kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

As consequence, P2P networks with explicit follow & forward mechanisms (as in Mastodon and SSB), offer probably the most effective tool for democratically driven prevention of vocal minorities taking over the public debate.

If hate speech is condemned by the majority of participants, they will simply execute their right not to forward it further through the network.

Now, if particular hate speech is however *not* condemned, then the problem is not at all in the network architecture...

In this NYT feature the P2P networks are basically pictured as a slower alternative to centralised social media outlets, zero mention of what P2P is really about:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/26/technology/big-tech-power-bitcoin.html

This is quite disappointing, as it completely misses the point of peer-to-peer communications which actually enable everyone to exercise not only their free speech, but also the less known logical extension of free speech being the right *not* to listen (aka "right against compelled listening").

The debate about hate speech on #p2p what is barely mentioned is the absolutely key feature of P2P:

In P2P network *you* route other people's messages. If you don't like them, you don't route them and they're no longer propagating through the network through your node.

In case of the 2020 report that focuses on #ssb there's a single barely visible mention of this fundamental feature ("refusing to propagate their messages"):

https://rebelliousdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/P2P-Hate-Report.pdf

Gazprom 🇷🇺 is reducing its gas supplies to EU 🇪🇺 in an attempt to bump prices up, but it's also likely that Gazprom is just trying to bully EU into finishing the Nord Stream 2 construction this way.

Which only demonstrates how delusional European Greens 🍀🤝 ⛽ are in their attempts to shut down #nuclear plants and replace them by fossil gas as "transitional fuel".

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Natural-Gas/Why-Gazprom-Cut-Gas-Supply-To-Europe-Amid-Rising-Prices.html

🇷🇺 То что Куашев был отравлен знали в КБР все сразу же в 2014 после того как анатомо-патолог нашел на его теле след укола и показал их родиделям... А вот сейчас уже понятно кто и как.

"Поездки "отравителей из ФСБ" совпали со смертями кавказских активистов"

https://www.svoboda.org/a/31034468.html

🇵🇱 Kiedyś, jak jeszcze byłem na Facebooku, to wyśledziłem redakcję sieci serwisów publikujących klasyczne fake news, jadących na najniższych instynktach ksenofobii i nacjonalizmu. No i znalazłem też właściciela, a potem opublikowałem szczegółową notatkę o związkach między tymi serwisami no i otagowałem tego bęcwała. Co zdumiewające, odpowiedział i to "z serca"...

🇵🇱

I've just tried Nheko #matrix desktop client for the second time after a few months and it's now pretty usable! 👍 Most importantly, it supports E2EE.

Authentic first-hand screenshot done just now - Russian embassy in the Netherlands protesting against discussion on "Bellingcat" investigation on #MH17 because, wait for it, according to them THIS IS AN INTERNAL AFFAIR OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION!!!

Facts:

1) MH17 was shot by Russian rocket over territory of Ukraine

2) Russia denies any involvement in the conflict or presence of its armed forces in UA

3) Russia says its an INTERNAL affair

🤦‍♂️

Original thread https://twitter.com/rusembassynl/status/1353691744051859463

You won't see it covered a lot in the news as it's so multidimensional that it's hard to turn into a single news title. Some sample answers:

Best political system: democracy:

🇵🇱 90%
🇷🇺 81%
🇬🇧 94%

Best political system: military regime

🇵🇱 21%
🇷🇺 19%
🇬🇧 17%

National pride

🇵🇱 97%
🇷🇺 92%
🇬🇧 89%

Percentage of people that think in one’s own country’s elections opposition candidates are prevented from running

🇵🇱 15%
🇷🇺 44%
🇬🇧 19%

🇪🇺 Speaking of cultural differences between various European populations we often rely on national stereotypes ("Poles are chaotic", "Russians like authoritarianism").

One particular study - European Values - is especially intriguing as it's repeated every few years and includes most European countries *including* those outside of EU.

Its results are... interesting and in many ways surprising.

https://www.atlasofeuropeanvalues.eu/maptool.html

🇷🇺 "Мы собрали и проанализировали законопроекты депутатов седьмого созыва Госу­дар­ствен­ной думы и выяснили, кто от них выигрывает. Мы вручную изучили законотворческую и медийную активность парламентариев, их биографии, связи с бизнесом, отраслевыми объединениями, другими некоммерческими организациями, органами федеральной и региональной власти, а также определили вероятные группы интересов в депутатском корпусе."

https://dumabingo.ru/

19th century anti-vaxxers were spreading FUD that people will grow "cowlike appendages" - the first smallpox vaccines were made against cowpox which gave partial immunity against deadly smallpox in humans.