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*freedom demands bravery*
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If you don't already get a degoogled phone asap. Use xmpp and simplex for chat. Forget X, nostr only.
Agree! Anyway thank you for your advice !
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EU subjects, because there are few of us who are actually Citizens, are letting things slide just as theyâve let everything else slide until now... After all, while most people grasp the concept of ...
Everything youâve described is real â the herd mentality, the Overton window shifts, the deliberate erosion of cheap computing, the gap between where decentralized tools are and where they need to be.
And yet.
In this journey Iâve met people who make concrete choices every day: about the apps they use, the hardware they buy, the platforms they refuse to feed. Not because itâs easy or convenient, but because they understand whatâs at stake. Theyâre not waiting for the revolution. Theyâre building habits, infrastructure, and culture, one decision at a time.
I donât know what the future looks like. Nobody does.
But I know that giving up isnât an option, not because of optimism, but because of whatâs on the line.
We donât stop to ask ourselves why we define private property. We just do, because itâs foundational, because without it, everything else collapses. Digital privacy is no different. There are no rights without it. No free thought, no free expression, no meaningful ownership of anything, including yourself.
The people who understand this are fewer than they should be. But they exist. And every day they choose accordingly.
That matters. Even when it doesnât feel like it.
And yet.
In this journey Iâve met people who make concrete choices every day: about the apps they use, the hardware they buy, the platforms they refuse to feed. Not because itâs easy or convenient, but because they understand whatâs at stake. Theyâre not waiting for the revolution. Theyâre building habits, infrastructure, and culture, one decision at a time.
I donât know what the future looks like. Nobody does.
But I know that giving up isnât an option, not because of optimism, but because of whatâs on the line.
We donât stop to ask ourselves why we define private property. We just do, because itâs foundational, because without it, everything else collapses. Digital privacy is no different. There are no rights without it. No free thought, no free expression, no meaningful ownership of anything, including yourself.
The people who understand this are fewer than they should be. But they exist. And every day they choose accordingly.
That matters. Even when it doesnât feel like it.
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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 isnât over. Mandatory scanning of encrypted messages? Off the table, but the Council is still pushing for mandatory identity verification to use messaging apps, including end-to-end encrypted ones.
Privacy is not a tool for hiding wrongdoing.
It is a necessary condition for free thought, free expression, and free relationships.
The real question isnât only whether to monitor private communications. Itâs what kind of digital society Europe wants to build.
But Europe is its citizens. This question belongs to us. We canât keep outsourcing centuries of hard-won civilization.
One ânecessary exceptionâ at a time.
Today, the EU begins its final negotiations on Chat Control 2.0, and the threat to your privacy isnât over. Mandatory scanning of encrypted messages? Off the table, but the Council is still pushing for mandatory identity verification to use messaging apps, including end-to-end encrypted ones.
Privacy is not a tool for hiding wrongdoing.
It is a necessary condition for free thought, free expression, and free relationships.
The real question isnât only whether to monitor private communications. Itâs what kind of digital society Europe wants to build.
But Europe is its citizens. This question belongs to us. We canât keep outsourcing centuries of hard-won civilization.
One ânecessary exceptionâ at a time.
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Think privacy and economic incentives are incompatible? Watch this video. Payjoin for everyone.
https://youtu.be/dTSZ9nDFQ5Y
https://youtu.be/dTSZ9nDFQ5Y
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Chat control will eventually pass because itâs NOT about child protection. Itâs about institutional expansion masquerading as security policy. Europol stands to triple his staff and massively expand his power. An entire EU Centre will be created with ongoing funding.
Once these institutions are built, once the infrastructure exists and the budget is allocated, scaling back becomes politically impossible. Weâve seen this pattern before. The Patriot Act. And the question will be: âwhat else can we do with it?â
This is how mission creep works: build the infrastructure for one purpose, then discover - conveniently - that it can serve many others. Todayâs is CSAM. Tomorrow itâs âextremistâ content monitoring.
This is securitocracy in action.
Once these institutions are built, once the infrastructure exists and the budget is allocated, scaling back becomes politically impossible. Weâve seen this pattern before. The Patriot Act. And the question will be: âwhat else can we do with it?â
This is how mission creep works: build the infrastructure for one purpose, then discover - conveniently - that it can serve many others. Todayâs is CSAM. Tomorrow itâs âextremistâ content monitoring.
This is securitocracy in action.
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A heartbreaking injustice.
Keonne Rodriguez has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for creating Samourai Wallet.
The judge called privacy âanti-social,â ignoring the real threats faced by ordinary people.
Those with courage pay for the indifference of those who refuse to see how brutal this war will be.
Keonne Rodriguez has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined $250,000 for creating Samourai Wallet.
The judge called privacy âanti-social,â ignoring the real threats faced by ordinary people.
Those with courage pay for the indifference of those who refuse to see how brutal this war will be.
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I posted this in another thread, but maybe it makes sense here, too:
All of the danger and controversy about messaging platforms/companies being required to install master keys (colloquially called ...
we tolerate closed devices because theyâre easy, safe, and subsidized. And because weâve forgotten what computing freedom feels like.
Julius Caesar figured this out in 50 BC with a stick and some scratches. We are working on quantum computers and weâre still explaining why backdoors donât discriminate between good and bad guys.
Have a great Global Encryption Day! đ
This is not a policy debate. Itâs collective amnesia.
October 21, 2025
Have a great Global Encryption Day! đ
This is not a policy debate. Itâs collective amnesia.
October 21, 2025
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Yes, Signal uses AWS. Yes, thatâs ironic. But end-2-end encryption still protects your content. The real vulnerability? Metadata, especially for targeted by state surveillance (journalists and activists in hostile environments).
Thatâs why proposal like Chat Control are so dangerous: they target the only thing that actually works when infrastructure canât be trusted.
Thatâs why proposal like Chat Control are so dangerous: they target the only thing that actually works when infrastructure canât be trusted.
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