Been working with #mainstreaming people. The experience has been eye-opening, and not in a good way.
A lot of them are unaware of how badly they behave. Gatekeeping, careerism, status games, endless #blocking of anything outside their comfort zone. Then they wonder why change never happens.
This is a mess we really shouldn't keep putting up with.
Any ideas on productive ways to challenge this without simply feeding the cycle?
SAVE THAMES RIVER HOMES
DRAFT: Let's look at this as an example of effective and ineffective activism. The mess we make and how we can compost it. Let's start with an example outreach text that has not been sent out yet. WHO WE AREWe are resident boaters living on a stretch of the River Thames near Donnington Bridge. For many years, people have made their homes here peacefully and continuously as part of a long-standing river community. WHAT’S HAPPENINGNew signage already in place states that mooring, anchoring, […]
Тайные интернет-кафе со спутниковым интернетом, эмигрантские приложения с VPN и партизаны-разработчики пытаются справиться с ограничениями на доступ в интернет, которые вводят репрессивные власти по всему миру. Такие ограничений становится все больше, говорят эксперты в сфере цифровых прав.
Die Telekom hat einen Dienst der sich 'Security OnNet' nennt. Der bricht die Zertifikatskette auf und injected ein eigenes Zertifikat, leitet Netzverkehr über eigene Routen um und blockiert somit bestimmte Seiten.
Haben das nur bemerkt, weil ein Kunde von uns der Mailserver weg geblockt wurde.
Keine Ahnung wie das funktioniert aber schon scary.
Scheinbar zielt der Dienst besonders gerne auf mailcow Dienste.
"Is the Spanish football league's fight against #piracy breaking the #OpenInternet for everyone else?" ⚽🇪🇸
🛑 "#Blocking has little to no effect on piracy: it neither reduces demand nor removes illegal content."
👉 https://project-disco.org/european-union/repeating-failure-how-spanish-overblocking-ignores-the-lessons-of-italys-broken-piracy-shield/ #LaLiga #LaLigaGate
Composting the mess of digital security in activism – We need to talk about this, offline
The online tools we "common sense" rely on for organising and campaigning are genuinely dangerous, and I find that paralysing. This isn't paranoia, it's a practical reality that urgently needs addressing. Until we do, offline working groups are one of the few reliable ways to unblock the mess. Where we actually are now... Disappearing, encrypted chat outside the #dotcons is one of the few spaces that feels even marginally safe. But even then, safety depends entirely on who's in the room, […]
hamish campbell
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Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️🌈
CCIA Europe
Joseph Lim 
