The Deprogram

Edit: Damn already so many replies.

Insulting DPP (democratic progressive party) leadership is now officially illegal in Taiwan. Taiwan can finally stop pretending they have political free speech.

Public insult is a criminal offense under Taiwan's Criminal Code, unlike in many other democracies. Lin faces up to one year in prison or a fine of less than NT$9,000 (US$287) under Article 309 of Taiwan’s Criminal Code, CNA reported. The charges stem from remarks Lin made during a speech at a live-streamed rally outside DPP headquarters on July 20.

Taipei District Prosecutors Office investigators said Lin, then a serving lawmaker, repeatedly used obscene language in his speech, including swearing aimed directly at Lai five times.

If yes, why?

Initially I wanted to write a longer version of this post but I stuck with uploading more Palestinian books and I realize this is appropriate times to share my experiences with at least two decades thriving on the internet that 14 Eyes filter lists repeatedly failing to prevent me from disseminating agitprops, theory, tactics, strategies.

I come from past traditions of hacktivist background and very familiar with bypassing web app firewalls (WAF) and intrusion prevention/detection (IDS/IPS) and at this point probing and evading regex-based filter lists are practically part of my muscle memories, things like Suhosin and Akamai are piece of cake for me, but with the rise of AI filtering things might seem to be more difficult, except they really just stay the same for basics of filter evasion because many of these AI-based IDS/WAF/IPS still train their LLM bots on existing passive regex models and data, a human pretty much still have advantages over the bots.

Enter Reddit and Internet Archive, which are the two 14 Eyes platforms I'm most active on, outside of Lemmy. IA uses passive regex filtering for keywords of the uploaded content and I first encountered this issue while uploading Palestinian media such as Ghassan Kanafani, PFLP, and particularly very specific denylisted books on the ongoing Palestinian Holocaust in Gaza, such as The Palestine Laboratory, but I quickly bypassed this by uploading PDF first instead of plaintext-based formats like EPUB, MOBI and especially AZW3, as PDF format is technically binary file that requires specialized reader to process, most passive filtering techniques require plaintext scanning, and after the PDF successfully uploaded I then follow up with the rest of the formats (EPUB, MOBI, FB2, AZW3).

Reddit is prime example of active AI filtering that hides comments containing keywords from either previously removed accounts, or so-called "potential harmful" filter that only the mod side could see them, or contain banned contents from pre-setup Anti-Evil Operation filter lists (AEO is just automated NSA/feds content moderation). My most basic way to check if a comment hidden is viewing it again in different private browser after copying permalink, and through basic trial and error I tweak the stylometries, grammars or phrases until it shows up, as insane as reddit AI filtering is, in the end it's still regex-based lmao. Banned links from AES countries news websites are another nutty examples such as Telesur, Granma, VNExpress, Rodong, Thanh Nien, etc. These can be bypassed with linking mirrored page through web.archive.org since IA never gets banned interestingly. Don't bother with short links.

IA Wayback Machine is also specifically denylisted CIA/NSA/NED/USAID/RFA/OTF/OSF, Zionist and associated NED/Carnegie/Rockefeller endowment organizations and people PARTICULARLY the peoples who might play key roles in future color revolutions, interventions and regime changes. It's one of the osint techniques I use to verify if a person is under state department influences. As long as that person profiles exist on a NED-based site it will be automatically denied by IA to archive the pages.

Reddit AI stylometric filtering is still in primitive eras but this will change as the LLM learn from users bypassing their denylists. Algospeak at least isn't necessary relied to bypass reddit AI filter just yet, switching around with phrases and sentences can spoof the regex detection. One last thing I want to point out about reddit filtering is something I've originally pointed out on TheDeprogam, that reddit and across all 14 Eyes platforms are using file hash checksum to remove contents that its AI system previously detected or cached in its database. I've made this public before Oct 7 2023 and as times go on I was proven correct about this analysis even more with reddit censorship on Palestinians, communists and AES countries. Interestingly, at the same time I've noticed a parallel thing, contents from anarchists and radlibs especially fedpost-styled guides aren't actively filtered by reddit AI, as much as Palestinian, I wonder why.

The CIA mic sabotage technology hits again!

When Western leftists in awe with Qassam they're unaware that Qassam lineage is aligned with Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran after five hundred years of resistance. The Axis of Resistance didn't form now. It was formed when first Westoids set foot on West Asia and North Africa to genocide billions.

Common Hasan W

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10695948

Visiting the National Library of China in Beijing — the largest library in Asia and one of the largest libraries in the world — to understand why so many people come here to study.

Through a night visit and a real-time tour, I look beyond the architecture to focus on the people inside: what they are studying, how long they study for, and why libraries in China play such an important role in everyday life.

Hey Guys,

A really long time ago on the original reddit sub of r/TheDeprogram (before it got nuked off the internet), I made a post for Marxists to discuss and share their views on DEI-Programs.

I wanted to re-create this in this part of the internet too, so that we as principled leftists have a space to share our perspective on it.

In that sub I was recommended the podcasts and books by Jennifer C. Pan and Catherine Liu. I also saw Norman Finkelstein’s take on it.

I understand that DEI-programs are now being critiqued but sadly mainstream media (far-right gamers, politicians and even academics) still claim DEI was a Marxist invention when it really was an HR-policy.

To start a discussion, I have created a few discussion questions: (you dont have to answer these its just a conversation, starter)

• What was your experience with DEI-programs? And what do you think about people confusing DEI for real political action?

• What do you think about the authors/academics like Jennifer C. Pan and Catherine Liu and there takes on it? What are their limits, in their interpretations?

• Have you noticed a sudden shift decline in union membership/awareness in your country or institution?

• Has DEI ever been weaponized against you or other marginalized/vulnerable people?

• Do you think the blind acceptance of DEI over unions stems from the absence of a real leftist’s political opposition, and that it is a product of certain politicians’ decades long reign (Rutte, Merkel, Macron generations)?

• Have you ever experienced backlash from DEI-advocates concerning your Marxist perspectives on affirmative action? How did you deal with it?

• Do you think DEI and all incorporating terms of “diversity” has given fascists more acceptance, as they claim that their views are part of the diversity?

Anyways leave your thoughts below. If you want me to correct something or clarify a point please do remind me 😊

I would also kindly encourage that we create a page about it on prole wiki.

N.B.: This post is not intended to promote, defend, or attack any of the authors mentioned, nor to encourage harassment or brigading. It also is not intended to promote discriminatory actions (racism, sexism, ableism etc..) against anyone . The goal is simply to have an informative, good-faith discussion on DEI and the authors.