The Internet inherently routes around malfunctioning network segments.
Any law like those mentioned will be used to legitimize selective enforcement, only against those who upset the wrong important person.
Stay anonymous and locked down, don’t comment from your point of origin. Don’t use corporate services.
Don’t use corporate services.
The vast majority of the ethernet, cable, and fiber that connects people is owned by a corporation.
I hate this argument because it misses the bigger point that the infrastructure of the internet is not publicly owned but is privately owned by corporations.
Build community LANs that aren’t connected to the internet. Use sneakernets to share information via USB. Use encrypted LoRa for messaging among community members.
Yes, I see a future of two “internets”. One corporate and another for the people. The People’s Internet will be deemed illegal and hunted down. Seems like there’s a movie there somewhere…
A move with a lot of “I’m in”.
HACK THE PLANET!!!
Genuinely, when online ID starts being rolled out, I will no longer be an inside person. I will just have to do woodworking, mechanical, or literally anything else. I refuse to partake in such stupidity.
Same here. I might end up spending a good chunk of my free time at the local park with a chess board and a music player with two sets of headphones, inviting strangers to play, listen and chat. If they take away my ability to broadcast shitposts and critique of the regime on the internet, I’ll dedicate myself to individually turning my neighbors into angry leftists one long afternoon at a time.
Like, there are other, better ways to get involved, yes; but I’m talking about how I spend my free time, what I do for shits and giggles. This is normally filled with video games and internet shitposting, and so help me the last thing this government wants to do is give more people like me, more free time.
I’ll pitch in. I saw this coming in 2023, sold a lot of PC hardware and pivoted to Cameras and bought some hard drives to fill up with media, and I’ve done tons of hiking, almost every trail on my side of my state and some that aren’t. Picked up pipesmoking, made some buddies there in that community, branched away from the hustle and bustle, started a massive ebook collection and I’ve read anything I can find that doesn’t start with “Nutrition Facts”.
If anyone is worried about the internet, now ain’t the time to worry, now’s the time to get moving and get done what you need done before the gate closes for good.
“we lost?”
Like a piss in the wind, there wasn’t even a fight.
We will still have centralized/defederated platforms that won’t comply, mesh networks and protocols like i2p but I can absolutely understand wanting out.
What will happen is they will push us back into socializing and therefore solidarity. This will backfire on them.
We need an Internet 2.0 invite only. no bots, governments, or companies allowed.
The People’s Internet!
…with blackjack and hookers…?
Anyone who’s been chucked off Reddit knows we’re already there.
I got shadow banned on Reddit for Luigi support and I just got shadow banned on facebook for Albania support this week.
Albania eh? I see the Wag The Dog timeline is in full swing.
would require users to disclose personal information before accessing lawful speech online
That’s a relief, as I fully intend to break whatever law it is and continue discussions with you gentlefolk unlawfully.
I never thought I’d see the day when China started to look more inclined to allow free speech than the US. Yet, here we are.
You never thought the country which bombs other countries and kidnaps their presidents would become more restrictive/authoritarian than the one which generally doesn’t?
Seems pretty predictable to me idk. People are so steeped in American exceptionalism mythology.
I know, what China did to Tibet was so wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedhun_Choekyi_Nyima
Edit: oh you were talking about the US. Yes they have also kidnapped leaders and attacked other nations just like China has.
You had to reach back to 1995.
I can reach back to last week.
The point stands, sorry Sinophobe.
China has killed more of it own citizens than the US, please keep apologizing for China.
At least we can both agree the US sucks.
Edit: calling me a sinophobe about a fact just shows you act like a fucking asshole btw.
[citation needed], don’t forget to include the Civil War in the US’s figures. Let’s also go “per capita” to make it fair.
It wasn’t “about a fact”, it was about your framing of the fact. “Yeah China did this 30 fucking years ago while America has never stopped doing this over the last 30 years, these two entities are equivalent!” It’s less bad when white people do it, right?
I’m not pro-CCP for the record. I’m just realistic about my criticisms, like their restrictive social measures. There is zero doubt they are vastly less of an international menace than the United States.
No citation needed, it is common knowledge how many people died not only from their violent revolution but also policies that led to the great famine. To think all those people died fighting “fascists” just to turn around and embrace fascism is a very sad story.
China is the fourth largest producer of arms. They are actively selling weapons to war torn nations. You are clearly carrying water here.
The US is by far the most destructive nation in the history of the world. No debate from me here.
Don’t bother, he likes to eat his propaganda by the spoonful. China kills 100000000000000000000000000x 10*9 yogurts every minute, etc. Every accusation is an admission of guilt, what they blame China is exactly what the USA has done, still does, and will do
Man you pro-chinese losers are weird and misinformed.
I have had many candid interactions with real Chinese citizens.
A lot of them have a deep understand of the blood that has been shed and the ethics required to maintain a functioning society. And it’s this ethical and historical understand that leads their quality of life advancements.
Current day China is objectively better than current day US.
Oh so they are proud their government murdered a bunch of citizens and then killed millions more through bad policies and they openly talk about this in their schools and personal life?
I am being facetious so don’t bother answering.
Currently China is pumping out more billionaires than the US, they are also openly selling arms to war torn countries. They are imperialist through and through.
What part of China is better? Because peasants probably aren’t happy with billionaires polluting their environment and the two-tired society they have developed.
You are clearly not objective.
They’re humans, you arrogant prick. Calling people you don’t like peasants certainly proves your point. Way to beat the racism allegations.
We are not even close
Debatable. The UK is already there, followed very closely by Australia, and then the US.
I can’t find it now but a while ago I read a very interesting article about a guy who worked for the Chinese censorship service, tried to blow the whistle on them violating their own laws and eventually fled the country.
I also read about the wallbleed hack that exposed the sort of data China gathers from internet users as well as how their DNS interception system works to stop users from accessing forbidden domain names.
I think there are definitely many in the UK who WANT China’s level of censorship. But even as the situation in the UK is becoming dire, the scale of internet policing, scope of topics that are censored by the government, and the severity of punishment dealt out are still well behind that of China.
(I remember the guy who fled China being at risk of a 15+ year sentence, for example. Worst I have seen in UK is 4 years… Which is still insane enough to start a riot, but not equal to China).
I agree that the punishment for people breaking those laws in China are way beyond anything in the UK, and probably most other countries. The thing is that it’s happening, that is the problem. Free speech, privacy, the right to disagree and be vocal about it, it’s all being removed, at an alarming speed, and it’s only accelerating.
This is from ‘democratic’ countries, countries that love using the word freedom. We have become so hypnotized with the bullshit on the internet and all the comforts in our lives that we lost sight of what is important. Now the rich and powerful, politicians or corporate, have taken advantage of that willful ignorance, and I say willful because we chose to take the breadcrumbs they gave us in exchange of our freedom and dignity, and now, if we don’t do something fast, the only way to regain any fraction of that will be by swimming on rivers of blood.
That is what I’m concerned about. I’m 51 years old, so I certainly already lived over half of my life. However, younger folks, I think 30 or less today, will have to live most of their lives without any real freedom, just going through their lives existing under the oppression of these governments and the mega-rich corporate owners and executives. Having to take whatever they want to give them, and not being able to dissent without certain repercussions, and repercussions that we don’t yet know how hard and bad.
I honestly hope it doesn’t come to that, but go do some research, things all over the world are unhinged right bow, and we’re all living mostly on the decisions of a select few, however they see fit.
It’s grim, but we need to stop trying to cover the sun with one finger and risk being called lunatics when we bring this shit up. I see things happening that I’ve been telling people about for over 10 years, only worse than I thought they would be, and some people are finally starting to see it, however still choose to do nothing about it. Still using windows, Facebook, X, iPhones, buying Samsung phones. It’s wild how we’ve become numb to our own demise.
To keep it short, I agree, I just dont like to see people trying to trick teenagers on here that China isnt worse than the west is right now.
I’m not trying to trick anyone into anything. I’m just following the facts, and the fact is that the western civilization is not too far from becoming China.
I guess we’re of the same mind. China, barring China, Russia and any other openly authoritarian country, are the worst right now. Now, the ‘democratic’ countries some (most?) of us live in right now are quickly approaching the same levels of constraint and subjection of those same countries we so regularly call out for the exact same behavior of their governments.
Chinese governments like speech that is friendly to China. US governments like speech that is friendly to the US.
We call it censorship when a government censors self-criticism, but a big part of that calculation hinges on how much criticism a government is subjected to at any given moment.
If you’re seeing a lot of Chinese criticism - and a lot of second-order “China is censoring the criticism!” stories - that’s more often the result of a national media push to divorce the US public and economy from China. If you’re seeing a lot of US self-criticism and resulting domestic government backlash, that’s more often the result of a divided US populace that’s lost sight of it’s Overseas Enemy Cold War fixation.
The day Trump leaves office, you’re going to see a tidal wave of “China Bad!” articles slam into your news feed, like the Red Sea after Moses squeezes it shut again. Then we won’t see “US censorship!” hand-wringing until the political scene starts polarizing again.
Start downloading and stockpiling all the porn you can!
Dude you’re already fucked. Have been for decades at this point.
Well, too bad; Donny is good at bad deals.
If it’s not the government the. it’s big tech. You can’t even
fuckfrick online anymore.if your reporting it, it’s already too late
The 2nd amendment has failed
I guess Heinlein was like armed society is Luigi society or something
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Why is American internal politics in my technology feed?
Why, as an American, do I have to navigate an internet full of pop ups designed to make sites GDPR compliant?
I really need to have a Cookie setting agent just to say, “don’t track me or use bare essential cookies;” it’s annoying. I just want them to use bare essentials, then let me opt in for features. But no, “sell, sell, sell” (our user data, whatever is similar to previous user searches, etc.) 🤢
There is a Firefox extension to do exactly that.
Because US advertisers lobbied hard for it. The original proposal was a single Do Not Track browser setting.
I have a news for you, this isn’t just American internal politics. Surveillance capitalism is happening across the world. There are those pushing for chat control in the EU and UK is starting to do the same and contracted Palantir to manage the NHS data.
Yup, to tune their sales on your likes, preferences, and predicted wallet size.
I am well aware they have a presence here as well, but the article is discussing specific US Federal bills, not the market moves or the tech they would be using.
Imagine if each EU member state would be doing the same in this community.
You know the expression: when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.
The American tech giants, which are tied to the government because of military and surveillance contracts, despise EU regulations. The US Department of Defense strategy already deemed Europe to be a bigger threat than China and Russia. The American tech companies are also lobbying the EU to loosen the digital privacy laws and regulations. So it helps to keep tab once in a while of American politics.
I repeat this is a perfect argumentation to justify the appearance of this article in a different community.
Or to justify the appearance in this community of how the technilogies policies such as these enable are going to be acted upon on a global scale.
Or to draw comparisons between the downstream technological effects of these policies and others enacted on a global scale in the past.
But this, it’s just spamming that the American (subservient) majority of people on these instances is just ok with.
I am not trolling, I just care about the quality of my feed. I am ok with these downvotes as much as I am with the ones I get whenever I speak against Israel.
I don’t know what you are whining. I’m not even American, but Lemmy is American dominated whether you like it or not and there is nothing you and I can do about it no matter how much either of us whine. Go to your country’s community website if you don’t like it. That’s like complaining Nairaland is full of Nigerian posts.
I will point out not a majority, but the behavior of that majority in a community that should be inclusive.
With time, awareness of their behavior will become a useful starting point for the judgment of many.
They ruin everything, macro and micro
I am not American. I don’t want to hear about your internal politics. I have already enough work activating for the EU ones.
“They”. I am not american, by the grace of god.
Yeah, good for us
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We learned about censorship efforts in the UK, EU, Australia and Canada, bud. None of us had a conniption over it.
Not on this community.
