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As the big tech tyrants tighten their grip, join us for more free speech at Parlerthe anti-censorship social media platform.

The head of transgender-related cases at the ACLU has publicly called for 'stopping the circulation' of a that contains journalism that counters his preferred narrative on transgenderism.

Chase Stranglio is the Deputy Director for Transgender Justice at the ACLU, his latest piece for the organization's News site, "debunked" four "myths about trans athletes."

"FACT: Including trans athletes will benefit everyone. MYTH: The participation of trans athletes hurts cis women," the piece reads.

Stranglio is not a fan of Wall Street Journal journalist Abigail Shrier's new book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters," and has vowed a comitment to 'stopping the circulation' of the book.

"Abigail Shrier's book is a dangerous polemic with a goal of making people not trans," wrote Stranglio. "I think of all the times & ways I was told my transness wasn't real & the daily toll that still takes. We have to fight these ideas which are leading to the criminalization of trans life again.""Also stopping the circulation of this book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on," he added in a since-deleted tweet.

Shrier's book is not anti-tran, but rather a journalistic evaluation of a sudden phenomenon.

"I wrote specifically about the sudden, severe spike in transgender identification among adolescent girls. I fully support medical transition for mature adults. And I have no desire to be a provocateur," Shrier said in a recent op-ed for Quillette.

"Between 2016 and 2017, the number of females seeking gender surgery quadrupled in the United States. Thousands of teen girls across the Western world are not only self-diagnosing with a real dysphoric condition they likely do not have; in many cases, they are obtaining hormones and surgeries following the most cursory diagnostic processes," Shrier explains.

"Schoolteachers, therapists, doctors, surgeons, and medical-accreditation organizations are all rubber-stamping these transitions, often out of fear that doing otherwise will be reported as a sign of transphobiadespite growing evidence that most young people who present as trans will eventually desist, and so these interventions will do more harm than good."

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Stephen Colbert has found a subtle way to dismiss President Donald Trump on The Late Show

While President Donald Trump continues to protest the 2020 election, Stephen Colbert is mounting his own protest.The Late Showhas censored the current presidents name from the monologue.

On Monday nights show, Stephen Colbert celebrated Joe Bidens victory with champagne. When he noted that President Trump had yet to concede, Colbert joked that it didnt matter because he already forgot the presidents name. Still, the monologue continued to reference President Trump by name.

But that changed as the week went on. Colbert stopped using Donald Trump and instead referred to the President or the current President. Its something that many other critics of President Trump have done, including Hasan Minhaj as he told Colbert back in 2018.

Last night onThe Late Show, Colberts monologue took things one step further. He didnt reference it but the name Trump was censored from the show. Graphics referencing reports on the presidents behavior repeatedly substituted his last name with T****. See for yourself right here:

The substance of Thursday nights monologue was all about how autocrats around the world are turning to President Donald Trump for inspiration. Despite failing lawsuits and a lack of evidence, President Trump continues to cling to power and refuse to cooperate with the transition of power. Whether or not it is just theatrics is irrelevant to Colbert who became emotional in the past when discussing President Trumps actions.

Giving the president the Voldermort treatment is one small way for Colbert to push back. It signals the end for President Trump and his time in the White House. Its still too soon forThe Late Showto completely forget about Donald Trump. And after five years of talking about him nonstop, the host cant be expected to quit cold turkey. So instead, it looks like Colbert is slowly but surely phasing Donald Trump out ofThe Late Show,first by refusing to say his name and now refusing to even show it.

Colbert also knows that President Trump loves being in the spotlight and loves hearing or seeing his name. Censoring the presidents name fromThe Late Showafter he lost the electionlets Colbert add insult to injury. We know that the president occasionally tunes in toThe Late Showbut chances are hed change the channel if his name didnt come up.

There are just under 70 days left until Joe Biden takes over the White House. Its also how long Colbert has to still refer to Donald Trump as the current president. But anyone worried about howThe Late Showwould survive in a post-Trump world now has proof that Stephen Colbert is looking forward to it.

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Blockseer, a U.S.-based subsidiary of DMG Blockchain Solutions, recently announced a private beta version of a new Bitcoin mining pool. This particular mining pool comes with a unique feature, however.

The Blockseer Mining Pool will censor transactions from blacklisted wallets and mandate miners to undergo KYC, according to marketing materials.

New blocks generated by the Blockseer pool will only include filtered transactions. The filters will be based on the data provided by Walletscore, the companys own blockchain forensic tool, and other sources like blacklisted Bitcoin wallet addresses.

Regulators such as the U.S. Treasury Departments Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) blacklists bitcoin wallets which they have connected to criminal activity.

OFAC has already blacklisted 20 new Bitcoin addresses owned by a North Korean hacking group in May 2020, for example.

Blockseer said the company wants to comply with OFAC and make sure its mining pool also rejects transactions from blacklisted wallets. Sheldon Bennett, COO of DMG, said in a press release:

Blockseers pool brings a new compliance-focused standard to the industry, not only in the data the pool provides to its users, but also in the Bitcoin blocks it mines on the network. The pool is focused on being devoid of transaction from known nefarious wallets.

Various crypto commentators have been less than bullish on the news, claiming Blockseers news will set the wrong precedent. Riccardo Spagni, the previous lead maintainer of Monero, said, its only a matter of time till most Bitcoin mining pools are forced to do this transaction filtering.

Other experts agree. According to Juraj Bednar, Co-Founder of Hacktrophy, a situation where a mining pool decides not to include dirty transactions sets a dangerous precedent.

If the government comes in and says you cant mine the blocks that spend these UTXOs, or youll lose either a bank account, exchange account, business permit or go to jail for money laundering, most of the big miners would comply. Blockseer is just a first example, Bednar writes in his blog.

Leo Wandersleb, the founder of WalletScrutiny.com, wrote that the situation could lead to a soft fork and a new war among various mining pools.

Even though pools make Bitcoin mining more profitable for individual miners, they have been criticized for being very centralized. Because mining pools are centralized, they can be forced to comply with regulations.

Spagni said that to counter this trend, Bitcoin developers should implement new privacy features, and miners should adopt decentralized Bitcoin mining pools to keep the network free.

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(BigNazik/Getty Images)The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedoms legitimization of hate speech restrictions undermines American principles and foreign policy.

The United States supports a robust view of free speech and does not recognize any government ability to restrain so-called hate speech. Instead, the U.S. Supreme Court has held repeatedly that government attempts to restrict hate speech as opposed to incitement to violence or defamation violate the First Amendment and are inevitably vague and arbitrary. American foreign policy should be, and for a long time has been, based on the same principles of free expression.

Why, then, is a U.S. human-rights commission promoting international censorship of hate speech and advocating for expanding the power of social-media companies to that end?

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is the legislative commission tasked with monitoring the state of religious freedom outside our shores. Last month, the USCIRF held a hearing on Combating Online Hate Speech and Disinformation Targeting Religious Communities. It is certainly despicable when any religious community is targeted by violent threats and defamatory material, and the commission is right to highlight the vicious threats that religious persons worldwide often receive, which are shocking but all too common.

But what the USCIRF says on the subject of religious freedom largely represents the American perspective to the international world, which makes its promotion of hate speech restrictions troubling.

The hearing did not just focus on violent threats, defamation, and harassment intended to suppress religious expression. Instead, it promoted empowering the largest social-media companies, in conjunction with the entire array of government and international institutions, to implement censorship and content moderation regimes under an expansively broad definition of hate speech. While the commission is bipartisan, not a single invited speaker was skeptical of the far-reaching antihate speech agenda being promoted at the United Nations. None of them spoke up in defense of robust free expression. And only one out of the nine commissioners expressed concern that hate speech moderation was used as a tool primarily to silence controversial views. While the USCIRF and the speakers themselves admitted that no clear or widely accepted definition of hate speech even exists in international law, there was no attempt made to reckon with the implications of that fact.

Neither the USCIRF commissioners nor the speakers at the hearing mentioned how the U.S., since its ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a major U.N. human-rights treaty, has objected to the use of vague speech restrictions common throughout much of the rest of the world to stifle free speech. Upon its ratification of the ICCPR, the U.S. entered a reservation against it, specifying that the ICCPR did not authorize or require any legislation or other American government action that would restrict the right of free speech and association protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Yet the hearing presented hate speech restrictions as uncontested and required by international human-rights law.

The hearing was just one event, of course. But its legitimization of hate speech restrictions comes as horrific terror attacks carried out by Islamic extremists in France have made the protection of free expression a matter of great urgency, and as international attempts to implement such restrictions are increasing. Last year, the United Nations unveiled its Strategy and Plan of Action on Hate Speech, which calls for the U.N. to strengthen partnerships with new and traditional media to address hate speech narratives and to engage social-media companies on how to support UN principles and action to address and counter hate speech, encouraging partnerships between government, industry and civil society.

Many countries that already use hate-speech laws against religious minorities would be all too happy to see the U.N.s agenda succeed. Around the same time as the agenda was unveiled, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted an event at the U.N. General Assembly calling for greater restraints on hate speech.

Neither Pakistan nor Turkey is well-known for protecting religious freedom. But the U.S. is, and if it wants to continue to be, it must not promote speech-suppression measures abroad.

Hate speech is simply an unworkable and dangerous concept. The incantatory repetition of the word hate to stand for all manner of different kinds of speech needs to stop. Ideas should be debated and defended freely and honestly. No U.S. government body should suggest otherwise. Foreign governments that work in collaboration with social-media companies to develop content moderation regimes are only one step removed from censoring speech themselves. Congress needs to exercise its oversight authority and ensure that the USCIRF is not undermining the link between our bedrock American values and our long-standing foreign-policy aims.

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