Just remember, Every time advocacy groups warn about tech/capitalism, believe them. We don't make shit up, we use history of actions and facts to state our reasons to be against it.
If your instance isn't part of @FediPact please urge your admins to join or move to another instance who is.
And if you want proof, ask the general public what Jabber/XMPP was, and then ask what Google how they killed it.
EDIT: Please send support to the creator of the FediPact, @vantablack as she is homeless. This is possible because of them.
EDIT #2: Some peppe are saying it doesn't happen anymore, but since it only happened to competitors to Facebook and only after people noticed, I don't think it was a "bug" that only impacted FOSS replacements, but a feature for Facebook removed. Don't give these Zuckers gaslight and think they remain innocent.
#Privacy is in global danger by the oppression of the World's Elite having a pact with ruling politicians. This is the BIGGEST global threat yet to our freedom and free speech. Don't let yourself down.
We don't need to be China to be safe. They know it, just don't admit it.
Having trouble sleeping and still annoyed with the #EFF's article on #Kolektiva, so seems like a good time for ranting.
First. In their article, this is the header image for it. A set of pictures of surveillance cameras with brand logos on them for major social media companies.
Because I know the first thing I think of when I think of when talking about the Kolektiva data breach is…
I am not a technical person so I want to know what I have got wrong about @eff's position. They seem right to me.
As I understand it, they think that the internet is built on a network of cables. To ensure that those cables do anything we have ISPs. Those ISPs route traffic over those cables. At the sending and receiving ends there are lots of computers providing a variety of services.
The #EFF think that the ISP should do no more and no less than send data from and to endpoints. This is #NetNeutrality.
Some people send horrible stuff over the net. The EFF think that they should be able to send it, but don't have a right to have it hosted anywhere. Mastodon, substack, Hetzner can all chose, and in the EFF's view should chose, to refuse to house your murderous troll farm.
This all seems right to me. A capitalist state will support rent seeking corporations and look to crush dissent. We need net neutrality to prevent Google et al from throttling access to their competitors, especially non commercial alternatives, and the state from censoring dissent. Sure protecting Nazis and murderous trolls right to route their packets doesn't guarantee either of those outcomes. The bastards will censor us and enshitify anyway. But cheering on the destruction of net neutrality only makes it easier for them to achieve their goals.
Oggi ho conosciuto in una sala i attesa una persona che non avevo mai visto prima.
Siamo arrivati a parlare di ransomware e fughe di dati e mi sono reso conto che conosceva argomenti come #chatcontrol, realtà come #EFF, campagne come #reclaimyourface. Tutta roba che non passa sui giornali...
Così gli ho chiesto dove si informasse e mi ha fatto vedere che segue il mio canale Telegram https://t.me/ppInforma 😂😂😂
(no: ero imbarazzato e non gli ho detto che ero io a gestirlo)
It's telling to me that the #EFF's response to ISPs blocking hate sites is "the police should enforce anti-harassment laws, ISPs should not block vile sites under any circumstances" and not "ISPs monopoly powers should be put into check."
They are essentially advocating for no one to prevent hateful conduct.
The EFF has lost their way somewhere in the last 30 years—probably sometime before the Tunnel Rats incident—and they seem to be getting worse, not better, over time.
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)....
Yesterday, at home, I was able to use #Vivaldi 's built-in adblocker fine on Youtube. Come in to the office today, and I had to shut it off because videos are inaccessible. #UBlockOrigin and #PrivacyBadger by #EFF work just fine though.
I'd love to not have to use other extensions, but looks like we're not quite there at the moment.
Mastodon: FBI und Admins in der Kritik nach Server-Beschlagnahme
Bei einer Hausdurchsuchung hat das FBI als "Beifang" auch einen Mastodon-Server erbeutet, auf dem ein Backup gerade in einem unverschlüsselten Zustand war.
I've read the post from the #EFF that seems to have a whole bunch of people claiming that the EFF is protecting #KiwiFarms and... I'm not sure if the angry folks have actually read the same article I did?
The EFF pretty clearly condemns KF, first, and they are making an argument about legal precedent here.
I live in the USA, and lemme tell you, I can easily see this precedent being abused to harm women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ folks.
I can't believe the #EFF@eff are dying on this hill...
"If the site in question were Reddit, or Planned Parenthood, or even EFF, the internet would be up in arms. It is not, and it’s not hard to see why. The affected site is an almost universally despised forum for hateful speech."
There's a gulf of difference between defending the guy who's cleaning the pool and the one who's shitting in it.
EFF.org explains what a "Robots.txt" is, and how to use it to stop AI/LLM's from using your website to train on. Mind you there is nothing requiring Bots/AI to conform to these standards, but google & OpenAI have already agreed to do so.
The #EFF sure knows how to attract attention to their case. Choosing to defend literal Nazis to force a conversation about Net Neutrality and carrier bias is…well, it’s daring.
For the record, I’m on the side of the EFF here. Tier 1 carriers should not snoop into content, nor police who can talk to whom; that’s not their job, because they are a monopoly by design, and any power they have to cut off communication will be abused, eventually, guaranteed, if they were given the chance.
I just wish they’d picked a less horrible group of human scum to defend to prove their point.
Yeah, I can't get over how the #EFF, an org that exists literally due to the overreach of both courts and policing, has decided that "ISPs shouldn't take initiative protect lives unless ordered to do so by the courts and/or police. They should abrogate that responsibility to the government."
It strikes me how close the #EFF's argument is to this weird idea that Trump has been advancing that, essentially, "conspiracies use speech and therefore are protected under the first amendment."
This is, of, course, nonsense.
The ensuing conduct is the problem, not the speech.
Gee whiz. Massive abusive tech surveillance company doesn't do what they promised. Shocking NO ONE.
<https://todon.eu/@queue/112130436372737490>
queue@todon.eu - Reminder to anyone who said "Meta wouldn't do anything to Fediverse, we should let them join!"
Meta is now automatically muting all posts that mention PixelFed, so it's users can't read about any alternatives to its services.
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Just remember, *Every time advocacy groups warn about tech/capitalism, believe them.* We don't make shit up, we use history of actions and facts to state our reasons to be against it.
If your instance isn't part of @FediPact please urge your admins to join or move to another instance who is.
And if you want proof, ask the general public what Jabber/XMPP was, and then ask what Google how they killed it.
EDIT: *Please* send support to the creator of the FediPact, @vantablack as she is homeless. This is possible because of them.
#fedipact #meta #pixelfed #eff
"That brings us to the biggest change in the Atlas since our launch in 2018. This week, we removed 2,530 data points: an entire category of surveillance. With the announcement from Amazon that its home surveillance company Ring will no longer facilitate warrantless requests for consumer video footage, we've decided to sunset that particular dataset."
Deja Vu: The FBI Proves Again It Can’t be Trusted with Section 702 (www.eff.org)
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)....