Em Mar 21

The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.

Some politicians have already stated this plainly.

This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.

This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.

This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.

This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.

This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.

Do not let them do this to us.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights

Show threadisbmMar 22
@Em0nM4stodon because we cannot encrypt WhatsApp messages and send base64 over Whatsapp protocol? Just see these end to end eNcRyPtEd systems as plain old good SMTP. Then just apply S/MIME on top of it. 🤷‍♂️🤣
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@isbm @Em0nM4stodon

I know you're not being serious, but it's with saying plainly: the reason @signalapp is such a force for good is that it makes strong crypto so straightforward that a large number of people use it routinely. I use it for sharing cat memes and talking to Mrs Wife about bananas, as well as for more serious stuff. Widespread and frequent use of encryption prevents encryption from being used as an indication that someone has something to hide.

Apr 11 at 6:50pmWeb
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@CppGuy @Em0nM4stodon @signalapp heh. While I was indeed just joking, yet every tale has a piece of truth. You remember ChatVerbot saga in EU when sweds wanted to mass surveillance everyone under disguise like "children protection"? That is, if your Chat vendor doesn't allow backdoor to the authorities, such chat would be illegal to use.

From this perspective my joke isn't that much of a joke anymore, isn't it?