January 23 2025 GM
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What is Happening in Digital Rights Around the World?
- Date: Thursday, January 23
- Time: 9am EST / 2pm UTC
- Facilitator: Mardiya
- Where: On TCU Mattermost "IF Square" Channel.
- Don't have an account to the TCU Mattermost? you can request one following the directions here.
Come to share emerging and existing digital rights conversations happening around the world and in your region at this Glitter Meetup! There is something new, specific or special that you would like to bring to the technology and human rights table? Join us and let's talk about it!
What is Glitter Meetup?
Glitter Meetup is the weekly town hall of the digital rights and Internet Freedom community at the IF Square on the TCU Mattermost, at 9am EDT / 2pm UTC. It is a text-based chat where digital rights defenders can share regional and project updates, expertise, ask questions, and connect with others from all over the world! Do you need an invite? Learn how to get one here.
Notes
- We talked about the grants of the US State Department, since some participants are working with them. Some people created congressional pressure during the first Trump mandate, and maybe they create it again. Activists are gathering to analyze the first problems and actions.
- A participant shares their work: they created two courses related to Yellow Journalism & Sensationalism, rewriting them to look deep into mainstream media's propagandistic tendencies, and hegemonic foundations, and asked students to look at the power and powerful interests. They look at the demonization of migrants, the specific criminalization of people of African descent, the degradation of all muslim and muslim assumed people, the erasure of Indigenous lands and peoples through setter colonialism, and the exploitation of violence against women to sell papers, and conflaction of gayness with pedophilia ... all mobilized, monitized and sensationalized (as its own powerful brand of misinformation) through "unbiased" journalism.
- We talk about Lezismore, a platform that uses open-source software to provide sexual minorities in Taiwan with a digital space to share experiences and express sex-positive content. Due to legal limitations in Taiwan, it has not been easy for the platform to thrive.
