Spent 1 month analyzing 500+ OnlyFans creators' revenue patterns.
Finding: 67% lose subscribers NOT due to content quality, but due to platform discoverability failures.
Let's break down the economics of invisible loss and why centralized platforms consistently fail at search infrastructure 🧵
The fundamental shift:
2012: User experience is the product
2024: User attention is the product
You went from customer to inventory.
Your time is what they sell to advertisers.
March 15, 2016 wasn't gradual decay. It was a specific decision.
And we can make a different one: https://snugg.social
Conservatives in the European Parliament ( @eppgroup ):
Dear citizens, vote for us, we'll end a couple of your fundamental rights enshrined in the #constitution. 🆒
(Their wording: "We will focus on the Action plan against #cyberbullying and on further measures to protect #minors on digital #platforms and to end digital #anonymity.")
Source: https://www.epp.eu/files/uploads/2026/01/EPP-Retreat_Our-Priorities-2026_Adopted_260131_110102.pdf
On January 30, the EU Council voted to endorse a two-year extension of "Chat Control 1.0". This is a significant setback. If passed, it legalizes the mass scanning of private messages and photos by US tech giants using error-prone AI, without any suspicion of crime. It also paves the way for mandatory ID verification (ending anonymity) and effectively bans anyone under 17 from using messaging apps. potentially preventing them from even chatting with their own parents.
However, the fight is not over.
The Council's vote is not the final word. Under EU legislative procedures, the European Parliament must also agree to the extension. Right now, the power to stop this lies with the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).
They are deliberating this week to set the Parliament's position before the current regulation expires in April. If the LIBE Committee stands firm and rejects the extension, this mass surveillance regime can still be stopped.
We must act now to influence their decision.
Please do not stay silent. Contact the LIBE Committee members. Tell them to reject the extension of the Regulation and to defend our fundamental right to privacy.
We need targeted, judicial solutions, not a permanent state of mass surveillance.
#ChatControl #EU #Privacy #DigitalRights #StopSurveillance #LibeCommittee #MassSurveillance #EUPolitics
What does our top content of 2025 portend for the year ahead?
In this recap, we share key insights drawn from the 10 most read pieces of content on our website last year.
The funding landscape is changing quickly, creating uncertainty for civil society and social movements. Big Tech’s concentration of power and the amplification of disinformation place digital rights organisations under growing pressure ⚠️
📖 Read more: https://www.apc.org/en/blog/global-aid-crisis-can-we-find-sustainability-precarious-funding-climate
UK court orders Saudi Arabia to pay £3m to London dissident Ghanem Al-Masarir over Pegasus spyware targeting & assault. Victory for justice against mercenary surveillance! 👏⚖️ [Citizen Lab's Bill Marczak key witness] https://citizenlab.ca/saudi-arabia-ordered-to-pay-3m-to-london-dissident-over-pegasus-spying/ #PegasusSpyware #DigitalRights #Newz
Citizen Lab reveals Jordanian authorities used Cellebrite forensic tools to extract data from activists' phones amid Gaza protests, violating human rights. Forensic evidence from 7 cases since 2020 shows non-consensual extractions. 🚨📱
https://citizenlab.ca/research/from-protest-to-peril-cellebrite-used-against-jordanian-civil-society/
#DigitalRights #Jordan #Newz
RE: https://ieji.de/@GalacticGoddess/115652094528258948
While I'm on the topic of bad internet bills in Canada, here are other bills you should call your Senators and House of Commons Representatives about!
Bill C-12 just completed it's first reading in the Senate (2nd chamber for this bill)! Bill C-8 is due for another hearing later this week!
Fight back against these bills while you still have the chance!
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #Canada #AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #Immigration
ICYMI: Your internet anonymity has an economy behind it.
Tor and onion services aren’t just tech — they’re part of a broader business of privacy, hosting, resilience, and risk. Some services support free access; others are funded or monetized in ways that affect real users and networks.
Understanding how the anonymity ecosystem works matters for personal privacy and organizational risk.
Read:
https://medium.com/@biytelum/tor-onion-services-and-the-business-of-anonymity-bcfe760ffb4e
🎤 Speaker Spotlight: We’re thrilled to welcome Cory Doctorow @pluralistic to FediMTL 2026! Bestselling author and a leading voice on #DigitalRights, #InternetFreedom, and the fight against #Enshittification of the web.
🎟️ In-person and streaming tickets: https://fedimtl.ca/
#FediMTL #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #SocialWeb
Canadians!
Bill S-209 is due for a section by section consideration in the Senate this Thursday (i.e. the equivalent of a full committee markup to Americans)!
Reminder: This bill would mandate privacy invasive Age Verification as well as give the Canadian government the ability to block ANY website that isn't compliant (search engines, Wikipedia, social media, etc.), not just "commercial pornographic websites" like the bill claims! One of the bills' sponsors essentially admitted this!
If this bill passes, it would be massively chilling to privacy and free speech in Canada! The Canadian government would control what you're allowed to see!
VPNs are, at best, a temporary solution here.
Call your Senators and House of Commons Representatives ASAP!
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #Internet #SocialMedia #Canada #AgeVerification #BillS209
Canadians!
Bill S-209 is due for a section by section consideration in the Senate this Thursday (i.e. the equivalent of a full committee markup to Americans)!
Reminder: This bill would mandate privacy invasive Age Verification as well as give the Canadian government the ability to block ANY website that isn't compliant (search engines, Wikipedia, social media, etc.), not just "commercial pornographic websites" like the bill claims! One of the bills' sponsors essentially admitted this!
If this bill passes, it would be massively chilling to privacy and free speech in Canada! The Canadian government would control what you're allowed to see!
VPNs are, at best, a temporary solution here.
Call your Senators and House of Commons Representatives ASAP!
#Privacy #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DigitalRights #SocialMedia #Internet #Canada #BillS209 #AgeVerification
The Florida App Store Accountability Act is on the agenda to be heard by the Commerce and Tourism Committee this Wed, Feb 4 at 10:30 AM.
Call down this list of senators; tell them to oppose SB 1722.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/Show/CM?pref=full
Details: https://www.miamitech.club/oppose-the-florida-app-store-accountability-act/
#Florida #Privacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Tech #Apple #Google
Building Software that Scales Without Limits (Holepunch Interview)
Tails 7.4.1 emergency release patches critical OpenSSL vulnerabilities in Tor's encryption 🔒
Malicious relays could potentially deanonymize users; no known exploits so far ⚠️
Updates Tor to 0.4.8.22 and Thunderbird—essential upgrade for anonymity seekers 🛡️
🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_4_1/
#TechNews #Privacy #Tails #Tor #OpenSource #Security #Cybersecurity #Encryption #Anonymity #DigitalRights #Linux #FOSS #UserFreedom #Mozilla #Firefox #Browser #Thunderbird
Tor Browser 15.0.5 released to fix Vietnamese text vandalism from malicious contributor 🛡️
No security impact, but prompts review of translation safeguards to protect open contributions 🔒
Updates Tor to 0.4.8.22, NoScript, and OpenSSL for better privacy and stability 💻
🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1505/
#TechNews #Privacy #Tor #OpenSource #Security #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Encryption #UserFreedom #Anonymity #FOSS #InternetFreedom #Browser #Mozilla #Firefox #Brave
Sharing this Proton article with their 2026 internet predictions 📱
🔍 EU eyes permanent "voluntary" message scanning
🪪 Global age verification laws risk ID breaches
⚠️ VPN blocks expand in democracies as rogue AI agents loom
🔗 https://proton.me/blog/2026-internet-predictions
#TechNews #Privacy #VPN #AI #Surveillance #Encryption #Regulation #Data #Security #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #UserRights #BigTech #InternetFreedom #AgeVerification #Proton #ProtonMail #EU #Europe #ChatControl #VPN #ID
UK launches major police reforms with expanded AI and live facial recognition 📹
AI analyzes CCTV footage to free up 6M officer hours yearly; facial rec vans rise to 50 🔍
Privacy concerns grow as surveillance scales without clear civil liberty protections ⚖️
#TechNews #Privacy #AI #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Security #Data #Regulation #BigTech #Police #CivilLiberties #Ethics #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #UserRights #UK #UnitedKingdom #CCTV
UK Lords vote to ban VPNs for under-18s to enforce online age checks 📵
Sees privacy tools as evasion of child safety rules under Online Safety Act; now heads to Commons for review ⚖️
Raises questions about balancing child protection with fundamental user rights to privacy and anonymity 🔍
#TechNews #Privacy #VPN #Security #Regulation #Data #BigTech #UserRights #DigitalRights #Censorship #Freedom #Policy #Safety #Cybersecurity #OnlineFreedom #UK #UnitedKingdom
French lawmakers passed a bill banning social media for under-15s 📵
Also extends mobile phone ban to high schools; follows Australia's under-16 limit 🇫🇷
Focuses on protecting youth mental health from cyberbullying and screen addiction, though critics call it digital paternalism ⚖️
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/france-social-media-ban-under-15s
#TechNews #Privacy #SocialMedia #Kids #Regulation #MentalHealth #Data #BigTech #Youth #Europe #Policy #Safety #DigitalRights #ScreenTime #ParentalControls #France #AgeVerification #Australia
