#UKLabour:
- arrest peaceful protesters against *genocide* and threaten dissent with 14 year prison sentences for supporting #PalestineAction
- don't tax BigTech
- leave Russian oligarchs months to get their assets out before applying sanctions
- allow #authoritarian #surveillance using passport photos
- give our private #health records to #Palantir fascists without consent
They are not for us. They are for #capitalism and that becomes #fascism.
@MessagingMatters You are correct. He needs an #emergency to exercise #Authoritarian takeover. This is a #SmallTTrauma. And I have no doubt he will orchestrate a #LargeTTrama for complete #Authoritarian #FascistTakeover
Trump orders #homeless he passed en route to golf course to leave Washington DC
#Trump has demanded homeless residents of Washington DC leave the country’s capital or face #eviction, and again promised to use federal officers to jail criminals, even though violent crime in the city was at a 30-year low when he took office in January.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/10/trump-homeless-golf-course-washington-dc
The Metropolitan Police said it faced “entirely unrealistic” challenges in policing a protest in support of Palestine Action at which more than 500 people were arrest
But will #Cooper and the #Labour #maladministration admit a mistake (and hand back the hundreds of thousands of pounds they have received in #bribes, whoops support from groups linked to the #Israeli government? Probaly not.
icymi, #authoritarian frog-boil:
Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from #Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s private #homesecurity #surveillance devices.
#CitizenLab Director Warns Cyber Industry About US #Authoritarian Descent - Slashdot https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/228248/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
#CitizenLab director warns cyber industry about US #authoritarian descent | TechCrunch
Ahead of his talk, #Deibert told TechCrunch that he plans to speak about what he describes as a “descent into a kind of fusion of tech and #fascism ,” and the role that the Big Tech platforms are playing, and “propelling forward a really frightening type of collective #insecurity that isn’t typically addressed by this crowd, this community, as a #cybersecurity problem.”
#politics
https://theconversation.com/authoritarian-rulers-arent-new-heres-what-herodotus-an-early-greek-historian-wrote-about-them-259127 #Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what #Herodotus, an early Greek historian, wrote about them
Government ‘influencers’
‘Lord’ Walney, a lobbyist for Israel, weapons manufacturers and the oil industry is urging the government/police to up the ante on protests over the banning of Palestine Action. Who would have thought it? One assumes those organisations protesting against fossil fuel companies will be next on the proscription path.
#CitizenLab director warns #cyber industry about US #authoritarian descent
Enabling the surveillance state can be fun!
HT mstdn @Mumonkan
Who will the UK government come after next? How will they further suppress protest and dissent?
Making civil disobedience a terrorist offence is not a mistake. This is intentionally #authoritarian. As is the censorship resulting from the #OnlineSafetyAct, which is now harming those who ministers and #UKLabour MPs claim to be trying to protect. As they were warned it would by countless experts.
If actions are not reversed due to unintended consequences, then the consequences are the intent.
"...the White House has scrubbed Sections 9 and 10 pertaining to Habeas Corpus and judicial review of unlawful detention from the official congressional website on the Constitution."
via xitter @alternet
"In melodramatic & cinematic terms", what we are seeing from the #MafiaDon Administration is EXACTLY what you picture in your mind an #Authoritarian #Dictatorship looks like.
"Masked secret police with no identification raiding homes and smashing windows. A scapegoated minority group blamed for all things." (I'd add "rewriting history" & "declaring inconvenient #facts to be lies.")
"Turning the military inward, threatening to revoke people's citizenship & jail them."
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/maddow-u-s-profoundly-changed-by-authoritarian-leader-we-re-beyond-waiting-and-seeing-now-244353093883
Why does the Gruaniad keep on insisting that this is a ‘right wing libertarian thing’?
It is gob smackingly stupid legislation that will achieve little other than to put into place mechanisms for increased state surveillance and reduce privacy - by a Labour administration or any that come after it.
Its not just me, its also the ORG, Big Brother Watch, Liberty and the Index on Censorship who are rightly concerned.
Trump’s Efforts to Control #Information Echo an #Authoritarian Playbook
In firing the head of the agency that collects #employment statistics, #Trump underscored his tendency to suppress #facts he doesn’t like & promote his own version of #reality.
#law #democracy #censorship #propaganda #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
"Trump has never been especially wedded to facts, routinely making up his own numbers, repeating falsehoods... But his efforts since reclaiming the #WhiteHouse to make the rest of #government adopt his versions of the truth have gone further than in his first term and increasingly remind scholars of the way #authoritarian leaders in other countries have sought to control #information."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an #Authoritarian Playbook
In firing the head of the agency that collects employment statistics, the president underscored his tendency to suppress #facts he doesn’t like & promote his own version of reality.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/us/politics/trump-bls-jobs-facts.html
"An old rule in Washington holds that you are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts. #Trump seems determined to prove that wrong."
New Orleans Considering Mass Real-Time Facial Recognition
"an about-face…from a 2020 ordinance that rightly banned #facialrecognition because of the heightened risk of false positives for Black people to embracing a dystopian future of a dragnet facial recognition #surveillance that treats everyone as a suspect.…a level of intrusion that we’ve only seen in #authoritarian governments… #ProjectNOLA can not only track faces, but also clothing, cars, and bikes…"
The landscape for free expression has become a dark one.
Laws are being enacted around the globe to violate individuals right to privacy and the right to consume legal content. Payment processors are forcing the hands of platforms unless they take down certain content. And groups like Collective Shout continue to pressure them to do even more of this overbearing censorship. It's starting to leak into other genres too, like Horror. Often disguised as a way to "protect children", but actually just being a way to moderate speech and oppress people.
This situation has only gotten worse as these companies have gotten more blatant. If you're an artist/creative, your main source of income could be taken away without warning. As a consumer the things you love will become less and less prominent. This is just the beginning. Now is the time to start considering Cryptocurrency, take a stand to protect the content that you love while you still can. The option might not be there in the future.
I made an article on how to get started with crypto here: https://crippled.media/article/why-you-should-use-monero-to-pay-and-get-paid-for-controversial-content-and-how-to-do-it.-aka-a-cripples-guide-to-monero
And I'm currently in the progress of making an interactive tutorial site to turn those tutorials into a more digestible format as well as add further resources and tutorials. I hope to release that in a week or so.
#freespeech #freeexpression #artists #dystopian #privacy #politics #authoritarian #dystopian #dystopia #xmr #monero #r18 #nsfw #crypto
