Crypto Wars IV: The Empire Strikes Back
kbal
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Let's say you are teaching a basic, 1-hour-long class to the general public about privacy and general tech hygiene. What kinds of topics would you include?
Bear in mind that the people coming up with this stuff are not completely stupid. Completely corrupt and ignorant perhaps, but not so inept that if they write legislation that strongly encourages practically everyone to use a VPN to avoid the bullshit it isn't a good possibility that their aim (or the aim of those manipulating them) is to generate excuses to eventually make easy-to-use commercial VPN services illegal. Obviously many of us could get around such a ban with ease, but the more difficult they make it the fewer people will do it. There are reasons why not every kid on your average street is an I2P user. What they can't effectively ban they'll suppress by other means.
City of Toronto says it's seriously considering a zoning change to allow small businesses in residential areas
You say that as if it makes the idea somehow less insane. I hope the billionaire clique pushing this shit has miscalculated and there are still enough people not so far gone that they're ever going to let the technofascists scan their faces in exchange for the privilege of spending money and being advertised at.
Game developers association decries 'financial censorship' amidst payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, calls for 'greater transparency and fairness in how adult games are moderated'
Our prevailing system of electronic payments is an absolutely ridiculous situation that gives Visa and Mastercard more power than anyone should have over the whole world of retail commerce. It's been like this since fucking 1993, or whenever it became commonplace to buy stuff using credit cards on the Internet. It's nice that gamers have now noticed that it affects them but it remains unclear how their efforts are going to help improve things other than by making more people aware of the problem.
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@WEATHERISHAPPENING @ZLabe Contrasting approaches to weather risk communications on the fedi
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@WEATHERISHAPPENING@weatherishappening.network @ZLabe@fediscience.org Contrasting approaches to weather risk communications on the fedi
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If you were thinking the Conservatives wouldn't be as bad as the Liberals when it comes to regulating the Internet, think again.
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High T alpha males always walk down the street in this pose. Everyone else sees the look in their eyes and knows to get out of the way.
I'd bet on legally legit porn sites down, VPNs up. It might be a trend that continues for a few years. UK is leading the way but plenty of authoritarian assholes are in charge of other countries too and they're keen to take us all along for this journey. I don't know if it leads to 1984 or more Mad Max but we're going places for sure.