Negative thoughts flooded my mind. The EU is constantly trying to push Chat Control. They’re blocking bootloaders on phones, introducing ID and face scanning everywhere, in the US they’re trying to push system-level verification, corporations are spitting in our faces and don’t even hide it. I know we have to fight. My personal rebellion was joining Fediverse and Lemmy and quitting Reddit. But seriously, boss—I’m tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile? Can we win against corporations and politicians who we pay but don’t listen to us?

  • sobchak@programming.dev
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    2 个月前

    Had similar thoughts this morning. I think it’s clear that many countries are going to head down the Great Firewall route; which is now very effective. It’s so hard to bypass and risky that most people don’t attempt to. As more countries implement these measures, and the list of countries/datacenters where people can set up XRay proxies (for example) shrinks, it will be easier to detect and block. I imagine if ad-hoc meshes became popular, then they’d be shutdown too. The problem is more political than technological.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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    2 个月前

    We have to keep fighting, and it isn’t easy but we have been building great things! Look at the growth of the fediverse with projects like mastodon, Lemmy, pixelfed, etc. More and more, people want alternatives to surveillance-capitalist social media platforms. They see the value in privacy as the stakes get higher for activists. Keep fighting, keep sharing.

    Now, I also believe that ultimately we cannot solve political problems with technical solutions. We need to organize online and offline to effect real change. This organization must be multifaceted (“diversity of tactics”). A recent success of this type has been rolling back flock surveillance in municipalities around the US. Go to city council meetings with your neighbors. If the council won’t listen, then go out later with a comrade and smash those fucking things.

  • phil@lemmy.openitco.de
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    2 个月前

    The zillion dollar question. The control freaks do their job and have lots of power, but on the other hand the diversity of responses is immense. Things change: it’s evolution. Be smart, adapt, and don’t forget that a better tomorrow for each and all is possible, day after day.

    • cottonbk@szmer.infoOP
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      2 个月前

      I have experience in programming and building computer systems. 12 years of experience and self-education. The project you linked looks promising. I’m always the first to support and contribute to such projects but we lack infrastructure for this to become a thing

      • moon_crush@lemmy.world
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        2 个月前

        Great! Here’s the thing: power will not build this network, people must. Node by node. You alone can service an decent area with $100 LoRa node and an I2P backhaul. I fundamentally believe something like this is essential for a free future — be the change you want to see.

        • trilobite@lemmy.ml
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          2 个月前

          And what happens if governments start banning cryptography or force backdoors on crypography?

        • relic4322@lemmy.ml
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          2 个月前

          Agreed. And we can easily bridge existing net to alternative transmission mediums while the existing net allows. Providing an easier time for others to adopt. I run a reticulum node as well.

  • budd@lemmy.ml
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    2 个月前

    Can someone 😇 please crash (DOS) more times this services so that people find other options (WhatsApp> signal, X>fediverse, etc)? It’s always been like that when there’s a blackout…

  • Alfredolin@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 个月前

    Of course we can win against politicians who we pay but don’t listen to us. At some point, this is not democracy anymore, and if this is not democracy anymore, then the people is going to express itself through non-democratic measures. Just saying.

    Until then, we have work to do: convince friends, family, politicians. Expose lobbyist, corporations. Support education, spread knowledge.

  • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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    2 个月前

    But seriously, boss—I’m tired

    Unfortunately, that’s their game plan: be an unrelenting bureaucracy that grinds you down so you eventually just give in and finally accept it as it is now then passively accept what they come up with next.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    2 个月前

    Yes and honestly we better learn to enjoy the struggle because it’s never going away. We will always have to push back.

  • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.world
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    2 个月前

    The EU isnt trying to push chat control. If it was then the EU wouldn’t have shot it down multiple times like it has been.

    Lobbyists are the ones trying to push chat control on the EU.

      • cottonbk@szmer.infoOP
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        2 个月前

        In Poland we call it “gotowanie żaby” (eng. boiling a frog). This is a nice idiom for slow action towards a specific goal despite the resistance of reality.