Anti-Censorship Best Practices: How to Make Keeping It Up Easy and Taking It Down Hard

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What do bananas have to do with censorship? What do polyamorous people have in common with fax machines? How can you help your ideas have cyber-sex? In todays age of postmodern warfare, information itself can be a weapon of mass destruction. As corporations and repressive governments track, monitor, and ultimately crack down on their own citizens, employees, and independent publishers, information depicting everything from political speech to cartoon drawings of religious icons is becoming increasingly rationed and ever more tightly controlled. But nowhere is this more apparent than the realm of sexuality, where even basic health and safety information such as STI prevention is barricaded by dragnet-style filtering tools. The online spaces once heralded as among the safest and most valuable for sex-positive publishers like sex bloggers, public health professionals, librarians, and relationship educators have become hostile to the free flow of information while governments from China to Australia to the United States censor the Internet and companies like Facebook, Amazon, and PayPal arbitrarily enforce vague Terms of Service policies. In this far-reaching seminar, youll learn the fundamentals of how to build anticensorship techniques directly into your publishing process using nothing more technologically complex than copy-and-paste. Whether youre a non-technical individual or a savvy multinational organization, youll discover how you can put data portability, distributed publishing, and censorship circumvention tactics to use right away in order to stay one step ahead of those who would call you obscene.