
Breaking free from control. Unharnessed explores independent press, self-governing communities, and ideas that challenge mainstream control. Join us for thought-provoking stories and real-world examples of living freely beyond the usual boundaries. Click to read Unharnessed, by Dominus Owen Markham, a Substack publication.
La multa UE a X svela il trucco dell'Ingegneria Sociale. Non è solo una sanzione economica. La decisione di Bruxelles contro la piattaforma di Elon Musk conferma i sospetti di milioni di utenti: dietro il caos dei bot e l'odio online c'è una "scatola nera" progettata non per la libertà, ma per il controllo. Il 5/12/ 25 segna una data storica per internet
https://scienzamagia.eu/misteri-ed-ufo/la-multa-ue-a-x-svela-il-trucco-dellingegneria-sociale/
#DeadInternetTheory #DigitalServicesAct #FreeSpeech #FreedomofReach #QuartoReich #RageBait #regiaocculta #SpunteBlu
This is the problem with the idea that "freedom of speech isn't #FreedomOfReach" - if a platform won't let people who want to hear from you see what you have to say, they are indeed compromising freedom of speech:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen
Likewise, "censorship" is not limited to "things that governments do."
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Despite what you may have heard, "#FreedomOfReach" *is* freedom of speech: when a platform interposes itself between willing speakers and their willing audiences, it arrogates to itself the power to control what we're allowed to say and who is allowed to hear us:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen
We have a wide variety of tools to make a rule like this stick.
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I've finally switched to DuckDuckGo. I can't stand how bad Google results have gotten.
I made an explicit search for my own obscure website and it was well below all the payola "SEO" bullshit. Simply typing the name produced the desired result in DDG.
I know it's not perfect, but the other products are unusable.
#FreedomOfReach #DeGoogle #DuckDuckGo #SEO #Enshittification #Payola
We can't (and shouldn't) bring back the old, good internet.
We can (and must!) make a NEW, good internet.
https://doctorow.medium.com/enshitternet-c1d4252e5c6b
#enshittification #interoperability #labor #news #FreedomOfReach #bossware
The #RightOfExit and the #FreedomOfReach (the principle that anyone can talk to anyone who wants to talk to them) are both key to #TechnologicalSelfDetermination. They are both imperfect and incomplete, but together, they are stronger, and form a powerful check on both greed and cruelty-based predation:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/#let-my-tweeters-go
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