Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

RT @cfpdx
Anti-sex work NGO's lobby for more prosecutions, harsher penalties and police training. These efforts result in police running fake stings, increased surveillance, conflation of sex work w/trafficking and forced diversion. Majority of the media is a 📣 for ALL of this!

"Etowah County officials are facing what appears to be the first lawsuit in the state alleging false imprisonment because a woman who was jailed for exposing her unborn child to drugs wasn’t pregnant" https://buff.ly/3XTYNfG

RT @JessicaRingrose
If you bury your head in the sand as a parent telling yourself that your young person is not experiencing this, you’re placing them in greater harm. An abstinence approach to sex education and digital sex education has the opposite effect of helping them, it creates more harm.

So why does it need to grow further? Because millions more people need access to healthy, just, sustainable, user-friendly communication tools

[Mastodon] faces two major limitations… sustainability, as the commons-based peer production model... has clear limits to growth… and perhaps most crucial... lack of participatory governance

Ultimately, what is at stake is our capacity... [to] manage planetary-scale communication spaces that are, in the broadest sense, democratic.

2/ #twittermigration

RT @AshleyLatke
🚨 Please pay attention! 🚨

Even today people pretend Tumblr was deplatformed and destroyed over abuse material.

We now have it on record of App Stores complaining literally about “#boobs”

It was NEVER about abuse, it’s conservative capitalism at scale. Evil. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1593760658289565699

“It does require (a little) more work and definitely more research into Mastodon, and you have to consider policies for your instance members,” continues O’Connell. “For example, we welcome our journalists to move off the instance when they leave (or for any reason). We ask our team to always use ALT text. But, in my experience, putting the work in is worth it. We've reached new audiences who may never have heard of us before, and the engagement here is comparable.”

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#twittermigration

New research:
"Sex robots may present an opportunity for a clinical management of individuals with paraphilic interests whose realisation would result in infliction of harm and/or legal consequences." https://buff.ly/3VOpml2

As we attempted to call out anti-LGBTQ legislation, @facebook moderation decided to block our post, without reason or explanation or the opportunity for an appeal. This is just the latest in a wave of censorship directed at prevention and human rights activists.

RT @AshleyLatke
Politically we need to

- push twitter/platforms to hire/train human mods
- demand human rights and transparency standards in moderation
- demand allies stop focusing on conservative advertiser boycotts to “stop toxic twitter” and listen to sex workers about stakeholder impact

Preventing abuse is nuanced and complex, and everyone has opportunity for learning and discussion. We have a forum where you can discuss prevention and child protection so you can learn more - or come up with brilliant new ideas: https://buff.ly/2K127Dk

"I know I will invest my anger in addressing these issues and being part of the solution. Will you join me and Prostasia Foundation in the fight to eradicate child sexual abuse?" https://buff.ly/3gDgzDt

@koyu@koyu.space To be fair, it's not hard to be smarter than Musk.