Interesting Links for 03-09-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Dreamwidth are moving away from Cloudflare, after Cloudflare refused to stop supporting sites that threaten people's physical safety

(tags:dreamwidth freespeech GoodNews abuse )

2. What would it be like for you if your life had a sports commentator?

(tags:sports narrative life )

3. Everywhere, no matter how boring it looks, has a history

(tags:edinburgh history scotland viaSwampers )

4. Russian oil energy price cap agreed by G7

(tags:russia oil )

5. Diablo Immortal whales face massive orb debt after third-party refunds (I find all of this hilarious, in-between wishing I didn't know what it meant)

(tags:viaSwampers games diablo fraud )

6. The UK welfare system is cruel, disgusting, and murderous

(tags:UK welfare murder OhForFucksSake conservatives )

7. Nuclear explosions in the style of various artists

(tags:nuclearweapons art ai viaPatrickHadfield )

8. Modern cars are much safer than old ones

(tags:safety cars )

9. AI is getting better at generating porn.

(tags:porn ai )

10. Worker says her job would rather replace her with 6 people than give her a raise,

(tags:work OhForFucksSake )

11. Entrance to forgotten square revealed by huge fire in Edinburgh

(tags:history Edinburgh architecture viaPatrickHadfield )

12. Valve bars Steam developer who posted anti-trans rant in patch notes

(tags:games bigotry LGBT valve Steam transgender )

Comments

[liv]

Cloudflare really really don't have the moral highground on not censoring because they are a "core internet service". They're entirely happy to refuse to provide services to sex workers and sites that host porn. And ok, it's possible to argue that porn is somehow "worse" than violent anti-trans hatred, but you can't then turn round and say that you're against censorship.

[zz]

the payment processors' monopoly allowing them to dictate site content, including the war on sex work, and what people are allowed to spend their money on, is another part of the same problem.