resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

Inaction is a Form of Action

The story of the no-politics diner.

And why "don't discuss politics" and tone-policing *is* political. Most especially when it limits minority and disenfranchised voices.

(This also isn't an argument for free-for-all speech. It's complicated, Peeps.)

https://locusmag.com/2020/01/cory-doctorow-inaction-is-a-form-of-action/

#freeSpeech #socialMedia #Facebook #monopoly #BigTech

Advertising Is a Cancer on Society

...Real world advertising is not about informing, it's about convincing. Over time, it became increasingly manipulative and dishonest. It also became more effective. In the process, it grew to consume a significant amount of resources of every company on the planet. It infected every communication medium in existence, both digital and analog. ...

-- @temporal

http://jacek.zlydach.pl/blog/2019-07-31-ads-as-cancer.html

#advertising #AdvertisingIsCancer

#JohnOliver about US citizenship: "Choosing America now, when it's not at it's best is like falling in love with someone who is vomiting all over themselves."

https://invidio.us/watch?v=QPxl_N9vkSo

@garbados (without a twitter middle stop, this is the article)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/01/privacy-campaigners-dazzle-camouflage-met-police-surveillance

Privacy campaigners bid to beat police facial recognition plans by wearing ‘dazzle’ makeup

Wearing makeup has long been seen as an act of defiance, from teenagers to New Romantics. Now that defiance has taken on a harder edge, as growing numbers of people use it to try to trick facial recognition systems.

Interest in so-called dazzle camouflage appears to have grown substantially since the Metropolitan police announced last week that officers will be using live facial recognition cameras on London’s streets – a move described by privacy campaigners and political activists as “dangerous”, “oppressive” and “a huge threat to human rights”.

@bojkotiMalbona
If the house across the street installs #AmazonRing or #Google #Nest in a way that surveils my house, it will be an act of war.

Have any U.S. cities legislated against a neighbor installing #Amazon #Ring such that it surveils the neighbor across the street?

A #Belgian bank decides to force all customers to:

* buy an #iPhone or #Android
* subscribe to GSM svc
* give the ph# to Apple or Google
* tell #Apple or #Google where they bank (by downloading the app)
* install & execute proprietary #nonfreesoftware

Money is trapped in the accounts- held hostage until customers take the above steps.

Why is no one talking about this? #Aion (#MontePaschi) forces ppl into #surveillanceCapitalism w/Google/Apple patronage & no one seems to notice.

@kensanata @Gargron @Twentyfivebux I suppose I should also say how to avoid #CloudFlare #Mastodon nodes. Run this command to find CloudFlare-free Mastodon nodes: comm -13 <(torsocks curl https://codeberg.org/crimeflare/cloudflare-tor/raw/branch/master/tool/example.mdn_basedom_list.txt | sort) <(torsocks lynx -dump -nolist https://instances.social/list/old | awk '/%/{print $3}' | sort)

@rysiek
Why Fax is more reliable than #Email

https://oasis.code-cat.com/posts/1833714

@grimmware @kensanata

@xj9 @ceejbot @bhaugen
Just skip the threat & move straight to #boycott #Microsoft #github. There's much more evil than just #ICE to consider:

https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/issues/314

To arm the Israeli military w/ #facialrecognition to use against the #Palestinians they oppress is pretty evil.

A sensible replacement amid the #deleteGithub movement is @codeberg

@Br0m3x #DuckDuckGo has a #privacy abuser for CEO (who previously founded a Names DB, a svc to get naive ppl to leak the contact info of their friends). #DDG also feeds privacy abusers #Verizon, #Yahoo & #microsoft. DDG was also caught violating their own privacy policy.

@eff Note that by accepting #PayPal, EFF is subjecting donors to information sharing with 600+ companies (see Bruce Schneiers blog)