This is an approximate description of what it looks like from my side -> You were given comfort by the system as long as it was useful, but now that your comfort has become a burden, the system throws you out into the trash.
Dunno about you, but my opinion has recently helped to successfully repel mass surveillance for my country and others. The fight is not over yet, but this battle was won.
Yes, but these fascists are cunning and now they are going to create chaos to prevent people from having the opportunity to think about what is happening. We need to be prepared for this.
I was also spamming Hungarian MEPs for what good it did.
I feel like this and SKG were both nice “come together” activism moments for the EU nerd community. And while SKG was important as well, Chat Control was really an “end of democracy” moment and I love that we the people could shine the light on it so hard that it got abandoned until next time.
“Next time” might mean December, so don’t let your guard down, for now. But it really was a great success
The problem is that these fascists will keep trying to introduce this and will even resort to extreme measures like blocking or freezing the bank accounts of protesters in the future. Because now they bite their nails and are envious, looking at China, where all this crap has been working for a long time.
Not letting my guard down. If we go past April, it suddenly becomes possible that Hungary will also flip on the issue. We’re working on it. I want to be a citizen of the country that pioneered the recipe on how to destroy a Russophilic kleptocratic soft dictatorship instead of the country that pioneered said dictatorship.
People say that “they will push again and again” but that’s just how politics works. You have to go vote every time, in every election, get informed - reasonably, don’t turn yourself into a terminally online Twitter-zombie, read news outlets that do a big piece every week, not 24/7 reports on tweets - get active all the time, because this is your lives, your kids’ and parents’ and partners’ and friends’ lives that gets decided about. Political engagement turns your country into something like the Nordics, disengagement takes you to Russia, maybe even literally these days.
If I was a schoolteacher with high school kids, I’d make them go on the ECI website, and check out the petitions, read them, and sign what they agree with, and try to instill a habit of doing so every few months. I do this, and I signed petitions that sounded right to me and I could verify with minimal research that they were benevolent. It takes zero time, and lets you push a continent of societies towards a better future ever so slightly.
Therefore, can you show me your titties?
Well… This man can do it for you!..
So time to make a new system?
Well, some countries are already doing this. I’ve heard rumors of underground social networks where complete anonymity is maintained. That is, your account isn’t linked to your email address or identity. They even have their own money and cryptocurrency.
Like Liberland? I’m always a bit weary as they like always seems to be sort of far rightish. Very interesting though, it’s not like they’re going away anytime soon at least that’s my opinion.
But it’s still better to prepare for surprises, for example, events and wars may suddenly begin to accelerate, and during this there will be attempts to introduce a new world order like in China.
Yep. And in the meantime I’m building a censorship resistant sharing protocol. But sadly few people are interested.
Edit: if you have adresses, I’m interested.
I hope you succeed. By the way, how effective do you think data transfer via flash drives will be in offline?
My protocol lives hidden on the classic internet, so it needs a running connection (it works very well but lacks interested people).
Offline data sharing is a fascinating concept, and I think we underestimate its potential. I mean my dinky smartphone has 1TB storage, in ten years it will probably be cheap to have active 10TB USB keys that shares data with others and we can just swap millions of things with people very easily. Probably slower than today’s internet but people usually figure out how to make things usable.
As with my protocol, there must just be enough people for it to start functioning, and with physical drives it must be in a specific location. Maybe smartphones can do the job to bootstrap it all?
Very interesting.
