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It’s insane how governments keep trying to ban encryption, even though large chunks of the economy depend on the ability to exchange encrypted data. The same with criminalizing VPNs, on which pretty much every internet-connected business depends.
They’re learning from China
It’s so exhausting the constant fascist anti-privacy laws there are. You stop one, 5 more pop up in its place. Eventually some are going to pass from sheer exhaustion.
We fought for net neutrality for like a decade and a half and then Ajit Pai just killed it like a monarchy with supreme power and fucked off into retirement.
That made me so mad. It was so openly botted and gaslit. Not a single human being was against it that wasn’t part of a megacorp monopoly. It was just objectively bad. Just shows we straight up do not have a democracy, our votes meant nothing despite being one of the most widespread campaigns against it. I remember it was even the front page of google search to vote against it. That’s how you know how bad it was.
He received over 300,000 letters expressing support for net neutrality, complete with names, emails, physical addresses, and often phone numbers, and he dismissed all of them as spam. He knowingly voted against the will of the people for the benefit of a handful of corporations.
He received over 300,000 letters expressing support for net neutrality, complete with names, emails, physical addresses, and often phone numbers, and he dismissed all of them as spam. He knowingly voted against the will of the people for the benefit of a handful of corporations.
This is why we need to add items to the Bill of Rights. We need to pass laws that explicitly prohibit such legislation.
I would love to see that. However that seems unlikely in the US as it is controlled by tech giants and the glowies
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Children are one of their two go-to reasons for encroaching on civil liberties. If “won’t somebody please think of the children?” doesn’t work then they wrap it up in “terrorism ™️” and ram it through.
Umm, this bill harms children.
The RESTRICT Act…could also criminalize common practices like using a VPN or side-loading to install a prohibited app
Lol wut? They want to make it illegal for me to install software on my device?
These fuckijg Mellon head legislators should be jailed for suggesting such violations…
Disgusting! These bills never seem to end, it’s insanity.
Sad truth is they only need to succeed once. We need to succeed every damn time.
I guess we’re all Margaret Thatcher now
The internet poses a threat to the status quo - my local library will never stock anything written by Emma Goldman or Noam Chomsky, but, thanks to the interent, this information is pretty much at my fingertips.
They don’t like that - it’s far too democratic for a status quo that wants to pretend it’s democratic while ensuring that we never understand the idea of democracy in any way that doesn’t keep them in power and in the money.
Sheer dangerous idiocy. Don’t just moan about this. Act! EFF makes it easy at that link and it really does make a difference.
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Law drafts not linked?
