Alongside events, there is information on social centres, squats, and DIY publications from people in the scene.
The Empire Is Still Eroding – Relaunch of Eroding Empire
Tag: social media
X isn’t an airport, but we’re announcing our departure
Over the last couple of months, Freedom News decided to start cutting down involvement with Twitter/X, which has until now been our biggest social media account
Social media is dead, long live social media
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
“The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: A commentary on youth viewing a revolution through social media.
17-year old Ell May reflects on the role played by social media in radicalising a generation of young people. “There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay” Gil Scott-Heron’s 1971 spoken word hit sparked mass
‘Healthy and positive’ communities: Facebook and the restriction of political content
Recently Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his team are working on stopping political content from circulating within the platform in order, as he puts it, to “make sure that the communities that people connect with are healthy and positive” (advancing the technocratic logic of “blissful” life freed from political deliberation). This comes
A response to fake news
We can picture the relationship between freedom of speech and democracy as a beautiful love story. The two depend on each other and the absence of one means the end of the other; they can challenge each other and sometimes clash and, through this process, grow and change. Freedom of speech has propelled history, created
Free speech for presidents
Following the short-lived occupation of the US Capitol building, Twitter and a number of other social media platforms have banned US President Donald Trump. Predictably, this led to #thisis1984 trending on Twitter, with the right decrying the ban as Orwellian. Brendan O’Neill of Sp!ked – the publication which leads the advance of terrible opinions from
G20: We won the battle, elites are winning the media war
Indymedia Germany has, as with most other branches of the free media project, been ailing over the last few years (including its UK counterpart, which closed for good in 2016). In the below analysis, members of the de.indymedia collective put G20 Hamburg into the context of the last two decades of media change and find
Recent Articles
Telegram deletes Calais No Border channel
The admins suspect the account was deleted as a result of a flooding of reports by fascists —It has been over a week since the Telegram application has deleted the public channel @nobordercalais (“No Border infos – Calais & more”) without any warning.
Kent Elbit blockade: Activists denounce limited UK-Israel export ban
Palestine Action says its activists this morning again blockaded the Instro Precision Elbit factory in Kent, obstructing entrances with vehicles and climbing on security boxes and the ledge of Discovery Park House.
Anti-fascism and the Gaza genocide
When the far right perpetrates mass murder on the cusp of world war, comparison is not a provocation but a duty
Flowers and fire: Trans anarchism in 2024
What does it mean to be a trans anarchist at this point in the 21st century?
Grenfell: Avoidable deaths and the pursuit of profit
Ritual apologies and promises of justice tomorrow offer no solutions to the underlying causes of Grenfell.
