Population control was the one that shocked me. Apparently people aren't supposed to use Rise Up to spread information on contraception?
No.
The background here is that there are some environmental groups who espouse the line that the only way to fix the environment is through population control. Typically this is referring to the global south, and is highly problematic for privileged global north environmentalists to suggest that this is the way to fix the environment. basically, riseup is not interested in supporting environmentalists in the global north who are obsessed with population control, especially when there are no environmental group in the global south thinks that population, in and of itself, is a problem. when white environmentalists talk about population they are usually talking about people of color in poor agrarian countries. The narrative is that these people are too stupid to know better than to not have kids.
Does that mean that discussion of contraception, family planning, abortion, or the ecological costs of human overpopulation is not allowed using a riseup account? No. In fact, when we look at resource usage, pollution produced and other impacts on the environment; the countries of the global north have a hugely disproportionate negative impact on the global environment. In fact, in an agrarian setting where the family is always the primary economic unit, it makes perfect sense to have very large families, as people did in this country when more people worked in agriculture.
There is a very sick history of tons of money being funneled into poor countries for forced sterilization, birth control experiments in exchange for "health care", and the granting of food aid on the condition of a vasectomy or tubal ligation. All this has been done in the name of saving the environment. This traditional approach is so obviously racist that the environmentalists have changed their tactic: now they talk about 'footprint' and consumption. they say we need to restrict immigration to the US because those immigrants will start consuming like Americans, and that is not sustainable. Then again, this new tactic is not really any less obviously racist, yet somehow this is an unbelievably common argument.
So, contraception, abortion, family planning, reproductive choices? All great, Riseup is for that. yes, there is an ecological cost of overpopulation (although there is a political science argument about carrying capacity and overpopulation being a myth), but when it is used by northern environmentalists to subjugate people from the south, we find that a little despicable.