a comment in full support of a voluntary Covid19 vaccine plan.
There has been no option to review this decision.
There is no route to appeal available for @gbdeclaration. pic.twitter.com/yTz0ue2jNk
— **_Great Barrington Declaration (@gbdeclaration) February 7, 2021_**
To be clear, a scientific consensus is not to be easily discounted. Thousands of people all coming to similar conclusions through varying applications of the scientific method is a powerful means of explaining and understanding our environment and presence on this planet and in the universe. Coming to a consensus allows humanity to make better decisions about fostering a more sustainable future and helps us figure out how to progress as a species and deal with the various woes we face — like COVID-19.
That being said, the collective is often dangerously — and deadly — wrong. Do not mistake this for a stance on vaccines, the pandemic, or any health measures. That is a moot point for the purpose of this issue. However, indoctrinating people to unquestioningly accept what The Science(TM) says as fact, through various means of information manipulation can and will have damning consequences.
Without people questioning our very reality, science would likely still be stuck in the stone ages.
This current method of cancelling, censoring, and banning, sets out to grow the herd of consensus, simply by convincing people that doing anything but unquestioningly accepting the consensus is wrong.
“Consensus messages don’t ask people to change their beliefs — they ask them to change their opinion about what other people believe, so they’re not a direct threat to their identity,” says Sander van der Linden, a psychology professor at Cambridge, who has tested the strength of “inoculation messages” in a program to manipulate people into being less skeptical.
Once people view the consensus as non-threatening, they will readily accept the science on the matter. Seems harmless enough, right?Well, it does if you haven’t studied history at all.
#consensus #eugenics #mainstream #science #lockdown #covid_19 #corruption #genocide #fraud #pandemic #censor #manipulation #disinformation
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/as-govt-tells-us-to-follow-the-science-remember-the-consensus-once-rejected-hand-washing/