Post #1680044

Reading @pluralistic 's post about the Hugo Awards censorship "States – even very powerful states – that wish to censor lack the resources to accomplish totalizing censorship of the sort depicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four. They can't go from house to house, searching every nook and cranny for copies of forbidden literature. " Actually, when you require every user of an "Operating System" to furnish a State ID in order to use any computer, and applications are required to do the same, under H.R. 8250: Parents Decide Act, this is a significant step towards this goal. (Source: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/22/self-censorship/#hugos)