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PSA: It looks like mastodon.social has implemented hCAPTCHA on their signups yesterday.

So, if you have limited / suspended mastodon.social because of the spam issue, you may wish to reconsider this.

This will also likely mean that spammers will move to different instances (already seeing them targeting mastodon.world).

You may wish to consider implementing hCAPTCHA yourself to protect your own instance, and here is the relevant PR:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p

The reason I'm suggesting this, is because if you are a small/medium instance with open registrations, and spammers find and abuse your instance, I imagine that other instances will limit/suspend your instance without hesitation, given how willing some were to limit/suspend the much larger mastodon.social.

But do note this comment on the PR:

“To give some context to people seeing this: this is an emergency feature backport from Glitch SOC to help mitigating an ongoing spam wave, this feature may not make it in a next release, or with significative changes.”

#MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #fediblock

We filed the complaint because health websites can collect sensitive data about us, and we would expect them to be 100% transparent about what happens to our data, and give us control over what is shared about us.

Doctissimo was not doing this.

In this case, Doctissimo was placing cookies on people’s browsers without collecting consent, liberally sharing people’s sensitive data with 557 partners.

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A particularly draconian form of censorship is coming. Prior restraint bans content before publication and before a court has decided that it's illegal.

The #OnlineSafetyBill is a dangerous threat to free speech. #censorship #freespeech #ukpolitics

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The law has been passed in over 25 states and twice in the U.S. Senate, but the U.S. House of Representatives has failed to even vote on it. Tell your representatives to support this vital child protection legislation: prostasia.org/campaign/jenna-q

A man who didn’t want his girlfriend to get an abortion fatally shot her during a confrontation in a Dallas parking lot, police say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas

"The proposal for a new regulation on child sexual abuse has seen a lot of criticism. As a matter of fact, the legal services of *all three* legislative institutions of the European Union, have been highly damning."
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Users' rights would be infringed under a EU plan to screen all WhatsApp, iMessage and Snapchat accounts for child abuse content, according to internal legal advice warning that the measure would probably be annulled by the courts. theguardian.com/world/2023/may

"Online services will censor user content and accounts to mitigate the companies’ legal exposure. This will harm all internet users who rely on intermediaries to connect with their communities and the world at large." eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/stop

"In the name of fighting crime, the EARN IT Act treats all internet users like we should be in a permanent criminal lineup, under suspicion for child abuse." eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dang

"Motives for consuming animated pornography appear to have more to do with escapism and fantasy situations than interest in children. It appears unlikely that animated pornography has an effect on sexuality..."
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wo

Twitter DMs are encrypted in the same way that Tesla cars are self driving.

An anti-war painting that a court refused to censor as child exploitation has now been defaced by a protestor. news.artnet.com/art-world/cont
Here's the court's ruling on the previous censorship attempt.

twitter.com/ProstasiaInc/statu

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