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im still laughing at this
(via notyrqueer)
That’s the most insulting part of it all. It’s not like there’s any consistency here. The oft cited definition of obscenity is “I’ll know it when I see it”, yet it seems the current definition is more like “Whatever the payment processor says it is today“.
Imagine if Google programmed its servers to go through all the emails you send via Gmail and replace all the cuss words with asterisks. You’d be mad, right? Well, that’s pretty much what the voice recognition engine that powers Google Glass does:
In order to write emails or text messages with Google Glass, you dictate words. The device is pleasantly reliable at transcribing things you say … unless you happen to have a foul mouth. In that case, it’ll make what you say “safe for work,” even if you don’t want to be censored.
Geek.com’s Russell Holly was among the first to notice that the voice-to-text feature on Google Glass, much like that on Android, cleans up naughty words. If you drop an f-bomb, Glass will transcribe it as “f***.” That favorite four-letter word for “excrement” becomes “s***.” A female canine becomes “b****.” There doesn’t appear to be a way to circumvent this censorship.
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Thanks for this suggestion also!
SW4
(via sexworkerproblems)
At the end of the day, two people went out of their way to screw her over, potentially placing her at real risk, and used Fetlife to do it. Many of us find it unfair that the punishment for that is disproportionate compared to the punishment of others for relatively minor offenses that have no real consequences.
The core problem, I think, is that the Fetlife TOU and its enforcement are primarily about creating a harmonious environment conducive to revenue, NOT about protecting people. This is why if you hurt someone’s feelings, expose problems, or call someone out on their bullshit, punishment is more swift and more likely than if you actually do something to threaten someone’s privacy or physical well-being. And it’s why following the letter of the law counts more than following the spirit of the law. Following rules provides harmony, following principles provides fairness.
Looking at the KP today it seams all critical posts is removed while all posts angry at ppl being critical is left? I find it very disturbing if critique equals causing drama and if this is not just a coincidence with the mention of censoring the KP to avoid drama..
Yeah- it’s curious that “An Open Letter to John Baku” has disappeared, while”An Open Sandwich to John Baku” is still there.
Somehow, the posts calling him “our fearless leader” seemed a lot more amusing before he was acting openly like a dictator.
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Ballbustin’ & Foot Lovin’ - Banned Videos - Ballbustin’ & Foot Lovin’
Ran across this in the process of reading up about how Fetlife lost their payment processor today. We really do need alternatives to these big credit card companies bossing us around.
— The Kremlin’s New Internet Surveillance Plan Goes Live Today | Danger Room | Wired.com
Ah, don’t you just love the smell of FetLife censorship in the morning…
(Source: fetlife.com)
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Porn and the media: How the pornography industry wants to be covered.
I wonder if this attitude is exclusive to sex industries/communities or if it is present in every group. Certainly Christians feel themselves to be persecuted and exhibit the need to hide anything that might be viewed as unsavory or misunderstood by the masses. God knows I’ve talked enough about PR and the BDSM people.
Universities, sports teams, churches, kink clubs, porn sets, our government, every corporation I’ve ever worked for…
We are living in a cover-up culture.
The internet is often touted as a bastion of free speech, a great free speech tool, etc etc.
Yet any time any corporation decides to silence someone on their website by deleting their content, there’s all these apologists who come rushing to the corporation’s defense saying “It’s their site, they can do with it what they want!”
Here’s the problem: The entirety of the internet is controlled by corporations, with the possible exception of very limited (and limited access) governmental websites.
The ISP that provides a connection for a website (or you) is a corporation. The hosting company for a website is a corporation. The website itself is usually a corporation (or other person). If every corporation in the world suddenly decided to “exercise their right to control content”, there wouldn’t be a single space available for actually free speech on the internet.
If every meatspace corporation decided the same thing, we’d be limited to our own yards, “free speech zones”, or the occasional (governmentally approved) street-march-with-permit.
This is one of the major reasons why the US government passed a law stating that websites could not be held legally accountable for content other users posted to that website. It was so that websites would stop using that as an excuse to delete content they didn’t like. They still do it, but now they do it “because they can”.
If we continue to make excuses for people, groups, and corporations silencing one another, the government won’t have to interfere with our right to free speech… we’ll have silenced ourselves.
The constitution is a document about how our government is run, and that’s all it can talk about: the government. I believe that the best thing for a healthy, modern society is that the philosophy of protecting a person’s right to say something should extend beyond the government.
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Apple Rejects App Built From The Bureau’s Covert War Data
An app that uses the Bureau’s covert war data to alert people to the far reaches of the US government’s secret wars has been blocked from Apple’s app store.
Drones+, the creation of NYU student Josh Begley, was meant to be a simple way of notifying users whenever US drones struck somewhere in the world.
But Apple decided this was not acceptable for its customers. After rejecting the app on the grounds of its design and functionality, the US tech giant finally took exception to its content.
In correspondence seen by the Bureau, the US tech giant told Begley that apps that ‘present excessively objectionable or crude content will be rejected.’
The company added: ‘We found that your app contains content that many audiences would find objectionable.’ Apple correspondence.
Apple’s decision did not come as a surprise to Begley. ‘I think their position is often just they don’t want to let anything through that could be seen by anyone at any particular table that could be seen as controversial,’ he said.
But how its content could have been objectionable or crude for a user is difficult to fathom.
A basic app, Drones+ was simply a news feed summarising each entry from the Bureau’s databases and a map of the drone strikes. Each time a drone hits a village in Waziristan, a message would ping straight to the user’s handset to let them know.
(via winneganfake)
Dean Leysen talked about the source of the problem with all this piracy and stuff. He’s very perceptive.
(via winifredjay)
(you’ll need to have an account on FetLife to view the above link and any other links leading to FetLife; if you don’t already have an account, it’s free to sign up and all you need to do so is have a valid email address and be able to spare a couple minutes of your time - it’s worth it, if only for the LOLz)
Why, yes, yes it does!
There are actually people on FetLife, who aren’t completely stupid. WHO KNEW??!
I got banned from FetLife for posting the following (without any real explanation from John Baku or his, clearly incompetent, “Caretakers” as to why the following was against FetLife’s Terms of Use OR any chance to modify the following to adhere to FetLife’s Terms of Use, which change all the time - so how is one supposed to know whether or not one is doing something against TOU when there isn’t a CLEAR, STABLE set of TOU in place?):
There Are Some Sick Fucks About …
Specifically, these sick fucks believe that it is okay to engage in sexual activity with animals, even though animals cannot consent to sexual activity with human beings. These sick fucks believe it is okay to engage in sexual activity WITHOUT the consent of all parties involved.
No, it is NOT just a kink. No, it is NOT just a fetish. No, it is NOT a sexual orientation. It is ABUSE. It is TORTURE. It is CRUELTY.
Just like pedophiles and other sexual predators, they don’t see what they are doing as the abuse, torture, and cruelty that it actually is. They see it as “love.” Only sick, disturbed individuals can mistake abuse, torture, and cruelty with love.
These people should be judged. What they are doing is wrong legally and morally (the morals of basic human decency). What they are doing is predatory, an abuse of their position of power over animals, and a breach of the role of (supposed) caretaker of these animals. They are violating the trust animals place in them. They are violating animals PERIOD. Physically, mentally, and emotionally.
THE SICK FUCK LIST
(AKA people who fuck animals and don’t believe they’re doing anything wrong; people who condone, support, promote, advocate for humans fucking animals)
Keep yourselves safe because there are people out there like this. You are welcome to engage in friendly debate with these people :)
The following are members of the groups - real zoo people, (to be continued):
- ak_k9_Trainer
- anyia
- aussietaboo
- beastgirl
- BiMaleSlut4All
- bumpngrindr
- canadianbacon87
- Cezra
- christy1958
- coalition4fun
- cowboyfireman89
- (my list had more users listed, but in the interest of making a long post ever so slightly less long, I’ve removed a portion of my previous list)
I made my post in response/protest to this post (“There are some vigilantes about…”) and this post (“They are out to get you”). Both posts were made by the user ZooLiberation, who also is FetusFlinger (formerly Fuck_The_System).
Side Note: Before making my post, I reported this post of ZooLiberation’s to the FetLife Caretakers on 2-15-2012. I waited to receive a return email letting me know whether or not said post violated FetLife TOU. I never received one. I waited for said post to be deleted by the FetLife Caretakers if they so deemed it a violation of FetLife TOU. It was never deleted. So, on or about March 1st, I made the post I’ve shared above, deducing (from the Caretakers’ non-response to my email and failure to delete the post I reported) that making such a post was NOT against FetLife TOU. Apparently, it IS against FetLife TOU, but only for specific users. Others, like ZooLiberation, are exempt for some unknown reason.
The posts by ZooLiberation are singling out individual users (in list form), calling them vigilantes, implying they are dangerous to ZooLiberation and her fellow zoophiles/zoos/animal abusers (merely based on the fact that they disagree with ZooLiberation and her ilk, believe that zoophilia/bestiality/animal abuse is wrong, and make it known that they believe this).
Side Note:
- The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/ASPCA “is opposed to bestiality [and] believes that any sexual practice or contact between humans and animals for the sexual gratification of any person is animal exploitation, regardless of the human perpetrators’ beliefs or intentions.”
- The Humane Society of the United States, the nation’s largest animal protection organization, “praise[ed] Alaska state lawmakers for passing legislation Saturday that will make the most egregious acts of cruelty to animals a felony on the first offense, and also will prohibit the sexual abuse of animals. [They go on to say that they believe that] perpetrators of animal cruelty are a threat, not only to animals, but also to our communities […]”
- The American Humane Association state that “studies illustrate a strong connection between sexual abuse of people and sexual conduct with animals, for the welfare of both people and animals, the law must treat all acts of violence against animals seriously. [And] even in cases where physical harm does not occur to the animal, bestiality is still a cruel activity because animals, like children and incapacitated adults, lack the ability to clearly consent or refuse.”
But what do they know, amirite?
It’s been said that my post violates the part of FetLife’s TOU, which states, “You agree that, while using BitLove Inc.’s Products and Services, you will not: […] Make criminal accusations against another member in a public forum.”
Okay.
But, uh, in this post, ZooLiberation, calls the people she’s singling out in her list “vigilantes.”
And in this post, ZooLiberation, calls the people she’s singling out, “anti-zoo vigilantes.” She does so twice in this particular post.
Last time I checked, vigilantism is illegal in the United States, so calling a group of people “vigilantes” is making a “criminal accusation against another member in a public forum,” isn’t it? Hint: It is.
She also infers that her and her fellow zoophiles/zoos/animal abusers will not be “safe from harassment” at the hands of those she singles out in her list.
Last time I checked, harassment is illegal in the United States, so saying that a group of people is “out to get you” along with saying that you aren’t “safe from harassment if they find you” is making a “criminal accusation against another member in a public forum,” isn’t it? Hint: It is.
It’s been said that my post violates the part of FetLife’s TOU, which states, “You agree that, while using BitLove Inc.’s Products and Services, you will not: […] Personally attack, make fun of, troll, flame, bully, stalk or otherwise harass another member.”
Okay.
But, uh, in this post, ZooLiberation has made a list including links to both posts in groups and a post in a user’s journal section of their profile.
And in this post, ZooLiberation has a made a list of links to specific FetLife users.
Don’t you think that making and posting lists of specific FetLife users, their posts to groups, and their posts in their journals, along with an invitation in one of the posts that, “you are welcome to engage in friendly debate with these people :)” and a warning in the other post that those she’s speaking to (zoophiles/zoos/animal abusers) aren’t safe from those she’s listed is pretty much a tacit, if not completely blatant, approval of and invitation to “personally attack, make fun of, troll, flame, bully, stalk or otherwise harass” those she’s singled out in her lists? Hint: It is.
So, riddle me this, why was my post deleted (and my account banned) due to supposedly being against FetLife’s Terms of Use, but ZooLiberation’s two posts have been allowed to stay up for over three months and ZooLiberation has been allowed to retain her accounts?
If my post was against FetLife’s TOU for the above mentioned reasons, why aren’t ZooLiberation’s posts against FetLife’s TOU, as well? She commits the same abuses of FetLife TOU that I’ve been accused of making. So, why does she get a free pass to do so? Does FetLife have a special place in their heart for zoos/zoophiles/animal abusers? It would appear so, methinks. Either that, or they just don’t give a shit and are only concerned with finding the most efficient way to make their website as profitable as possible. When it comes down to it, it’s really only money that matters to FetLife and John Baku.
So as not to deposit only a TL;DR post full o’ text, I would like to end this post with several apropos images that I, myself, have created.
But before I do, I must say: DON’T you dare STEAL my ART, ‘kay?!!!
Do you know how many hours, days, and weeks (sometimes months and years) of arduous, dedicated work I spent creating my l’art? INCALCULABLE! Do you know how much creative effort and energy was used to create my l’art? INCALCULABLE! Do you know how much I would lose if you were to STEAL my l’art? INCALCULABLE!
And don’t you DARE tell me that adding text to easily found images (or backgrounds of single/various colors) on the internet ISN’T l’art!!! It totes IS, ‘kay?!!!!
Side Note: I make the above tongue-in-cheek demands due to the fact that ZooLiberation/FetusFlinger/Fuck_The_System has recently made an image AND a post declaring that artists and photographers are hypocrites if they have “ever shared any sort of media […] but complain about other people posting [their] work.”
YET, she got clinically, pathologically butthurt when I posted her “art,” which is nothing more than shitty, MS Paint graphics consisting of either just text OR images (oh, the diversity! oh, the range!) with text (although, they do say that one person’s art is another person’s shitty, MS Paint graphic, don’t they?).
Granted, I made some very (minimal) additions to her “art,” but I was just inspired by her, man, and wanted to make something similar with my own spin to it as an ode to her, man. She should have appreciated the free publicity (she suggests other artists and photographers to do exactly this in her above post) that I so graciously gave her!
This is just one example of ZooLiberation’s hypocrisy. She also screams from the proverbial rooftops of the internetz that she’s passionately, rabidly against censorship, but, uh, look how quick she was to censor me for disagreeing with her. So, basically, she wants to make sure that KKK members, neo-nazis, and homophobes aren’t censored, but when it comes to someone disagreeing with and speaking out against her zoophilia/bestiality/animal abuse, CENSOR AWAY!
Without further adieu, my images … errr, no wait … my l’art!!!!!
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