When Patriotism Becomes a Loyalty Test - Dominus Owen Markham

There’s a moment in the opening ceremony of the Milan-Cortina Winter Games that keeps rattling around my head. The American team walks in, flag raised, and when Trump appears on the big screens…

Dominus Owen Markham
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Freedom of Speech Is Alive and Well…

There was a time when the great free-speech question was gloriously simple. Can you say the thing? If the answer was yes, you were done. You could shout it, print it, staple it to a lamppost…

Dominus Owen Markham

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

#FreedomOfSpeech#FreedomOfReach sounds only infuriating to those who mistake #Fediverse #diversity for a distributed server infrastructure they're entitled to "use".

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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Pluralistic: Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech (10 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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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Pluralistic: Freedom of reach IS freedom of speech (10 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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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Pluralistic: Better failure for social media (19 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow