#Circumvention is my middle name. I’m an old school burner. If I REALLY want to, I’ll find a way to get in and deliver the message 🤫

Where there’s a will there’s a way 😎✨🤘🏻 #motivation #effort

Google Built Its Empire Scraping The Web. Now It’s Suing To Stop Others From Scraping Google Last week, Google filed suit against SerpApi, a scraping company that helps businesses pull data from Google search results. The lawsuit claims SerpApi violated DMCA Section 1201 by circumventing Google’s “technological protection measures” to access search results—and the copyrighted content within them—without permission. There’s just one problem with this theory: Google built its entire business […]

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Another brilliant analysis by @pboehler on what journalism needs to look like if we want anyone to keep caring -- especially in the face of the AI-powered information apocalypse:

"I've watched newsrooms invest millions in circumvention technology even as their audiences turn to WhatsApp groups […]

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Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable s...

#awmproxy #oxylabs #perplexity #reddit #serpapi #ai […]

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Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been tracking as companies try to wall off the open internet and set up toll booths. But reading the actual complaint made it clear this is something […]

Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been tracking as companies try to wall off the open internet and set up toll booths. But reading the actual complaint made it clear this is something […]

Reddit’s ‘AI Scraping’ Lawsuit Is An Attack On The Open Internet When Reddit sued “data scraper” companies and AI firm Perplexity earlier this week, I assumed it was another predictable skirmish over AI training data—the kind of case we’ve been tracking as companies try to wall off the open internet and set up toll booths. But reading the actual complaint made it clear this is something […]

Anti-Circumvention Investigation Procedures in Vietnam: 7 Powerful Steps to Protect Fair Trade Anti-circumvention investigation procedures in Vietnam are more than a legal formality. They are the backbone of fair trade, ensuring that protective duties are not undermined by creative evasions.

Anti-circumvention investigation procedures in Vietnam are more than a legal formality. They are the backbone of fair trade, ensuring that protective duties are not undermined by creative evasions.
#Anti #Circumvention #Vietnam #ANTLawyers

Von der Leyen Pushes EU Online Speech Crackdown in 2025 | EU wants to ban European under-16s from social media So much popcorn: Despite the existing Digital Services Act already mandating age verification (and therefore digital ID) online, von der Leyen floated a new, even more restrictive direction for int…

Von der Leyen Pushes EU Online Speech Crackdown in 2025 | EU wants to ban European under-16s from social media
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114966
#EuropeanUnion #OnlineSafety #SocialMedia #censorship #circumvention #surveillance

The European Commission has just initiated an #investigation into the potential #circumvention of anti-dumping #duties on threaded tube or pipe cast fittings made from malleable cast iron.

Last week's #Sanctioned & Third Country #Circumvention event saw us publish two additional #typologies to help #Jersey's #FinancialServices understand the risks associated with #MoneyLaundering, #OrganisedCrime, #Bribary & #Corruption. go.fiu.je/typo23

@gov.je

2/2 There will be special focus on the following themes: innovative #grassroots approaches to technology challenges; #circumvention and secure communication technologies; and organizational sustainability. Deadline: May 31. buff.ly/65kFdNI

A screenshot of a web browser showing the Mastodon interface for writing a post ("toot"). The text shown in the window so far is the first portion of the post containing the image, with the browser highlighting the spelling error it assumes for the word "enshittification". Also shown is the context menu showing the author about to use the "Add to dictionary" option for this word, so that it is no longer identified as an error.

Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.

It's worth reading:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

It connects the dots […]

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Spot the speculative circumvention of text censorship & blocking, and consider how this will enable online harms as well as online helps Speech is a great freedom, and it will be adapted to communicate even in the most limiting of circumstances. The actual issue is one of intent. Most online safety legislation unwisely ignores this …

Spot the speculative circumvention of text censorship & blocking, and consider how this will enable online harms as well as online helps
https://alecmuffett.com/article/112399
#OnlineSafety #censorship #circumvention

Information Controls Fellowship Supports research efforts to analyze novel online censorship and surveillance techniques and to explore solutions

2 weeks left to apply to @opentechfund.bsky.social’s Information Controls Fellowship Program!

Fellows investigate how repressive governments are violating citizens’ #DigitalRights, and explore #circumvention methods to reclaim them.

Learn more and apply by February 28

Information Controls Fellowship Supports research efforts to analyze novel online censorship and surveillance techniques and to explore solutions

Interested in increasing understanding of repressive internet #censorship and #surveillance and uncovering potential #circumvention methods?

Apply to @opentechfund.bsky.social’s Information Controls Fellowship Program by February 28!

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Another Door Closes: Authoritarians Expand Restrictions on Virtual Private Networks To access the internet, users in unfree countries rely on circumvention tools that are increasingly targeted by repressive rulers. Democratic governments and technology companies can do more to keep…

To access the internet, users in unfree countries rely on #circumvention tools that repressive rulers target, and increasingly so. Democratic governments and tech companies can do more to keep the internet accessible. https://buff.ly/3OVm9yB #VPNs #InternetFreedom

2023 marked a troubling year for internet shutdowns. Authorities deliberately interrupted the internet at least 283 times in 39 countries concealing, enabling violence, war crimes, attacks on democracy, and other atrocities, crushing the human rights of millions of people. #Shutdowns #Circumvention

We published an FAQ page on the FreeSocks website that answers many common questions.

Check it out! freesocks.org/docs/faq/

#censorship #circumvention #privacy #security #outlinevpn #outline #shadowsocks

We updated our donation page with new cryptocurrency addresses and included QR codes for all of them to make donating to Unredacted easier.

Check it out! unredacted.org/donate/

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