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20.08.2025 12:59
jorgemorais (@jorgemorais@ursal.zone)

US national security state censoring anti-imperialists to control ‘compatible left’

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/07/02/censorship-anti-imperialists-compatible-left/

> During the first cold war, the CIA poured money into funding and cultivating a pro-imperialist, anti-communist “compatible left.” Today, the US government uses social media to censor anti-war news outlets and activists.

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20.08.2025 12:57
etaski (@etaski@mastodon.online)

#ClassActionLawsuit #USA #AuthorRights #Copyright

Bartz v. Athropic

A class action lawsuit against the AI company Anthropic, accused of downloading millions of pirated books to train their #AI model.

If your books were pirated by websites Library Genesis (“LibGen”) and Pirate Library Mirror (“PiLiMi”), the court certified that's where Anthropic got all their material. The suit against them can move forward.

Prosecutors are collecting information from individuals:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

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20.08.2025 12:57
post (@post@lemmy.world)

US military vets are helping Afghans fight deportation

https://lemmy.world/post/34723055

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20.08.2025 12:53
sfpl (@sfpl@mastodon.social)

People sitting at table playing mah jong (San Francisco, California), circa 1970s, San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Filipino Americans--California--San Francisco , Mah jong

From Digital Collections of San Francisco Public Library
https://digitalsf.org/record/2184
#SanFrancisco #SF #SFPL #California #US #USA #history #image #photography #photo

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20.08.2025 12:48
post (@post@lemmy.world)

Federal prosecutors launch inquiry into Washington DC police over allegedly fudged crime statistics

https://lemmy.world/post/34722736

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20.08.2025 12:45
remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)

I don't know how Europe and United States can be diverging. After all, both sides are outlawing any kind of speech that is against Israel's genocide and land-theft in Palestine... As a matter of fact, I don't think the U.S. has any kind of legitimacy to point the finger to European governments when they are doing probably the same or worse.

"Now Europe and the United States are diverging. Never mind enduring disagreements about how to treat Nazis and other would-be totalitarians. Europe today, in both its individual countries and its shared continental governance, is criminalizing more and more speech that doesn’t come close to American thresholds for incitement or harassment.

James Kirchick: What happens where free speech is unprotected
The shift has been gradual, emerging in landmark cases at the European Court of Human Rights, as well as in legislation at the national level. But the new reality is stark. Last year, Amnesty International (hardly a Trump-administration ally) published a report about what the organization’s secretary-general, Agnès Callamard, called a “Europe-wide onslaught against the right to protest”; the report documented examples of restrictive laws, use of excessive police force, and arbitrary arrest. It’s not just protests. European judges have signed off on the criminalization of the kinds of hate speech that, while easy to revile, pose nothing like Hitlerite peril. When a middle-aged mother lashes out at asylum seekers in a social-media post (later deleted), or a pro-Palestinian marcher chants a slogan that some but not all see as genocidal, or a flyer calls gays “deviants,” a tolerant society can exercise forbearance and respond with counterspeech. European states are often deploying handcuffs instead. And European leaders are pushing to expand the speech that can get a person thrown in prison."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/europe-free-speech-republicans/683915/

#Europe #EU #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfExpression #Censorship #USA