So apparently all the coordination, planning and communications for organising No Kings events on Instagram have disappeared and the account admins have been suspended.

[kevbob@xoxo.zone]

@Remittancegirl They plan their work on their own website. They have social network outlets, IG Threads, FB BlueSky and TIkTok, they are all active, not suspended. As a hater of IG (and all Meta products, I refuse to use then) because it is a gatekeeping walled garden, I generally agree, but those social sites aren't their primary means of organizing, they have people who still use the apps and can still get the word out. There is value in that. (They aren't on x-twitter, blessedly)

[prism@infosec.exchange]

@JoelBarr @cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl That will definitely help with organizing protests in *checks notes* America.

[queenofthecroneage@beige.party]

@stellarsarah @JoelBarr @cstross @Remittancegirl

Yep. Throttling and outright blocking.

[onpubcom@techhub.social]

@Remittancegirl It's so true. Seems like the Fediverse would be perfect for such things, and yet people stay addicted to the surveillance capitalism platforms SMH.

[mechametachemical@kolektiva.social]

@Remittancegirl I can't understand, given how openly censorious they've been the last two years, that anyone was still using anything from big 7 was cool with getting censored just because. I get it, these channels are huge markets - they're also all completely compromised by our literal enemies.

[shadesofraye@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl

I had my account suspended by blue sky today and reddit a week ago. Nothing I post should go against the TOS on either site. I do occasionally comment on politics (especially on blue sky) but I'm careful to keep things civil. Reddit I mainly use for a niche gaming sub. I don't mean to sound tin foil hat,but it seems very suspicious that two separate social media accounts of mine were suspended. Very weird. I deleted IG and X ages ago.

[amgine@mamot.fr]

@Remittancegirl

https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/117457925467251228

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@JoelBarr @cstross @QueenOfTheCroneAge @Remittancegirl the fact that X is still operating after the Grok thing tells you they can't (or won't)

[freya@social.highenergymagic.net]

@Remittancegirl this just makes me more convinced of the "we aren't allowed to build our own things, because building is bad" leftist brainworms

[allanb@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl In the 80s this would have become a SCOTUS case, probably a milestone 1st Amendment issue, due to likely WH involvement.

It is political censorship.

[supportgrapheneos_667@social.tchncs.de]

@Remittancegirl

The warnings were loud and clear

#UnplugTrump #unplugbigtech

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/unplugtrump-free-yourself-digitally-from-trump-and-big-tech/

[lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social]

@Remittancegirl Or give your actual contact information to “organizers” on surveiilance platforms, like so many are being solicited to do. This is incompetence and naivety by the organizers who are in denial that we are, right now, living in a Fascist state and the platform owners are Quislings/collaborators. I don’t know if it’s too late for them to wake TF up.

[geri@veganism.social]

@peterbrown @karmic_resonance @Remittancegirl Harsh

[violettejean@mstdn.social]

@Remittancegirl

And the alternatives sites are?

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@violettejean If the opposition to Trump cannot figure that out, they will fail.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@the_gneech Until you make them dependent on a platform run by someone with interests diametrically opposed to yours.

And then have it go down exactly when you need it.

This reeks of people, of organizers who do not really understand what they are up against at all.

I'm sorry, you do not organize against a hegemony on the hegemony's platform. You literally can't. And you need to communicate that to 'the people'. Maybe doing so with also make it clear what they're fighting for more powerfully

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@allanb Of course it is.

Believe that, instead of just saying it, and really understand in your bones what kind of forces you are up against.

Of course authoritarians indulge in political censorship.

[sampler@freebeerextremist.com]

@Remittancegirl
No Kings is just a fundraiser for Democrat party. If you want change, read Mao

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@sampler

No, really. Fuck right off.

I know a shit ton about Mao. And there's very little daylight between him and Trump except he was more energetic and more murderous.

[sampler@freebeerextremist.com]

@Remittancegirl
Enjoy your brunch party after the no kings parade with your white liberal PMC friends