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L0la L33tz · 7w
Almost no Venezuelan believes that social protest and political negotiations within Venezuela would have caused a change in government, according to a poll commissioned by the WSJ. Incredibly sad to s...
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If a government has the will to listen when the majority of citizens are protesting (or at least supporting the protests), then the protests wouldn't be needed in the first place.

When the protests are needed then you already have a tyrannical government that won't back off even if 99% of people are protesting. The only possibility of change at that point is a violent revolution, but most violent revolutions don't end well, and instead end in an even more tyrannical regime.

Specially, if citizens are disarmed because of gun laws, then maybe only criminals have guns, and you don't want a society run by criminals when the revolution succeeds.

So at that point the individual solution is emigration. And the collective solution, I fear, does not exist.
https://silent.link · 6w
some still go through local gateways, hence blocks
gasull · 29w
If you meant Reticulum, then I don't know. Sideband's UI isn't great. But Reticulum is E2EE and can do much more than Bitchat: Bluetooth, WiFi, LoRa, etc.
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A KYC'd internet will be uninteresting to me. Nobody will post anything controversial.

We will retreat to Nostr, darknets, E2EE chats, etc. A more obscure alt internet.

https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0h9ngmth5l4k6u0vphs3crv0txwz4mkkawncn9g2kgwhen8e6cfgzypgdjn7zmpvqc6ptqud9gtutrcc6yq9s2z96h9dr80hss4wl9qwkxd5xhfv

And a KYC'd internet might be the end of Web2.0.

In the sense of the beginning of the end of crowdsourced content, with our clicks data-mined as the new oil.

But we have the darknets and the distributed uncensorable web3.

The Web is dead. Long live the Web.