Every surveillance system in history was built for a good reason. None of them stopped there.
Today, the EU begins its final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0, and the threat to your privacy isn’t ...
EU subjects, because there are few of us who are actually Citizens, are letting things slide just as they’ve let everything else slide until now... After all, while most people grasp the concept of owning a physical good, like a fork or a car, they don't get it when it comes to digital assets, just as they don't understand propaganda and its effects from big media platforms, whether it's social media, movies, or music, or news. They simply follow the herd.
Apple has already announced age verification on iDevices, and Nazis 2.0 everywhere in the world are pushing for it similarly; it's a process to shift the Overton window of acceptability for the common folk. First, they try an extreme test case; it fails, but that doesn't matter because it's created a precedent. Then, they start taking little pieces of it and turning them into structural elements, and most people accept them, the shock of the experiment has passed and the small change becomes the norm. Another will be added, then another, and slowly they'll return to that initial rejected shock, but this time it'll be fully accepted and seen as the new normal.
Paradoxically, Nostr would have what it takes to move people away from the big platforms, something the Fediverse doesn't have and never has had, but until there are mature solutions, until there's some player selling pre-installed FLOSS hardware+software (yes, we have Umbrel, Start9, we even have FriggHome, but they aren't where they need to be yet) so the average citizen can say "wow, I can do cool things at home, I need them" and buy the package with a domain name, DynDNS, to truly build their own infra with little knowledge required, the big leap won't happen. And the expensive hardware, first video cards, then RAM, now NVMEs, proves it; it's designed to take away cheap, widely available computing right now, just as interest is starting to pick up together with the possibility.
Apple has already announced age verification on iDevices, and Nazis 2.0 everywhere in the world are pushing for it similarly; it's a process to shift the Overton window of acceptability for the common folk. First, they try an extreme test case; it fails, but that doesn't matter because it's created a precedent. Then, they start taking little pieces of it and turning them into structural elements, and most people accept them, the shock of the experiment has passed and the small change becomes the norm. Another will be added, then another, and slowly they'll return to that initial rejected shock, but this time it'll be fully accepted and seen as the new normal.
Paradoxically, Nostr would have what it takes to move people away from the big platforms, something the Fediverse doesn't have and never has had, but until there are mature solutions, until there's some player selling pre-installed FLOSS hardware+software (yes, we have Umbrel, Start9, we even have FriggHome, but they aren't where they need to be yet) so the average citizen can say "wow, I can do cool things at home, I need them" and buy the package with a domain name, DynDNS, to truly build their own infra with little knowledge required, the big leap won't happen. And the expensive hardware, first video cards, then RAM, now NVMEs, proves it; it's designed to take away cheap, widely available computing right now, just as interest is starting to pick up together with the possibility.
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