Academic, technology and data protection law. She/her. 🏳️🌈 Kraut abroad. Maintaining her sanity behind her avatar since 2009.
Occasionally blogs at https://cybermatron.blogspot.com/
Reminder for people voting in Scotland:
"Independent Green Voice" are a right-wing spoiler party. If you're voting Green then you almost certainly want "Scottish Green Party".
(There are no other easily confused names on the voting sheet)
I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces 😱
Folks, we gotta talk to our people to kill this harmful policy. Regulate dangerous big tech practices, not people!
LGBTQ+ kids in hostile environments suffer when they can't access community online.
Age verification also facilitates excluding representation of marginalized folks. Also, it is at odds with the right to repair — shouldn't we own our devices, and not the other way around?
I have held on to my Harry Potter books for a long time, trying to separate the art from the artist, because I came to them during a rather messy period in my life, and they represent a lot of memories.
But after what happened in Kansas today, I really just feel like I want to douse them in gasoline and set fire to them.
@neil Neil is absolutely spot on and we need to talk about the politics of this. Telling people to "just self-host" to escape surveillance capitalism is the exact same tactic as telling people to "calculate your carbon footprint" to stop climate change.
It individualizes a systemic, corporate failure.
Privacy and digital safety shouldn't be luxury goods reserved for cis-white-male engineers with unmetered fiber connections, rack-mount servers along with free time and financial stability to pull it off. When our response to the collapse of digital rights is "run your own infrastructure," we are engaging in digital redlining. The solution to predatory data brokering isn't forcing single mothers working two jobs to learn Kubernetes; the solution is ruthlessly regulating the data brokers out of existence.
Eine #Klarnamenpflicht im Internet, wie sie #Merz nun wieder einmal fordert, gefährdet die Demokratie. In der analogen Welt können Menschen in Deutschland z.B. auf eine Demo gegen ein Terrorregime (Iran, Russland) gehen, ohne sich und ihre dort noch lebenden Familien zu gefährden.
Mit Klarnamenpflicht könnten sich Frauen, LGBTQ+-Personen und andere nicht mehr frei und sicher an Debatten beteiligen, ohne nicht Angst haben zu müssen, dass dann Nazis oder Stalker vor ihrer Tür stehen.
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May Lent bring you as much patience as whoever is working Bedford council's social media
Andrew Ducker
Michael Veale
Mx. Riley
Windy city
Ulrich Kelber
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