The UK’s Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit
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Something similar when using an operating system from Google and Apple, known for their attachment to privacy and noble behavior?
In any case, you can't have a mesh with ends reachable at all times or even addressed. Delay-tolerant applications are sort of better. With nodes synchronizing when in contact. Except for, say, threaded discussions to make sense, this would almost require some sort of dependency management, to synchronize objects by priority.
But honestly all of today's computing seems authoritarian and imperial. Which leads to the way it shapes the world. Richard Stallman is known for being worried about this (not many other people), but GNU + Hurd is honestly still in the same paradigm.
I wonder if it's possible to devise something like BTRON, except with program objects being similar to Java assemblies, but at the same time more like Common Lisp. For the commonly used software to be generally easily hackable\changeable. BTRON in its concept is nicer than Unix, it's a consistent idea for modernity of computing, one can say. It seems even nicer than Plan 9. Unfortunately I don't know Japanese to play with it.
Something that could be used on weak and cheap enough hardware to have some separate niche of personal\PDA computing based on it. Like Briar, but.
Things like CJDNS and Yggdrasil surely look nice, but those just change one layer. For a real totalitarian world they won't help. It's not even a matter of technology, it's a matter of links' capability when you can't use the Internet because, ahem, you'll be detected and police will come knocking.
Perhaps a meshtastic delivered list of tor bridges or a wireless p2p internet .
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Perhaps a meshtastic delivered list of tor bridges or a wireless p2p internet .
Digital dead dropsWell, in my head "like Briar" is the best thing possible for architecture. Except Briar only synchronizes joined groups.
Perhaps even with some kind of, yes, a digital dead drop, that would synchronize (purging stuff old or not in demand) everything announced by devices passing nearby. Over some low-range radio, like BT.
Asynchronous communication. Because having a real-time connection with any mesh is hard.
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Just read some story about a Digital ID being proposed called the Britcard which everyone has to carry all the time sounds very Black Mirror and concerning.
A digital ID, by itself, isn't much of an issue and can be very convenient for the user as well. Even better, it can be setup in a more privacy conserving way. For instance, when you have to provide your ID today, you often have to give companies a copy of your ID, which isn't really favorable to the owner of that ID. With digital ID, it's easier to give/revoke access to your ID or mask certain information the other party doesn't need to know. Most ID scans are mainly done to verify the person has a legitimate ID anyways and presented it, making this digital can be an improvement.
Where it does get black mirror-ey is when you have to use that digital identity to basically log in to the internet and all your internet activity is logged to your ID. The shit the government can pull with such information is mindbogglingly bad.
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Just read some story about a Digital ID being proposed called the Britcard which everyone has to carry all the time sounds very Black Mirror and concerning.
FWIW, Denmark has had this digital infrastructure in the last 10 years and it’s been the foundation of a huge transformation in terms of how people interact with the government services.
It’s also extremely privacy preserving and while Denmark is actually moving forward with an age proving infrastructure like Britain, it’s designed with zero knowledge proofs so literally no-one knows where you have proved your age.
I don’t have a problem with the infrastructure. I have a problem with how Britain designs and uses the infrastructure.
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EU isn't much better.
okay, remove your home from the EU specifically then (reference to Peter Griffins microstate)
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It is time to move to darknets like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeilidThe UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Is there any way to fight chat control in the EU?
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We need to build a decentralised internet quickly using I2P or something similar and scale and decentralise quickly. VPN’s will be the first to go then TOR after they attempt to control the exit nodes .
We need to show the governments that we are allowed to use encryption and Wikipedia and not be treated as criminals for wanting privacy .
I've been running i2p for years. It works well and if there was demand it would be fairly trivial to make Lemmy compatible.
So what did you change about your behavior after writing this message?
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This is all theatre. They know they have no legitimate reason to ban VPNs. Their justification for all of this is protect the children if they start banning VPNs they're going to start getting asked some incredibly awkward questions about how that's going to work.
Yup they just want more control, they know they can't have total control. So why ban VPNs, only a fraction of people uses them.
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Scotland might finally leave the UK because of this. It has been close before, but this must do it by now.
I doubt enough people care
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We don’t want this dystopian nightmare either, and just like Brexit we weren’t told what it was before it was too late.
Hopefully you will welcome us back when all the liars are voted out and ignored.Europe will always welcome you, since for us it's obvious you belong here.
But it's not going to happen since Brits think they're part of the "international" world. And I guess with many thinking this they're not entirely wrong.
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Europe will always welcome you, since for us it's obvious you belong here.
But it's not going to happen since Brits think they're part of the "international" world. And I guess with many thinking this they're not entirely wrong.
I think you may be generalising based on what our politicians say and comments on social media that are written by Russian bot farms or not mass reported by them.
All poles confirm the UK public know they were lied to and would never make the same mistake again.
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It seems that this time the EU plans to follow the UK in these atrocious policies against the Human Right to privacy, unfortunately. What a hell of a can of worms your country has opened.
- This can of worms Carnegie UK and the lobbyists have opened.
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FWIW, Denmark has had this digital infrastructure in the last 10 years and it’s been the foundation of a huge transformation in terms of how people interact with the government services.
It’s also extremely privacy preserving and while Denmark is actually moving forward with an age proving infrastructure like Britain, it’s designed with zero knowledge proofs so literally no-one knows where you have proved your age.
I don’t have a problem with the infrastructure. I have a problem with how Britain designs and uses the infrastructure.
FWIW, Denmark has had this digital infrastructure in the last 10 years and it’s been the foundation of a huge transformation in terms of how people interact with the government services.
I don't think anyone has a problem with an ID you need to interact with government services. They know your identity anyway, and for obvious security reasons it's necessary that they properly verify that you are who you claim you are.
What people have a problem with, is needing to provide an ID to simply access whole categories of content across the wide internet that are not related to your identity in any way.
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I think you may be generalising based on what our politicians say and comments on social media that are written by Russian bot farms or not mass reported by them.
All poles confirm the UK public know they were lied to and would never make the same mistake again.
I don't disagree but you're not going to find a majority that wants to reapply
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the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest. it's been nearly a month and i haven't heard of even a measly car being set on fire, just one petition that got a reply akin to "lol, nah". the french would've set a car on fire for less is all i'm saying
the brits really need to learn from the french how to protest
Where were all the protests to this: https://techinformed.com/france-enforces-age-verification-law-adult-sites/ ?
This is what you get at the moment when you access pornhub from a French IP:
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It is time to move to darknets like:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeilidThe UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz
From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Complacency has led us to this dystopia. Start Pirating & torrenting.
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Is there any way to fight chat control in the EU?
If you go to chatcontrol.eu you will find more info about chat control and how to fight against it.
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Yup they just want more control, they know they can't have total control. So why ban VPNs, only a fraction of people uses them.
Most of the people who use VPNs use them for work as well. It would be an impossible task to craft a law in such a way that didn't ban VPNs for business use, but did for private use, other than to just come out and say that.
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I don't disagree but you're not going to find a majority that wants to reapply
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I don't disagree but you're not going to find a majority that wants to reapply
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