When elected officials worry for their own personal safety, it has implications for all Americans. A scholar explains how #democracy suffers when people are governed by fear:
https://buff.ly/3BIUBJB
#harrassment #politicalviolence

Interesting that the new pick for fcc says he wants to "smash the censorship cartel", which could mean legal action against Bluesky if they ban transphobe harasser Jessie Singal?

"Free speech" surely doesn't mean forcing media to publish things they don't want to publish? The government saying "You may not ban this bad-actor"!

Forcing all centralized services like Bluesky to publish harassers and bullies doesn't sound very free to me!

Is properly decentralzied fediverse at an advantage here? Would government force my server to not block Singal? Could that even be done? Not by a foreign government presumably.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/113655334940433120

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnwynejd5o #law #harrassment #workplace

#Pachli 2.9.0 is now available, with new features to support users facing #harrassment or abuse in notifications, #accessibility improvements, and more.

See https://pachli.app/pachli/2024/11/28/2.9.0-release.html for details.

Thanks to @gvs, @gefla, @kallekn, Aindriú Mac Giolla Eoin, sunniva, Juan M Sevilla, @st3fan, and @xan for their contributions to this release, and apologies to anyone I've missed.

Source: Search Engine Journal
From the article: "Unlike the mythological creatures of early Scandinavian folklore, online trolls are real, and dealing with them is never a fun experience.

"An internet troll, as defined by Wikipedia, is:

“…a person who posts inflammatory, insincere, digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog), with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses, or manipulating others’ perception.”

#Troll #InternetTroll #SocialMedia #OnlineBullying #Harrassment

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/defeat-online-trolls/323439/

We have contracted with @tallpoppy for moderators to gain access to a range of personal digital safety tools, including live support during online harassment and doxxing attacks. We have completed the first onboarding and hope to offer this to many more in the coming months.

If you’d like to be notified when we open up to more applicants, let us know using this form: https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/6P+--16cAT7ltdM6Q5xfnk0Rdyo41yWMVGWbiS4B1mM/

#DigitalSafety #Bullying #Harrassment
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/6P+--16cAT7ltdM6Q5xfnk0Rdyo41yWMVGWbiS4B1mM/

Just catching up with the WeDistribute.org articles about the harrassment of fediverse developers. I noticed at the time the vitriol against Ryan for adding ATProto support to BridgyFed...

https://wedistribute.org/2024/02/tear-down-walls-not-bridges/

... and stuck up for him.

But I had no idea what was happening to that poor guy from ContentNation;

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/contentnation-mastodons-toxicity/

Seriously WTF?!?

Multiple burns today caused by my current #mmorpg forum post; I asked for a particular #homophobic word to be removed from the text, particularly as it is used in an abusive manner, as it has been to gay men for >century.
#Devs and #Mods were entirely helpful and will remove what turns out to be a longstanding and mainly forgotten reference.
But why do only ignorant arseholes feel obliged to respond to #forum posts? Where's the support? #Solidarity? It's very important!!
#bullying #harrassment

This sounds like a reason to call for our MPs and other government officials to remove themselves from toxic corporate social media spaces and create government-run spaces, federated into the open social web, so that Canadians can interact with their elected officials and those elected officials can be protected from harassment!

#CdnPoli #CanPoli #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #harrassment
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/threats-harassment-mps-spike-1.7217040 #e4769