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#HumanRights

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STOP using corporate platforms! 🚨🛑

From demanding "real names", official IDs, and face scans destroying pseudonymity,

To carefully keeping track of everyone you interact with,

To tracking everything you do on the internet *outside* these platforms linking it back to your profile without your knowledge,

They will now utilize, process, tag, and judge everything you post to feed their AI models or sell it back to someone else's models.

It will only get *worse* from now.

You have no control whatsoever on what will be done with this AI-compiled profile of you later on.

The only solution to stay safe from their insatiable greed is to leave and delete,
before they eat you whole.

"Plenty of annoying nerds have been ringing alarm bells since the 90s, going on about code and privacy and open source software and FREEDOM, mostly in annoying ways. And it is genuinely annoying, even to me, to say this, but they were right all along. ..."

...

"Freeing our societies from Big Tech is ... something we will have to do if we wish to thrive in a free and open society that respects our human rights."

emptywheel.net/2025/05/22/digi @quinn
#WeToldYouSo #Privacy #BigTech #HumanRights

emptywheel · Digital Fascism is Still Just Fascism - emptywheelThe Death of the Internet and Karim Khan’s Inbox The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan is not having a good year, and neither is the ICC in general. It was never an easy job, going after people who commit Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. The ICC tries to prosecute crimes in opposition to […]

Our top story: In the last half-century, approximately 300 former death row occupants have had their convictions overturned or sentences reduced to life or even a lesser sentence. Clinton Young, unlike most, was released on bail while courts worked out his case. texasobserver.org/life-after-d

The Texas Observer ·  Life After Death RowClinton Young spent nearly two decades condemned to die. His peaceful, productive time out on bond poses questions about how Texas decides who lives long enough to get another chance.

Land grabbing / land theft indeed:

"It’s been so transparently obvious this entire time that Israel’s entire objective is to remove Palestinians from a Palestinian territory so their land can be used for Israel’s own purposes — but you’d never have known it from looking at the western press.

For the last year and a half the western media have been brazenly lying to the public by framing this as a “war with Hamas” instead of the naked ethnic cleansing operation it clearly is. They’ve been manufacturing consent for this murderous land grab by babbling about hostages, terrorism and October 7 when Israel’s mass atrocity in Gaza has never, ever been about any of those things. It has only ever been about taking Palestinian land away from Palestinians — an agenda Israel has been pursuing for decades.

If the western press had been doing actual journalism, Israel would never have been able to bring Gaza to this point. Because the western press have instead been administering propaganda this entire time, Gaza is now an uninhabitable pile of rubble full of desperate, starving people, allowing Israel and the Trump administration to argue that the humanitarian thing to do is to evacuate them all immediately.

The western media’s refusal to acknowledge this — combined with a year and a half of wildly biased headlines, indisputably slanted coverage, and extensively documented top-down pressure in mass media institutions to cover Israel’s onslaught in a positive light — stifled much of the public opposition to this genocidal land grab that we would likely have seen otherwise. This journalistic malpractice allowed Israel’s western backers to support this mass atrocity with impunity, which in turn allowed Israel to act with impunity."

x.com/caitoz/status/1925374319

X (formerly Twitter)Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) on XThe Western Media Brought Gaza To This Point

Matthew Boulay: This summer, don't fly #deportation airlines: A small airline is helping #ICE carry out cruel deportations.

"This month, #Avelo Airlines—backed by Wall Street financiers and with the silent complicity of many public officials—began flying deportation routes for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. …

Let’s be clear: Avelo is now complicit in one of the most shameful human rights violations of our time."

#travel #airline #HumanRights #TheContrarian
contrarian.substack.com/p/this

The Contrarian · This summer, don't fly deportation airlinesBy The Contrarian

You know what? As a society, I don't think we have a data privacy problem, actually.

What we truly have is a
consent-respecting problem.

If, as a society and as individuals, we truly respected people's informed and freely given consent, we would not have problems with data privacy at all.

If we culturally improve our consent-respecting practices, we will inevitably understand better how to improve our privacy-respecting practices.

Ask first.
Give options.
Respect people's choices.
Never share without prior permission.

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In the days before the govt’s error became public, #DHS ofcls discussed trying to portray #KilmarAbregoGarcia as a “leader” of the violent street gang #MS13, even though they could find NO EVIDENCE to support the claim. They considered ways to nullify the original order that barred his #deportation to #ElSalvador. They sought to downplay the danger he might face in one of that country’s most notorious prisons.

#Trump#CoverUp#law
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A mistake had been made. That much was clear.

But when the news reached the #DHS, it set off a dayslong scramble & clashes among ofcls in 3 different agencies over how to deal w/what everyone knew had been an error. As it became clear that keeping it quiet was not an option, DHS ofcls floated a series of ideas to *control the story* that raised alarms among #DOJ lawyers on the case.

#france Uk #canda #eu #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #humanrights / #genocide / #icc / #internationallaw / #sanctions

(….aaaand ACTION, please!)

„To end the ongoing humanitarian tragedy, to save the Palestinian national project and to protect Israel from itself, the path chosen by the Israeli authorities in Gaza and the West Bank must come at a cost – and it must be high.“

lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/

Le Monde · The Israeli government must no longer act with impunityBy Le Monde
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Last month, Dhillon demoted senior attorneys who handled #police #abuse investigations to other low-level assignments, such as handling public records requests or adjudicating internal discrimination complaints.
Those moves are part of a broader effort by the #Trump admin to upend the #CivilRights Division's traditions of pursuing cases to protect the civil rights of some of the country's most vulnerable & historically disenfranchised populations.

#law#DOJ#BLM