Basically, Lake noticed that Reddit has been slowly shadowbanning NSFW subreddits, hiding them from searches, and locking a whole lot of accounts that participate in 18+ stuff. Which, anyone who remembers Tumblr’s behavior foreshadowing their horny ban should have a whole lot of alarm bells going off.
And, she looked into it and found that it’s due to pressure from advertisers, specifically this sub-organization amongst them called GARM to push “bad behavior” off the internet. Which sounds like a noble goal, but amongst the things they term as “bad” is basically any explicit depiction of sex at all.
This is going to hurt sex workers so much, doubly so when you note that Twitter is a part of GARM, and this likely means they’re next to start doing this..
As people who experienced what turned out to be the first big salvo in this NSFW purge of the net, we know this shit is bad, so we need to push back and we need to do it now.
If you want to contact GARM themselves about how their policies hurt sex workers, they have an email address at GARM@wfanet.org . It’s not likely they’ll listen, but the pressure might do something positive.
For contacting Reddit about how they’re making a terrible mistake and they need to find a way to push back against adtech people’s demands… well, IDK much about the most direct line to contact about this issue, this one seems to be the best (tho it requires an account), but if you’ve got a better one please tell me.
And also, get the word out about this to tech activism orgs like Fight For the Future and the EFF, beat down their door to boost the signal that this is an issue they need to put their full weight behind, because this is yet another existential threat to the future of the net and we need to push back!
But most of all, boost this info wherever you can, because we know the horror of this shit, and we know we can’t let it fucking happen again!
i am literally offering $50 to any person who can find a definitive answer to this question: why was the famous movie the name of the rose (1986), starring sean connery, banned in the united states as of november 2020?
EDIT: SOLVED. disney did it.
so it turns out this isn’t the only movie this has happened to. see this article:
and then you can see this spreadsheet (go to missing movies) to find others.
thank you to people in the replies for telling me about 20th century fox properties being acquired and shuttered by disney and for the cocoon reference which lead me down the rabbit hole to a definitive answer. disney is really here to fuck us over.
Anyway, what I mean is artificial shortages and market manipulation like this are exactly why pirating from Disney is a moral good. Fuck their media monopoly, fuck their Disney Vault, it’s a pirate’s life for me.
If you’re too young to have owned Disney VHS or DVDs, Disney used to only sell the movies for a limited time and then would stop selling them for years at a time. They ran commercials letting people know that it was the LAST CHANCE to buy the movie, once it’s gone, it’s gone, get it while supplies last! Get it and share it with your kids while they’re still young enough to care about the things that made your childhood special!
Now they’re doing this to movies they didn’t even make.
This thread has been about home viewing but I’d like to point out that this is also very, very bad for indie movie theaters that do repertory screenings (which is what the Vulture article is about).
A repertory screening is basically an old movie, maybe as part of a series of similar films.
A few movies mentioned in that article that we would have had a guaranteed full house for when I worked in an indie movie theater: Miracle on 34th Street, Alien. The Sound of Music, Fight Club, Die Hard, Planet of the Apes, Indiana Jones – I could go on.
Repertory series are one of the things people come to indie theaters for, plus doing a screening of an older blockbuster like Indiana Jones can help keep the doors open for the first run of a documentary about a Nepalese cable car line (actual film we showed, it was awesome). And it’s more fun for YOU, the viewer, to be able to see a film you know and love on a big screen with popcorn and snacks and a room full of people who are just as hyped as you are to watch it.
“You can’t grow a lawn or even a garden, there’s a drought” *owns a mansion and multiple-acre property covered in nothing but grass with a massive pool that’s almost never swam in in the backyard*
“you should drive less, for the planet and the economy” *owns a private jet or flies first class all over the world*
“eat less / eat less meat!” *they can afford expensive high quality all-vegetable meals prepared by a personal chef*
And then it’s not just their consumption habits. They own the companies that sell us the poison they’ve made us reliant on. “Drive less” my workplace is 13 miles from my home and there’s no public transit. “There’s a drought, use less water” I literally only use water for drinking, cooking, showering, and flushing the toilet. “Eat less” i work a physically demanding job that literally requires something like a 3k+ daily Calorie intake just to not starve. “Eat less meat” I would if I had the energy and money to prepare salads. I would if meat weren’t artificially cheap and fresh vegetables weren’t artificially expensive. I would if I had the energy to cook grain-heavy meals.
We’re all fucking exhausted, we’re all beaten down and tired, and we don’t have the material control over the world that the rich do. And they tell us to use less when we’re already using the bare minimum necessary for survival, or the smallest measure of comfort.
Landry urged the commission to deny the
funding in both instances due to a New Orleans City Council resolution
encouraging area law enforcement not to enforce the state’s abortion
ban within their respective jurisdictions.
The project, titled “New Sewerage and
Water Board Power Plant, Planning and Construction” is intended to protect
New Orleans streets from floodwaters during storms and be completed in 2024.
In response to Louisiana’s so-called trigger ban –
which took effect after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade – the
New Orleans City Council passed a resolution July
7 certifying the city leaders’ support of abortion access and reproductive
health care by asking police, sheriff’s deputies and prosecutors not to
dedicate city funds to collect information about abortions.
The Louisiana ban, which has been battled over
in court, outlawed abortion outright, with no exemptions for rape or incest–
and is currently in
force, CNN previously reported.
In a July 19 letter, Landry asked the
bond commission to pause any funding benefiting the city of New Orleans because
of city leadership’s opposition to enforcing the state law banning abortion.
“In light of the City’s open defiance of
the will of the people of Louisiana, I urge the Bond Commission to defer any
applications for the City of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, and any local
governmental entity or political subdivision under its purview,” Landry wrote
in the July letter.
“In addition, any other funding that will
directly benefit the City of New Orleans should also be paused until such time
as the Council, Mayor, Chief of Police, Sheriff, and District Attorney have met
with and affirmed that they will comply with and enforce the laws of this State
and cooperate with any State officials who may be called upon to enforce
them.”
According to the minutes from the commission’s
July 21 meeting, a representative from Landry’s office motioned to defer the
sewerage and water board project from the agenda item and approve the remaining
projects.
The motion was approved without objection, according to the minutes.
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