The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.
Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.
What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.
Public systems should not require use of private services.
Once again, Apple does censorship favors for dictator -- and this time, doesn't even need prompting from the dictator.
The multinational has removed dozens of apps, even though the Kremlin’s censorship body did not order the move. These services, half-permitted by the government, enable people in Russia to access social networks and independent media
How to fight the hard right?
1. Center right have to realize that the strategy of adopting far right tactics doesn’t work. The only thing they achieve is to lift the taboo of voting the far right and showing that those parties are “normal”
"Excavators have begun clearing land in the #Indonesian region of #Papua in what’s been described as the largest deforestation undertaking in the world.
A total of 2 million hectares (5 million acres) of forests, wetlands and grasslands in Merauke district will be razed to make way for a cluster of giant #sugarcane plantations."
I have questions:
WHO will eat the sugarcane? Cars? People? Which people?
JAKARTA — Excavators have begun clearing land in the Indonesian region of Papua in what’s been described as the largest deforestation undertaking in the world. A total of 2 million hectares (5 million acres) of forests, wetlands and grasslands in Merauke district will be razed to make way for a cluster of giant sugarcane plantations, […]
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