moved to @ebel@moytura.org @ebel@witches.town

RT @mspowahs@twitter.com: "But Ada," I can hear you saying, "won't bad actors pollute free-form #gender fields with things like 'attack helicopter'?"

Sure will! In that case, you're still collecting valuable data: how many people are likely to be shitty to #trans people on your platform.

Source https://twitter.com/mspowahs/status/955856604196364288

@ND3JR @starbreaker I'm trying to find terms which go against their "classical liberal" label. As in, "If you oppose speech for people you hate (e.g. feminists) then you're not a classical liberal!"

I don't think "classical liberalism" is 100% a good thing (or even one thing!), but they use that label and many in modern society like it, so why not show that they're full of shit? 🙂

@starbreaker exactly! that's kinda what i meant by free assembly

The bigots say they "support free speech", but that's not accurate at all. What's a more accurate, more negative, term for what they want? Ideas: They

* oppose consequences for speech?
* oppose free assembly? (since they dislike no-platforming)
* oppose free speech for LGBTQ* people?
* oppose free speech for feminists? (Didn't Voltaire have something to say about that?)

#FreeSpeech

I am watching YouTube videos from alt-right bigots like Sargon of Akkad. Because clearly I hate myself. And clearly Sargon is awful

@jjg @Antanicus @mattcropp @mareklach @owen @alanz @cstanhope @enron @drwho @dartigen @dajbelshaw @marko @tethre @nonlinear @miwilc @remotenemesis
More co-operatively owned things is always good obv. But I'm not 100% sure of it. I don't think controlling the OpenID provider helps control what data the other site collects on you. If I use OpenID to log into a Stack Overflow site, SO can still collect lots of (personal) data on me.

Often OpenID login is useful as "you don't have to remember another password". Which can be good, but eh? I dunno?

I should probably add some Le Guine to my to read pile then... 😔

@AkuAnakTimur Pretty sure it's the same reason. 😃

Ireland, eh? 🤷‍♀️

RT @existentialcoms@twitter.com: #Libertarians are funny because they've somehow managed to convinced themselves that it's edgy anti-authoritarianism to argue that the powerful should be more powerful.

Source https://twitter.com/existentialcoms/status/955602186699915264
#libertarianism

@AkuAnakTimur It gets "better": at the time (and still mostly now), all the income for local governments comes from.... central government!

Just moving money around to make it look like budget cutbacks. 😉

@AkuAnakTimur there used to be way more. Few years ago (post financial crash) the government downgraded them to tertiary, because maintaining primary/etc roads is responsibility of central gov, but local roads is local government. This means central gov can claim to have reduced expenses for road upkeep

@mareklach @alanz @jjg Do you know about #
NOYB? It's a proposed NGO from Max Schrems, long time successful privacy actvist. He's trying to raise €250k by end of Jan to launch it and then use the new law to sue companies which are bad for privacy,

http://www.noyb.eu/

@jjg @mareklach @alanz Lots of big US tech companies with a presence in EU will just implement EU data protection rules for everyone. It'd be too hard to separate out EU & non-EU data. Lots of Facebook features which allow you to export data are due to that being a current EU legal requirement.

@mareklach @alanz @jjg I think most EU data protection law has an exemption for (EU member state) national security. Which is bleh.

But the GDPR might limit what Facebook etc can do

@mareklach @alanz @jjg in theory this is what EU data protection law is supposed to be, right?

I wonder if the GDPR will change things much?

"#Trans women have been able to declare themselves women and have #Ireland change their documentation to reflect that since 2015. The sky has not fallen. Cis women have not lost anything whatsoever from this. If anything, all of #Irish #feminism has gained: our struggle for bodily autonomy gains in strength and momentum through this victory for our trans sisters"

"We, the signatories of this letter, organise hand in hand with our #trans sisters. Together, cis and trans, we are #Irish #feminism. Trans women are our sisters; their struggles are ours, our struggles theirs. They were our sisters before any state-issued certification said so and will always be no matter what any legislation says, either now or in the future. "

"So tell us: what is it that you know of #Irish #feminism that you feel entitled and authorised to come here and lecture us on? Dublin has not been part of the UK since 1921, yet you originally described ‘We Need To Talk’ as a UK tour while still including Dublin on your list of venues. This gives us some idea of how little you know about Irish realities, north or south. "