i mean yall know that the famine wasnât like the main thing that england did right? that was just a side effect of colonisation, england had been occupying ireland long before that and had begun to ban our language and culture and continued to do that for 800 years until we gained independence in 1921 which is why we get so pressed about the misuse of our language because a lot of us can barely speak it because it was nearly completely eradicated by the british and now brits and americans get on twitter and laugh about how many vowels are in it as if their ancestors didnât beat us for speaking it not that long ago
This is particularly shitty when you consider the english were responsible for uh, yanno, the famine that killed so many people and was just one of their multiple genocides against the irish.
Actual Irish person here! Some of our names can be hard to wrap your head around if you donât know irish and some do change depending on region/where the fadas are in the nameâŚbut that doesnât give you the right to make fun of our names. You can learn to pronounce them very easilyâŚbut some of you just donât want to try.
and not to mention all this âiTs nOT PronOunCed HOw iTs SpelleDâ âThEy JUsT thREw IN rAnDoM vOweLsâ from the same fucking country where ppl name their kids kaitlyn, kaetlyn, kaitlin, kaetlin, kaetlen, kviiitlyn, kaytlyn, kaytlin, and kaytlen as well as the caden aiden pandemic like, stop bullshitting a real fucking language when u butcher ur own w ur constant NEED for an âoriginalâ baby name
gaelic orthography is much more consistent than english. like not to be contrarian but if thereâs any language thatâs just spelled âhoweverâ itâs english.
My gran is Irish, and both my gran and my mum have Irish names, and I come across a lot of this. Like yes thatâs not how youâd pronounce it in English, but the wordâs not fucking English, OK?
Y'all have really got to stop doing this. Take a day off from mocking threatened minority languages. Americans and Brits have killed hundreds of languages already, this is not a good look from monolingual speakers of the worldâs dominant language
Yes it is. Youâre just assuming, for whatever reason, that english spelling and pronunciation standards should apply to a language from a completely different language family
The tea is that Irish names arenât that bizarre and Irish spelling isnât particularly wild in the grand scheme of languages, anglophones are just used to anglicising names and y'all think Irish is some fiddly dee dee funny fairy language and not likeâŚan actual living language under threat
Demonstrators, with a poster on the right reading “internet is our only chance,” attend the Free Internet rally in response to a bill making its way through parliament calling for all internet traffic to be routed through servers in Russia— making VPNs (virtual private networks) ineffective, in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, March 10, 2019.
Russia has significantly expanded laws and regulations tightening control over internet infrastructure, online content, and the privacy of communications, Human Rights Watch said today. If carried out to their full restrictive potential, the new measures will severely undermine the ability of people in Russia to exercise their human rights online, including freedom of expression and freedom of access to information.
“Russian authorities’ approach to the internet rests on two pillars: control and increasing isolation from the World Wide Web,” said Hugh Williamson, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “The government has built up an entire arsenal of tools to reign over information, internet users, and communications networks.”
New laws and regulations adopted in the past two years expanded the authorities’ already significant capacity to filter and block internet content automatically, no longer depending on providers’ cooperation to implement the block. The 2019 “sovereign internet” law requires internet service providers (ISPs) to install equipment that allows authorities to circumvent providers and automatically block content the government has banned and reroute internet traffic themselves.
A 2018 law introduces fines for search engines providing access to proxy services, such as virtual private networks (VPNs), that allow a user access to banned content or provide instructions for gaining access to such content. Regulations adopted in 2019 require VPNs and search engine operators to promptly block access to the websites on the list maintained by the federal government’s informational system, which includes a regularly updated list of officially banned sites.
The past two years have also seen legislative incursions into the privacy of mobile communications. In July 2018, amendments to existing counterterrorism legislation entered into force that require telecommunications and internet companies registered with Russian authorities as “information dissemination organizers,” for example, messenger apps and social media, to store and share information about users without a court order.
The amendments build on previous data localization laws, which require companies processing the personal data of Russian citizens to store private data of internet and mobile app users in Russia and hand the information over to security services upon request. In 2019, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) required these companies to install special equipment giving the FSB automatic access to their information systems and encryption keys to decrypt user communications without authorization through any judicial process.
Legislators have justified these rules by citing a need to protect state security, the Russian internet, and the privacy of Russian users. In reality, these requirements facilitate mass censorship and blanket surveillance, introduce non-transparent content-blocking procedures and endanger the security and confidentiality of people’s communications online, Human Rights Watch said. – Human Rights Watch
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