New Truthstream media video on Trump's latest moves in militarized policing.
I think the points about criminalizing homelessness are sadly quite salient.
Dark days, curious how Mark Carney is going to sell our version of these measures.
This is tyranny
What Fediverse software can we expect to implement ID/age verification to cozy up to tyrannical governments?
- Mastodon feels like the free bingo slot here but I could be wrong.
But I fully expect any instance that's fine with state-sponsored policing of 'misinformation' to eventually fold.
That's when they'll start using all the complying instances as a justification for harsher measures against independent instances.
I think the time of free speech on the clearnet has come to a close and over time the last few vestiges will be routed out.
The Internet no longer interprets censorship as damage.
I'm in the process of deciding how much I care about hanging on to a clearnet internet presence.
Where do you draw the line between privacy/security measures that are worth it, as opposed to entirely impractical navel-gazing?
For example: I think it's really stupid when people hypothesize about backdoors in encryption when most people still haven't even moved their communications and personal files off Google/Apple.
Of course such concerns are worth considering, but not as a justification to stick with known-bad options.
