xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/while-the-political-circus-distracts-us-flock-builds-the-digital-police-state

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Regarding the suspension of Telegram's domain name:

"The structural reason this happened is not that Identity Digital or DomainME made a poor judgment call. It is that OFAC's civil enforcement operates under a strict-liability standard: US persons and entities with a US nexus face civil penalties for any facilitation of a transaction involving a Specially Designated National, regardless of whether they knew or intended to violate sanctions"

Yea, this law is extremely dangerous and I'd argue it violates the first amendment.

There is a legal concept called prior restraint. It is a legal term for government censorship that blocks information from being published or spoken before it can actually happen. Instead of punishing someone after they say something illegal (like libel or true threats), prior restraint prevents the speech from ever reaching the public. In the United States, it is considered one of the most severe and dangerous violations of the First Amendment.

The US here is preventing the information from reaching the public, not punishing the speakers after the fact. You could go after the speakers on the sanctions list for speech previously published, but stopping speech (which is what domain suspicion does) stops or otherwise hinders that speech from being communicated in the first place.

@matrix
Although, it's always a treat to see, just how right wing the Grok is when compared to the remaining shit.

Don't trust your entire digital life to a remote account.

What is your opinion of FLOCK cameras?

lol taken from the comments section of the video
Our lives are on repeat.

https://x.com/AGDugin/status/2075586373277360520
They're calling it the single most leftist post ever.

Status board for my crap that can check IPv4 and v6:

https://status.sumit.im/

(source: https://forge.sumit.im/djsumdog/6status )

The only reason it drops below 60 fps is because it's debug build+a billion assertions+runtime memory sanitizer+gdb.

Telegram just had its domain suspended. I warned people of the dangers of Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, and similar platforms, but did anyone listen? Nope.

Telegram was not the worst solution even, but the problem with it is it's a centralized network that demands critical meta data that can and is undoubtedly being used like an ID. Before the government and nutjobs wanted to start demanding everyone ID to 'protect the children' on social media Telegram was already doing it (as was siganl)!

BUT Telegram like Signal has always been at risk of being shutdown or otherwise targeted through other avenues by the authorities. Telegram's founder was pressured to do things like suspend 'terrorist' channels, and did. They shut down libertarian channels too. And if you think your safe your not. They can do the same for 'right wing' and 'left wing' channels just as easily.

I don't know what is behind the suspension ... but I imagine we'll find out soon enough.

For a bit of background France (?maybe on behalf of the US not that it matters much?) kidnapped the founder of Telegram in order to 'gain control' of the platform. The french government claimed Telegram didn't respond when it was in fact that Telegram actually did. They accepted inquires from law enforcement through official channels defined in treaties and international law. The french simply weren't obeying the law and thus not getting a response. Thus their excuse for the kidnapping of the founder was unjustified and actually an attack on free expression as a whole. They didn't want the platform to exist and created a problem to justify demanding it be shutdown or otherwise come under the control of France or whichever power that be wanted it in that country.

"The European Union is considering major new restrictions on children's access to social media, including age limits, phased access, and an outright ban.

The panel recommended using a phased approach, including 'no screens at all' for children under 3, supervised internet use for those under 13, and some limits for older teens."

This is dumb. But it's even more disturbing that young people in the 11-13 bracket are being targeted by these nutjobs.

The internet is far more useful than not and these actions endanger a substantial percentage of young people in this age bracket.

Whatever rational you may think you have for restricting a younger audience is far in excess and abusive for 11-13. This is what was called helicopter parenting in the 90s.

Young people need to be let loose to explore the world on their own within this age bracket. If you haven't figured out how to prepare your kid to engage with the world given ~8-9 or so years of opportunity you've made some serious parental mistakes (and to one degree or another societal).

When ~8 year olds in many countries are let to roam the subways on their own and yet in many places within the US these same ~8 year olds would and often do get picked him by police in America for doing little more than walking down their own street to see if a neighborhood kid can come out and play there is something seriously messed up with a society.

Get over your fear mongering- there is not a white van driving through your neighborhood looking for kids to kidnap. That's an almost entirely fictional account, a single incident from the 1970s, and actual FBI data clearly shows that some absurd percentage of the 'danger' comes from parents, family members, and friends. Not strangers.

https://archive.is/o9Xcx

@admin @phoneboy @Pheonix When the big platforms go 100% "rented" content, I will own nothing because I will not be giving money to the big platforms.

When an independent platform or studio realizes the untapped well of frustrated privacy-supporters, gaming will have a resurgence without the enshittified platforms. Free market strikes again. (hint: GOG is doing precisely this)

oh speaking of that has anyone noticed that GDQ has been so irrelevant that nobody is even ironically hate watching it anymore?

https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/2076667973952229461

"The Supreme Court concluded that ISPs cannot be held secondarily liable for user piracy unless they actively induce or tailor their services for infringement, which means that rightsholders will need an alternative enforcement tool."

Umm because they didn't get what they want your concluding that an additional tool is needed? That makes no sense. There ALREADY exists a tool. They just don't like the tool. These entertainment cartels HAVE NOT GONE UNDER as a result of the internet in the past 25 years so WHY would there be another tool needed???? The fact the supreme court didn't agree that the ISPs were liable is not a reason a new tool is needed given that for more than 25 years ISPs have NOT been liable. This isn't new this is old. It's been the status quo all along. It's not something that has changed. There isn't some new technology your claiming is the reason that a new tool is needed. It's literally the same law of the land as its been interpreted for 25+ years!!! The supreme court just confirmed it because the copyright cartel after 25+ years started to push the claim it wasn't WRONGLY.

IT'S OUT, maybe my biggest blog post to date.

Ever since the recording industry capitulated ending the P2P War, internet freedom has been SO GOOD that research into decentralized networking has practically stalled. Throughout the Western World, you can just stand up a website and post almost anything.

And because of that, nobody has been particularly motivated to move off of centralized ICANN DNS, IPv4, and x509 Certificate Authorities.

Now, governments are thinking about changing that. And while the apocalyptic amount of force it would take to actually end the open internet is almost certainly beyond them, the force it would take to end the era of bad centralized protocols could almost be applied by accident.

https://thegoodwork.substack.com/p/the-next-internet-war

Thanks @matty for the post.

@thomholwerda @SRAZKVT I understand why “no politics” can sound like an excuse to ignore real issues. That is not what I mean by it at BSD Cafe.

In my life, and in the history of people before me, I have seen politics used too many times as a justification to silence, attack, or dehumanise others.

To me, no cause, no ideology, and no political position gives anyone the right to be disrespectful or abusive. A community can and should protect people, be welcoming, and take real issues seriously without turning every interaction into a battlefield.

That is what “no politics” means to me: not indifference, but maturity. Not ignoring people, but making sure nobody uses politics as a weapon against them.

And honestly, I think that requires more spine than simply joining the loudest fight.