Two weeks ago Cindy Cohn, the lawyer made famous in 1993 for Bernstein v. Department of Justice, held a Book Release party w/Corey Doctorow and has now announced that she's stepping down on 01 June, to be replaced by Nicole Ozer.

It will be interesting to see how the new skipper pilots that vessel, and especially in regards to the atrocious volley of legislation like California's AB 1043, that already has people preparing to disenfranchise Californians through changes in their licenses or AUP/ToS - forbidding people residing in California from using services seems to many as a sensible solution to the antics of an insane, despotic legislature; To others, it is a knee-jerk reaction to something that may never come to pass.

Anyway, here's the scoop on that announcement:

#tallship #Cindy_Cohn #Nicole_Ozer #FOSS #KYC #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy #Identity

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@nixCraft thus the only valid reaction is to proactively refuse to comply and actively sabotage such #cyberfascist efforts!

• I mean, what's next?
  • #Russia's #Roskomnadnozr demanding "#KYC" of #Users for using #WiFi chipsets?
  • "P.R." #China's "Cybersecurity Administration" demanding system-wide blocking of #VPN & @torproject / #Tor?

Just like noone should comply with that #cyberfascism, so should noone comply with #US-based cyberfascism either!

• Use #Monero and give #ITAR the finger…
  • Refuse to finance #terrorism by refusing to create taxable revenue for U.S. corporations!

I certainly won't comply with cyberfascism in @OS1337 and any "#AgeVerification" is #fascist bullshit under false pretense that needs to be outlawed!

@pan @cas I'd rather consider fleeing in those cases than compliance, espechally since said maintainers are privilegued enough to be able to relocate.

• Also what is the government gonna do if they refuse?
  • Steal their FLOSS projects??

If we allow this #cyberfascist #blackmail once, we'll open the floodgates to such #extortion elsewhere and normalize it.

• What's next?
  • Will we allow #Roskomnadnozr to mandate #KYC in OSes??
  • Allow "P.R." Chinas "Cyberspace Agency" to mandate OS-wide Blockades of @torproject / #Tor & #VPN|s??

The sheer concept of *"#AgeVerification is #cyberfascism and needs to be refused as a matter of principle!