🇩🇪EU-Regierungen glauben, sie können unsere Volksvertreter zu Kapitulation und JA zur #Chatkontrolle mobben.

🛑 Heute 15 Uhr (Tagesordnung) und morgen 11 Uhr (Sachentscheidung) können wir die #Chatkontrolle killen!

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I keep seeing Americans who want to do something about the state of our #politics, but feel like no action they can take will do enough to fix things, so it’s not worth trying.

It’s easy to feel nihilistic. So I’d like to propose an alternative - a 10% improvement approach to political change, of sorts.

It comes from my #PTSD treatment: the idea that no one approach, skill, or intervention can make the #trauma just go away instantaneously. So instead, us humans are left with 10% solutions - things that help a little bit, for some amount of time.

The key to healing is to develop an ongoing set of multiple different solutions that you rotate through based on what feels feasible on any given day / moment. Each one helps a bit. 10%, 5%, 1%. But eventually, you get to making big changes that felt impossible at the start.

The same works for political change and activism. Sure, going to any one protest, or calling your representative, or boycotting a brand, or changing one person’s mind, or donating to one fundraiser won’t fix the entire broken political regime. But it will help A LITTLE.

And if a lot of us continue to find ways to do things that help a little, it will end up doing a lot more.

A movement starts with a thousand little steps that don’t look like much on their own.

Take that little step. Then another.

#USPol #activism #socialChange

Interview: "Datenschutz schützt die Schwächeren gegenüber mächtigen Akteuren"

Datenschutz steht politisch unter Druck. Warum er für Freiheit, Demokratie und nachhaltige Innovation notwendig ist, erklärt Prof. Tobias Keber im Gespräch.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Interview-Datenschutz-schuetzt-die-Schwaecheren-gegenueber-maechtigen-Akteuren-11141922.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #DSGVO #EU #Grundrechte #Journal #Netzpolitik #Wirtschaft #news

i knew i saw this on fedi recently and i have now experienced it first hand https://mastodon.social/@simplecatsoftware/115841583165243626

please, for the love of god, don't be that person who takes pictures in events/celebrations and post them to social media without asking every participant for consent. have the will to say NO to being fed into invasive personalization/profiling algorithms

#privacy #socialmedia #consent

Even more reason not to consider going to the #US :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dz0g2ykpeo

"As well as the collection of social media information, the new document proposes the gathering of an applicant's telephone numbers and email addresses used over the last five and 10 years respectively, and more information about their family members." ......

If you refuse to give them your social media passwords, what are they going to do, deport you ?
Personally, I think if you "have" to go to the US, leave your personal mobile at home and just take a burner phone (feature phone), and make sure your embassy's number is in the contacts, incase you are picked up by the #ice nazis.

#tourism #privacy #policestate #trump