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Real-Name Policies: The War Against Pseudonymity - Privacy Guides
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/10/15/real-name-policies/
"Facebook... regularly demands official IDs... Facebook has even repeatedly taken the liberty to decide which name was "real", and changed the displayed name of users based on verification processes without any prior consent..."
"For anyone who is experiencing or has experienced domestic violence, creating a new online identity hidden from the perpetrator can be essential for survival...
When people are forced to only use one identity online... this empowers aggressors to find their victims, to silence them, to control them, and to harm them."
When policies and features make it difficult or impossible for vulnerable people to use these technologies safely, they are effectively excluding vulnerable people from the platforms."
Left News Sources
https://www.privacyguides.org
https://thetricontinental.org/
https://www.counterpunch.org/
https://urpe.org/resource/links-to-publications/
https://monthlyreview.org/
https://www.currentaffairs.org/
https://www.article19.org/
https://newworker.us/
https://www.idcommunism.com
https://communistusa.org/news/
https://www.socialistalternative.org/tag/top-stories/
https://marxist.com/
https://www.codepink.org/in_the_news
https://www.workersstrikeback.org/news-analysis
https://www.commondreams.org
https://merics.org/en/analysis
https://unraveledpress.com
https://leftdiary.com
Former Stories In Highlight
Communism Defeated Fascism Eighty Years Ago and Will Defeat it Again: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2025) - The Tricontinental
2025 November 27
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/ww2-communism-fascism/
"fascism is the... the ugly twin of colonialism. It is hard to distinguish between the two... consider the six million people killed in the Congo, the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples of South West Africa by Germany, the genocide of the native peoples of the Americas, and the three million Bengalis starved to death in 1943."
2025 November 12
Regime Change” in Venezuela is a Euphemism for U.S.-Inflicted Carnage - Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J. S. Davies
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/12/regime-change-in-venezuela-is-a-euphemism-for-u-s-inflicted-carnage/
"For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair."
2025 September 11
The Killing of Charles James Kirk: Violent Speech Leads to Violence - Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/11/the-killing-of-charles-james-kirk-violent-speech-leads-to-violence/
"The killing of Charlie Kirk fits within this arena of speech that is racist and hate-filled, but is designed to pose as rational and logical political speech. In his rhetoric and so-called debate style this 31-year-old evangelical firebrand of the right has stated that Black pilots were incompetent, Gays should be stoned, ironically he was opposed to gun control, abortion, LGBTQ rights, criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr., promoted Christian nationalism, advanced COVID-19 misinformation, made false claims of electoral fraud in 2020, and is a proponent of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory."
Anti LGBTQIA governments are using dating sites and social media to track down members of the LGBTQIA community.
https://www.article19.org/queer-resistance-to-digital-oppression/
As conservative and fascist forces continue to make advances in governments around the world, it's important to know that 100% of people in custody for LGBTQIA related "crimes" testified that they were forced, (usually violently forced) to give police access to their device if that device had biometric security enabled. In other words, fingerprint and face recognition software increase the risk of physical assault by the police and decrease privacy.
For minority groups, information security often means the difference between being imprisoned and being released.
