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I know for a fact that people don’t know what’s coming and how it plays into authoritarianism in the digital age, because I’ve watched the creep of internet censorship that adversely targets swers, queer people, women, and minorities for years—and far too few people have cared

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The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years

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And "sexual appetites" isn't really an adequate descriptor of the motivations here. It's not just about sex, it's about power and the use of sex and sexual preference as a means to signal absolute patriarchal dominance.

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“'There’s an incredible ignorance about the history of incarceration and race in Florida, because it’s horrific,' Ortiz said, citing post-Civil War prison labor camps...the 'alligator bait' postcards, as well as postcards featuring lynchings, were purchased by tourists to show off back home"

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