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Joined March 2025
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The greatest internet post of all time was made 37 years ago today in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down. It was posted to Usenet, a social media like service that was around before the World Wide Web existed. Read the entire thread archive here: groups.google.com/g/eunet.po…
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The greatest internet post of all time was made 37 years ago today in 1989 as the Berlin Wall came down. It was posted to Usenet, a social media like service that was around before the World Wide Web existed. Read the entire thread archive here: groups.google.com/g/eunet.po…
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The final boss is the CCP.
Take a moment today to think about the courage of Joshua Wong. A young activist who’s only crime is defending the liberty of others in Hong Kong. Today for his courage he’s been punished with 10 years in prison by the Chinese Communist Party. He could have run. He could have lived in exile. He chose courage.
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Abdul is also the only Dem who spoke about mass surveillance and had anti mass surveillance policies as part of his tech agenda. :) He’s extremely thoughtful and not just shilling moral panic slop
As much as I have disagreements with el sayed on this issue, it is refreshing to hear a policy maker speak to this technology with a level of baseline technical literacy that feels almost entirely absent from our political discourse.
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So in the US midterms did any politician in favor of Digital ID, Age Verification and social media bans lose their seat? or did more of them get voted in?
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I see the manosphere is the Aussie news again. If you are going to talk about the manosphere and you don't know who @RationalMale is, time to educate yourself.
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All serious journalists and activists should be running Linux on their computer and a GrapheneOS phone. Everything else will end up with device side scanning of your documents and chats (to protect the children of course).
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X should disable all Australian government sock puppet accounts unless they upload verifiable ID to prove that they are over the age of 16. #DigitalDutyOfCare
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Aus Greens help pass the Digital Duty of Care but One Nation are yet to enshrine in a policy document any plan to repeal it, the online safety act, or the U16 social media ban. And no sign of policy to protect privacy online, anonymous VPN use. @OneNationAus @PaulineHansonOz
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The eSafety commission should be abolished. Keeping people safe online could be an assignment for the CSIRO where focus would be 100% on technology for home users and parents. The government should not be creating a censorship regime. @OneNationAus @LibertariansAus @RennickGBR
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So will the Australian government have to do age verification for their new sockpuppet social media accounts? Will they fake up some ID documents? A.I. selfie pics? Or will they just use a good old VPN to somewhere with a free and open internet.
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In Andy Burnham's Britain there will be more restrictions to using using social media than there will be to vote This tells you everything you need to know They want to arrest people who criticise the Government online and they want to allow millions of migrants to vote
🚨NEWS: UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to remove the need for a photo I.D to vote in elections However he is still pressing ahead with plans to make it compulsory to identify yourself to use social media
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The presidential election in Brazil is a runoff system, similar to preferential voting in Australia. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote in the first round, a run off of the top 2 happens. This ensures a measure of the broadest support.
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The Australian preferential system is not limited to the top 2 in the runoff, all candidates are included. The candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated first and their ballot is redistributed to the 2nd preference of the voter. Candidates are eliminated and votes redistributed until someone gets more than 50%. And because preferences are chosen at the first election, no second round election is needed.
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Is there anyone in the Australian political sphere that will have the courage to legislate our right to anonymous speech? Will the free speech referendum promised by @OneNationAus include this right?
No social media client of mine will be forced to dox their users, either by the UK or any other country. Anonymous speech - the right to host it and to utter it - is protected by the First Amendment. Congress should step in to protect the American Internet.
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Regular post to point out that @OneNationAus still has no official policy to abolish the eSafety commission and repeal U16 and the online safety act. Zero internet privacy policy. @PaulineHansonOz @MRobertsQLD
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Free press includes the right to online anonymity. Undermining it is what fragile authoritarians on both sides of politics do, but the American political class refuses to get it.
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This was the plan all along. Zero Knowledge Proofs still means you have to ask for permission to use the internet. Fuck that. We have used the web without issue for 30 years without this BS. Refuse. Encrypt everything. Find the underground.
🚨JUST IN: SEC Commisioner calls to END mass KYC data collection. Hester Peirce warns existing KYC/AML frameworks create huge databases of sensitive user data, making them prime targets for hacks, phishing and even physical attacks. She is pushing zero-knowledge proofs as an alternative, allowing users to prove compliance without exposing their personal data.
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